Pepper care in the open field and in the greenhouse. Spring night frosts are detrimental to pepper: protective measures

Peppers have long been considered a versatile vegetable that adults and children love to eat, especially when grown fresh and full of vitamins in the summer. However, in order for it to be from your garden, you need to spend a lot of effort and work if you want to get a lot of harvest from it. And, as you know, any vegetable is always tastier when you take care of it and grow it yourself, and not buy it from the market or store.

Pepper is a rather capricious culture and loves to have constant care for it. Then you will be rewarded in the form of an additive to any dishes. It is also used in canning and salads.

In my last article, I already wrote about processing, pre-sowing preparation and sowing seeds. In the same I want to supplement and continue this interesting topic.

After sowing seeds for seedlings, 7 to 10 days should pass before the first shoots appear. Be sure to keep an eye on this, because they must be exposed immediately. Now I will write a few rules by which it will be necessary to follow and care for pepper.

1. Those peppers that hatched first (after all, they do not always grow all at once), so we will take care of them. Since it is they who will bring us a good harvest, because they turned out to be the strongest and most persistent. Only now the rest will have to be eliminated, they are weak and they will have few fruits.

2. Now we look at the air temperature, it should be:

• Day 23 - 25 °;
• At night 16 - 18 °.

Pepper is a thermophilic plant and if the temperature is below 12 °, then your seedlings will die, so never put it on anything cold, in particular a concrete floor.

3. Also be sure to water, only warm water 25 - 30 ° so that the soil is completely wet. Then water as the soil dries out.

You can not flood the plants, otherwise the roots will not receive the oxygen that they need. And peppers can get blackleg. It is also not recommended to dry the ground, otherwise the leaves of your pepper will wither.

4. More seedlings, also not unimportant, need light. If it is not enough, then the pepper will not stretch out like tomatoes, but rather stop growing and stop growing. He also acts if he is cold.

Never open the window if the pepper is nearby.

Seedlings need a lot of light, but a short day. Only 9 - 10 hours. At the same time, note that if you planted late peppers, then they will have even less daylight hours. I also want to say: so that they try to put the seedling box on the lighter side, and turn it over every 2 days so that the peppers do not strongly bend their bushes towards the light. People even come up with foil reflectors for seedlings so that they do not turn on the windowsill as the leaves bend in one direction or another.

There are many days of cloudy weather, then the seedlings need to be illuminated with fluorescent lamps.

Pepper pick: should I do it and why?

The most difficult thing when growing peppers is picking. This must be done so as not to damage the root system. Transplanting seedlings is done so that it receives more light, space for growth, as well as oxygen.

Some gardeners shorten the central root, but in no case should this be done, since the pepper after this procedure is restored for a long time, or even dies.

In general, I will tell you for the future, if possible, then immediately plant the seeds separately so as not to make a pick. It slows down plants in growth from 8 to 10 days. Better later cut out excess and weak seedlings with scissors. Better yet, as I wrote above, remove weak peppers on initial stage development as soon as shoots emerge.

When transplanting, plants can get sick, then feel free to throw out this diseased seedling, otherwise it will infect the rest of the seedlings.

How to dive pepper at home and timing

A transplant from one box to another is always done when 2 true leaves appear. Picking period, approximately 20 - 25 days after emergence. That is, if we sowed seedlings in mid-February (on the 16th or 17th), then from March 8 to 15 it will already have to dive.

Do not delay with this, otherwise they will not have enough light, this will have a bad effect on the plants. Because they slow down in development.

And of course, if the peppers sit densely, their roots are gradually intertwined, this is also not very good.

To properly make a pick, you first need to prepare everything for it: the capacity for transplanting seedlings must be at least 0.5 liters. Holes need to be punched in it to drain excess water.

The soil mixture should be the same as when sowing seeds. Also, if you had it cold (it was stored on the balcony), then you definitely need to warm it up for 2-3 days.

Pick:

1. 2 hours before transplanting, we water the seedlings well so that the seedlings can be easily removed without breaking the roots.

2. Fill the container with soil and lightly tamp.

I do not recommend watering the land in which we will transplant. Otherwise, there will be no connection between the roots and the earth. Watering will be done only after picking.

3. Then we make small indentations 5-6 mm long.

4. reverse side spoons from the ground we pull out a seedling with a clod of earth.

5. In the recesses that have been prepared, lower the pepper by 2 cm.

When lowering into the hole, make sure that the root is not bent and has good contact with the soil.

6. We compact the earth a little and water it abundantly.

After the peppers were planted, they got a separate place in which it will grow until it is transplanted to permanent place.

How to care for seedlings after picking?

Now I want to talk about caring for seedlings, that is, how to properly water, feed and harden before planting in the ground.

As soon as the seedlings are transplanted into separate pots, they must be immediately put on sunny side. And of course, do not forget that they love a lot of light and not for long (only 9 - 10 hours), but late varieties even less. To accelerate the growth of the plant after transplantation, it is necessary to observe the temperature regime. In sunny weather, it should be 24 - 26 °, in cloudy weather 20 - 22 ° and in the dark 16 - 18 °.

Watering:

Even for seedlings, stable watering is needed as the soil dries up: the earth should be well watered, but excess water did not stand in it, but drained into drainage holes. Don't let the peppers sit in the water or they may stop growing. And it should be warm about 25 °

By the way, always water and feed the pepper only in the morning so that it has time to absorb moisture. This routine prevents the plant from getting sick with a black leg.

Top dressing:

Pepper nutrition is recommended to be carried out alternating between watering. You need to feed the plants if you have ordinary land, where there are few nutrients for good growth. This will be immediately evident from the seedlings: the leaves are, as it were, lowered and sluggish. If, on the contrary, your soil is a mixture rich in substances, then you can not fertilize, as manganese, iron, phosphorus, nitrogen, macro and micro elements will be enough for it. Pepper roots will take this nutrition with the help of growth, and this will be enough for them.

I can only say the most available funds, in which the pepper will grow in you, and you will rejoice.

1. We take one glass of drained tea leaves and pour 3 liters of boiling water, insist 5 days and pour seedlings with this infusion.

2. Pour hot water over the eggshell and also insist for 5 days, then pour over.

3. You can make another interesting top dressing (potassium and phosphorus). Liter of hot water for 1 tbsp. a spoonful of wood ash, leave for 24 hours, then filter and water.

4. Well, with this remedy, you can feed it every 12 days. The fertilizer is well absorbed and gives powerful growth and development for the plant. "Cytovit" - it is diluted 1 ml. per liter of water.

If we do everything right: we water, we feed, we have unprepared pepper growing for planting in the ground. Therefore, in 2 weeks it is necessary to prepare seedlings.

hardening:

An open window is suitable for hardening. We make sure that the temperature in the room is not lower than 13 °. And every day, gradually increase the opening time of the window.

Then we gradually take it out to the balcony, also monitoring the temperature, where it will get used to the increased sunlight.

During hardening, do not take the pepper outside if it is less than 10 ° and there is a strong gusty wind.

As soon as you are going to plant seedlings in the ground, they should be healthy, powerful and hardened, have 8 - 9 true leaves.

Picking pepper seedlings into diapers:

I decided to show you a video on how to dive pepper into diapers, this will be an addition to this article.

Here we have gone through a not difficult path, how to make a pick and take care of seedlings. I think you liked this article.

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warm water

At the end of summer, when the nights become cold, the pepper should be covered again with a film.

The following solution will help get rid of aphids: take 200-250 g of wood ash on a bucket and fill it with water, the temperature of which is + 50 ° C.

Manure activates the growth of stems and leaves, which occurs at the expense of fruiting, so it is applied under the previous crop.

Pepper roots are located in the surface layer, so loosening is carried out to a shallow depth (up to 5 cm) simultaneously with hilling plants and weeding.

During the flowering period, the following solution is used as top dressing. For a 100 l barrel they take:

The next step is pinching. No more than 5 upper shoots are left on the plant, on which the crop is subsequently formed. The rest of the stepchildren are removed.

​– room pepper also called Mexican. Its fruits are incredibly hot, and the green parts of the plant are completely poisonous, so it is better not to keep such a plant in an apartment where small children live. If there is no one in your house to accidentally eat bright, burning fruits, be sure to put a capsicum on your windowsill, because it looks very impressive!

Then transplanted into open ground.

1. To avoid pepper diseases, provide plants with calcium and potassium when planting in open ground.
2. ​Sweet bell pepper one of the most popular and healthy vegetables, which is used in fresh, and stewed, boiled, pickled and canned. Growing sweet peppers at home is a painstaking but doable task. If you wish to receive the full natural product peppers are grown from seeds.
3. temperature around 25 - 30°C. When watering cold water pepper may stop growing, and the fruiting period will be delayed.
4. After planting pepper seedlings in the ground, she needs some
5. You can protect plants from spider mites with an infusion of chopped garlic or onions (200 g) and dandelion leaves (200 g) in a bucket of water.
6. Basil, okra, coriander, onions, marigolds can be called good neighbors of pepper. The last three plants are good as protection against aphids. But nasturtium can serve as a trap for aphids. Okra helps protect from the wind.

And remember about mulching, which will give additional protection from drying out of the soil and deter the growth of weeds. Only mulching of peppers is recommended after the soil warms up, as this culture is thermophilic.

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Where is the best place to grow peppers - at home, in a greenhouse or in the open field?

5-6 kg of chopped nettle leaves, coltsfoot, wood lice, dandelion, plantain;

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You can do without pinching the main shoot, but pinching is a must, especially in a hot rainy summer.

