Mail! and how to sprout pepper seeds in record time!

[buckfever101ful]

hey can you send me some seeds, i will donate some in return

[Praxxus55712]

@buckfever101ful Tune in to the new video that will be uploaded 2-4-2012. It'll give you info on how to get seeds at no cost to you.

[Ladydelain]

My mom and I used to collect coins but... I cant handle silver coins. I'm highly Allergic to silver so I kinda gave up the hobby.

[traybo2011]

you are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ooooooooooooooogay!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Praxxus55712]

@traybo2011 How long have you been mentally retarded? Months? Days? Weeks? 

[hassman789]

@Praxxus55712 I wouldn't compare people with mental disabilities to this moron. They are WAY better than that! Haha

[TheRastaRick]

when you sprouted the pepper plants on the heating pad did you leave the heating pad on for 5days straight or did you turn it off every night and turned it back on during the day?

[Praxxus55712]

@TheRastaRick Heat stays on constantly till they pop their heads through the soil. Then the heat isn't needed.

[taymar316]

Hey Ray. Thank you for the pineapple video, I planted one right after I watched it. I have been reading about the seed giveaway. Am I jumping on the bandwagon way too late? I just signed up on you tube today, so I might not be going about this question the right way, but I will try.

[Praxxus55712]

@taymar316 I may just be doing a winter indoor tomato seed giveaway in a few months but I totally ran out of seeds from the spring thing. The turnout was AMAZING! It really caught me offguard in a fun way. :) Thanks for tuning in and please stay tuned in if you have time ok? If I go forward with the winter indoor tomato seed thing I'll announce it in a video.

[mickeyzee43]

I wonder if a waterbed heater would be more efficient?

[LanguageInAMinute]

The average sprouting temperature is 22 degrees celsius. . . . .I wonder if putting them on the stove in a fry pan might work. Also I have an old unused scanner, I might pop them on top of it as it gets pretty hot.

[LanguageInAMinute]

The average sprouting temperature is 22 degrees celsius. . . . .I wonder if putting them on the stove in a fry pan might work also!

[pomsmom75]

Hi Ray, I just wanted to say I've been watching your videos for the past 3 days, and I love them! Your great to watch, very funny and I love nothing is very technical, lol, most of us aren't. I also wanted to say I used a heating pad a few years ago to sprout my seeds when my heating mat was hiding from me. And it does a better job then the grow heating mats that cost too much. I'm wishing I would of used my heating pad this year since it is taking forever for my peppers to sprout!

[Praxxus55712]

@pomsmom75 Low tech, sunshine and lots of happy plants! :)

[michael153246]

have fun tryin to eat that pretzel.

[Amarlee]

i think you would be the best person to buy gifts for

[Praxxus55712]

@Amarlee I think you're going to get a chuckle from the video I'll be uploading to my Voodoogarden channel this afternoon. :)

[A251T]

Dude I used your idea and the tomatoes you sent me sprouted in three days.... Still waiting for the peppers to sprout.

[2Bibleppl]

I love the heating pad idea. I'll have to remember that. Also I love the laughs, so funny thanks. I haven't laughed so much in a while. Great vid and keep making them I'm learning a lot.

[A251T]

Did you have the heating pad on for five days straight?

[Praxxus55712]

@A251T Yep, day and night.

[brea0aqua]

I didn't have a mat, I used the bottom of an old warm food serving tray with polycarbonate lid as my starter container. This sits in water on a cookie tray, then put the tray over a large stew pot half full of steaming hot water.. I let the steam heat them from below.. I had to keep an eye on this setup, not too hot/cold.. As long as the dirt felt warm but not hot I figure it's ok.. I planted them on 2/9/11, they started coming up this morning 2/17/11 :) THANKS for the info!

[eddegoei]

Yes heatmats are great. Sometimes it takes longer than five days but let them hang on. I've had some peppers on the heatmat sprouting after 10 days......

