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overwintering Germinating and growing Rocoto in my winter?

I`ve done this with Manzano peppers in winter in California, but I suspect your winter is a little cooler and wetter than ours. I think I got about 50% germination rate for seeds from a Manzano by just chucking them in a pot outside and hoping for the best. I just looked and we average 69°F high and 54°F lows in November, 65°F high in December/Jan and low 48°F. Average rainfall 1" in Nov, 2.75" in Dec and 2" in Jan. Maybe not all that different then.
 
Rocotos are red C.pubescens. Other than that I can`t help on the variety of Rocoto  :)
 
ChilliNZ said:
Hi
http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/auckland/auckland-central
That's the prediction for the next week and I think our shortest day is the 13th, possibly - so it's likely to stay somewhat similar.
I am thinking about buying these http://www.trademe.co.nz/home-living/food-beverage/fresh-produce/auction-600971078.htm and scraping the seeds straight out and germinating them..
What kind of success will I have?
And what kind of rocoto are they?
Cheers!
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The 10 day forecast looks okay for growing Rocoto plants albeit slowly. Germination wise to speed things up a controlled heat source would help.

Identification of particular varieties is difficult when all manner of strains may end up just being called Rocotos. Maybe ask the vendor if they have any information about the lineage of their seed stock.
 
Sorry, yeah - I was planning on using a germination mat.
Auckland has a pretty cracker climate if you take out Antarctic southerlies and don't want it super dry & hot... 
The thing I worry about most are my bananas :( And my chillis! :D

Unless you talk about the political one which is one NZ all shares... ARRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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