Sprinkled a heap of chilli seeds on paper towel and cotton buds to try and get some to sprout artificially. Can be finicky things, only been a week but I am about 4 weeks behind. This weekend plan to sprinkle out a heap of tomato seeds in a tray until they are sprouts and then I might buy some sweet chilli seed or big long jalapeno and do the same.
Also brought some rare chilli seeds in Autumn that need to go out but haven't decided how I'd go about trying to germinate them. Straight in soil or in cotton buds or paper towel or GroDan cubes? Dunno yet will wait for all the personally collected seeds of chillis I have sprinkled to see if they germinate, even if I'm late I'll still get a decent crop will just have to keep the water up to them while they are small