Growing hot peppers

Growing hot peppers is not much different from growing sweet peppers. It is better to grow hot pepper through seedlings, which should be planted 40-50 days after germination, when there are already six leaves and the plant height is about 15 cm. It is advisable to plant no more than five plants per square meter and immediately mulch the soil under them.

Optimal time for sowing seeds This is the period of February-March, and for those regions where already at the beginning of May the soil is warmed up to 15 degrees, you need to sow pepper seedlings in the period January-February. Before planting, it is better to disinfect seeds by soaking them in a weak solution of potassium permanganate.

Growing hot peppers It is better to carry out at a temperature of about 25 degrees, so that the seeds germinate and develop well; during the growing season, the optimal temperature for pepper during the day is up to 26 degrees and not lower than 18 degrees at night.

You can’t plant hot and sweet peppers side by side., such planting can lead to cross-pollination and changes in flavors in both types of peppers. After planting the seedlings, they need to be tied to pegs, since the pepper stems are very fragile. Peppers need to be watered and fed regularly.

At the beginning of the growing season, bitter pepper needs phosphorus and magnesium, and before ripening, bitter pepper needs to reduce nitrogen fertilizers and reduce watering.

Well-growing and flowering peppers need to be pinched – remove the flowers from the top of the bush, and when the height of the plant is 25 cm, you need to remove the crown of the main shoot so that the pepper branches well and grows quickly.The optimal number of fruits on one plant is about 25, the rest should be removed.

If the weather is hot and windless, then the bushes need to be pollinated artificially by shaking them slightly.