Btw ray I was very ill so missed your seed offer. If you find some linguisa on the floor please send them of to Italy. Might sound funny but the offering of seeds here is quite limited, can you imagine in tomato country nummero uno? I can send you some huge salad seeds, well that is the plant not the seeds :-)

[ceadeses]

You look pretty good for someone 50+ years old. They don't send that stuff till you hit 50 I know been getting them for 6 years now!

[MIgardener]

wow, you reall ystarted your peppers early! i just started mine today!

[ameetpinto]

Really enjoying your videos and have a few questions. What do your albino turkeys look like now? How successful were you getting a peanut crop? Did you get any offers on your house and/or did you take it off the market for the winter?

[Praxxus55712]

@ameetpinto The albinos didn't make it. I think they were born weak or something. They were happy little babies though! :)

Peanut crop was fun. I grew a couple plants and harvested around 20 peanuts. Doesn't sound like much, but it was my first peanut plant and they're not even supposed to survive our short season, so that was pretty surprising.

ps: Just had a family look at the house last week. We'll see if they make an offer.

[juststl]

yep the humid heat works everytime on pepper seeds.. i also put them in a tuperware container in paper towels under lights in a growbox.. and they sprout in 5 or 6 days.. even the habanero types

[fmaneko217]

I just got my seeds from you today, they're wonderful, thank you!

[jplerwill]

Sorry I had to laugh at you throwing away the AARP mail away only to put on the glasses to read the rest of the mail. Great videos thank you.

[MIgardener]

those pepper plants look very healthy! when should i plant my pepper plants? because i get spring before you and i do not know when to start them. you started yours already and i want to start mine so bad! but i do not have a grow light yet, and i do not want them to die.

[Praxxus55712]

@MIgardener If you don't have a grow light, you might want to wait until 6 weeks before outdoor planting time to start your seeds indoors.

[LoudBunch]

Great tips in this video, thank you.

We use plastic cups too, but we do put holes in the bottoms so we can water from the tray up. Last year I couldn't find a heating pad big enough so I bought an electric blanket and used that to warm the seeds on a large table and it was the first year we had decent germination with our peppers.

[Praxxus55712]

@LoudBunch Electric blanket? That's an excellent idea!

[Helioforge]

Just saw on "BGgardenlive" they have a dedicated sprouting container to make alfalfa sprouts, and immediately thought it could be used to germinate garden seeds!

[PorterValleyFarm]

Is it not early to be starting pepper seeds?

[Praxxus55712]

@PorterValleyFarm Not for me. :)

I plan on having very advanced pepper plants to transplant into the garden this spring to get more growing season out of them. If they get too big indoors before transplant time, I'll just prune them back a bit. I want to transplant stocky strong plants in the spring when others are planting tiny seedlings. :)

[PorterValleyFarm]

@Praxxus55712 Well ... I'm in zone 8 so I guess I am behind. I think I will get them started tomorrow! (Should be a great way to recover from a physics exam!)

[PCOStherealdeal]

"Crack... Nobody sends me crack anymore!" Best Comment EVER! lol I seriously CRACKed up!

[ramnusia07]

Hey! I did one of those "2 orders from Sweden"!!

[TABULOUS1]

U sound subtly disappointed that they aren't crack rocks, lol--

Well at least they are still rocks-- and less likely than crack rocks 2send u down skid row :P

[Praxxus55712]

@TABULOUS1 Sometimes my sense of humor is a bit weird. The crack joke is sort of an ongoing joke between me and.............well pretty much everyone who knows me in real life. Whenever I get a gift, I always ask "Is it crack??!!" I think it's sort of funny because I'm such a strong proponent of stopping drug use. :)

[RocketCityGardener]

Do you poke holes in the plastic cups your were using for the seedlings to allow for drainage? Also am I correct in assuming that your heating pad doesn't have an auto shut-off at about 2 hours?

[Praxxus55712]

@RocketCityGardener No holes in the cups. I just make sure not to overwater them. Also, the heating pad is one of the old ones that didn't have that irritating safety feature of shutting off after 30 minutes.

