Pepper - the culture that demands competent care.
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irrigation organization
On the environmental properties of vegetable demanding to light, heat and moisture. It needs to be put on a well-lit areas, and during the growing season to organize frequent, but moderate watering. Water for irrigation should be used only warm. Lack of moisture causes the bitter fruit. 1 Water the culture time of 4-5 days is not more than 1 liter per well, since the abundance of moisture may cause apical rot. If watering is irregular, it will lead to Verticillium wilt.
Frequent watering is compacted soil, to provide breathability, it is necessary to loosen after each watering. But it should be no deeper than 7-8 cm, so that the root system of peppers is a feature which is that the lateral roots are close to the surface. For this reason, better to remove weeds by hand. Mulching beds will reduce their activity and retain moisture. As the mulch you can use cutting straw or dry grass, but without the seeds. Laid it around the plant a dense, but breathable layer.
At a temperature above + 34 ° C peppers feel uncomfortable. They begin to curl up leaves and dry out the fruit. Under such conditions, the beds need to pritenyat.
If the vegetative parts of the plants have a pale green color, it means that the peppers are suffering from malnutrition. They need to feed.
What to feed pepper
Vegetable does not like fresh manure, therefore, advisable to enrich the soil use compost.
To get the pepper abundant fruiting can be, regularly feeding it. A good effect is the use of complex mineral fertilizers in combination with organic matter. The most popular chemical is nitrophoska. The working solution is prepared in a ratio of 30 g to 10 liters of water.
Thereto was added 1 l of a stock solution mullein. It is prepared in a proportion of 2 parts fresh manure to 8-10 parts water, insist day, filtered and added to the working solution at 1 liter per bucket.
The solution can be replaced mullein green dressing infusion of nettle or dandelion. To do this, a bucket of chopped green mass pour 7 buckets of warm water and fermented week. Filtered infusion was added to 1 liter bucket nitrophosphate solution and conduct dressing of 1 l in each well.
This introduction made during the active budding and repeated after 2 weeks. In the intervals therebetween can be fed herbal extract peppers simply by dissolving 1 l of warm water in a bucket.
Under such conditions, flowering takes place actively, the ovaries do not fall down. Harvested in the state of technical maturity. Better fruit cut shears or scissors, not to hurt the plants. The more often collect them, the more active is growing a new crop.
General tips
Good harvest produce hybrids. By themselves, they are more resistant to temperature and humidity extremes, rarely affects the disease, is also more responsive to fertilization. But with hybrid plants are not worth collecting seeds for subsequent reproduction.
During the growing season in this vegetable from 4-5 months or more. When warm autumn it can bear fruit until October, but to open a "second wind" sweet pepper, it is necessary after the mass harvest (end of July - August) to resume feeding in the same mode. Usually, at this time the amount of precipitation decreases, so watering should be regular.
Frosts are harmful to pepper so when the threat of fruit to collect. If a small plantation, the tops can be pulled out by the roots and hang in a secure location. There's the fruits ripen.
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