Hi Dewi, At my side the 'quickies' show up after 6 days, and the slow ones more a less after 14 day's. I count day's from seeding to there heads are 1cm above the soil. The soil I use is standard sterilized seeding ground and take care that the soil gets to approx 18-20 deg C with high humidity. Works fine but even than some varieties only 10-20% show up, but without any treatment of bleach, thee etc. I keep record of that for the difficult ones I try a special treatment next time. Rocoto's are doing perfect 99% seedlings are up, the yellow ones (first time I try these, thanks for the seeds Richard!) only 20% show until now. Success Rob NL ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chilechick19" <chilechick19@chello.nl> To: "Chile Heads" <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 10:18 AM Subject: [CH] damaged seeds? > Hi Podheads, > > I am getting a bit worried here. A week ago I planted seeds and they are > still not showing up. Usually it would take 5 days for the first seedling to > show up but now it has been a week. Should I be worried? Do they still take > precautions sending mail to and fro America? I hope not. I am already late > with sowing and having to start over again would set me back so far. > YIKES!!!! HELP!!!! > > Chilechick in distress!!! > > http://www.chilechick.tmfweb.nl >