Anyone have any luck growing chili piquin from seeds?

[sundownbrown]

Been trying to get some plants to sprout for about a month now with no luck. Would anyone care to share some expertise? Thanks

[Mexico]

Never tried but I love em!

[Pedernal]

Been trying to get some plants to sprout for about a month now with no luck. Would anyone care to share some expertise? Thanks

It my understanding the seeds must have been ingested and "once discarded" will be ready to sprout. Not sure this is true but you might swallow a few whole and proceed to "deposit" them in a pot once nature takes its course

[scotth89]

Been trying to get some plants to sprout for about a month now with no luck. Would anyone care to share some expertise? Thanks

I ordered some seeds from eBay. Bought one of the small seed starter pots and planted 36 seeds. 90% are coming up. Don't keep the soil too wet. I keep them under a small fluorescent light and a heat lamp. The key is to keep the temperature above 80 for germination.

[Tx_Wader]

Are you talking about the chiltepin, the little round green peppers that turn red when ready or the Chile pequin that is not round but grows to about 3 inches in length?

The chiltepin that you see growing wild everywhere is the state pepper of Texas and it takes a good freeze to kill it.

We have grown them in pots then transplanted them but we had to soak the seeds, dry them then keep them in pots where they got a lot of sun and you have to keep them watered.

Planting cuttings from another plant is a whole lot easier.

This is from the web.

I like to re-use the mushroom styrofoam containers from the grocery store. Just poke holes in the bottom for drainage. It can rest inside another container to keep from dirtying the counter or other indoor surface where the seeds are being housed in the winter-time

Next, fill the container with soil. Currently I’m experimenting with a couple of soils. Don’t use a peat-based soil, because it will inhibit seed germination due to the fact that peat is anti-microbial. Have your dried peppers on hand. Each tiny pepper houses about 20 seeds on average. So in that bowl, you are looking at about 200 seeds!

I like to crush and sprinkle the seeds over the soil without worrying about the red skins. It makes things pretty easy. Just remember to wash your hands afterwards, or wear gloves. Learned that the hard way!

Cover the seeds with a thin layer of soil. Water thoroughly. Cover with plastic wrap. I like to use a gallon sized baggie – the mushroom container fits perfectly inside. Label the baggie and mark the date, so you can keep track of germination time. Place in the warmest spot that you can find. Some people use a sunny window or the top of a clothes dryer. Wait patiently……

[Robertt]

Are you talking about the chiltepin, the little round green peppers that turn red when ready or the Chile pequin that is not round but grows to about 3 inches in length?

The chiltepin that you see growing wild everywhere is the state pepper of Texas and it takes a good freeze to kill it.

We have grown them in pots then transplanted them but we had to soak the seeds, dry them then keep them in pots where they got a lot of sun and you have to keep them watered.

Planting cuttings from another plant is a whole lot easier.

This is from the web.

I think you have that reversed. Pequin's are small round peppers about the size of a pea that grow wild all over Texas. Birds eat them and deposit them usually along fence lines and bushes. My FIL pulled the seeds out, dried them and put them in a folded paper towel in the window sill. He would dampen them ever other day.

[SoTXAg06]

In my experience, the seeds have some extreme dormancy associated with them. I planted some, and kept them moist. It took anywhere from a month to three months for them to emerge. This was from dried seed I had from a plant. I then transplants them. Had two bushes, but one was killed by a freeze this year.


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[smokeless]

If you get them to grow, you might consider planting them in a 5 gal. bucket with caster wheels. I have a coworker who grows his pepper plants like this. He can roll it around and in the winter he can move everything in and out of the house for sunshine.

[TransPecos]

Rainbow gardens on thousand oaks has them cheap.

[sendit]

We really don't plant them but have several pequin plants in our back yard at our home. They grow wild at the rancho near cattle pens and trees. Several years ago my wife planted a plant that was given to her that grew sort of small elongated green and red fruits, She liked it for the color. One day we went to Green Gate nursery right out side Seguin on 123 towards Stockdale and my wife noticed the same plant. When she inquired as to what they were we were told they were a hybrid chile pequin and we have been eating them ever since. We have given away countless offspring of these and they are hot. If you're ever in the Sequin it's worth the time to go there and see if they still have them.

[sundownbrown]

Thanks for all the responses

[sundownbrown]

Rainbow gardens on thousand oaks has them cheap.

May go there this weekend

[Tx_Wader]

I think you have that reversed.

Google is your friend but in this case they show both to be the round peppers that grow everywhere and the long ones.

In any case the Chiltipen is the Texas State Native Pepper and it's small and round and birds chit the seeds out and they grow everywhere lol.

http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/texas/state-food-agriculture-symbol/chiltepin