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Growing Chili Peppers
July 19, 2009
Chili peppers are ripening, and it's time to harvest the seeds.
Some tips to harvest and store chili seeds.
1.
Choose
ripe pods
: seeds from unripe pods will not sprout.
Cut the chilies in half.
2.
Use gloves, or fork and knife to handle chili seeds,
don't use your hands
.
Separate carefully the seeds from the placenta.
3.
Discard any seed that looks
dark or damaged
.
Be careful: every Capsicum Pubescens Pepper like Rocoto or the Hyperpube in the picture, have black, hard seeds. Don't discard these seeds because of the color!
4.
Put the seeds in a glass or bowl and
put a label
on it: chili seeds are very similar.
Let dry for a couple of days or even a week, then store them in paper or plastig bags.
In the picture you can see a
sporigami
, paper bags without glue.
It's a long work, but next year you'll find that it was worth every bit of effort.
One year ago:
Herb Moon Fritters
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