Planting peppers with fluff and other care tips (Mordovia)
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GROWING THICK-WALLED PEPPER - PLANTING AND CARE
Why does not all the summer residents "work" the fluff introduced into the holes with the planted seedlings? Perhaps the answer to the question is contained in this letter.
I really like to grow sweet thick-walled peppers. Perhaps this is due to the fact that as soon as I moved to live in the Middle Lane, I took up farming closely, and it was with this culture that I managed to find a common language literally the first time, although I had no practice of working in the beds.
After all, any advice gleaned helps me to better cope with work on the dacha economy.
For example, how to determine the shelf life of different varieties of apples? And according to the formula: x = (23y - 25): 30. In practice, everything looks like this. It is necessary to take three apples, select all the seeds from them, count them and divide by 3. This will be the number "y", and "x" is the number of months, 8 during which the fruit of this variety can be preserved. It would seem a trifle, but how many problems she helped me get rid of! Isn't it a miracle? I've learned a lot over the years. The information helped me to clearly and finally decide that the most important thing in growing healthy seedlings is the preparation of healthy, correct soil and high-quality seeds.
LANDING PEPPER FOR BEDS
So, I harvest the seed myself. In the fall, I take the healthiest large fruit, carefully clean the seeds out of it and dry them. And I do nothing more with them until the time of sowing comes. Then I immerse the seeds for 5 hours in a growth stimulant solution. I consider this preparatory procedure necessary to obtain good seedlings.
True, much depends on the period of "aging" of the seeds. For example, last year I decided to test this nuance in practice and sowed the remains of seeds of 2016, 2018 and 2019 on the same day and in the same soil. For the purity of the experiment, I bought another bag of orange pepper from the 2019 harvest.
Bottom line; my seeds of 2018 and 2019 all sprouted, 2016 - only three things, and only one of the purchased seeds sprouted.
Conclusion: you only need to use your own seed with a shelf life of no more than two to three years. As for the purchased one, you must immediately be prepared for the fact that it is like a roulette wheel: someone is lucky, but someone is not.
See also: Thick-walled pepper - varieties, planting and care
THE MAIN SECRETS OF GROWING PEPPER
For clarity, I will illustrate my story with a photo. In the photo, which shows four cups, in three of them, where one sprout is, these are the seeds of 2016, and in the last, with two sprouts, the seeds of 2018. In the photo, where there are two cups, with two sprouts - the seeds of 2019. And where one sprout is a purchased seed. As they say, draw your own conclusions. Another photo shows seedlings from the seeds of the 2019 harvest. Pay attention to their fused cotyledonous leaves. I watched the development of these plants with particular interest. And not in vain: they turned out to be more powerful than all the others, and the first real leaves appeared on them earlier. I wondered: what will be the fruits? And they turned out to be just gorgeous! In one of the photos, they are visible among the phacelia.
I feed the seedlings of peppers only by spraying them on the leaves with an EM liquid, which I also use to ferment kitchen waste. I mix the prepared solution from the concentrate with melt water in a ratio of 1 ml to 1 liter of water. I start spraying from the moment 5-6 true leaves appear. I carry out the procedure five times.
SEEDS OF PEPPER INTO OPEN GROUND ...
Before disembarking in open ground (i.e. in May, guided by the weather), I spill the earth well in cups. I make the holes in the garden a little wider due to the fact that I mix the earth in them around the circumference with fluff from the pillows. To prevent it from scattering, I moisten it a little with water. And one more nuance: to disinfect the harvested down, I keep it in the cold in winter. I may be asked why I place this "insulation" in the holes around the circumference?
And so that it does not interfere with the growth of the roots, because under them it is not in the holes.
For feeding into the pits, I still pour a handful of ash, which I also mix with the ground. Then I spill everything well with warm water, plant the seedlings and cover first with agrofibre, and on top of it with a film. I don’t open the peppers for seven days, and then it’s the weather. In the future, I feed the plants twice with potassium humate.
See also: Thick-walled peppers - varieties and cultivation
DARK PEPPER WITH YOUR OWN HANDS
I prepare a bed for peppers in the fall. After harvesting, I spill the earth with warm water, to which I add biofungicide {1-2 tbsp. l. 10 liters of water). In this case, the air temperature must be taken into account, because below 15 ° the biofungicide solution does not work. Once every three years, I saturate the soil with dolomite flour.
I also close up the fermented waste, and if there is not enough of it, I sprinkle the bed with double superphosphate. If I drop in chopped siderates (mustard, vetch, phacelia, marigolds, marigolds), then sprinkle fermented bran on top (I cook them myself from wheat bran and EO liquid), which I also close up later.
By the way, my marigolds grow all over the garden: both beautiful and useful. And I always bury the fermented waste in all free places, but in no case under the roots of vegetables and seedlings, since this mass in the initial stage (from one and a half to two weeks) has an increased acidity. Once I had the imprudence to bury it under the roots of cucumbers, and all the shoots died. It's good that I always grow more seedlings than needed, and that's how I was saved.
Reference by topic: Planting pepper with feathers - my reviews
© Author: Lyudmila LISINA. Insar. Mordovia
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