[bluejuiseritsma]

Love your sense of humor!!!

[CyberFad]

nice videos :) i was wondering did you ever experiment with aquaponics?

[Praxxus55712]

@CyberFad Nope I've never done any aquaponics. Just standard gardening.

[daligoddess2006]

Would a heat vent work the same as a heating pad or not?

[Praxxus55712]

@daligoddess2006 The heat source has to be constant at a low temp. I don't know if a heat vent would roast them or not. I guess it depends on how hot the vent was.

mmmm......roasted peppers. *drools*

[risquecat]

How does your turkeys do in wenter time?

[Praxxus55712]

@risquecat All of the birds are locked inside the coop. They have two windows with wire fencing on them to keep them in but allow in air and light. They're comfy with their thick straw bedding to walk on, heated water bowl, bread scraps in the bowl of cracked corn and daily visits from me. There's coyotes patrolling the perimeter of my yard this winter, so the birds would absolutely die if they weren't locked up.

[risquecat]

@Praxxus55712 Thanks for the reply, great to hear that they do well in harsh winter weather.

[freakygeaktwo]

Oh dang watching this like half a day after it's been posted ( three am at the moment ) and I'm having to rewind as I'm laughing at different parts all good and I thank you for the vid, tiss a shame there is no like a comment option like in facebook several I seen I agree with :)

[JoeHell67]

Hi,

this is so cool!

Exactly what i needed!

Joe from Germany

[AMRADIO777]

Please open my mail too.

[psychodelicdragon]

one guy one pair of scissors, edward scissorhand!!

[huronhorde]

hey ray! make sure you read the letter in all your excitment! it will describe everything, glad you liked it all!

[TheMetaliturtle]

Thanks again for the videos Ray, I'm really excited to try growing your seeds, my wife and I have a baby daughter on the way and I got a video camera for the relatives, maybe I can make a video of growing my genuine Ray seeds.

[Praxxus55712]

@TheMetaliturtle CONGRATS on your brand new child! I'm sure you'll both teach her how to appreciate growing things. Kids are naturals when it comes to playing in dirt. :)

[wonderwendy1968]

Fun video! I'll try the heating pad this year :)

[PorterValleyFarm]

I've read that you need a special seed starting medium to start seeds in. Is this true? Or can I start my seeds in just plain Miracle Grow?

[Praxxus55712]

@PorterValleyFarm Special seed starting medium is sold because seeds don't need many nutrients to start. They feed off of their seed leaves. I always use regular soil. I say skip the seed mix and use what you planned on using. This way you save a step. :)

[MajorRager76]

@PorterValleyFarm i just started gardening thanks to ray i used 100% used coffee grounds im 100% on germination some say you cant do that but i do and had success

[PorterValleyFarm]

@MajorRager76 I know this sounds strange, but did you use regular or decaffeinated? We are big coffee drinkers so there is no shortage of used grounds, but I don't know if caffeine would affect the seeds/plants.

[MajorRager76]

@PorterValleyFarm i used caffeinated good ole Yuban i did rinse to make sure it doesnt get gooey i used lil single serving yogurt so its almost like the starter containers and spinach and red winter kale sprouts in 4-6 days

[pampeoples]

I turned the big 50 this year and I've been getting the AARP crap too :(  I refuse to be old YET!

[mediamaker2000]

LOL I just did the same thing Ray. The ones I tried before (the seeds were somewhat too old though), I gave up on. I bought a hydrofarm germination heat pad but mine took me 7 days uncovered. My lettuce seeds came up in 2 days covered and on the pad. Tomatoes come up sometime inbetween.

[gekizai]

One guy, one pair of scissors! Perfect off-the-wall reference. LOL!

[Tokajein]

hahaha I think that lure was meant to catch humans if your thought it was a pretzel

[DrGoNZo1231]

Ray at 11:45 made me laugh

[Praxxus55712]

@DrGoNZo1231 That was unrehearsed and really freaked me out. I'd forgotton I had those things hanging there. lol

[Allen2045]

Get a safty box cutter.

