Planting and growing seedlings of Bulgarian pepper at home. Preparation of Bulgarian pepper seeds for sowing for seedlings, sowing, diving and planting seedlings in a greenhouse, greenhouse and soil

If you want to get a generous harvest of sweet pepper in the summer, learn to grow its seedlings at home.

If you have a cottage or garden, annually, at the end of winter or early spring, you plan that you will plant. Try to plant sweet pepper. If you follow all the rules for preparing for seed sowing and growing seedlings, you will have every chance of getting a rich crop.

Preparation of Bulgarian pepper seeds for sowing for seedlings

Important: it should be noted right away, the seeds of the Bulgarian pepper germinate for a long time, so take care of their sowing in February.

You can buy pepper seeds in packages by choosing one or more varieties. If you want to collect seeds with your own hand from the bush that was overlapped, do it like this:

• choose a bush where the fruits have no signs of hybridity
• place a few beautiful fruits, tied the twigs with them ribbons
• wait for the end of August - the beginning of September, when the fruits will bake slightly, collect them
• peppers must bear for 2-3 weeks
• get seeds from peppers, let them dry in a sunny place (not on the street) 1-2 days

Regardless of whether you will have your own sweet pepper or purchased seeds, they are carefully prepared before planting. Neither pass this stage in any case!

1. Lay out on a piece of paper or in a plate all the seeds you have. Review them, select the largest and most whole.
2. Take 1 liter of water, dilute in it 40 g of table salt. Lower the seeds into the solution. Those that surfaced are hollow. They are not suitable for you, just throw them away. Those that remain at the bottom, take out and dry on paper towels.
3. Seeds should be disinfected - it will make sure that the plant in the future does not get a fungus. Use fungicide (antifungal solution) or potassium permanganate. The easiest way: immediately before landing, prepare a potassium permanganate solution with a concentration of 1-2 percent, lower the pepper seeds you selected for 10-15 minutes. After the procedure, rinse them.

Go to soaking the seeds. If you want the sprouts to sprout as soon as possible, take responsibly to this process.

1. Prepare the water. Suitable from the crane. But it needs to be defended for 1-2 days. Better do not be lazy and freeze the water: pour the defended liquid into a glass or a half -liter jar, remove it into the freezer. After 1-1.5 hours, drain the water that did not freeze. The ice should be transferred to a new clean container. Wait until it melts, then use melt water to soak seeds. Some for this purpose are drowning, unfortunately, with today's ecology, this is a big risk.
2. Pour a small amount of melt water into a shallow plate, a bowl or a little lot. If you soak the seeds of several varieties, for each take a separate container.
3. You need cotton wheels, cuts of gauze or bandage, cuts of cotton fabric. They are folded several times and impregnated with water.
4. Pour the seeds of the bell pepper onto the wet fabric, only in one layer.
5. Wrap the container with soaked seeds with polyethylene, remove its warm place. The optimum temperature is plus 25 degrees.
6. Follow the seeds. As soon as they swell or germinate, it will come time to transplant them into the ground.

To harden the seeds before planting, place them in the refrigerator and withstand at a temperature of plus 5 degrees for about 5 days. After they will need to be planted.

To stimulate the germination of bell pepper seeds, soaked in a solution of substances:

• Novosil
• Silk
• Zircon
• Energy
• Epin - Extra

Important: instead of soaking, you can carry out a barbotics procedure for seeds, that is, treat them with oxygen. You will need a container, two -thirds filled with water, and a compressor from the aquarium. The seeds are poured into the water, the compressor tip is lowered into the container, the seeds are treated with oxygen 24-26 hours, and then dried and planted.

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When and how to sow sweet Bulgarian pepper for seedlings? The depth of planting pepper seeds for seedlings

Ideally, you need to sow bell pepper for seedlings in February. Obviously, not in open ground. To achieve good germination, you will need to keep pots with seedlings at a temperature of at least 17 degrees and sufficient humidity.

Such conditions can be achieved by planting seeds in a greenhouse with good lighting or at home. Here are a few secrets of sowing:

1. You can plant the seeds of Bulgarian pepper on peat pills, and then transplant in pots.
2. To miss this stage, immediately prepare the soil from 2 parts of the nutrient peat mixture and 1 part of the turf, or another suitable for seedlings of Bulgarian pepper.
3. Many plant sprouted pepper seeds in plastic cups. Know that this dishes are not enough for the normal development of the root system of bushes. Three seeds in plastic buckets or flower pots with a volume of 0.5 - 1 l. Hold the distance between the seeds 2-3 cm.
   It is better to plant the seeds of Bulgarian pepper immediately in different dishes. Of course, you can sow them in common, and then dive. But the plant tolerates the dive weakly, can die or slow down for several weeks.

Important: sweet pepper seeds are planted to a depth of 4-5 cm, since as they grow, they will not go deeper anymore.

They sow the seeds in this way: moisturized soil tamped. On top of it at a distance of 2-3 cm from each other, treated Bulgarian pepper seeds are laid out, they are filled with a layer of soil at 4-5 cm on top.

Important: sowed pepper seeds germinate on 5-7 days, three real leaves on seedlings appear in about a month.

Preparation of soil for peppers seedlings

The optimal characteristics of the soil for pepper seedlings are:

• acidity 6.0 - 7.0
• friability
• sufficient humidity

You can sow seeds in finished soil, which is sold in stores of goods for the garden and garden. Or prepare one of the suitable mixtures from the table in the figure.

Important: the seedlings of pepper are fed a little later.

How to distinguish seedlings of bitter pepper from sweets?

