Chilli, Ohnivec

January 25, 2014 by Elaine 5 Comments

This is a record of how long this particular set of seeds took to germinate and how they looked at various stages from first appearance to the development of the first set of true leaves and beyond. I hope this will prove useful.

Variety: Ohnivec
Sown indoors: 9th January 2014
First Seedling: 24th January 2014
Germination: 15 days
Germination ratio: 7/10 seeds sown

This is a new variety to me and it has come from the Real Seed Catalogue. I chose this variety because it looked stunning in the catalogue picture, is supposedly a hot chilli but, in addition, it purports to get to nearly 1 foot in length and 2 inches wide!!!

Just breaking through

10th February: At 2.5 weeks old, the seedlings are doing well and are developing their first true leaves:

3rd March: The seedlings are approximately 8 weeks old. Today they have received a liquid feed from my friends wormery which will hopefully give them plenty of extra nutrients.

15th March: 7 weeks old

 

4th April: The seedlings are growing nicely and at a faster rate than the other varieties.

17th May: These seedlings are now standing at around 4 to 5 inches tall and, like the other varieties, have spent the last few weeks recovering from a urgent transplant into fresh all purpose compost after we had realised there was a problem with the compost they had originally been repotted into.

5th & 7th June: What a change in just a few weeks. These were also given a feed about a week ago.

 

21st June: I’ve potted the plants into much a much larger size of pot and during the day, I am leaving them outside to soak up the sunshine and rain. I am still bringing them back in at night though, as the air temperature can feel quite chilly at night.

23 June: Whilst putting the chillis back into the greenhouse for the night I spotted the first of the flowers forming

6th July: The flowers are taking forever to open 🙂

15th July: These plants are over two foot tall now and the first flowers have opened.

25th July: open flowers and the first tiny chilli.

 

31st July:

9th August:

14th August: This bunch of chillis are between 4 to 5 inches in length. It has been a very wet and much cooler over the last few weeks and so the plants have been in the greenhouse but spent the previous 3 weeks or so outside.

20th August: These chillis are over 6 inches in length now and keep on growing.