A compact bush with dense foliage is completely covered with small wax peppers of bright red and orange color. Varieties with multi-colored fruits are especially valued - yellow, red, burgundy, purple and orange peppers grow on one bush. In addition, fruits can vary in size and shape: pointed, blunt, round, conical, pear-shaped, cylindrical, curved, even short and long. They add beauty and flowers of different colors, which appear not only in May, but throughout the summer, along with bright fruits, adding beauty to the plant.

However, further cultivation in a greenhouse is best suited for pepper, since this vegetable crop does not like ventilated areas and feels more comfortable in a calm, warm place, moreover, a temperature of less than +18 degrees is undesirable for peppers.

​Effective soil protection and nutrient retention - mulching.​

• Selecting seeds and preparing them for sowing
• After each watering, the soil needs
• time to adapt

Solutions insist for at least a day. Before use, they must be mixed and filtered. To increase the effectiveness of the solution, it is recommended to add up to 30-40 g liquid soap, but in this case it is better to look for organic soap, in which there are a minimum of chemicals. These solutions are safe for plants and humans, so pepper can be sprayed at any stage of growth and development of a vegetable crop. A bad neighbor of pepper is beans. It is advisable to avoid their neighborhood, as they have a common disease - anthracnose (with this disease, soft black spots form on the fruits).

Growing pepper at home to mature seedlings

Additional pollination of flowers

10 liters of rotted cow manure;

Growing peppers in open ground needs some care. Pepper care is to create the following conditions:

What to choose: growing peppers in a greenhouse or in garden beds?

​Cultivation video hot pepper​

Video about growing peppers

​Adjust the thickness of the film in the greenhouse depending on the temperature conditions and create conditions for the ventilation of the greenhouse.​

To select more viable seeds, pour them into lightly salted water and select those that are at the bottom of the container. For disinfection, they should be kept for 20 minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate, and then for 12 hours in aloe juice. Sowing seeds is done in February in boxes with prepared soil.​

Spectacular, but burning "Mexican"

loosen. Usually pepper adapts to new habitat conditions within 10 - 12 days. During this period, seedlings look painful and sluggish, practically do not grow. This is fine. The root system of pepper, damaged in the process of transplanting seedlings, is restored and takes root in a new place. To help pepper seedlings adapt to new conditions, you need to slightly loosen the ground in the hole. Such shallow (3 - 5 cm), surface loosening provides inflow fresh air to the roots, as a result of which the seedlings take root faster in a new place. The appearance of naked slugs will prevent regular loosening and tillage with dry mustard or red pepper (1 teaspoon per 1 m2). Straw mulch also helps, as it is tough.​

Pepper can be affected by the same diseases as other vegetable crops of the Solanaceae family: tobacco mosaic, late blight, powdery mildew, various rots, etc. The causative agents of diseases are bacteria, fungi, viruses. It is carried out in dry calm weather by lightly shaking the trellis with flowering plants.

10 st. spoons of ash. ​Temperature mode​ Popular among Russian vegetable growers

​If you decide to plant pepper seeds yourself, instead of spending money on ready seedlings grown by breeders, stock up on bags of seeds of different varieties, prepared soil and suitable containers or boxes. Growing pepper seedlings includes hardening and germinating seeds, sowing them in the soil, daily spraying with warm water from a spray bottle and top dressing (2-3 times before picking). Sufficiently strong seedlings dive from a common container into small pots.

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Growing peppers outdoors

Peppers, like eggplant and tomatoes, are planted in a new place every year.

How to sow peppers correctly? Planting seedlings in the ground

to break up the soil crust. If this is not done, there is a danger of the pepper root system dying off as a result of insufficient oxygen supply.

Watering seedlings Perhaps that's all. Now, dear readers, it's time to consolidate the knowledge gained about growing peppers in the open field in practice.​

The most common pepper diseases are: rottenness ("black leg") and wilting disease.

Tying up

Peppers need care

The barrel is filled with water. The contents of the barrel are mixed, infused for a week and used for irrigation (1 liter per 1 plant). The remaining solution can be fed to other crops.

Optimal temperature for growing pepper is +20...+25°C. Room pepper Spark

In cold regions, planting seeds should begin from late February to early March. Since at this time there is not enough sunlight for plants, it is necessary to additionally provide artificial lighting and thus extend the daylight hours for seedlings. After 12 weeks from the moment of sowing the seeds, the pepper seedlings will be ready for planting in the greenhouse.​

That's all the advice on how and when to plant peppers. By following them, you can get a good harvest at the end of the season. The bottom of a plastic or cardboard box is covered with foil and crushed eggshells, covered with soil from peat, turf and humus mixed in equal parts. Small rows are formed, the distance between which should be 4-5 centimeters, and seeds are sown to a depth of 1-2 cm. Plants need freedom, so gaps of 1-1.5 centimeters are left between the seeds. Emerging shoots must be provided with light and protection from direct sunlight. When the first leaf already appears, the plants should be planted in the prepared container. After that, you need to water the landing with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, cover and put in a darkened room. After a couple of days, put the seedlings back into the light, providing moderate watering without top dressing. In good weather, you can begin to harden the seedlings by taking them out into the fresh air during the day.

• Pepper in the first days after planting in the ground must be very careful not to overdo it with watering. Weak roots can not cope with a large amount of water and rot. In this case, the soil should not be allowed to dry out. The best way- daily, but little by little, moisten the soil in the area of ​​​​the stem, pouring 100 - 150 ml of water under each plant. The first real watering of pepper seedlings is carried out no earlier than a week after planting in the ground. ​
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"Black leg" affects mainly pepper seedlings. To combat it, it is usually enough to adjust the temperature and humidity. Bell pepper has fragile shoots that break easily, so they are tied to pegs. And tall crops are planted around the beds, which create backstage and protect plantings from the wind.

• During the fruiting period, a different solution is used. For a 100 l barrel they take:
• At + 13 ° C and below, the pepper is covered with a film or special material. The appearance of lilac shades on the fruits indicates a violation temperature regime.​
• known for its high yield. A bush strewn with red peppers can often be found on kitchen windowsills - its fruits are used as food as a hot seasoning.

In the photo, growing seedlings of pepper

This earlier vegetable pepper did not require any care, quietly growing as weeds in Central and South America. Perennial pepper shrubs, called “false berries” by scientists, are still found in their historical homeland to this day. It was from them that, through long breeding experiments, the familiar bell pepper, a very whimsical plant with tasty, fragrant fruits, was obtained.

• Pepper - planting in the ground. When and how to do it?
• If in advance

Before flowering

After planting pepper seedlings in the ground, it is necessary to provide it with proper care, otherwise all your efforts to prepare seeds for sowing

Wilting disease is observed in adult plants. It comes in three varieties: bacterial wilt, verticillium wilt and fusarium wilt. The disease manifests itself in a change in the color of leaf blades, dropping leaves and browning of the stem vessels, which ultimately leads to the death of the plant.

Problems in growing peppers 5 liters of bird droppings;

Watering

How convenient indoor pepper is - caring for it is quite simple. In summer, it is enough to provide the plant with abundant watering and regular feeding, and in winter it will need to be placed in a cool room with a temperature of about +20 degrees and watering should be reduced. After harvesting in the fall, the capsicum must be transplanted into a new land, trying not to damage the root system, with the onset of spring, the bush is carefully cut to stimulate its further growth. Since peppers grow well and bear fruit only in mild climates in the absence of strong winds, they also love higher temperature and humidity than tomatoes, growing peppers in open ground is undesirable. You are more likely to achieve a greater harvest and harmonious taste by leaving the peppers in the greenhouse for the whole summer. In addition, in such favorable conditions, peppers do not have to be harvested, as soon as they ripen, you can wait a little more until the fruits acquire a rich color and bright taste.

Growing pepper at home is a laborious process. Landing in open ground is carried out at the end of May. By this time, the plant has more than 10 leaves and several flowers. If the spring turned out to be cold, it is better to install a greenhouse made of metal arcs and rods, securing them with twine and covering them with a film that can be adjusted depending on the temperature - pepper responds well to ventilation. Planting is carried out in prepared soil, compost, nitroammophosphate are introduced into it. In holes sized 30x60, abundantly watered with a 1% solution of potassium permanganate, peppers are planted, which are then mulched with peat.

mulch Pepper should be watered once a week at the rate of 10 - 12 liters of water per 1m2 of soil. AT hot weather pepper should be watered twice a week.

1. ​Measures for the prevention and control of diseases consist primarily in the acquisition of quality seeds and seedlings, pest and weed control, crop rotation, removal of diseased plants.​
2. The main problems that gardeners face when growing peppers are:

10 liters of rotted cow manure.

Watering is preferably carried out with rain or settled warm water by sprinkling. The temperature of the water used for irrigation should be +24...+26°C.​

Hello dear readers! So, seedlings of peppers are grown, planted in the ground and have even grown up. What's next? I propose to learn more about the features of growing peppers in the open field, as well as what kind of care peppers need to be provided in order to get a rich harvest.​

You can also grow pepper seeds in a greenhouse if you provide them suitable conditions: prepare wet compost for planting, maintain the temperature at + 21 + 24 degrees and optimal humidity, equip additional lighting to create a 14-hour daylight for seedlings. Seedling care is carried out in exactly the same way as at home - with light watering, fertilizing with fertilizers (preferably liquid) and picking into separate pots.

Diseases and pests of pepper

Novice vegetable growers will have to be patient and diligent in order to achieve a good harvest from their seedlings. But where is the best place to grow pepper: in a garden, in a greenhouse, or at home on a windowsill?

