Is it possible for me to grow a habenero plant from a habenero pepper I bought?

Yes

Take the seeds and rinse in cool water to get the Goo off, dry for several days in a dry spot and then plant. Try with everything, worst thing would be for them to not emerge.

Just dry them out for a day or two depending on humidity and stick them in some soil. Those plants are pretty hardy, don’t need too much fussing.

I simply take the seeds out of the pepper and put them in a pot of soil. They always grow.

@phil196662 and @lilikoi Why do you need to dry them? Surely you need to water them as soon as they go in the soil any way?

I believe you have to age the pepper first. Let it rippen in room temperature. When it’s ripe, take the seeds out of the pepper and air dry on a paper towel for about a week. After it’s dry, store them in a cool dry place for planting at a later time. The seeds can be store anywhere from 6–8 months.

When your peppers are ready, use a plastic tray or pot depending on how many pepper seeds you are planning to grow, with drainage holes. Start planting your pepper seed roughly a month before last frost is due. You can use any kind of growing soil for your pepper seed / plant, placing the seed in the middle and pushing down to the required depth like with any other seed.

Pepper seeds like a warm temperature to grow in and especially a warm base for them, maybe a heated plate or surface would be sufficient. Pepper seeds will not need much water and it’s a good idea to water the plant from a tray at the bottom of the plant, leaving the soil lighter and the plant with a enough water supply before removing the tray or excess water after a short while.

If your pepper seed is too dry your seed will not grow so a good suggestion is to put plastic film over the top of the plant pot / tray until growing has properly begun. After this stage your pepper plant will need plenty in the way of nourishments. A good choice fertilizer is 15–15-15 (as marked on the container). This fertilizer will give plenty of nitrogen for foliage growth and healthy green colour, potassium for helping to fight off disease, and phosphorous to help cell division, flower and seed production and strong roots.

To finish off, before placing your new pepper plant out into the open, try introducing your plant to the cold gradually by putting it outside during the day and back inside at night for a couple of weeks so it has time to change and adapt to the cooler climates.

@Ame_Evil ; good point, usually there are lots of seeds and drying preserves them. then plant just a few.

@Ame_Evil Surely, you have no idea of the subject matter. . . .

you can’t just plant any seed in the soil and expect it to germinate. All seeds that are used for planting need to be of certain “age”, hence you need the fruit to ripen first before harvesting the seeds. Drying the seeds allow it to “hibernate” pretty much like a caterpillar, before turning into a butterfly.

Hopefully these are not of a hybrid variety. If so, the resulting plant will revert to one of it’s ancestor forms, mayby not so good. I believe that Habaneros are a purebreed though. Allow the pepper to dry out thouroughly, gather the seeds and plant them in pots in a warm, sunny place. Remember that these plants love warmth, being semi-tropical and freeze intolerant. I have several Szechuan pepper plants growing in a heated sunny place right now. Good luck!

Wow, you all make it a lot more complicated than I ever do!

Everyone’s pretty much answered your question at this point lol, but I’ll add one extra. You can do the same thing with Jalapenos, and if you like them I strongly encourage it. I easily got 40 peppers off my plant this year and the taste of a fresh picked one is like nothing you get in the store. Really great stuff.

Good luck with your seeds!

thanks everyone i’ll try drying them out

@njnyjobs Yes I am :p. No need for those ellipses though . . . .

@Ame_Evil…yes you are what? . . . .sorry about the constant use os ellipses, it’s just my way of writing . . . listing random thoughts.

@njnyjobs Sorry I wrote that late at night. I meant I had no idea on how to grow plants. They usually die when I look after them.