So a few days have passed and I’ve got a ton of new seedlings sprouting up. I’ve potted up a few of the serrano seedlings into their own respective cups to give space to maybe new starts that I might wanna go do.

I’ve had pretty excellent germination from the stuff I got from ebay overall. I don’t really know what the fuss is about these guys from ebay that are selling bad seeds. It might just probably the guys who buy them don’t know how to do it right or  some other factor. The true problem with buying seeds from ebay is that you can never really be sure of what you’re getting til you actually get them to fruit or in some cases grow them to maturity (for other vegetables).

I’ve had all my basil plants sprout. All four varieties that I decided to grow have gone up. Pretty good germination rate overall. around 50-90% germination from the basil seeds I got. They seem to just love the sun. Tried to take this whole tray and bathe it under the mid morning sun and the basil plants just soaked it all up like it was nothing.

The serrano seedlings were the ones that were most affected when I did this because it actually started to lay on the soil and get limp.

I’ve lost like 3 or 4 TINY TINY seedlings of oregano from this little experiment that I had done. Which was fine. Since I had two cells in the tray that actually had enough seedlings to afford losing three or four. I mean those things are SUPER TINY. It’s so hard watering them because you risk drowning them with the watering can. So it’s best to use just a spray bottle with that and spray ‘em very gently until they’ve gotten enough, and with those small things, very little is more than enough. No tarragon yet. Damn germination on that thing is next to shit. No chives yet either. My thyme are still popping up from the pot that I dedicated a whole pot for it. So far I only got three kinds of herbs to germinate. Next I’m gonna buy some mint seeds and germinate those. I hear those things are easy peasy.

If you notice the seedling on the lower left is already starting to form true leaves (the second one is covered up by the first true leaf and is SUPER TINY). That’s a Red Savina Habanero Seedling. The rest are either bhut jolokia seedlings or serranos. I got Chocolate Habaneros and White Habaneros starting to pop up from the ground. Also got my first cayenne to break soil, I was starting to get worried I wasn’t gonna get cayennes. And there it was. Also got Red Savannah Habaneros starting to come up.

Still waiting for Rosemary, Spinach, Tarragon, Chives, and Lavender to sprout. This sucks. I want those to come up. Sure hope they do.

Gonna update probably tomorrow more on my potted up plants like the tomatoes, potato, soybeans and cantaloupes.

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