The surface of the earth with a film, peat or sawdust, which retain moisture for a long time, watering will not cause soil compaction, and they will be required less frequently. ​

During flowering and fruiting

planting seeds and growing seedlings will go down the drain. ​

Aphids, mites and slugs are woody stems, falling leaves, flowers and ovaries. Possible reasons: high air temperature (above + 32 ° C), lack of moisture in the soil, as well as lack of light. The barrel is also filled with water, the contents are mixed and infused for 4-5 days. Peppers are fed with the resulting solution (5-6 liters per 1 m2).

The irrigation scheme depends on the stage of plant development:

Let's start with specific requirements. Pepper (both sweet and hot) is an exceptionally photophilous and heat-loving crop, very demanding on soil moisture. Pepper does not tolerate both drying out and waterlogging of the soil.

What varieties of peppers are best for greenhouses? Choose early maturing varieties 80-120 cm high, then on one square meter it will be possible to plant from three to five compact bushes and get a lot of fruit. Low-growing varieties of pepper begin to bear fruit early - from mid-July, and continue to produce a good harvest until mid-September. In Russian climatic conditions, the following early ripening varieties take root well: Victoria, Zdorovye, Tenderness, Swallow, Winnie the Pooh, Kolobok. New F1 varieties are suitable for film greenhouses: Snow White, Chanterelle, Pinocchio, and for glazed greenhouses - Ilya Muromets, Red Bull, Othello, Yellow Bull, Elefant.​

Peppers in the photo

During the period of growth and flowering, which occurs at the end of June, it is necessary to feed the peppers. Two weeks after planting, they should be fertilized with mullein, during flowering - with diluted ash, and after 3 weeks with fertilizers containing calcium and potassium. After the formation of the ovaries, the number of fruits should be regulated by cutting off small fruits to reduce the load on the plant. Peppers are harvested in July-September.

During the period of flowering, setting and fruit filling, pepper needs additional feeding. From June to August, pepper is given several root dressings every two weeks, using alternately weak solutions of organic and complex mineral fertilizers. In May and August, pepper spraying with sodium humate is effective. ​

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Pepper care after planting seedlings in the ground and before harvesting

Pepper is watered under the root 1 - 2 times a week, depending on weather conditions at the rate of 12 - 14 liters of water per 1 m2 of soil. If you have the opportunity to come to the site only for the weekend, it is better to water the pepper at the rate of 16 liters of water per 1 m2 of soil and divide this rate into 2 days (8 liters per day).

Usually pepper seedlings are planted in the ground on May 10 - 30, when the threat has passed spring frosts. However, it is never possible to exclude the possibility of frosts and one must always be on the alert, since pepper seedlings are very sensitive to them. If there is a threat of a sharp drop in temperature, it is necessary to water the soil with warm water (temperature about 35 - 38 ° C) and major pepper pests Stopping growth and flowering, lack of ovary. Possible reasons: low temperature air (below + 13 ° C), watering with cold water, lack of light.​

Caring for pepper seedlings in the first days after planting in the ground

During the season, 4-5 root dressings are carried out, which are carried out on moist soil. The interval between them should be at least 10 days. Before flowering - 1 time during the week, in hot weather - 2 times. The irrigation rate is up to 12 liters per 1 m2. For growing pepper in open ground, the following types of soils are most suitable: sandy, medium loamy, floodplain and chernozem, which have a light mechanical composition and a slightly acidic or neutral environment. Peppers do not like acidic soils.

​Conditions Russian climate cannot be called ideal for heat-loving vegetable plants, therefore, pepper cultivation is usually carried out in three stages:

Pepper - planting in the ground and care. Tips for gardeners A couple of days before top dressing, peppers are watered a little with water, since root dressing must be done on moist soil. Fertilizer solutions should be warm (about 25 - 30°C). With insufficient watering

cover seedlings with foil​.​

Watering peppers in the garden

Formation of crooked fruits. Reason: incomplete pollination of flowers. In addition, dry top dressing is carried out during the flowering and fruiting period. wood ash using 1-2 cups of ash per 1 m2 of soil.

During flowering and fruiting - 2-3 times a week. Irrigation rate - up to 14 liters per 1 m2.​ Pepper formation

Do you want peppers to grow on your windowsill? all year round as an ornamental houseplant? Then you should choose to sow seeds and grow seedlings at home,

When growing and caring for peppers - both sweet and spicy varieties - it is necessary to ensure optimum temperature and humidity. Of course, most plants prefer milder, greenhouse conditions, but in warm climates, planting crops in open ground is also possible. The yield in this case will depend on decent care and favorable weather conditions.

Pepper care in a greenhouse: watering, fertilizing, shaping

Caring for pepper in a greenhouse consists in maintaining an optimal temperature regime, regular watering, fertilizing, weeding and loosening.

Temperature regime. The air temperature in the greenhouse during the period from planting to full fruiting should be maintained at 21-28°C during the day and 15°C at night. Then the daily temperature is reduced by 1-2°C.

When caring for pepper, the greenhouse is periodically ventilated by opening doors, vents, and transoms in it. In summer, when the temperature outside rises above 30 ° C, the glass cover of the greenhouse is sprayed with a suspension of chalk or shaded with light wooden gratings.

Peppers are watered 2-3 times a week under the root. Pepper is moisture-loving, 1-2 liters of water is consumed per plant. Plants spud with moist soil. After the earth dries up, the aisles are loosened.

Fertilizer and top dressing. Feeding pepper is carried out twice a month. 10-20 g of potassium chloride, 20-30 g of ammonium nitrate and 30-40 g of superphosphate are diluted per 10 liters of water. After feeding the pepper in the greenhouse, the soil is watered clean water otherwise you can burn the leaves. Instead of mineral fertilizers, plants are sometimes fed with organic matter: a solution of slurry or bird droppings with the addition of 150-200 g of wood ash per 10 liters of solution.

Experienced gardeners recommend watering peppers from 9 am to 11 am. Frequent and prolonged drying of the soil, as well as its strong waterlogging, should not be allowed, since the plant reacts both to the dryness of the soil and to its waterlogging.

Pollination. During the flowering period, peppers are shaken daily to ensure better pollination.

Bush formation. In order to grow pepper as a vertical crop, the bush begins to form in the first fork. When molding, two shoots are left in the first branch, which will be central. Subsequently, two shoots are left in each of the nodes: vertical (central) and external additional. In this way, the bush is formed to a height of 1-1.2 m.

Outdoor pepper care: watering, feeding, protection

Outdoor care for peppers consists of watering, loosening the soil, fertilizing and frost protection.

Watering. The first time the pepper is watered immediately after planting. The second time - in 5-6 days. In the future, it is watered every 7-10 days. First, 1-1.5 liters of water are spent per plant, then the rate is increased to 1.5-2 liters. Stop watering 2-3 weeks before the last harvest.

Loosening. The soil is loosened after each rain and watering until the earth begins to dry out and crust over.

Fertilizer and top dressing. Peppers are fed 3-4 times during the growing season, starting from the 10-15th day after planting the seedlings. When top dressing peppers in open ground, a solution of slurry is used (4-5 parts of water for 1 part of fertilizer) or bird droppings (1 part of fertilizer for 12-15 parts of water). In addition, 150-200 g of wood ash, 40-60 g of superphosphate and 15-20 g of potassium chloride are added to 10 liters of solution. When carrying out mineral dressing, in addition to phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, ammonium nitrate(15-20 g per 10 liters of fertilizer solution).

Frost protection. Heat-loving peppers are protected from frost with the help of temporary shelters-tents made of boards, cardboard, burlap, matting, roofing material or other improvised materials. Portable film shelters are also popular. In severe frosts, the film is additionally covered with burlap or rags. Apply smoke and sprinkling.

Bush formation. During the growing season, pepper shoots that are too long are shortened. All extra branches shading the crown of the bush are cut out. It is mandatory to remove all shoots located below the main fork of the stem, as well as branches growing inside the crown. Pruning is carried out once a week, after harvesting the fruit.

Harvesting, storage and processing of pepper

Pepper is harvested in a state of technical ripeness (the fruit has already formed, but has not reached the color and size characteristic of this variety), as well as in a state of biological ripeness (the fruit fully corresponds to its varietal characteristics). Usually 20-30 days pass between technical and biological ripeness. Ripe fruits crackle when touched. The first time the pepper crop is harvested in mid-August and is carried out every 6-8 days until frost. Before frosts, all fruits are removed from the bush. They are sorted according to the degree of ripeness and, if necessary, laid for ripening. Hot peppers are harvested when the fruits become dry and red. Do not pick peppers with your hands, as you can damage the fruit or stalk, which will lead to rotting of the pod. Therefore, the stalks are cut with a knife.

Like most vegetables, pepper has a low keeping quality, and if stored poorly, the fruits rot in two days. Under the right conditions, peppers can be stored even longer than tomatoes and eggplant. Thin-walled peppers are best stored in the refrigerator. In fruits, cut off part of the stalk, leaving a small tip. The fruits should not show signs of disease, damage, cracks or dents.

Peppers are stored in plastic bags, or the fruits are put in boxes and sprinkled with sawdust. Fruits are stored up to 2 months. Ripe peppers are kept at a temperature of 1-2°C, unripe - at 10-12°C.

For seeds, fruits are harvested in the phase of full biological ripeness. They are left for 3-4 weeks, after which they are cut around the calyx and the stalk with seeds is taken out. Within 3-4 days it is kept at a temperature of 25-30°C, and then the seeds are separated. They are folded into a paper bag and cleaned in a cool, dry place. Pepper seeds are stored for 5-6 years.

