Germinating my Aji Amarillo chili seeds

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I've been given some Aji Amarillo chili seeds by a local customer and a few days ago I started to get them to germinate. Chili seeds need moisture and warmth to germinate but it's still cold here in NSW, Australia. I tried spreading the seeds in a pot outdoors but they have not germinated yet after two weeks. So I decided to do it indoor kind of controlled temperature and they started germinating in less than a week. I forgot to take some photos for this post but luckily my wife wanted to plant another type of chili so I did the photos with her seeds.

In a little plastic take away box, I added some old soil from my black turmeric pot after harvesting the rhizomes and I sprayed some water to the surface so that about 5mm is being soaked (looking through the side of the box).

I then split the chili pepper lengthwise with a knife and extracted the seeds.

I then spread some seeds on the surface, I could have done a better job here by separating the each seeds out of their cluster but I was really lazy today lol. Anyway, I just need a couple of viable seeds anyway so no biggies.

I then just slightly covered the seeds with a thin layer of soil, this is probably not even needed but that's how I do it and I enjoy doing it 😜

Here is my temperature control chamber. I used an old 7 watt reptile heating mat installed on the top of my bedside table and set the plastic container on top of the mat. The mat produces just a warm enough temperature all night and in the morning it might get a bit warmer but nothing dramatic, it's still early Spring and it's probably colder inside the room than outside the house.

As you can see there, the Aji Amarillo seeds have germinated. Tomorrow morning, I will be transferring them to their individual container and let them grow a bit more before planting them in the garden. I will probably be using an egg box as it will make it easier to transplant them in the garden bed, just cut off the egg cup and put everything in the ground, the paper of the egg box will naturally decompose and the roots will go through it before that happens.

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Previously on my blog:

• My favourite bread machine recipe
• Spring gardening
• Small yield of black turmeric (Curcuma caesia) and orange turmeric (Curcuma longa) in Gosford.

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