>>2813661>>2813648You're late, but you aren't as late as I was last year and I still got a harvest (though that's in contrast to up to 3 harvests in years I started earlier).
Do the plastic bag method:
Put the seeds on some paper towel and wet it, then put the wet paper towel in a ziploc bag to keep the moisture in. Put it somewhere warm, if you don't have a heatmat then near a window or on a heater or something.
If you want to speed things up even more, instead of doing the paper towel method, put the seeds in a glass with lukewarm water (around body temp) and soak them for a day, then do the paper towel method that second day. That initial soak speeds up germination.
If you want to go 110% and save every day you can, cut the seeds open with a very sharp knife or clippers. You have to be careful not to cut too deep or you will damage the seed, see picrel, just enough to open it up basically. I'm not sure how often that works and how often it fails, so do it with only a percentage of your seeds (maybe half) to be safe, but the cut open chili seeds seem to germinate a few days earlier for me consistently than normal germinated ones.
Once the seeds germinated and have formed their first small leaves, put them in pots and just give them the best conditions you can.