The fruits of sweet pepper are consumed fresh, pickled, canned, dried, fried, boiled, stewed. It is also possible to process pepper into caviar, mashed potatoes, vegetable snacks.

In preparation for drying, the core is removed from the peppers, washed thoroughly. Then the pulp is cut into pieces 1.5 x 1.5 or 2 x 2 cm in size, blanched in boiling 1% salt solution for 1-2 minutes, allowed to drain and placed on a sieve. Dry at a temperature of 60-70°C for 3-5 hours. To obtain 1 kg of dried pepper, you need to take 10-12 kg of fresh.

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How to grow pepper

Peppers are a real pantry of useful substances and vitamins and one of the most beloved vegetables in the whole world. However, if in the midst of summer season it can be bought at any market literally for a penny, then by the beginning of autumn, sellers are asking for much more money for it. It is for this reason that all those summer residents and gardeners who have already managed to grow delicious cucumbers and juicy tomatoes in their own greenhouses start planting sweet peppers with great pleasure. Moreover, there is nothing complicated in this lesson. Of course, planting and caring for peppers have their own characteristics, but after reading the recommendations below, you can easily grow tasty and healthy sweet peppers yourself.

Peppers are rich in beneficial vitamins, so it is so often found in the gardens of summer residents.

Secrets of growing sweet pepper: variety selection

Growing pepper is not such a difficult task as it may seem to unprepared summer residents. However, before the cultivation of pepper is started, it will be useful to familiarize yourself with the variety and characteristics of the varieties of this vegetable.

Pepper different varieties quite different in color and shape of the fruit.

Thus, pepper fruits can be elongated or wide cuboid, cone-shaped, prism-shaped, curved or spherical in shape. Fruit weight can also vary (usually from 0.5 to 200 g), as well as length (usually from 1 to 30 cm). The color of the pepper may vary depending on the maturity of the fruit: from light green to purple hues, and already ripe fruits can be painted in red, brown, yellow and other colors.

Most often, the following varieties of pepper are chosen for growing in a greenhouse:

Before planting pepper in the ground, it should be watered so as not to damage the roots during transplantation.

• "Orange Miracle" is an early ripe hybrid. It is characterized by fruits of a cuboid shape, painted in bright yellow;
• Alyonushka is a mid-early hybrid. Has truncated-pyramidal fruits of red color;
• "Winnie the Pooh" - one of the early ripe varieties of pepper. The fruits are red, have a shortened conical shape;
• Pinocchio is an early ripe hybrid. The fruits are smooth, slightly ribbed, have an elongated conical shape and a red color;
• "Swallow" is a medium-early variety of pepper. Fruits are red, cone-shaped;
• "California Miracle" - refers to mid-early varieties with prismatic, large bright red fruits;
• "Tenderness" is an early ripe variety of pepper with very tender pulp. The fruits are red, truncated-pyramidal;
• "Negotiant" is an early ripe hybrid. The fruits are red, have a prismatic shape;
• "Nochka" is a mid-season hybrid of pepper. The fruits are bright red, truncated pyramidal;
• "Elephant Trunk" is a mid-season variety of pepper. Proboscis and elongated-conical fruits;
• Astrakhan refers to mid-season varieties. It has drooping, cone-shaped fruits with rough pulp.

Growing and caring for pepper seedlings

Seeds for growing pepper seedlings must be sown at the end of February. Before starting sowing in prepared soil, pepper seeds must be subjected to the following treatment:

• disinfection in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate for about 30 minutes, after which rinsing with water;
• treatment with special growth stimulants, which can be bought at gardening stores;
• treatment with an appropriate antifungal agent to protect future pepper seedlings from the fungus.

After the seeds have been processed, they are sown in small individual pots to a depth of 6-12 mm. It is necessary to germinate seeds at a temperature of the order of + 25-30 ° C. Shoots themselves usually appear on the 4th day. After that, it will be possible to lower the temperature to + 15-18 ° C for a whole week. This is done so that the plants do not stretch in growth. A week later, the temperature rises again to +22-28°C.

Tools for seedlings of peppers.

As for top dressing, pepper grown in a greenhouse should be fed for the first time only when 3 true leaves appear on the seedlings. To do this, take the following: 30 g of potassium salt, 125 g of superphosphate and 50 g of urea. Mix all ingredients and dissolve in 10 liters of water. After fertilizing, immediately water the seedlings with clean water.

Experienced gardeners it is recommended that after the seedlings have 2-5 true leaves, start additionally highlighting it so that the plants are exposed to radiation with a large proportion of the blue spectrum. The duration of such illumination is 12 hours per day.

The second top dressing should be done after the pepper has 4 true leaves. And when the seedlings already have 7-8 leaves, their nutrition and care should be especially good - it is at this stage that the flower organs develop invisibly to the human eye, on which the quality of the entire future crop directly depends. In total, during the cultivation of seedlings, the earth will need to be poured into pots 2 times.

Pepper formation scheme (numbers indicate the sequence of shoot formation).

Growing greenhouse pepper involves the implementation of such a procedure as hardening. Hardening of pepper seedlings is carried out 2 weeks before it is planted in the ground. To do this, if the weather is warm outside, you need to take out the pots with seedlings on the terrace or balcony. At night, the seedlings are again brought indoors.

7-8 days before planting, for greater stability, seedlings can be fed with potash salt. Experienced gardeners recommend spraying the seedlings with a solution of a natural plant growth stimulator a day before planting. This will allow the pepper to develop its own hormones, which are necessary for a particular growth phase. Such care will make the plant more resistant to various diseases. Pepper treated with a special solution is much more resistant to various adverse factors and better fruiting. As a result, the yield of peppers increases by about 40%, and the nitrate content decreases by more than 2 times.

Planting and growing peppers in a greenhouse

Pepper seedlings can be considered ready for planting in greenhouse soil if they already have 12-14 leaves and bud development is observed in the leaf axils. As a result, healthy seedlings have a fairly thick stem about 25 cm high and a characteristic even green color. Moreover, it is necessary to plant seedlings of pepper in an unheated film greenhouse when the soil in it warms up to + 15 ° C - usually this is not earlier than mid-May. Moreover, the age of the pepper seedling itself must be at least 55 days.

The soil itself, in which the cultivation of pepper will be carried out, must be suitably prepared. To do this, phosphorus and potash fertilizers are introduced into it, 40 g / m² each, as well as nitrogen fertilizers 30 g / m² each. Do not fertilize the soil under the pepper with fresh manure. Such treatment can lead to strong growth of bushes and falling flowers. It is better to use compost or humus - 1 bucket for every 1 m² is enough.

It is necessary to plant seedlings in a greenhouse on ridges of 1 m wide with a row spacing of 50 cm. Planting density in the case of pepper depends on the characteristics of the selected variety. So, for vigorous varieties of pepper and hybrids, the distance between plants in 1 row is usually 35 cm, and for medium-sized varieties - 25 cm. For early-ripening low-growing varieties - every 15 cm, that is, there will be 10 plants per 1 m². Seedlings must be grown in wells, previously watered with water - 2 liters of water per well. After planting, the soil must be carefully compacted by hand and mulched with humus or peat.

Proper care of peppers in the greenhouse

Greenhouse pepper care has its own characteristics. The plant needs warmth and moisture much more than even tomatoes. That is why the most appropriate is the cultivation of pepper in closed and protected ground.

Scheme of growing peppers in mineral wool blocks.

First of all, pepper care is timely watering. If there is not enough moisture, then gray-brown spots will quickly appear on the fruits, and in the future it will begin to develop. gray rot. Make sure that there are no sudden temperature changes in the greenhouse, which are extremely detrimental to the yield of this vegetable.

Greenhouse peppers are a favorite treat for aphids and spider mites. For the prevention and control of these pests, it is advisable to stock up on karbofos in advance, and better - keltan.

If the greenhouse is unheated, then for growing medium-sized varieties of pepper in it, it will be possible to confine ourselves to harvesting the resulting shoots and leaves on the trunk, as well as extra shoots in the middle part of the plants. Caring for newly bred hybrid varieties is even easier - they can do without such molding, it is enough just to tie them up in a timely manner.

Hybrids and tall varieties need to be tied to a trellis, choosing for this when forming bushes 2 of the strongest shoots, leaving 1-2 more for the first collections.

For good development pepper, even in the very initial period, you need to remove 1 lower bud. In addition, all side shoots, as well as leaves on the main stem, must be removed even before the first fork, as well as barren shoots and any diseased leaves.

Pollination of flowers, or how not to turn sweet pepper into bitter

All flowers of this plant are bisexual, so they can pollinate themselves. But if any insects get into your greenhouse through the window, then cross-pollination can happen - that is why it is not recommended to grow hot and sweet varieties of pepper on the same site. After all, if suddenly the pollen of hot pepper falls on the stigma of a sweet pestle, then the taste of the ripe fruit of the latter can be bitter to one degree or another.

You can experiment with the taste of greenhouse pepper, this is not prohibited. Who knows, maybe you will new variety that everyone will love. Good luck and have a good harvest!

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Little tricks in growing pepper seedlings

Pepper came to us from the coast of Mexico. Since this is a southern plant, lovers of summer cottages are wondering how to properly grow pepper seedlings. It can be sweet and bitter, but the main points for all varieties are the same.

Seed and soil preparation

The preparation of pepper seedlings begins in February until mid-May. Pepper seeds after three years of storage lose their germination. Before planting, they must be sorted out and removed damaged and darkened.

In order to check whether the seed is suitable for planting, it must be placed in a 3% salt solution (30 grams per 1 liter).

