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All you guys already starting make me think I should as well.
Yet I had really leggy plants when starting early (without artificial lights, window facing east).
When I started early with lights for 2-3 months plants developed really well, healthy and bushy - yet the thing is you have to move them so they face south, plus need a good summer to really reap the benefits.
In other words in my experience when the summer is shit, and / or plants are not really in the sun the whole day you don't really need to bother with pushing things early in the year so much, as you'll just end up with a couple of fruit anyway.You can give the plants an early start and they will be bigger sooner - and thus will flower more, but to bear actual fruit they need a lot of energy, so they will drop blossoms if there's not enough light then.
And for the berries to become really hot you just need shitloads of sun anyways
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I am going to try without extra light this year. That’s why I didn’t sow on New Years Day (have before) ... waited a month, and once they’ve germinated they’ll be on a bright windowsill, conservatory, then polytunnel. I reckon they’ll be alreet.