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Black Olive Chilli
A variety of chilli pepper
How to sow black olive chilli: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off
Sun requirement for black olive chilli: Plant in Full Sun
An ornamental chilli pepper which prefers warm conditions. The plants have an upright habit and mature from dark purple to black to red. The red fruit are a beautiful contrast against the dark purple foliage and bright purple flowers. Black olive is great for containers and grows to 50cm.
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Black olive chilli facts
Lifespan
Height
50cmGrown for
fruit harvested 2 timesCrop cycle
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What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For black olive chilli, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 7°C and a shortest growing cycle of 120 days at its best temperature, about 2040 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your black olive chilli will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
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Who's planted black olive chillies
- shiny indoor plants · Wellington, NZ
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Black olive chilli harvests
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shiny harvested 7.
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shiny harvested 1.
over 8 years ago
shiny harvested 7.
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 120 to 180 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Capsicum frutescens L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | sub-shrub |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | shallow (20-50 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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