[livelearnfree]

Looks like we are definitely going to have some peppers from seed this year!

[baconsoda]

I'm guessing here and I didn't get a good look - would the long implement you got be a disgorger for getting the hooks on the lures out of the fish without your hand being near the lure?

Best Wishes, Brendan.

[I3addogy]

I planted some pepper seeds in small containers under my grow light and it took them about 3 weeks to germinate. I bought one of those domes with the heat mat and it took them about 4 days. I will never start seeds any other way from now on.

[crewlla]

thats crazy with the seeds. I thought I would try some tomato's and pepers even though its frezzing cold, its unbeliveable, this never happend any time before, I have tomato seedlings after three days and my pepers came up after five days. I think we are going to have a great gardening experince this year. I really hope so, my garden sucked big time last year.

[countrycheffarmer]

I start seeds in the top of my aquarium....moist warm perfect enviroment...We love your videos , so keep on keepin on and all the haters can just go to heaven or wherever they are headed haha

[Helioforge]

Very nice Ray! Oh, when I transplanted my first 300 strawberry runners in cups, all at once, it only took 2 minutes per plant, but that's 10 hours of solid planting! It took 3 days!

That's about how will be with putting together all those seed envelopes!

[Praxxus55712]

@Helioforge I'm filling envelopes right now. It's funner than I thought it would be. :)

[malinadarling]

LOL, love your video!

[jerrydff7]

cool video!

[threeredstars]

My favorite part of your vid's is the three turkey's in the begining. (LOL) Just kidding

[snoopysgreatdoghouse]

Stop talking about food in the mail - you might end up getting food care packages from all over the world *LOL* :D I put my pepper seeds on the furnace - worked like a charm as well! Take care :D

[dianemummvideos]

yes peppers love bottom warm heat.. definitely increases the germination.. have fun!

[marthale7]

If you read the book "seed starters guide" it gives the ideal temps for starting seeds. One of the old tricks of 1800's was to start their seeds on top of compost heaps that were still hot. It gave them both moisture and heat from the compost pile. I would caution users about heating pads that water and heating pads may not mix will to be careful, they do sell plant heating pads made for this. Great video.

[Praxxus55712]

@marthale7 No water comes near the heating pad, so there is absolutely no risk of harm. Standard plant heating pads are massively expensive. This is a tip to do something in an alternative manner for people who don't have the big bucks to buy expensive gardening equipment.

[marthale7]

@Praxxus55712 Ok, so you set the plastic on top of the heating pad? Just trying to understand the setup better. I have been thinking about buying a heating pad, but this setup might work. They also used to sell warming trays to keep food warm I am thinking those could work as well. I am all for not spending big bucks! :-)

[mukwah1111]

Hi Ray I dont usually have any trouble "sprouting" seeds - its once they have sprouted that they keel over --they seem to weak in the stalk? And I cant seem to grow them to the transplant/garden stage? Any idea why ?

[Praxxus55712]

@mukwah1111 Sounds like you need a stronger light source.

[cwaj]

Dude! I have loved your vid.'s for over a year or more. Get over yourself. You are very good at what you do, but get to the point of the name of your vid. I really do not care about your personal mail. You posted about sprouting pepper seeds in record time. I'm 5;00 into the video and you just wasted my time.. Maybe people like me do not have time to waste on your, I guess lonely life. Sorry, I really like your video's, but do this any more and More, and I'm gone fromyour subscription!

[Praxxus55712]

@cwaj Are you getting enough fiber in your diet? You sound sort of constipated and bitter. If you want instant gratification from life, don't look to Youtube or my channel. I think unsubscribing is probably a really good decision. Hold perfectly still while I block you from further interaction. It won't hurt a bit. In fact it might even tickle a little. :)

[Nidder1]

@Praxxus55712 Apparently that fellow has never found the foward option.

[Praxxus55712]

@Nidder1 If I could please everyone all of the time, I would probably freak out and run into a wall. :)