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How are other people's doing?

Not one of mine germinated   :(   although my other varieties did OK.   :)

Guess you are doing the GW trial too?

only one of ours germinated - but it took about 2-3 weeks... they need a very constant heat. We were disappointed too, especially considering the price of the seeds, glad we didn't pay for them!

Mine germinated well - not this variety - but the sweet peppers didn't do a thing. The difference was, the chilis went in a warmer spot.

Are they on `trial`?-this could explain why a friend in the village (who is connected to publishing) gave me some last year?. Well they germinated OK,grew long but did need to be fully ripe before they had a decent flavour/heat-not incendiary hot-but warm enough

I think this type of plant, chillies, aubergines, sweet peppers does better if you use a fairly loose, well aerated compost, I've done several batches and used more of the cheap non peat based growing bag type compost in the mix (the sort thats quite like wood chips) for some of them and this gave much better results. I mixed this with about one part in 8 of John Innes no.1 Also I agree with the constant bottom heat. They took on average 2 - 3 weeks to fully come through, using a very cheap propagator.