Growing Chillis, Peppers and Aubergines: Day #20 - Healthy seedlings & surprisingly fast germination

The seedlings are looking very happy in their propagator home under the new led lights. Over the last 3-4 days the first set of true leaves started appearing on most of the King of the North, Jalapeno's and Cayenne. You can also see the true leaves starting on the aubergines, on the left of this photo. Interestingly the aubergines germinated first but the peppers have now outgrown them.

20 day old peppers: King of the North, Cayenne, Jalapeno

There's space in the propagator for a few more plugs, maybe 5, but I have a lot more seeds germinating. It's soon going to be time to pot-up some of these seedlings.

Aubergine and pepper seedling in the Ikea propagator

I didn't check the germinating seeds for 2 days and today found a few that grew really fast. These 2 photos show seeds sown 4 days ago and show the variation in gemination and speed of growth. So the last 5 spaces in the propagator will be filled today after I transplant the germinated seeds (I'm transplanting 3-4 seeds every few days at the moment as they germinate). 

Cayenne seeds 4 days after sowing

Mediterranean sweet peppers 4 days after sowing

I've now sown pepper & chilli seeds in 4 batches and have some from each batch translated but also some from each batch still waiting to germinate. I'll summarise the germination rates in 2 weeks time, but for now the status is:

The 2nd Feb sowing leaderboard after 20 days is:

- Aubergine 2018: 7 of 7
- Petit Marseillais: 8 of 8
- King of the North: 8 of 8
- Cayenne: 8 of 8
- Jalapeno: 3 of 4 (finished)
- Papy's Peppers: 3 of 9 (finished)
- Habanada: 0 of 2 (I'll keep waiting...)
- Aubergine 2019: 0 of 4 (finished, bad seed)

The 11th Feb sowing leaderboard after 10 days is:

- Jalapeno: 5 of 6 (I'll keep waiting...)

The 15th Feb sowing leaderboard after 7 days is:

- Habanada: 0 of 2
- Papy's Peppers: 5 of 16

The 16th Feb sowing leaderboard after 4 days is:

- Petit Marseillais: 4 of 6
- Cayenne: 4 of 4