Seeds that float after 7 minutes can be discarded. Seeds that have settled to the bottom are removed, washed with water, dried and begin to prepare for sowing.

The seed pre-etched in potassium permanganate and treated with a growth stimulator is soaked in warm water. The seeds are laid out on a cloth and put in a warm place, for example, to a battery. It is important to keep the seeds in a moist environment. Pepper seeds germinate in 1.5 to 2 weeks. You can put the soaked seeds in a thermos with water at a temperature of 40 degrees for 2 hours.

For proper cultivation pepper seedlings use the following types of substrates:

• Ready soils. Soil mixtures specially prepared for peppers are the most reliable option for planting. They will avoid damage from infections and pests.
• Soil prepared by yourself. Experienced summer residents prepare a substrate based on soil, humus and peat. If you decide to prepare the soil yourself, do not take the soil from the site where the nightshade was grown the previous year and pour it well with a solution of potassium permanganate.
• Coconut substrate. Good for growing peppers
• Peat tablets. Highly convenient option for sowing seeds. When transplanting and picking, the plant, along with the tablet, is simply transferred to a large container.
• Soil with the addition of hydrogel. Adding hydrogel to the soil will allow you to retain moisture in the soil longer. To do this, balls already swollen in water are added directly to the soil. If you add dry granules, then when they swell, they can displace the earth from the bowl.

Its quality in the future and the harvest largely depend on the proper preparation for planting seedlings, so the process requires close attention.

Planting seeds and caring for seedlings

In order to properly grow pepper seedlings, it is necessary to pay attention to all growth factors:

• The soil.
• Humidity.
• Illumination.
• Top dressing.

For growing pepper seedlings, special boxes, peat pots, and plastic cups are used.

Craftsmen offer to plant seeds even in bags of mayonnaise. The most important thing is to ensure good drainage in the tank with sand and small pebbles, and also do not forget to punch holes in the bottom. This will avoid stagnant water during irrigation and rotting of the roots.

The soil is shed with a warm weak solution of potassium permanganate. Pepper seeds prepared for sowing are laid out at a distance of 2 centimeters in small grooves, covered with soil by 1 centimeter and slightly compacted. To provide the seedlings with the maximum comfortable temperature(25-30 degrees) and humidity, the boxes with them are covered with a film or a sheet of glass and placed in a warm place.

Under good conditions, the first sprouts will appear in 10 days. When they appear, the boxes are moved to the light and the covering material is lifted to avoid the accumulation of condensate. The glass is removed when the bulk of the seedlings level off and the first pairs of leaves begin to appear. If after two weeks not a single seedling appeared, then the seedlings failed.

It should be ensured that the soil is always well moistened.

Water the seedlings with water at room temperature, settled for at least a day. When watering, it is necessary to avoid waterlogging the substrate. To maintain a comfortable humidity, the green mass is sprayed, or a humidifier is used. Avoid drafts and use covering material when ventilating.

With the advent of seedlings, they begin to highlight, at first they do it around the clock with the help of fluorescent lamps. To ensure sufficient lighting for seedlings, it is necessary to monitor the cleanliness of windows and make screens for light reflection with foil. As the green mass grows, it is illuminated in the morning and evening, so that in total the length of the day is 12-18 hours.

You can feed the plants every 10 days after the appearance of the first leaves with ammonium nitrate.

Complex top dressing with nitrogen, potash, phosphorus fertilizers must be carried out before planting in open ground. Pepper seedlings are quite capricious and in order to grow strong seedlings, you need to make a lot of effort and follow all the rules.

Picking and hardening

Controversy will arise among gardeners regarding the picking of young shoots. Opponents rest on the fact that after it, pepper slows down growth, spending energy on restoring the root system. Proponents say that after picking, plants build up their vegetative mass better and get more nutrients.

Dive seedlings of pepper when the first true leaves appear, about three weeks after the start of cultivation.

From a well-moistened soil, a seedling is carefully removed, holding it by upper leaves, one third, remove the main root and transfer to separate containers with a volume of approximately 200 milliliters. Large dishes are useless, as the roots can rot or build up excess green mass. Try to make sure that the root does not bend up and is well spread out. The stem is buried almost to the first leaves, sprinkled with earth, compacted and watered.

Picking is also convenient because plants planted in separate cups are easy to push apart. Pepper does not like to touch the neighbor's foliage and begins to reach up, wasting growth energy.

Hardening allows you to get powerful seedlings resistant to external environmental factors.

About a month before planting, planting material begins to be exposed to open sunlight, gradually increasing the exposure time.

To do this, the boxes are taken out to the balcony or open the window. At the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the seedlings do not fall under drafts that have a negative effect on them and do not experience a lack of moisture. The described actions are not mandatory, but their use allows you to grow good seedlings and learn a bountiful harvest.

Seedlings are ready for transplanting after at least 60 days. Seedlings of 70-80 days of age give a high yield. The decision to disembark is made by visual inspection.

Plants should be without damage, have 10-12 leaves, be 20-30 centimeters in height.

In mid-May, peppers are planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse, and in early June in open ground. One of the problems that a gardener can face is overgrowing. To avoid it, when picking seedlings, you should cut off the roots and do not abuse top dressing, especially nitrogen. If the plants do overgrow, reduce watering and lower the ambient temperature.

Pepper plot should:

• Be well lit.
• Have loose soil.
• Be protected from drafts and wind.
• Have a pH of no more than 6.

Before transplanting, seedling boxes are well shed to carefully remove the plants. From the pots, seedlings are transferred along with earthy clod. Pepper is sensitive to damage to the root system. The seedlings are carefully transferred to the holes, covered with soil and mulch, then the beds are watered abundantly.

The distance between the rows is 50-79 centimeters, in the row between the peppers 40 cm. If the distance between the plants is less, then they will feel uncomfortable and stretch. The embedment depth is about the same as it was before the transplant.

Sweet and bitter peppers are planted in different places to prevent over-pollination.

If night frosts are likely, transplanted peppers must be covered. To protect against bright sunlight for the first time after transplantation, covering materials are also used.

The main chores when growing peppers await summer residents at the stage of growing seedlings. After transfer to open ground, the main care is reduced only to timely watering, protection from pests and subsequent harvesting.

Cultivation of pepper is quite painstaking work. But subject to all the requirements and recommendations, the beds will delight you with an abundance of fleshy multi-colored and useful harvest peppers.

You can learn a lot of tips on how to plant pepper seedlings by watching the video.

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How to care for pepper seedlings

How to understand that the seedlings are of high quality and ready for planting in the ground

Any quality seedlings necessarily looks healthy, elastic, has a natural green color, a sufficient number of full-fledged leaves.

Seedlings of almost all vegetables are ready for planting about 50 days after planting the seeds. It reaches 25 cm in height, has 4-6 leaves.

How and when to dive seedlings

Usually seeds for seedlings are sown first in in large numbers in large boxes, and when the sprouts sprout, the strongest, largest ones are selected among them and planted in pots and "personal" boxes. As a result, the sprouts receive additional space for further development and gain some experience in transplanting.

A pick is made with sprouts that have at least 2 small leaves. The seedlings are watered, and after a few hours they are dug up, the roots are cut off by about 1/3 and planted in a “personal” pot or a large plastic glass.

How to avoid overgrowing seedlings

Overgrown seedlings are not very good, as they have a very large shoot root system becomes too developed and the land available in the pot for food will not be enough for her. As a result, instead of strong, healthy, stocky seedlings, the gardener gets elongated and frail.

Overgrowth of seedlings can occur for the following reasons:

✓ delay in planting in the ground due to cold spring;

✓ with abundant watering and top dressing; v with a lack of light on the windowsill.

There are several ways to prevent this situation:

✓ when picking, specially cut a part of the root system to prevent overgrowth;

✓ use growth regulators;

✓ plant seeds a little later than usual. If your seedlings have already outgrown, then you should:

✓ stop watering and put the pots in a cooler place;

✓ when transplanting into the ground, long lower part lay the stem underground, which will shorten the plant, and new roots will come from the stem;

✓ cut off several large branches from the shoot, root them and then plant them.

How to properly illuminate seedlings

Plants receive a sufficient amount of light only in open ground, being in a normally lit area and during a long daylight hours, which is naturally possible only in summer. However, seedlings are grown from the end of winter. To help the young shoots get enough light for development, its supply should be organized artificially.

Experienced summer residents, at their request, use the following methods:

✓ Mirrors or sheets of foil are attached to the slopes of the windows, and the light, reflected from them, falls on the seedlings in greater quantities. However, such an amount of light for seedlings may still not be enough, so windows should be washed regularly and "walks" should be carried out, opening windows on a warm sunny day;

✓ The most reliable way of additional illumination is to use fluorescent fluorescent lamps located at a distance of about 15 cm from the seedlings. It should be remembered that the seedlings grow over time, which means that the lamps will have to be raised from them to the height of the outgrowth. The duration of artificial lighting is 19-20 hours daily.

How to properly water seedlings

It is preferable to water the seedlings with settled or filtered water. You can also use melt water if you are not tormented by doubts about its quality, harmlessness chemical composition. Each box, pot should have drainage holes to drain excess water. The frequency of watering depends on external factors (sunny or cloudy weather), soil composition and the own needs of specific plants. Therefore, it is impossible to say exactly how often seedlings need to be watered - usually the number of waterings ranges from several times a day to once a week. Vegetables that like moist air (for example, cucumbers) are best watered in the evening, and those who prefer drier air (for example, bell peppers, tomatoes) - in the morning.

