LOL! I don't know but like your post!

I wish I lived near you - i would take your extras. I planted toms and peppers and melons when it was warm here, then the temperatures dropped (and I have no heat mat), so I'm getting almost no germination.

I don't think there is an easy way to distinguish until you see the fruit.

I don't have a hundred of them but I do have a bunch of volunteer Lavatera A. seedlings. I have to move 'em and spread them out along a fence that's kinda naked. But I think I have too many of them and they get enormous fast. They literally grow like weeds -on caffeine.

I hate that part, too, when you have to "thin out" seedlings. Cruel and unusual punishment for someone who loves plants, I say. :D

Other than that, I have no idea how to tell what color they might be, Westelle. But I feel your pain. LOL

Brenda

Can you give them away on Freecycle or grow them and give the peppers away? I would hate killing those! I'd love to get some - I am not sure what you mean as I can't remember if I have ever seen them, but my kids and husband would love growing baby peppers. I'll have to look at Costco. Not that I know how to them get them to grow yet!

Well, it makes me feel better with a little commiseration.... someone else knows my angst.

Gina: These are just like the big sweet bell peppers.... only smaller. After my experience... you just take the seeds out of the peppers, mix them with some soil, and voila! you have baby pepper plants.

I posted a similiar question about a month ago. I just love those peppers, they are so sweet. I never thought about the seeds inside. How did you do it? Do the seeds have to dry out? I'm not much of a seed planter, but would do it for those peppers.

Maybe it was you, Tracy, who posted the original thread and got me started.

It was way too easy: cut open the pepper, scoop out the seeds and set aside, cut pepper into strips and eat with dip provided by Costco.

I used one of those BIG plastic boxes that Strawberries came in.... ate the strawberries, filled the empty box half-way with soil, sprinkled on pepper seeds, covered seeds with more soil, gently watered, closed the lid, kept everybody warm on the counter. Once there were seedlings I left the lid open and put in the warm sun. I actually put them outside in the sun during the day when it's warm and bring them in at night so they don't get cold.... peppers do not like cold.

OH..... and, I think I put a paper towel in the bottom of my quasi planter to keep the soil from falling out of the bottom holes.

I never did thin the babies. They all grew happily together, enjoying each other's company. On the occasion of all getting their 2nd set of true leaves I decided that they'd best be given separate beds. So yesterday afternoon I transplanted them all into every stray pot I could find.

Now I need to find many friends to give pepper plants.

Great news that it all worked out, Westelle! :)

Brenda

I believe that the different colors reflect degrees of ripeness?

Actually most peppers are green and then ripen to one of the colors mentioned: red, yellow, orange, and now also purple and a chocolate... haven't actually seen the brownish one.

Take 2 on germinating the peppers and cukes, this time using the moist coffee filter and plastic baggie method indoors, was a huge success. 80% germination! Now to try a batch with seeds from those Costco minipeppers, which are are a frequent purchase at my house.