I just thought I'd put an update here on the two pepper varieties I was
growing this year on my windowsill.

I've had radically different results from them. I selected Aja Rojo and
Tepin as both proclaimed themselves as perenniel peppers.

The Aja Rojo have been a storming success, every single seed of the ten
planted germinated in a couple of weeks and only one seedling decided to up
and die on me. Even with the relative darkness of May (we had no direct sun
for two weeks, just overcast shade, and only broken sunshine for the rest of
it). All the plants are looking healthy and really bushing out. I'd
recommend them.

The Tepin are a differnt story entirely. It too six weeks for the seeds to
germinate and out of ten, only three did. Two of those died off for no
reason I could find and the remaining seedling is still looking very weak
and sickly. Such a difference.

Has anyone else had any experience of growing these varieties? Is your
experience similar to mine or am I doing something wrong. I've given the
two types pretty much the same treatment. The only realy difference I can
think of is that the longer germination time pushed the Tepin into
germinating right smack bang at the start of that very dark and gloomy
weatherright at the end of April/start of May so they did did get lower
light levels than the Aja Rojo despite coming up later in the year.
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Rhiannon_s
Due to it's large carbon footprint the light at the end of the tunnel has
been turned off.