When to plant seedlings

Each plant has its own length of the growing season, so different vegetables are sown for seedlings at different times, but usually this happens in February-March, for example, tomatoes - in the second half or at the end of February, bell peppers - in the first half of February, cabbage, cucumbers - in late March.

How to use a peat tablet

A peat tablet is compressed peat in the form of a tablet about 8 cm in diameter and about 3 cm thick, with a small depression in one of the bases. Its advantage is the ready-made form, the peat structure allows air to pass well deep into the tablet to the roots, and its composition is balanced and does not require the delivery of additional nutrients.

Before use, the tablet is laid out on a pallet with the base with a recess up, poured with water at room temperature. After about 30 minutes, the tablet increases in height, becoming a cylinder.

Several seeds should be put into the recess of the moistened cylinder, covered with humus from above. Place the peat cylinder in greenhouse conditions by placing it under a glass or polyethylene structure (for example, an upside down aquarium or a wire cap covered with polyethylene). When the seedlings germinate, give roots, along with a peat cylinder, it should be planted in the ground or in a greenhouse.

How to save seedlings if you plan a long absence

If you urgently need to leave for enough long time, and you plan to grow seedlings, then you can ensure a regular supply of water to seeds or sprouts using the classic “thread” drip method by placing a sufficiently large container of water at a level above the seedling boxes and passing a woolen thread to each.

Currently, there is a so-called hydrogel on sale - acrylamide polymer material, produced in the form of a powder or tiny granules that absorb water and increase hundreds of times.

The hydrogel can be added dry to the soil and then watered after planting. Then the soil will increase in volume and everything can fall out of the box / pot. Therefore, it is better to introduce granules pre-soaked with water into the seedling soil.

Thanks to the hydrogel, the number of irrigations can be reduced up to 6 times, and the soil structure will improve.

The hydrogel consumption is approximately 30 g per 1 m2.

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How to care for hot peppers?

Victoria

Usually, indoor garden lovers sow pepper seeds in February, in September-October, they remove the reddened fruits on the vine and soon throw out the fruit-bearing plant. Depending on the care and experience of the gardener, the yield of the Ogonyok variety can range from 5 to 15 pods, the Lamb's Horn variety from 10 to 25. With the method that I follow, you can get a Fire up to 30-40, and a Lamb's horn up to 60 or more pods.
I made my discovery by accident. I forgot to throw away the fruited pepper. Without watering and care, he stood on the windowsill. But in January, along with an increase in daylight hours (and the pepper feels this very strongly), the plant suddenly turned green with several buds. For the sake of interest, I began to water it, cutting off completely dried branches. To my surprise, the strongest shoots appeared, which went in an almost horizontal direction and began to branch. Their color was intense and bright. By May, dozens of fruits began to pour, and not just a few, as happens with an annual crop. By autumn, I had deliberately saved the experimental plant and observed it for several years.
Thus, I worked out all the techniques for caring for peppers.
I was convinced that their strong root system, starting to vegetate in the first half of January, allows the plant to fully develop in March-May. What happens during these months cannot even be compared with how the plant develops in June-July and August, when, despite high temperatures, there is a decline in both flowering and fruiting. This decline is not compensated by care or fertilizer. This is first.
Secondly, healing power The spring sun brings into intensive development not a tiny shoot, as happens with an annual crop, but a thick stem saturated with nutrients. Indeed, in the fall, even a plant depleted by the harvest deposits nutrients for the continuation of offspring for the next year.
And if we also take care of the pepper in the fall, feed it on time, it will go to the “wintering” full of strength.
In particular, one of the plants was placed in a pot with a volume of not more than 0.5 liters. Despite the cramped "living space", the crown of the pepper reached half a meter in diameter, was strewn with flowers and fruits so that it threatened to tip over, I had to tie it to the frame. Up to 60 fruits of the Ram's horn were tied and poured by May, each the size of a woman's little finger, or even more.
The second experience was that I avoided the use of mineral fertilizers, managed with "material at hand", and worked out a waste-free economy scheme. In the autumn, after harvesting, he removed half or even two-thirds of the leaves from the pepper, first of all - withered, with a broken petiole, twisted. Trimmed the crown, making it compact, in the form of a ball or ellipse. I squeezed all the cuttings, including those of other plants, between the walls of the pot and the earthen clod, sometimes specially took out part of the earth. Handled pepper rather unceremoniously. I could pull it out of the pot by the stem and inspect the earthen ball, cut off the extra roots. After all, in small pot they can “run around” the inner diameter of the pot many times. The supply of food in this case is difficult, so I cut them mercilessly. And he laid the trimmings together with the earth in a pot: let them rot. At the same time, he diluted the “extra” earth with water and watered the vegetable cuttings with the resulting infusion, filling the air voids. Often mulched with grassy cuttings on the surface of the earth in a pot during the growing season. The mulch gradually rotted and provided nutrition.
And with such a poor but thoughtful diet, my pepper fruited for several years, until I lost interest in the experiment, having worked out everything that I needed.
I was convinced that you can sow pepper seeds at any time of the year. Not only in spring, but even in autumn, before winter. Seedlings do not stretch out from poor lighting, they only freeze, develop later

Marina Stebeleva

This is exactly how it stands on my windowsill, among other plants. I water almost every day, because the air in the apartment is very dry. Periodically fertilize with universal fertilizer. From time to time I cut too long branches.
Basically, I don't do anything special. Harvest is enough.

crybaby

I also have it on my windowsill.
and I water it when I remember
I don’t cut branches, I don’t fertilize the ground,
every year a bunch of peppers ripen ...

Gastezzo

Don't forget to water it, your pepper =)

Andrey Petrenko

Plant care. During the growing season it consists in inter-row tillage, manual weeding in rows, weed control, pests and diseases. Pepper is very sensitive to soil compaction and lack of air, so after each watering or rain it is necessary to loosen the soil. Simultaneously with loosening, fertilizing with mineral fertilizers is carried out.
Weed control consists of cultivation and hand weeding.
The main pests of pepper are: Colorado beetle, scoops, aphids and thrips.
The Colorado pepper beetle causes less damage, but can cause significant damage in high populations. Protection measures are similar to those for tomatoes. To combat the Colorado potato beetle on pepper, the drug Aktara 25 WG is registered - 0.06-0.08 kg / ha. Cultivation is carried out with the beginning of the release of larvae.
Scoops. The fight against these pests is difficult, as there are many varieties of cutworms, and their output is stretched. Therefore, it is very important to predict the release of larvae and carry out timely processing. For more accurate forecasting of cutworm caterpillars, it is necessary to use pheromone traps or take into account active air temperatures. There are no drugs registered for combating cutworms on peppers.
Aphids and thrips are less harmful, however, with a large infestation by these pests, plants become depressed, deformed, which leads to loss of yield or death of plants. On plants damaged by sucking pests, there is an active spread of fungal and viral diseases.
The main diseases of pepper: bacteriosis, viral diseases. There are no registered drugs to combat fungal diseases on pepper, so you need to focus on drugs that are allowed to protect the tomato.
AT last years pepper plantations are severely affected viral diseases. Measures to combat viral diseases consist in the mechanical removal of diseased plants, as well as in heat treatment seed, sucking pest control. To guarantee the receipt of seedlings unaffected by viral diseases, it is necessary to buy pure-grade seed, which has undergone special processing.
When growing seedlings, Previkur 607 is used to combat root rot. The application rate is 15 ml per 10 liters of water. For 1 m2, 2-4 liters of working solution are applied by irrigation.

Juno

ornamental pepper (capsicum), nightshade family. Other names: Mexican pepper, capsicum
Place of Origin: Central and South America
Usage: flowering, fruit
Plant dimensions: up to 40 cm in height
Growth: fast
Flowering: summer
Care and maintenance
Temperature in summer
18 – 25 Winter temperature
10 – 18
Lighting Lighting: direct solar
bright scattered

light, but not sunny and only indoors; black pepper normally tolerates shade and partial shade; in winter we keep at a temperature not lower than 18 degrees.
Watering Watering: In winter - moderate
In summer - plentiful
ReproductionReproduction: in spring by seeds or apical cuttings
Air humidity Air humidity: daily spraying
Transplant Transplant: annually in the spring. Earth mix: sod land, leaf ground, peat and sand (1:1:1:1/4).
Top dressing Top dressing: spring-summer - 1 time in 2 weeks with mineral and organic fertilizers
winter-autumn - without top dressing
Undercut Undercut: in spring, half to two-thirds of the length
Features of care Features of care: In summer, you can take it out into the fresh air
Feels great next to other houseplants.

kazatschka

Weak point, except for dry air - pests, aphids for example

Ekaterina Juss

You can put with other plants, but only on a lighted window. He loves moisture, but do not overfill it, otherwise the fruits will be tasteless.

To get a good harvest of bell pepper, it is important to create for him the necessary conditions. High humidity and elevated temperature are those indicators that positively affect this vegetable. But such a plant can be grown not only in warm regions. It is often found in garden beds. In order for the pepper to produce a crop, it is important to know how to plant peppers in open ground, what to put in holes, and also what should be the distance when planting peppers in open ground, and how to properly care for sweet peppers in open ground.

Seed processing technology

Growing bell peppers in open ground begins with proper seed preparation. The technology for preparing the bushes for planting consists in calculating the timing, because the sowing must be carried out so that by the required date the pepper is ready for planting in the ground.

There are several seed treatment techniques to successfully preserve and improve planting material. With their help, you can increase the guarantees for a successful harvest.

Interesting! If the seed is not processed, then the seeds will sprout fourteen days after planting. When processing, the result will be visible on the third day.

