>>1378535Germany here, just do it.
Find a place in your house that has plenty of light and warmth, a south facing window would be ideal.
Second, go to ebay or amazon or whatever, and find the following items:
>Zimmergewächshaus/Mini green house>Wachstumslampe/Growing lamp>Anzuchttöpfe (Kokosfaser)/Jiffy pots/trays>Anzuchterde/Starting soilAnd seeds for whatever peppers you like, "Premier Seeds Direct" from the UK has a neat selection, good quality and fair prices, for example.
Right after New Years', fill your pots/trays with the soil and add about 3 seeds each. Just short of 1cm deep, press them in and cover lighlty with soil. Mark the pots so you will know what kind of peppers are in there. I usually laminate a blank piece of paper and cut it into strips and use them as tags. Water the pots well, ideally with a spray bottle and put them in the mini green house and place it at the well lit spot in your house.
Check the pots daily and keep them moist but not soaking with your spray bottle. Within 2-6, depending on the variety, your peppers should start to sprout. If some don't, well that happens, just replant fresh seeds and try again. When you start this early, there is plenty of time to get more started, until about early march.Also at this stage, lift the cover off the greenhouse from time to time to prevent rot.
When your seedlings are about 5cm tall, it's time to repot. Smallish pots work best at this stage, but you can put them in their final containers already. Though they wont do that well in them in my experience compared to having them in smaller pots for a while.
The green house is done for this season at that stage, so you can put it away for now.
When your peppers grew their first 2 or 3 sets of true leaves, it is time to top them. Cut of everything above the lowest set(s) of true leaves, this will promote a sturdier, bushier growth of the plant. 1/2 cont.
