My pepper seeds last well - some of the 48 kinds I grew this year were from seeds I bought in 2012, and a couple may have been older.
I did find that seeds seem to need a period of after-ripening. They may have immature embryos. I had Canoncito ripen on June 22.
I sowed seeds from it in late June. They didn't germinate, so I tried again in early September.
Still no germination. On February 5, the time I usually sow peppers, I sowed some more, and they germinated.
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