[Beetroot queen]

Tried 3 different types, one being a speey leek ready in 10 weeks so the packet tells me.

But how long before I should be seeing green 

[DavidT]

Never heard of a 10 week leek before. What`s the variety BQ?

[Beetroot queen]

Never heard of a 10 week leek before. What`s the variety BQ?

Hang on off to look in my seed basket 

[Beetroot queen]

S G Zermatt it says ready in just 10 weeks

Likely it will be a spring onion 

[gillie]

I have sown some Zermats, in the cold greenhouse in rootrainers.  It is supposed to be a baby leek.  They look like pieces of thin string, about six inches long, at the moment.

Gillie

[Beetroot queen]

I have sown some Zermats, in the cold greenhouse in rootrainers.  It is supposed to be a baby leek.  They look like pieces of thin string, about six inches long, at the moment.

Gillie

My pack says they can be left to mature to full size  no sign of anything yet, or should I get my specs on 

[solway cropper]

10 weeks sounds a bit optimistic. I grow two lots of leeks, one for maincrop and one to pull as baby leeks. Last year the baby leeks (Zermatt) took about 16 weeks before they worth using.

[Beetroot queen]

10 weeks sounds a bit optimistic. I grow two lots of leeks, one for maincrop and one to pull as baby leeks. Last year the baby leeks (Zermatt) took about 16 weeks before they worth using.

16 weeks still sounds ok, will give them some extra weeks and see what happens

[madcat]

I've got two sorts in (Musselborough and something else - not Zermatt) and they took a good fortnight to show...  The onions sown at the same time were a good 4 or 5 days quicker away.

[chopkins1313]

I sowed my leeks (Porvite) two weeks ago and no signs of germination yet! They're in my plastic greenhouse on a nice sunny balcony and no danger of frosts so not the temp that's holding them back - hope I've not got a duff packet!

[Beetroot queen]

I've got two sorts in (Musselborough and something else - not Zermatt) and they took a good fortnight to show...  The onions sown at the same time were a good 4 or 5 days quicker away.

I have some Musselborough in too, no sign either

[madcat]

Just checked in the notebook (- that I keep early in the year and then forget about when it is all less new and exciting) and it was 3 weeks before I got my first leek up and they are still coming thro' 6 ( ) weeks after planting.  Some are 4 inches high and some are still little green humps that have appeared in the last 24 hrs.

nil desperandum!   

[Jamie Butterworth]

Mine have been in over two weeks and Im starteing ti get worried as theres just nothing going on, I had a dig down in one of the corners and couldnt find anything growing 

[Goosegirl]

I think onions and leeks can stand a lower temp to germinate - about 15C. Having said that, I have had trouble germinating last year's onions - all at 15C as stated on the packet which was kept cold over winter. Same with some other veg and flower seeds. I got Musselberg and Robinson's Mammoth leeks this year and they are doing well at 15C which is now above that in my cold greenhouse. I wish they would germinate as well as the weed and unwanted flower and sycamore seedlings that are appearing by the ton as we type...!