lmao!!!!!

yes they will have a very slight variation in color,this has happened to me before.

Okay, Imma' get a magnifying glass and a good light and start separating these guys. Hehe.

I bought some seeds before that have colored dye on them to keep them seperated. May want to keep that in mind next time.

What do you mean? Only buy seed mixes that say they are dyed?

I very much doubt that you can tell the pepper plants apart by the appearance of the plants. I tell my pepper plants apart by the name written on the plastic tag in the soil at the base of the plant. To me, the plants all look exactly like pepper plants.

Some of the peppers I can't even tell apart by the look of the fruit until the fruit is mature.

Haha. Oh gosh. I am going to have a HUGE pepper garden this year.

^^ I don't see the problem with that? :D

Nick

I'm afraid you just stated perfectly why most experienced gardeners steer away from seed mixes. To make it worse, the varieties are not always in the same percentages, so the very one you most wanted may be the one that only has a few reps in the package. Unless you plant the whole package, you may not get it....GRRR.

On the other hand, if you were to arrange a plant swap with friends in your Garden Club, Church, Work Place, Neighborhood, etc. you might be very happy to have 100 pepper plants. :)

I'm afraid I was only going by the price tag. One buck for five types of hot peppers. My brother swears he'll use them all, no problem, but I don't think he realizes just how many peppers we're going to get. Haha.

You're probably not going to get 100 plants from 100 seeds. Some of them aren't going to germinate and if you are a beginner then you'll probably lose some of the seedlings also.

Size matters too. The tiniest seeds I have are for piquin peppers where the mature pepper is less than 1/2 inch long, the largest for Anaheims and bells.

I've found that my hot pepper seedlings look very different from one another (the sweet are much more similar). What were the five varieties listed?

Bellatrix

I'm sorry to say I laughed a little when I read the thread title. For what it's worth, I think it was because a friend gave me what is probably the same packet and I took one peek inside and said "nope, not even gonna try." Especially since I don't think mine even tells me what they all are, so even if I got a pepper I liked, how would I know what it was to order again? And I so hate wasting perfectly good seed! Best of luck!

Sunni

Hehe. Now I normally grow a jalapeno pepper in a pot off my apartment balcony along with cherry tomatoes. Skipped the garden last year due to other issues so this year is my first time in a real garden. Haven't decided if I'm going to do traditional, or square foot, or a hybrid with a bit of lasagna gardening mixed in.

Anywho, it's a hot pepper mix. Listed as Anaheim TMR 23, Ancho, Long Slim Red Cayenne, Jalapeno M, and Hungarian Wax. There's more than a hundred seeds here, so if I get good germination and they don't damp off, I expect about ninety plants. Definitely don't want that many. The watering alone turns me off to it. I think I'll separate the yellower seeds from the tanner seeds so I'll have two sets of plants. Then hopefully I'll be able to tell them apart before they get too unmanageable.

I don't know. Yikes.

More than likely you will not know what peppers they are
until they produce peppers. Goodluck