The first step is to determine which of the seeds are healthy. To do this, they must be filled with a 3% solution of baking soda and water at room temperature. Healthy seeds in five minutes will remain at the bottom of the vessel, and empty and unsuitable for planting will float on the surface. After checking, the seed is washed from salt and prepared for processing.

Seed material is disinfected using various solutions. It can be Albit, Fitosporin, Alirin-B or Trichodermin. You can also use the grandmother's recipe and treat the swollen pepper seeds with a solution of potassium permanganate. 30 minutes will be enough for the treatment to give a result.

Increases the immunity of the plant and accelerates its growth, drugs such as Ecogel, Novosil or Epin. They are applied according to the instructions attached to them. To improve the effect, such drugs can be used after the ascent of sprouts.

In order to make the seeds strong and strong, special fertilizers are used that strengthen the seeds. To do this, it is enough to soak the seeds in diluted fertilizer for 12 hours.

Growing seedlings of pepper

Seedlings are grown in the ground three months after sowing the seeds. Therefore, it is necessary to prepare from February. It is important to complete all the necessary procedures before proceeding with seed sowing. First of all, it is necessary to process and disinfect the seeds. Then they are hardened and soaked. After that, they are ready to land.

Sowing seeds

In order for the pepper to grow faster, you must first wrap the seeds in a damp cloth and hide in a warm place for two days. After that, you can plant them in pre-prepared soil (in boxes, pots or other containers). The distance between the peppers when planting in the ground should be 1.5 cm, after which the container is covered with glass or plastic wrap until the seedlings rise.

Important! For planting bell pepper, light soil is needed, which consists of sand, black soil and humus. Water the seedlings with water, which is infused for one day.

It is important to regularly apply fertilizers of organic and mineral origin to the soil. The first feeding occurs after the first leaves on the seedlings bloom.

Growing seedlings of pepper

You can prepare the soil at home with the help of the following components:

• sod land;
• peat;
• humus;
• sawdust.

All components are mixed in a ratio of 2:4:1:1. Then ash and sand are added to the resulting soil, adhering to the following dosages: for one bucket, three tablespoons of ash and 0.5 liters of river sand. The resulting consistency is watered with potassium permanganate.

There are two ways to grow bell peppers:

With the help of a pick

It is important to carry out a pick in time so that the plant takes root better. As soon as the seeds germinate, the vegetable grower counts 20 days and makes a pick. Since the root of the pepper does not recover well, they do not touch it, but use other parts of the plant.

Without using picks

This technique is more common. It is only necessary to move the seedlings from a smaller container to a larger one. Then the root system is not affected and the plant takes root faster.

Growing peppers on a windowsill

When growing bell peppers on a windowsill, you need to know a few subtleties and nuances. First of all, it is necessary to choose the right time for planting seeds. Since bell peppers at home often do not have enough heat and sufficient humidity, they will rise longer than the allotted time. Therefore, it is recommended to plant seeds in late February - early March.

For normal plant growth, it needs to provide 12 hours of light. To do this, it is enough to keep the windows in constant cleanliness because dirty windows take away some of the light.

Do not forget about the humidity in the room. For bell pepper, it should be 70%. To do this, a humidifier is installed in the room. Of course, you can spray plants with a spray bottle, but a humidifier will be more rational and safer.

For planting seeds, two-hundred-gram cups are used, which are replaced by liter ones after one month has passed after planting.

Bulgarian pepper, cultivation and care in the open field

The technology of growing peppers outdoors is similar to growing tomatoes. It is important to water the plant in time, feed it, shape it, and, if necessary, remove stepchildren. Do not forget about the protection against various pests and diseases.

It is necessary to water the sweet pepper as soon as it is planted in open ground, then after five days. After each watering, it is necessary to loosen the earth so that there is no hardened soil. Plant feeding is carried out three times a season. For this, nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus are used.

Don't forget about heat protection. To prevent pollen from losing its abilities, it is necessary to make screens that will darken the plant.

Bulgarian pepper growing in a barrel

You can also grow a culture in a barrel. To do this, you need to take a barrel and remove the bottom from it. In order for oxygen to enter the barrel, holes must be made in its walls, 1 cm in diameter at a distance of 20 cm from each other.

Then the following components are laid out in layers: faded (layer thickness 10 cm), soil mixture (turf and ordinary earth, compost).

In early May, one bush of pepper is planted and covered with a film. After three hours, cut off all the lower leaves and cover the plant 10 cm with soil mixture. After the plant grows up, repeat the procedure. Do this until the barrel is completely filled with earth (this will be the beginning of June). Then the barrel can no longer be covered with a film.

Features of agricultural technology

Agrotechnics for growing sweet peppers in open ground consists of the following processes:

• Irrigation. It is necessary to water the seedlings with settled water every day. You need to be careful not to overdo it with water.
• Prevention. Spray plants periodically with a spray bottle to maintain moisture.
• Temperature. It should not exceed 22°C during the day and 15°C at night.
• Top dressing. To increase the immunity of pepper, it is necessary to feed it with minerals.

Principles of growing on the site

Sweet pepper is a plant that requires care and attention. So experienced gardener prepares in advance all the necessary tools for caring for him. Outdoor care for sweet peppers consists of the following steps:

• seedling preparation;
• planting a plant in the ground;
• watering;
• feeding

Bush preparation

Before planting seedlings in open ground, it must be hardened. To do this, the plant periodically needs to be taken out in the sun to adapt. Due to this, the pepper will be resistant to weather conditions and will be strong. Hardening begins two weeks before disembarkation.

The process of planting plants in open soil

To get a good harvest of pepper, you need to choose the right place for the beds. This area should not be under direct wind currents, be sunny and protected from drafts. Since autumn, it is important to prepare the necessary area for planting, after digging it up and fertilizing it. It is necessary to plant bell peppers in open ground by impregnating the soil with potash and phosphorus substances.

When disembarking, it is important to remember that sweet peppers do not like direct sunlight and too hot air. Therefore, care must be taken that the seedlings are in the shade.

Depending on which variety is planted, a scheme is developed for planting bell pepper in open ground. The holes should be 35 cm apart from each other, and 45 cm between the rows. If two peppers are planted in the ground, then the distance increases to 60 cm.

There is also a square-nested method of planting pepper. Its essence is that each hole has the same sides that do not exceed 60 cm.

Pepper is transplanted into the ground in late spring or early June, depending on weather conditions. It is recommended to do this on a cloudy day or in the late afternoon, so that there are no direct rays of the sun on the ground.

Planting pepper in open ground begins with the fact that the seedlings are first watered and carefully, without damaging the root of the plant, are removed from the container along with a lump of soil. It is important to know at what depth it is necessary to plant pepper seedlings in the hole. Under the ground, the stem of the plant is placed up to its first lower leaves. After the planting of sweet pepper in open ground has been completed, it is recommended to insert pegs nearby, to which it will be tied in the future.

Irrigation Features

Bulgarian pepper does not require regular watering and moistening of open ground. Initially, it must be watered at the time of disembarkation, then after 5 days and then watered once a week. Approximately one liter of water is needed for one bush of pepper.

During flowering, water for irrigation should be about 20 ° C. Do not forget to loosen the ground around the bush after each watering so that a crust does not form. To keep moisture longer, bell peppers are advised to mulch. Pepper mulching in the open field is carried out using overripe straw or grass.

Pepper dressing

It is necessary to fertilize the soil three times during the entire season. In order for plants to develop and grow normally, they need nitrogen. Therefore, the first feeding are preparations with a nitrogen content. It is done after 2 weeks after planting the bushes in the ground.

The next top dressing is carried out during the flowering period of pepper. Potassium is required for the formation of fruits. It is found in wood ash. And the last feeding occurs when the first fruit has formed. For this, potassium salt and superphosphate are used. Two teaspoons of each component are added to a bucket of water and the plants are watered with the resulting solution.

Possible diseases and pests, and their control

On pepper, you can often observe such pests:

• slugs
• Colorado beetle;
• whitefly;
• bear.

These pests are harvested by hand, and for aphids, a solution of wood ash is used.

The most popular diseases are:

• Yellowing of leaves. This means that the pepper lacks nitrogen. For treatment, it is necessary to add 1 teaspoon of urea to 10 liters of water and spray the bushes with the resulting solution.
• Falling ties. A solution of boric acid will solve the problem (1 spoon per bucket of water).
• The fruits develop poorly. It is treated with superphosphate or wood ash.
• Blackleg. Occurs from an excess of moisture.

Growing greenhouse pepper

Planting a crop in open ground under a film is considered the most convenient, as it brings the culture closer to normal conditions. Seedlings can be planted in the greenhouse in April. To do this, holes are made in the greenhouse, adhering to the correct distance.

Before planting seedlings, it is important to fertilize the hole. For this, a solution based on chicken manure or manure (half a glass of fertilizer per 10 liters of water). After planting, the bushes are watered, taking into account 1 liter per bush. And to support the plant, you can make a support from pegs, so that later you can tie the pepper to it.

Collection and storage

Bulgarian pepper is harvested as the fruit ripens. Some vegetable growers may collect unripe fruits to relieve weight from the bush. This vegetable is used in many recipes in fried, stewed or baked form. Fruits can be peeled and frozen or canned.

In order to receive fresh pepper until December, you can flowering bush together with the ground, transplant into any container and leave on the windowsill in the house.

Pepper is a favorite and mostly greenhouse crop. In our climatic conditions, growing pepper, sowing immediately in open ground, means dooming yourself to vain work. Planting and caring for seedlings of peppers - this will be discussed later.

