Cardo
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Appearance of newly born chili plants at five days

I live in Portugal and do not need to use light or artificial heat to germinate the seeds of Bhut jolokia. A friend told me to put the seeds in the fridge for a week and then plant them to simulate the spring. A series of plants were born.
The problem is that different plants are germinating and I do not know how the leaves look like from the newborn plants. I'm going to make a weed to tear off the weeds and I don't want to kill the right ones.
They are almost 1 cm. Does any one of you have pictures of them at that age?

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applestar
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Pepper seedlings look very alike at new seedling stage, though there might be very subtle differences in size of seedleaves, etc. Post a photo of your seedlings. If they are not peppers, we should be able to point them out.

Peppers cross easily within species and some of the not same species. It's best to protect the blossoms from being visited by insects (with net bags, etc) when intending to save seeds from resulting fruits to be same as the parent plant.

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rainbowgardener
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They should look about like this:

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