Sweet "Bulgarian" pepper and bitter "light" in no case should be planted nearby. The minimum distance between the bushes of these plants should be 30 cm. Otherwise, during flowering, they will be overlapped, and you will not wait for the harvest of sweet pepper.
You can confuse if you buy a seedling from an unfamiliar and not too conscientious buyer who masks one species for another, or you yourself sowed both species and forgot to sign pots with sprouts.

The differences between the seedlings of sweet and bitter pepper are very difficult to notice, especially when the seedling is still very young. But they are:

• gorky pepper leaflets a little darker
• gorky pepper stems are more elegant, thin
• gorky pepper leaves than sweet, their ends are pointed

If the sprouts could not be distinguished, you can plant them nearby, and then transplanted bitter pepper when the differences become obvious.

How to water the seedlings of peppers?

The soil under the seedlings of sweet pepper should be wet, but not too much. Both drying and waterlogging are fatal for sprouts. Follow these rules:

• water sown seeds and young sprouts after 2-3 days
• in a month, when the leaves are formed, water seedlings every day
• water watering at room temperature at 20-25 degrees

Do I need to pinch the seedlings of pepper?

If you want to get a rich harvest of sweet pepper from each bush, it is necessary to carry out the procedure for removing the growth point, which is called “pinching”. Her goals:

• stimulation of the development of the root system for better power plants with water and useful substances
• stimulation of the growth of stepsons from sleeping kidneys, due to which more flowers are tied and, accordingly, ripens more fruits

When the seedlings of pepper will confidently grow up, the internodes will paint on it, do the following:

• prepare the scissors
• mark the often escape, which is above 4-6 internodes
• cut it with scissors

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Minimum temperature for pepper seedlings

An ideal temperature for pepper seedlings is + 25 - +27 degrees. It is necessary to make maximum efforts so that it does not fall below + 14 degrees.

The planting of the seedlings of Bulgarian pepper in a greenhouse or greenhouse

When there are more than 12 leaflets on the bushes of pepper, the kidneys will begin to develop, you can plant them in a greenhouse or greenhouse. As a rule, from the moment of sowing seeds until the seedlings of seedlings in the ground passes two months.

Important: the soil temperature, favorable for planting seedlings of Bulgarian pepper, is + 15 degrees and above. If your greenhouse does not heat up, keep in mind.

1. In the soil in the greenhouse or greenhouse where the pepper will be planted, phosphorus or potassium (40 g per square meter), as well as nitrogen (30 g per square meter) fertilizer, are added.
2. The beds for pepper have a width of 1 m, gaps between rows - 0.5 meters.
3. The bushes are planted at a distance of 15-30 cm from each other, depending on the variety of pepper.
4. The holes into which the bushes go are pre -watered .. Poliv should be abundant 2 liters of water in each hole.
5. The soil under planted pepper bushes is well trimmed with their hands.
6. Pepper seedlings planted in a greenhouse or greenhouse must be mulched with humus and peat.

How to dive correctly peppers?

If you still planted pepper seeds in one large box, 2-3 weeks after the appearance of the sprouts you will have to dive, that is, transplant each plant into a separate bucket or pot. Keep in mind that pepper does not tolerate the dive. Guided by step -by -step instructions:

1. Prepare pots or plastic buckets for each sprout. Fill them suitable for pepper with soil.
2. A couple of hours before diving, watering seedlings so that it is easier for you to get plants from the soil.
3. Gently remove the seedling from the soil, cut the root by a third below.
4. In an individual pot or bucket, moisturize the soil, smooth it. In the center, make a recess 1.5 - 2 cm deeper than the seedling grew in a common box.
5. Place the seedling in a recess and sprinkle with earth.
6. Seal the soil.

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Pepper seedlings bloomed before planting on the ground: what to do?

If flowers appeared on the seedlings of sweet pepper immediately before their transfer to the ground, nothing is done with them.
If the pepper is still far away so that the ovaries do not slow down the growth of the plant and not take the strength from it, the flowers are cut off.

How to plant pepper in open ground with seedlings?

Peppers are transplanted into open ground at the end of May, when the last frosts pass. A favorable average daily air temperature is + 15 degrees, the soil temperature is + 10 degrees.

1. The day before the transplantation, the seedlings are plentifully.
2. To plant pepper, select a well -lit, well -drained, protected area. Pre -clean it from weeds.
3. Plant pepper where last year, melons, root crops, legumes or herbs grew last year. For two consecutive years in the same site, it is impossible to plant sweet pepper.
4. Plant pepper in the afternoon or in the late afternoon.
5. Mark the beds according to the scheme below in the figure.
6. Make holes in the ground that will be a little deeper than dishes where pepper seedlings were grown.
7. Pour the compost (handful), ash (half a handful), superphosphate (1 teaspoon) in each hole. Pour the holes with water.
8. Move the bush of pepper to the hole, pour in the ground. Use peat as mulch.
9. Near each bush, drive a half -meter peg for garter.

Pepper on the ground will come to life and begin to grow after 1 - 1.5 weeks, when its root system will recover.

Pepper seedlings on toilet paper

Surprisingly, the gardeners learned to germinate the seeds of pepper without earth, on toilet paper. The method is very interesting, you can try it. Prepare:

• seeds of the pepper variety you need
• thin polyethylene
• rolon toilet paper
• scissors
• disposable plastic cups

1. Polyethylene will play the role of a greenhouse. Cut it with strips with a width like toilet paper.
2. Put on the table polyethylene. Turn the toilet paper on it, sprinkle it with water.
3. Lay out pepper seeds on the toilet paper. The distance between them is 1.5-2 cm.
4. Cover the seeds with another layer of moisturized toilet paper, and then another layer of polyethylene.
5. Twist all the layers in a roll, place it in a plastic cup, a quarter filled with water.
6. Place the glass in a plastic bag, put it in a bright place.
7. When the sprouts break from the seeds, transfer them to separate pots.

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