Today I'm placing the Ariane Hybrid Pepper seeds in Rockwool placed inside of a propagation tray and insert with a humidity dome. The propagation tray in insert will sit on top of a seedling heat mat which heats up to 10-20F above ambient temperature.
I have started the seeds off with two different methods (well, one only):
Method 1 (7 seeds):
- Soak the seeds in a glass of water for 24 hours
- Placed the soaked seeds in a moist paper towel for 3 days
Method 2 (5 seeds):
Method 1 seeds never germinated within the paper towel. This may be cause the temperature was too low or the paper towel got too dry. None-the-less, I hope they'll still germinate within the Rockwool cubes.
- All seeds are placed within Rockwool cubes with B-1 Red for 24 hours
- Before placing seeds in the Rockwool cube, I made the factory created hole a little and bigger and deeper with a toothpick
- Place seed in Rockwool
- Gently cover up hole in Rockwool with a clean toothpick
- Place Rockwool cube in propagating tray
To increate humidity within the propagation tray, I poured water within the bottom tray. Heat generated from the seedling mat should cause the water to evaporate, creating an environment of nearly 90%.
Rock wool cube that has just received seed:
Rockwool cube after seed is covered up:
Tray with Rockwool cubes
Propagation tray equipment:
Buy seedling heat mat (Highly recommend):