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Raquel The Riesling Grape Vine’s branches have now grown enough to take two more cuttings.

This time I am going to use peat pellets and rootone rooting hormone.

I started by making fairly large holes in the peat pellets.

peat pellet hole

peat pellet hole

I then dipped the cuttings into the rooting hormone powder

riesling grape vine cutting

and stuck them into the peat pellets.

riesling grape vine cutting

riesling grape vine cutting

riesling grape vine cutting

riesling grape vine cutting

I hope they take root and grow.


I have decided to transplant the other four hot pepper seedlings into these red plastic cups.

hot pepper seedling transplant

Just put in a little potting soil

hot pepper seedling transplant

Plug in the peat pellets

hot pepper seedling transplant

Fill in around them with some more potting soil

hot pepper seedling transplant

And give them a drink of water by spraying them.

hot pepper seedling transplant

That was easy, nothing to it.


I have five different kinds of spicy hot pepper seeds I am going to try to germinate.

Jalapeno

Large Red Cayenne

Red Habanero

Pepper Hot Marbles

Red Hot Cherry Pepper

I have a planters pride ten peat pellet mini greenhouse seed starter I am going to use.

hot pepper seed germination - project start

hot pepper seed germination - project start

Let’s give the peat pellets some water and get them puffed up.

Note: I added 1ml superthrive, 2 tablespoons hydrogen peroxide and 1ml liquid organic fertilizer to the gallon of water.

water puff peat pellet

We’ll start with the jalapeno peppers.

jalapeno pepper seeds

jalapeno pepper seeds

planting jalapeno pepper seeds

Here are the large red cayenne peppers.

large red cayenne pepper seeds

large red cayenne pepper seeds

planting large red cayenne pepper seeds

Here comes the red habanero peppers.

red habanero pepper seeds

red habanero pepper seeds

planting red habanero pepper seeds

Now for the pepper hot marbles.

pepper hot marbles seeds

pepper hot marbles seeds

planting pepper hot marbles seeds

And finally, the red hot cherry peppers.

red hot cherry pepper seeds

red hot cherry pepper seeds

planting red hot cherry pepper seeds

All done!

hot pepper seeds planted

hot pepper seeds planted mini greenhouse seed starter

Bet you could make a serious five alarm chili with these!


Here goes row D and they get purified water with hydrogen peroxide.

row d peat pellets hydrogen peroxide

row d peat pellets hydrogen peroxide

row d peat pellets

row d peat pellets watered

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back into the planter. All Done!

OK, Ladies and Gentlemen, looks like we are finally ready to plant some seeds…


Here goes row C and they get purified water with liquid fertilizer.

row c peat pellets liquid fertilizer

row c peat pellets liquid fertilizer

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I can’t believe how much water they soak up!



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