Peppers advice please

It's the first year with our new GH so I've sown some pepper seeds to go in there later on.

We currently have 3 California Wonder (1 didn't germinate), 4 Bullhorn mix and 4 Hungarian Hot Wax pepper seedlings. These were sown mid-March and took an age to germinate (over four weeks) even when kept in an un-heated propagator in the airing cupboard. Currently all the seedlings look well but they don't appear to be growing that fast. They are still only at the seed leaf stage and show no signs of producing real leaves. They have not yet been out of the house yet and are on the windowsill in our utility room with foil behind them.

Is this slow growth normal for peppers, am I being impatient or is there another problem?

Thanks in advance.

It's too cold and too gloomy for them to be doing much else Im afraid. 

I've kicked mine out into the greenhouse inside one of those plastic grow house things to help. Once the weather picks up they should romp away.

I sowed some hungarian hot wax chillies at the beginning of February and they are still teeny... tiny... only just showing true leaves!  I'm not sure they will ever do anything, they have been on a sunny windowsil in the living room but I think that has still been too cold at times!

I will know in future to perhaps not bother??  I think if we want chillies this year we will have to go and buy established plants from the chilli farm along the road like we did last year!

Hannah

Sowed bullhorn 5 Mar in heated propogator. Good germination  then onto windowcill in conservatory.Just started to get true leaves. very sulky, hope things improve afer this coming cold weekend
Bish

Lardman, does this keep them warm enough during the night or do you bring them in?

Techincally - no. Practically - close enough. I have a remote thermometer in there which has recorded a low of 9C. If it was looking like a cold night with a frost I might bring them back in, but with night time temps of 5-6C I'll risk it for the extra light.

Most of the time it's warmer in there than I keep it in the house anyway