Top dressing of peppers: how, when and how to feed peppers in a greenhouse

Pepper is a very thermophilic plant that reacts very sharply to temperature changes and any slightest changes in the external environment. Pepper does not tolerate cold, so the best way to get a larger crop, and more ripe and large is to plant seedlings in a greenhouse. After planting, watering and feeding the pepper is very important. For feeding, it is very important to comply with the terms of its introduction. What exactly and when to add depends on the age of the pepper.

Top dressing of pepper at planting

At the very beginning, the pepper is tedious to add nitrogen so that it grows faster and its leaves develop better.

The very first feeding of pepper seedlings receive during planting in a greenhouse. Indeed, before planting seedlings, the land for it is prepared in advance. During the preparation of the site, it is recommended to apply several types of fertilizer to the ground. The earth needs potassium sulfate, humus, superphosphate and wood ash. To feed the pepper in the greenhouse, you can use not only folk remedies, you can also use ready-made mixtures, these fertilizers already have all the necessary elements that are properly balanced. But you need to choose these fertilizers carefully, because not all fertilizers presented in the store are suitable for feeding peppers. You also need to carefully look so that there is no chlorine in the composition of your fertilizer, because pepper is a picky plant, and it does not tolerate it very well.

The yield of pepper directly depends on the quality and quantity of dressings applied. With poor fertilization, the crop will be poor, small and not tasty. When applying top dressing, be sure to follow simple rules. After all, how well the top dressing is made is externally visible immediately. If everything is done correctly, then the bush becomes brighter and thicker, new leaves begin to form, but if you did something wrong, the plant will grow dull, there will be no new leaves, and the old ones may begin to fall off.

Pepper feeding: rules

It is best to feed the pepper every two weeks with organic or mineral fertilizers, which must be diluted with warm water. Top dressing of seedlings should take place strictly after watering. And after you feed the plant, the soil must be loosened, only carefully, because the roots of the pepper are very close to the surface of the earth. Top dressing should always be different, alternate between them. In no case should you apply several fertilizers at once. In the very first feeding, nitrogen must be present, but it is imperative to monitor its amount. If there is too much nitrogen in the ground, then the plant will certainly develop well, it will be lush and beautiful, but in this case, you should not hope for a large harvest, because the ovaries simply will not form. Then, for a larger number of ovaries, potassium must be added to the ground.

But phosphorus needs to be added constantly, from the moment the pepper is planted in the greenhouse, and before the fruits of the pepper begin to sing. Phosphorus is required by the roots for better root development.

When to produce it

In order for the top dressing to give the pepper as much benefit as possible, it must be applied correctly. Any mineral preparations must be dissolved only in warm water. If there is not enough fertilizer for the pepper, then it will grow poorly. Therefore, you need to make feeding into it throughout the season. But this must be done carefully so that the soil is not oversaturated. In the pepper crop, a lot depends on the amount of fertilizer applied.if you originally fertilized the soil in spring with organic fertilizers, and in the spring before planting you added mineral fertilizers to the lenoks, then the pepper will grow very quickly, and during the season it will need to be fed less often and in smaller quantities. Regularity is the most important thing for feeding peppers in a greenhouse. And also correctness during fertilization. If they are applied too often, then instead of benefiting the plant, you can harm it. Therefore, for plants in the greenhouse, fertilizers are applied no more than once a week, and it is possible to apply even less.

