Time to get the next set into some chamomile I guess. We have a few more chillies to go, and then I also start out my eggplants and capsicums at this time using the same method — first half Feb.

Tomatoes get the same treatment but I probably won't start them until the first week of March... they grow so damn fast, there just isn't that much of a rush.

There's other sowing going on as well, but done more simply, and not necesarilly needing the #HotFridge... I'm also about to do various alliums and a few other bits. It all gets pretty busy from this point.

Four more #chilli germinations overnight!

I picked through the chilli seeds at bedtime last night and decided to go all-in on another 14 varieties... absolutely not sticking to my guns on limiting them lol... so if all germinate that'll be 28 this year. But the plan for some of them is to be medium-size-pot only and on benches and maybe rotated through desk space at work. We shall see if I can ever manage to be anywhere near that organised though. Unlikely.

Two more germinations today, a 7 Pot Brainstrain Yellow and a Naga Morich, superhots from Chilli Chump.

And got the next set of chilli seeds into chamomile for planting on the weekend. This is a fairly eclectic set of 14 extra varieties about half of which I didn't really intend to grow this year. The most random is that Numex Twilight, there was one seed in the packet, which is marked as sow-by 2020... 😅 not fussed if that doesn't work out.

The key plants here are the anchos, the biquhinos, and jalapeños, and the padrons... everything else is filler.

Yesterday we had five more chilli germinations…

One being the second CC Naga Morich. So now I have 6x Naga seedlings lol (in both the Fatalii pots both have germinated), plan is to just grow 1x of the Chilli Chump one and 1x of the Fatalii one to see if there is any difference, purely out of curiosity. What I might do is do is put the strongest into the ground in the greenhouse and then also do one of each in pots.

Also we have germinations in all four Rocoto pots… these were uniformly the slowest seeds to germinate — but then 1x of each popped up all at once on the 7th Feb. Also really only want 1x of each of these, the Rocotos are big plants, this year I am planning to put these into the polytunnel.

Only 2x zero-germination pots, a Chupetinho White and an Aji Habanero. But I have 1x of the CW and 2x of the AH and these are plants I only really need 1x of each anyway. (More may well still germinate of course!)

Next set of seeds will go from the chamomile and into soil today.

@cookingroffa this is our second attempt at a variety to make a gochugaru. Of course many medium/light red chillies/peppers can make a red chilli flake... but we are trying to match the usual tubs of gochugaru we order.

We last tried a variety called Beaver Dam, it had the right (low/medium) heat level but it was too fleshy to make a decent flake. (Made a very good hot paprika though!)