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thinkbrown

Germination results from Puckerbutt seeds?

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Wanted to see if I'm the only person having issues with poor germinating rates using seeds from Puckerbutt. After four weeks in rockwool on a heat mat at 85 degrees, I had zero of the six seeds I sowed sprout.

I then ordered some seeds from https://www.whitehotpeppers.com/ (super nice people too, gave me a bunch of extra varieties) and planted those along with some older hot paper lantern seeds from www.johnnyseeds.com as a control group. Here I am about a week later with sprouts coming up from several of the more recently planted seeds.

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Curious to see if anybody else has had similar experiences, or if I just got a bad sachet of seeds.

Posted Sep 30, 2020, 2:03 PM UTC

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Placboe•

What kind of pepper seeds were attempted? I just made a post about my first germination tray and I'm finding that my super hot peppers (reapers, ghost peppers) are not germinating as quickly as the others (serrano, lemon drop).

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thinkbrownOP•

Scotch bonnets, 7 pot brown, and reapers. So far, I've tried four of the scotch bonnets and 7 pot, and 2 reapers with no luck.

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ThatDustinKidd89•

I have reaper seeds and bleeding naga from them. Put them right into the soil and they sprouted. If they don't produce anything then I only lost out on 7 or 8 bucks so no big deal.

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westyler5•

Last year I got reaper, scorpion, Peruvian hab, and scotch bonnet seeds from them. Only the habaneros didn’t end up germinating. Scorpions took a long time though. Like, 5 weeks iirc

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