On Mar 29, 2:42*pm, Kay Lancaster wrote:
On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:56:43 -0500, zxcvbob wrote:
I have some very old pepper seeds that I'm trying to grow mostly for
.........

I've also heard of treating hard-to-grow seeds with potassium
nitrate, but I'm not sure what that's for. *Fertilizer, I suppose.
Maybe I should put one or two drops of KNO3 solution on the wet
paper towel before this current batch dies...

You wrote: " KNO3 breaks dormancy in some species of grasses, not in peppers. *
You most likely haven't got a dormancy issue here, it's a
"slowly starved to death" issue".


Kay, what is your grow light setup and your photo tropic period?

also, if you do not mind, I have a 2 part ?

1) I've heard similar anecdotal on "KNO3 breaks dormancy in some
species of grasses, not in peppers". Do you have a reference or a
path to that? Looking to quickly research this.

2) Have you, or the others here, any thought/experiences on using
Light, KNO3, and GA3?