FREE: Trouble getting your pepper seeds to start? ✿ FREE Test!

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Trouble getting your pepper seeds to start? ✿

Chances are, you may have received non-viable seeds. If you traded credits for Green Bell Pepper seeds, you may very well have received green bell pepper seeds, but they may not start sprouting for you. Bell peppers must go through a ripe stage before the seeds are viable. They are just young peppers, and that explains why they are less expensive at the store. They did not take as long to grow in the garden. Green Bell Peppers must turn yellow, orange, or red before the seeds are viable. It is the same for Habaneros. Purple Bell Peppers must turn red, Jalapenos must turn red, Pepperoncinis must turn red, and so on. One of the tricky peppers is the Black Hungarian. It goes from green to black to a red/black. Many gardeners do not know this. Educate yourselves.

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Here is a test to determine if the seeds you just traded credits for are viable. The 3rd picture also shows the steps…
1. Place a moistened paper towel on a small Pyrex.
2. Place 3 seeds on paper towel and cover loosely with plastic wrap.
3. Place dish over a heat source 80°- 90°F (we use the top of a florescent light)
4. Watch that the towel stays moist, but not soggy
5. Viable seeds should sprout within 2 weeks, maximum 3 weeks

This test will work for most vegetable seeds and other annual plant seeds. The information above is FREE. You may bid on this auction if you like and I will send a file with the jpeg photo to your e-mail. I will also include a full page of fertilizer information and how to understand the NPK Ratio. You are also encouraged to try my Seed Viability Test with ANY of the annual seeds that I trade. This test may not work for many perennial seeds unless they are correctly dry or cold-stratified first, though I dry-stratify all of my perennials seeds before listing. If you don't understand stratification, just Google the different methods. Thank you for looking!