When to start habanero seeds
Growing Habanero Peppers, Days 0-11
hi my name is Melvin Way welcome to my
youtube channel and this will be the
first episode of my series on growing
habanero peppers so this is just a seed
packet that I bought at a local store it
was cheap and I decided why not you know
I have lots of pots and soil why not try
to grow peppers I've seen other people
grow peppers and I like the foliage it
looks like it's pretty easy to maintain
so this should be a relatively
trouble-free assignment but then again
every time I say things like that things
manage to find a way to go wrong so
these are what the seeds look like they
look like your typical pepper seeds from
inside the non hot peppers and also the
hot peppers so they're all wrinkly and
desiccated looking that's just the way
they are and this is a macro footage up
close on my table
this is way too many seeds I think these
grow basically kind of like large weeds
or you know not even the size of a small
bush so I'll just take like five seeds
these five you know randomly and I'll
plant them and see what happens I don't
have a very large pot so I'll place one
in the center they say to bury 1/4 of an
inch deep so one inch is 2.54
centimeters and 1/4 of that would be
let's see 0.63 5 centimeters or
something like that so yeah I'm just
going to bury them in a kind of a square
pattern with one in the center and
that's it you know just be gentle of
course the distance is completely
estimated so it could be off but that
doesn't really matter in my experience
they're just giving you general
guidelines and there's no way a farmer
or anyone else could plant these on a
large scale at exactly the same depth
each so then I'll do it this is actually
a pot from a failed root growing
experiment for American ginseng so those
American ginseng roots were exposed to
moisture I added water in the water
from the bottom everything got wet and
over you know a few weeks time they all
just rotted away so that's kind of
irrelevant to this experiment because
they're never going to come back but
they're basically functioning as
additional fertilizer so here I'm just
smoothing with a camera airbrush and you
know that I put sand over what I just
buried and you know nothing can grow in
there sand doesn't really retain all
that much moisture but it helps prevent
a drying out of the topsoil surface and
all water with some 0.5 hydrogen
peroxide like I've been doing with many
of my other plants this has a watering
tray at the bottom so it's better to
water from the bottom your water from
the top that causes a massive upheaval
so this is just a typical cheapo
hydrogen peroxide solution I get from
Target you know it's a 3% solution so I
dilute that with one part of this into
five parts of water or yeah so I have
water distilled water mixed in you know
up to the 20 mark and I fill it to the
24 mark with hydrogen peroxide 3% it
gives me a 0.5% then I'm going to water
in the bottom until it's full and repeat
this process as needed until water stops
absorbing and then I can just leave it
alone for a really long time because
it'll the soil will be saturated with
moisture so on day nine I got this so
it's my first seedling and so far it's
just like many other plants the leaves
cotyledons are a little different from
what I'm used to seeing with other
plants on day 11 here's my setup it's
elevated a little bit because I have
this clamp clamp and I put my most
powerful light bulb minute that's giving
off 1680 lumens and this is the seedling
that I showed you on day 9 the foliage
is a very healthy green and you know I
don't know if these light levels will be
off for these pepper plants but I'll
monitor the situation I can always take
this pot outside and this is a second
seedling so there's two different colors
of peppers on the packaging red and
yellow and I planted five seeds because
I want to have at least one of each so
the other three seeds haven't germinated
yet and I'll have to decide whether I'm
going to plant new seeds or just let
these two grow and Gamble