This is not to say that growing peppers is very difficult. However, without knowing some of the features, a good harvest can hardly be expected.

What you need to know:

1. Sweet pepper is demanding on soil composition and temperature.
2. The ripening period is determined by the characteristics of the variety.
3. Young peppers have weak roots that are easily torn and broken, so it is advisable to grow pepper without picking.
4. Regular watering is very important. There is no point in relying only on rainfall.
5. Pepper is a self-pollinating crop. If the “neighbor” of sweet pepper is a sharp “relative”, then the sweetness of the fruit cannot be preserved. Therefore, it is not recommended to plant bitter and sweet varieties of pepper in the same greenhouse.

This information will help to understand the slight "capriciousness" of this plant. But for all its exactingness, pepper remains one of the most relevant crops due to its usefulness and palatability. Gardeners successfully grow it, no matter what. Let's understand together how to grow peppers correctly.

How to grow seedlings of pepper?

The whole process of growing pepper is not as laborious as careful in terms of following the recommendations. The preparatory steps here are very important, they should not be omitted. Then everything is in order.

Preparing seeds for planting

Seeds of any variety of pepper are considered tight-looking by gardeners. If they are not well prepared, the germination process will be less and they will not be so friendly; in addition, the pipping process itself will be delayed by 5-7 days.

In the conditions of the Russian short summer and rather cool autumn, this missed week can adversely affect the entire crop. That is why the preparation of seeds will have to be given special attention.

Important! Untreated seeds germinate unevenly. The first sprouts will begin to appear only after 2-3 weeks. But the treated seeds will give friendly shoots already on the 7th day.

The steps for preparing seeds at home are as follows:

1. Calibration. This stage is especially important for those who plan to sow their own collected seeds. The selection of seeds is carried out by eye. All small, deformed, empty seeds should be removed. Select for sowing only large intact specimens.
2. Packing by variety. This stage is only relevant for those who grow several different varieties of pepper. In order not to confuse them, after sizing, pack the seeds of each variety separately, in personal gauze bags. Attach a label with the name of the variety to the bags.
3. Disinfection. No need to use any newfangled methods (dusting with complex chemical compositions, etc.). Use the tried and tested method for a long time - potassium permanganate. In her rich purple warm solution soak the seeds for 20 minutes.
4. Flushing. After removing the potassium permanganate from the solution, rinse the seeds with warm water until the water becomes clear. After 20 minutes of being in a disinfectant solution, the seeds will turn dark brown, but potassium permanganate will not have time to penetrate inside and kill the embryo, but will only create a protective shell that prevents the penetration of microbes to the embryo.
5. Warming up. This stage will contribute to good seed germination. Warm up the seeds at a temperature of + 40-45 ° C (no more and no less than the extremes!). It is best to do this in a thermos or in a slow cooker on low mode. The second way is to place the seeds in a container under the lid, and then put it on the heater, but in this case it will be difficult to control the temperature. Seeds should warm up for at least 2 hours.
6. Stimulation. This final preparatory stage designed to enhance the energy of germination. In order to stimulate germination, pepper seeds are soaked again, but already in a nutrient solution. Any growth stimulant (for example, epin, which is sold in specialized stores), aloe juice, ash in combination with boric acid, and trace elements can act as a stimulant. In extreme cases, leave the seeds for a day in a warm place on a saucer in a wet cloth. Note! Here it is important to ensure that all the moisture does not go away; if the seeds dry out, they will not sprout at all.

Preparing the substrate for the greenhouse

Good, strong healthy seedling pepper will only grow on fertile soil, therefore, treat the preparation of the substrate with special care.

garden or garden soil is of little use for this purpose, especially if it is heavy, clayey and acidic. There are a lot of recipes for preparing soil mixtures.

So, for example, it is good to use a mixture that consists of the following components:

• humus - 3 parts;
• sod land or peat - 3 parts;
• medium-grained sand - 1 part.

Add another glass of wood ash to a bucket of this substrate.

Some gardeners, especially beginners, purchase special soil in stores to avoid possible risks. In this case, the risk of developing diseases of pepper seedlings is minimized.

Sowing pepper seeds for seedlings under a film

To grow pepper in stationary glass greenhouses, it is necessary to sow seeds in early March. In mobile film greenhouses, sowing begins only after March 15th.

Prepare before sowing seedling soil. It is necessary to prepare the soil for seedlings at least 2 weeks before sowing seeds. And it is necessary to disinfect each element of the soil mixture.

The soil for seedlings should be of the following composition:

• garden land;
• black peat;
• pressed peat;
• mineral fertilizer;
• wood ash;
• manure or compost.

There are several nuances that a gardener needs to know:

1. Land cannot be taken from the garden where potatoes or tomatoes grew in the previous season.
2. The humus should be sufficiently mature (black, loose, smells like earth, not rot).
3. The presence of wood ash and fertilizers is a must.

Important! Do not sow pepper seeds in ready-made peat from the store.

Seedling containers

Capacity requirements for growing pepper seedlings are not very high.

Allowed to use:

• plastic or wooden boxes;
• packages from dairy or juice products;
• plastic or clay pots;
• cups of yogurt or sour cream;
• shoe boxes, etc.

Important! All containers must have holes in the bottom. Agloporite or moss of medium fraction is placed on the holes, then a layer of soil is poured.

Sowing

Fill the containers almost to the top with nutrient soil. For final disinfection, pour the earth with a weak solution (pinkish) of potassium permanganate. At a distance of 3 cm in a pot or box, make mini-holes the size of the phalanx of the index finger.

Do not water the soil again. Place the germinated seeds in a hole to a depth of 1.5 cm, sprinkle with dry soil and place in trays with water in a bright and warm place. Place a label with the name of the variety next to each variety.

There is a week left before the appearance of friendly shoots. The air temperature should be within +24 °С - +26 °С. It is in this temperature range with moderate humidity that the first seedlings of pepper will hatch the fastest.

How to care for seedlings?

After a week, when friendly shoots appear, you can transfer the seedlings to another, cooler room. The subsequent maintenance of seedlings for 2 weeks should occur at a temperature of +16 ° C - 18 ° C.

Note! The maximum time for the appearance of pepper sprouts is 12 days. If during this time the seedlings did not appear, nothing will come of it. You can safely sow something else in the boxes.

Lighting

March seedlings must be highlighted. LED bulbs, phytolamps, springs daylight- use any lighting that does not harm the plants.

Only emerging shoots are illuminated around the clock. Weekly sprouts - three times a day. After another week, leave the backlight only for 6 hours daily, for 4 hours in the morning and 2 hours in the evening.

Watering

The first week the sprouts do not need watering. If the soil dries out, it is enough to sprinkle only the top layer with water. Further watering is carried out every 3 days with warm settled water.

picking

Peppers are afraid of picking, so this is not recommended. Let them grow quietly in a cup or in a box, form a strong root ball until landing in the greenhouse.

top dressing

Every second watering is carried out with water with ash dissolved in it. It is advisable to feed the seedlings with liquid mineral fertilizer, bird droppings or mullein. Breed bird droppings in hot water in a ratio of 1:20, mullein - in a ratio of 1:10. Mineral complex fertilizer(1 teaspoon of dry granules or powder) is diluted in 5 liters of water.

hardening

2 weeks before landing greenhouse soil carry out the procedure of hardening seedlings. To this end, first open a window in the room for 2-3 hours during the day, then gradually increase the intervals for receiving air baths up to the removal of the boxes into the air.

Transplant to the ground

Plant in a permanent place plants 25-30 cm in height, with 12-14 leaves, thick stem, in the stage of formation of the first ovary.

The daily temperature should be at the level of + 15-18 ° С.

Seedlings are best planted in the evening, after the heat subsides, for better acclimatization. At night temperatures young plant easier to get used to. Introduce peat and humus into the soil in advance, dig a shovel onto a bayonet, level the ground. Pour 1 tablespoon into each well. mineral fertilizer. Transfer seedlings without violating the integrity of the earthen coma.

When transplanting into the soil of the greenhouse, deepen the plants down to the cotyledon leaves and pinch the central root. Water abundantly, mulch with peat or loose earth.

Note! To avoid the growth of green mass, do not abuse nitrogen fertilizers. If you notice this trend, lower the air temperature, reduce watering.

Further care

The main principles of aftercare:

• timely watering;
• garter;
• weeding;
• top dressing.

After planting, water the peppers every 2-3 days under the root, spending up to 2 liters of water per bush. In hot weather, water the plants daily. During harvest, water in the morning and evening every 5-6 days.

During the season, apply 3-4 dressings with chicken manure (1:10) and mineral fertilizers.

In hot and at the same time humid weather, cut off the lateral lower shoots. But in a drought, it is better to refrain from this procedure: the leaf mass will retain moisture in the soil.

Every 10 days, plants are pruned: remove excess branches inside the crown and shorten the longest shoots.

To attract pollinating insects, you can spray the flowers with a sugar solution or hang jars of honey around the plants.

An important part of care is the careful loosening of the soil and mulching with rotten hay. This will reduce the frequency of watering to 1 time in 10 days. Loosen the soil should be shallow, up to 10 cm, after rain or watering. Hilling is carried out during the flowering period, and then the plants are tied up.

Harvest the fruits immediately after ripening to stimulate the emergence of a new crop.

Protect from pests by treating the bush with wood ash (a glass of ash - in a bucket of water). A tincture of garlic, tansy, wormwood and yarrow does a good job with aphids and spider mites.

Pepper, as you can see, is a capricious but grateful culture. If the care is correct, then the harvest will be rich.