Seeds
Growing begins with a few small, yellow seeds. You can buy various in stationary garden shops or in special online shops sorts receive. You can also extract the chilli seeds from a ripe fruit yourself.
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Tips
If you don't like the extreme heat of a habanero, you can plant the “Sweet Habanero” variety. This sweet variant has a degree of spiciness 0 and is ideal for salads and snacking.
sowing
Habanero plants do not tolerate cold and certainly not frost. In order for the harvest to start as early as possible, the plants must be brought forward in the house.
- sow in February or March
- alternatively in December and January under plant light
- Soak seeds for 24 hours
- Sow in pots 0.5 to 1 cm deep
- Mix of Potting soil and Potting soil use
- light, at 24-30 degrees Celsius
- keep slightly moist throughout
Prick out
Most varieties germinate within 1-3 weeks. At the latest as soon as the first green shows up, the plants need to get a lot of light. In places that are too dark, they become obsolete.
- separate after the third pair of leaves
- Select the strongest plants
- Pay attention to undamaged roots
- potting soil is still optimal
- Insert a little deeper, press down and pour on
- Place pots in a sunny and warm place
Repotting and planting out
The chilli plants soon become too cramped to live in. They need to be replanted. They can be grown individually in a large pot or from mid-May in the garden bed at a distance of 40 cm planted will. Now it can also be a nutrient-rich soil. Commercially available soil already contains enough nutrients for about four weeks. Garden soil should be enriched with compost
A continuously sunny and warm location is ideal and ensures a rich harvest.
care
The care the habanero is simple. The main work is the needs-based water supply. Especially on hot days and with pot specimens, you have to reach for the watering can more often. In the bed, this variety of chilli can be fertilized in an environmentally friendly way with nettle manure. A liquid fertilizer from the trade is recommended for the pot.
To harvest
About 70 to 100 days after the sowing you can get ripe pods from the bush to harvest and immediately fresh to process. Excess chilies can be used for later can be made durable. For example through Drying.
