To Dry Or Not To Dry?

[daginge]

Is it better to dry fresh, sweet pointed pepper seeds prior to attempting to plant / grow them?TIA
Da Ginge

[PeelerPal]

I would love to help but absolutely none of that makes any sense to me whatsoever. good luck though. I can only recommend cracked black pepper available at your nearest supermarket

[Togo]

Ginge I do garden and think that I would dry half of what you have, and put the others in without drying. Do not over water the un dried on planting. I would be keeping them fairly warm though. Dry the other half and plant up but do not dry them artificially. I would scatter them on paper and dry in the sun, then plant up. You can tell us what worked best.

[PeelerPal]

Togo, you are some kind of noah! I am genuinely impressed!

[jourdain2]

I dry all my seeds - or I did until last year when I lost my huge garden. Pop onto kitchen roll and wait a bit, when dry wrap in K. roll and cling-film and there you are until next Spring. Always worked for me.

[Chipchopper]

What I often do with larger seeds like beans, sunflowers etc is to soak the seeds in a glass of tepid water overnight.
In the morning the seed should be noticeably bigger, due to water absorption and will hopefully trigger and stimulate them into growth.
What I do, is carefully place the the soaked seed in between two sheets of kitchen roll, for a few minutes to make sowing easier. This method also works well with sweet peas.

[jomifl]

Some seeds germinate better if not dried. Cyclamen for example.

[Togo]

Chip I take it that you are talking about dried seeds and beans there. May just be worth clarification for the occasional gardener.

[Chipchopper]

After some more digging n' delving, as regarding sweet peppers, a lot of folks out there, seem to recommend that the seed should be as fresh as possible for best germination results.
I might try some seed myself next time I have some of those pointed ones.

[alavahalf]

All of my sweet peppers this year are from seed taken from last years peppers. When I remove them I just wrap them in kitchen paper and put them in a cupboard over winter.
This year I planted 18 seeds and have ended up with 14 plants. I haven't really thought about soaking them first.
Wish I could find a fail free method for parsnip seed... they do my head in.

[hammerman]

I collected my own seeds from my mini sweet peppers last autumn. Left them on the kitchen windowsill and then sowed them in Feb. Rekon I must've had near on 100% germination. Ended up giving loads away and throwing them as i had so many.