The peppers begin to feed two weeks after planting. Moreover, a prerequisite is that they are planted already in fertilized soil. At this time, the pepper already has time to take root, and is already gaining color, therefore, in order to increase the flowering rate and the number of flowers. It needs to be fed at this particular time. The most optimal fertilizer at this time is humus or bird droppings, but before feeding it must be diluted with warm water in a ratio of 1:10. You can also use a mineral fertilizer, such as superphosphate or ammonium nitrate, as well as potassium at this time. In the second top dressing after mineral fertilization, nitrogen-containing substances must be added. And if the stems and leaves of the pepper become too green, then in order to create a balance of substances, you need to dilute potassium sulfate in warm water, superphosphate with them and water the plant with it. For the third time, feeding is introduced after the first fruits have been removed, and they are preparing for the second wave of fruits. At this time, only organic fertilizers are used for fertilization. Additional, extraordinary dressings are made depending on the state of their plants. If the pepper does not bloom well, or it does not want to bloom at all, it means that there is too much nitrogen in the soil, in which case the pepper is best treated with this solution: 1 tsp. potassium sulfate, 1 tbsp. superphosphate diluted in 10 liters of water. And if the seedlings do not have enough potassium, then the leaves begin to curl. If there is too little phosphorus in the ground, then the leaves take on a purple hue.

Folk remedies

Pepper seedlings in the seedbed and a garden shovel the granules fertilizer lying on the ground top view

Top dressing for peppers can be either root or foliar, which enters the plants through the leaves. When feeding peppers, folk remedies are often used: chicken droppings or mullein, but in its pure form it is by no means possible to use it, it is imperative to dilute it with water in a proportion of not less than 1:10.

Herbal infusions also do an excellent job with feeding. For 100 liters of water, 7 kg of weeds, a glass of ash and a bucket of mullein are taken, all this is insisted for a week, and then pepper is poured, 1 liter per bush.

Wood ash gives peppers a lot of potassium and phosphorus, and you can either just sprinkle it on the plants, or dilute 100 grams of ash in 10 liters of water and water or peppers, one liter for each bush.

Fertilizer from eggshells - for this, they take the shell of 3-4 eggs and insist with 3 liters of water, putting them in a dark place for 3-4 days. Then the seedlings are watered with this solution. This is especially useful for young seedlings and newly transplanted seedlings.

Herbal tincture - This infusion is very useful for increasing the yield. For him, they take chopped leaves of plantain, dandelion, coltsfoot, nettle and woodlice. All these herbs are poured with warm water at a ratio of 1: 5 and insisted in a dark place. Then 1 liter of tincture is poured onto one pepper bush.

Ash is also a very popular and useful product. It is enough to pour one handful into each hole of pepper, and this is especially useful when transplanting pepper.

Yeast is also very useful and absolutely harmless. 1 kg of dry yeast is poured with 5 liters of water, and placed in a dark, warm place for 12 hours. After that, several

tablespoons of ash and pour pepper with this solution. You should not use yeast without ash, as it leaches potassium from the soil, and ash will normalize the balance.

Banana Peel - Take the crushed peel of several bananas and infuse in a bucket of water for three days. This solution is used for watering, since it contains a lot of potassium, which is necessary for the pepper during growth.

Humus and bird droppings - this fertilizer is very useful during flowering, but if used in its pure form, the plant can be burned, so it must be diluted with water in a ratio of 1:10 and used for watering. But you need to choose one thing, either humus or litter, because you cannot combine them together.

Iodine is also a useful fertilizer, but the main thing is not to overdo it, 2 drops of iodine are dripped per 1 liter of water, no more, and 100 ml of milk whey, this solution is used for irrigation.

Pepper feeding: mineral preparations

If you do not want to deal with folk remedies, or you just don’t have time for this, then you can buy complex mineral fertilizers, dilute them according to the instructions and water the plants. Very useful drugs such as: "Agricola", "Uniflor-growth", "Gomelskoe", "Nitroammofoska", "Ideal", "Kemira-Lux", "Aquadon-micro", "Orton-Fe". All these dressings give the plant in a complex all the nutrients. With the help of them, the pepper grows quickly, the bushes are lush, disease resistant and gives a large harvest. But you need to choose the fertilizer carefully, based on your needs and the condition of the soil.

For pepper, only root dressings are always used, because pepper cannot be sprayed, it is harmful for him. You should always water the pepper only with warm water, there should always be a lot of sun for the pepper, this also gives the plant vitamins. If the pepper is missing something, watering or fertilizing, this is noticeable immediately, according to the condition of the seedling and this must be corrected immediately.