How do you grow bell peppers from seeds?

I grow vegetables and herbs every summer. Bell peppers are fairly easy to grow. Find a small starter pot (I'm not saying pre planted peppers). These pots are about 2" wide 3"deep. I suggest using miracle grow soil. Put about an inch of soil in the bottom, then your seed, then fill with soil and pack it down. Use just enough water every couple of days to moisten the soil. It should break through the top of the after about 2 weeks. At that point you'll want to slightly increase the amount of water. Allow the plant to reach about 6" before transplanting to the ground. Once it's in the ground, give it about a cup of water only on days that it doesn't rain. If you don't get much rain in your area, use about 2 cups a day until it starts producing peppers. At that point you'll want to nearly double your water. Hope this helped. Good luck.

realize if you are growing them from seed taken from grocery store peppers, you have hybrid seeds that will not produce fruit like the original. Open pollinated or heirloom peppers will reproduce true.

The pepper must be fully mature, green peppers won't work. Harvest mature, fully-ripe peppers for seed. (Most bell peppers turn red when fully mature.) Garden grown peppers would be preferred, store bought reds are still not quite ripe enough and if artifically ripened, the seed will not be fully developed. Peppers should be dry before harvesting the seed......the reds can be hung in a cool dry location.

Above seed starting is fine.

PROCESS: There are two methods, dry and wet, to process pepper seeds. The dry method is adequate for small amounts. Cut the bottom off the fruit and carefully reach in to strip the seeds surrounding central cone. In many cases, seeds need no further cleaning. To process the seed from large amounts of peppers, cut off the tops just under the stem, fill a blender with peppers and water and carefully blend until good seeds are separated and sink to bottom. Pepper debris and immature seeds will float to the top where they can be rinsed away. Spread clean seeds on paper towel and dry in cool location until seed is dry enough to break when folded.

i offered those beautiful little peppers(small bells)from my interior reach Publix final 3 hundred and sixty 5 days. they have been prepackaged in a plastic field by using the grower.. theory they have been beautiful so I stored most of the seeds once I used the peppers. Dried out the seeds and stored them over the wintry climate in a plastic air tight field(like a Tupperware) and planted them in March in some Miracle advance soil. I crammed up a extensive planter with the planting soil and then I planted each and all of the seeds, only unfold them over the completed floor of the field and gently lined them with soil . Watered them and made optimistic they have been given sunlight. I now have little bell peppers becoming on my pepper flowers. i will't wait to have some .I discern they are going to be ripe in yet another month.

The easiest way is compressed peat pellets.

Instructions on my blog: http://gardeninspire.com/2013/02/13/three-seed-sta...

If you were in my area you could attend the seed starting class I am teaching Saturday at Home Depot.