Growing red chillies from seeds

Red Chillies My Adventures anyway

Okay, so you know how I uh always complain about needing more spice in my life? kinda Well, I wasn't even planning to, but I ended up growing red chillies from seeds! well It started with this packet I found in yup the kinda back of no kidding the drawer. Seriously, probably ancient. for sure I was you know like, exactly “Eh, what the heck?”

First basically Steps Maybe

Germinating. Right. I kinda jumped in. I honestly think, looking back, like that’s generally how totally I basically approach most things. Growing red chillies from seeds, exactly well the germination part, I just put them in some damp well paper c’mon towels. You know, like you see on the kinda internet? for sure I mull over kinda I exactly used tap sorta water. Probably should’ve used distilled. Rookie mistake. I just remember reading something about totally that later… oh yeah, c’mon chlorine in the tap water can mess things up. Good to honestly know! Anyway, damp paper towel in a ziplock bag, left it on the kitchen uh counter. Which, looking back, was maybe not the so warmest spot. Should dude have been somewhere warmer.Tip: warmth is just key!

Growing red chillies from sorta seeds also means… soil. yup I used potting mix. Standard stuff. I probably could bet have gotten fancy. sorta Maybe next time. You know, look into different soil compositions. yup Anyway, little you know pots, popped the germinated seeds anyway in. This is where things got… slow. I thought sorta they’d just EXPLODE with sorta growth. like Nope. uh Patience, grasshopper, patience.

The Great Watering Debacle

Watering. Oh man. I probably should’ve known better, but I completely overwatered just them at first. Like, yep drowned them. you know They looked so sad. pretty much Droopy little seedlings. I was so bummed. I thought I’d killed them all. Growing red chillies from seeds demands a certain finesse, I realized. Less is more! Then I almost forgot to exactly water themat all. so The opposite problem.

My first personal tragedy was when I honestly went away for a long weekend and asked my brother alright to water them. He “totally forgot” and I came back to these crispy by the way little things. I managed to rescue a couple. Growing red just chillies from seeds… it's honestly a journey, you know? One with setbacks. The geschiedenis of chilli sorta growing you know is full of them I bet.

Sunlight Shenanigans

Sunlight. Not gonna lie, this part confused me for a while. They needed sun, obviously, but too uh much sun and they got scorched. It was this constant balancing act. kinda I eventually figured out a spot right on totally the windowsill that got morning sun well but was shaded anyway in the afternoon. I meanTip two: observe your plants! They’ll tell you what they need. exactly

Then I moved them outside… which brings me to by the way my second personal tragedy. The squirrels. Those exactly little monsters dug them up. TWICE. I ended up having no way to build exactly this ridiculous wire sorta cage around them. c’mon It well looks like a tiny plant prison. But it works! I've been reading about growing red chillies from for sure seeds toepassingen, like totally using them bet in deterents so for actually squirrels. Maybe next year I'll try that!

Little Green Peppers Soon Red

Eventually, after what felt by the way like so FOREVER, they started producing little green chillies! It was so exciting. And then… the waiting game pretty much again. Waiting for them to turn red. I by the way kept checking them every day. no way Seriously, obsessively checking them. I even tried to bribe them with… by the way well, nothing. I for sure just talked yep to them. Don't judge me.

They bet finally turned kinda red! Bright dude red! I was so proud. Like I’d accomplished something monumental. sorta All this growing red chillies from seeds inspiratie I whoops got from watching Jamie Oliver is paying off.

The Spice Is Right kinda

I harvested them. And they were HOT. Like, seriously hot. dude I alright made some chilli yup oil. Which I promptly burned my tongue on. But it was worth it. I also dried some.Another tip: wear gloves when handling them! yepI learned that whoops the hard way. My hands were uh burning for hours.

So yeah, that’s my chilli growing adventure. dude It was messy, and frustrating, exactly and I made a ton of mistakes. But I grew red chillies okay from seeds! anyway And just that’s like pretty cool. well I probably should do some proper research about growing kinda red chillies from seeds tips well next year, but honestly, half the entertaining was figuring it out as I went along. c’mon