I’ve gone for “ring ‘o fire”* this year got 5 plants looking very good, but had a poor start due to this years cold spring & my seed taking ages to be delivered, had previously just treated them as tomato plants but a little basic research this year boiled down to:
10 -12 Lt. pots tall not stubby
Potash feed (tomato feed) twice weekly
Starting pepper seed:
20-30degrees C water, ‘flavour’ with a used tea bag (pre-soak seeds in the mixture). Soak a peat pellet with mixture, & push your seed into the pellet.
Use a heated propagator to start them
Chillies: Soil-based Composts
We recommend J Arthur Bowers with John Innes loam based seed compost for germination.
We recommend that you use soil-based seed and potting-on composts – chillies really appreciate good drainage.
Been using last years stock to make chilli jam (bottom of the page)
*hoping for better results after an extremely disappointing results last year from a scotch bonnet