To maximize the amount of fruit to properly form pepper, starting from the formation thereon of the first fork. If you leave the bush to branch freely, it produced a lot of non-bearing shoots, which take away the sunlight from the neighboring, where they could be formed buds, and then ovary.
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Stage One - removing corona bud
There are slightly branched varieties of sweet peppers, which do not need further pruning. This undersized hybrids and varieties (FL, Gift Moldovan, Maxim F1, F1 Buratino et al.).
And undersized (40-60 cm), and high (up to 1 m) bushes pepper necessarily subjected to corona removal bud. So call the flower buds that appear on the top of the bush, when he reaches a height of 15-20 cm. After the appearance of the corona bud bush begins to branch: the sides of the flower develop 2 escape the first fork. If time does not remove the flower buds, the plant will send a maximum of nutrients for its development, and the rest of the branches of the crown will get a smaller amount of food.
Remove the crown bud need to manually break down it together with the stem, or cut with scissors. Sometimes, in the first fork appears 2-3 bud. In this case, you need to remove them all.
Step two - removing extra shoots
After the appearance of the second and the next fork spend pruning weak and non-bearing shoots. When main shoots (the first fork), flower buds appear, they are left for flowering and fruiting. Emerging fork clip as follows:
- selected stronger tillers;
- weak pinch out on the first flower buds;
- enable strong branching, leaving his crown flower (in the fork), and following on the ramifications.
Along the same lines continue topping the other fork, which builds up the whole season. Thus Kroon pepper bush 2 is formed in the barrel. If desired, you can leave an additional 1 strong escape, if bush strong enough for its development.
Step three - removal of sterile shoots and lower leaves
Throughout the growing season pepper bushes should be inspected every week. This will allow time to detect and remove the side shoots (suckers), which will appear from the axils of leaves below the first fork. These shoots are called barren.
Sterile shoots break out at the base. Making it desirable at low altitudes stepson to less injure the main stem of the bush.
Furthermore laterals, with bushes pepper removed and excess foliage. Begin pruning as fruit formation:
- when the flower bud at the second fork, you can start to clean up all the leaves below it, 2-3 pcs. 1-2 days;
- as the next flowering flowers continue to clean up the foliage beneath them;
- Bush can not be deprived of the leaves, which are located on the periphery of the crown, the trunk is exposed not more than 1/3 of the height from the ground.
Step Four - nipping skeletal branches
Skeletal branches - it shoots, which are formed with the growth of new forks and removal of the side shoots. For 1-1.5 months before the onset of frost or the end of the period of cultivation of pepper in the greenhouse need prischipnut points of growth in all available sprouts and forks.
In addition to this procedure, you have to constantly pick off the side shoots start to grow on each skeletal branches (sterile shoots).
conclusion
To get a good crop of peppers should not be allowed to build up extra bush green mass. The optimal amount of fruits that can reach technical maturity in the exhaust gas, is 15-20 pcs. 1 bush.
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