Serrano Seedlings

jmsieglaff · April 5, 2014

A few years ago I tried a few different kinds of hot peppers. Serranos won out as the right combination of flavor and heat. We don't use a ton of hot peppers (aside from making roasted tomatillo salsa) so we only grow two plants of Serranos each year. Every year I notice those seedlings come up from an elbow, cotyledons open with the tiny seedling vertical, then the stems bend over and the cotyledons go down to the potting mix, then they go vertical again and grow normally. This doesn't happen to my sweet bell peppers or yummy bells nor tomatoes, tomatillos, etc. Does anyone else see this happen to their serranos or maybe this is common with hot peppers? I grow them fairly cool maybe that has something to do with it? I've never had issues with damping off, so I don't think that is it.

April 5, 2014	#1
jmsieglaff Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Southern WI Posts: 2,742	Serrano Seedlings A few years ago I tried a few different kinds of hot peppers. Serranos won out as the right combination of flavor and heat. We don't use a ton of hot peppers (aside from making roasted tomatillo salsa) so we only grow two plants of Serranos each year. Every year I notice those seedlings come up from an elbow, cotyledons open with the tiny seedling vertical, then the stems bend over and the cotyledons go down to the potting mix, then they go vertical again and grow normally. This doesn't happen to my sweet bell peppers or yummy bells nor tomatoes, tomatillos, etc. Does anyone else see this happen to their serranos or maybe this is common with hot peppers? I grow them fairly cool maybe that has something to do with it? I've never had issues with damping off, so I don't think that is it.