Homemade "pepper"

Pepper is considered a very whimsical and very thermophilic plant compared to tomatoes. This crop is usually grown in greenhouses, but if you have a warm or hot summer, then you can plant it on open soil, but not earlier than early June. Vegetation up to about 90 days.

How to prepare seeds correctly

Pepper seeds must be soaked for a couple of days, while replacing the water. Next, you need to hold them in a solution of potassium permanganate for about twenty minutes and germinate like tomatoes. Then we plant the germinated seeds in a container at a distance of about two centimeters from each other and after sowing all the seeds, cover the container with plastic wrap.

Seeds are usually sown before February 20th, and seedlings are planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse until May 10th.

Growing seedlings:

A month and a half after the sprouts of pepper plants have appeared, it is necessary to cut each bush into cups, each seedling must have at least two leaves.

Follow the planting rules, you do not need to deepen the stem to the very leaves, as is done with a tomato, you need to plant them at the same level as they were. Peppers do not tolerate soil without moisture, so you need to water it often and a lot, and if you don't constantly moisten it, then it can get sick with you.

This culture refers to crops of a short day, that is, half a day before budding. As soon as budding has begun, it is necessary to increase daylight hours. Do not let the temperature drop where the seedlings are located. The advantage of peppers is that it can tolerate frosts in the later stages.

If your seedling bushes have at least 8 leaves on the stem, then this means that the plant is ready to move to a new place of residence in the ground. If, when planting, the first flowers appear in the peppers, then they must be pinched off. Peppers are planted from cups together with the soil in which they grew. In no case, do not put fresh humus under the pepper seedlings.

As soon as you have planted the pepper in the greenhouse, then water it well there so that the roots go deeper, then you will not be afraid to touch the roots when loosening the soil, but if the roots still grow near the soil surface, then instead of loosening, pour on top still land with manure and peat, in a ratio of one to one.

How to clean and store peppers:

The fruits of the peppers must be harvested when the thermometer shows a mark below eight degrees. Ripe fruits are usually stored at temperatures up to two degrees for two months, if the fruits are not ripe, then they must be stored at temperatures up to 12 degrees.

They are placed in a box in layers together with paper or sawdust, alternating layers and thus stored. Some are also stored in plastic bags, the capacity of which is up to ten kilograms, and the size of the bag is fifty to one hundred centimeters.

Seedlings are fed twice. The first time they feed is when the seedlings have two or three leaves.
And the second time they feed them two weeks after diving into cups.

It will also need to be fed during flowering and during fruiting. It is necessary to feed only in wet soil, water the garden in about two days and then feed it.

It is also necessary to add wood ash one or two glasses per square meter. It is necessary to feed and water the peppers in the morning, this will prevent the appearance of a black leg.