Growing hot peppers on a windowsill

Growing Hot Peppers at home is not such a difficult matter. The “Little Miracle” hot pepper was bred in Holland and has long since taken root here in Russia. This plant is compact and characterized by active fruiting, due to which bushes with peppers of different colors also have a decorative function.

Content:

• Application
• Growing fruits for winter
• Method for obtaining fruits by May
• On a note

Application

The fruits of this pepper can be used both in cooking and for medicinal purposes. Ripe fruits can be infused with alcohol, and this infusion can be used for rheumatism, radiculitis, and lower back pain.

Growing fruits for winter

There are certain rules for growing hot peppers at home.

Sowing seeds It is better to produce in February. To do this, you need about a two-liter clean container, which should be treated with boiling water. Place drainage in the form of expanded clay at the bottom of the pot, but crushed stone or charcoal will also work. On top of the drainage we fill the soil consisting of humus, leaf soil and sand in a ratio of 5:3:2. Before planting seeds, the soil should be poured with boiling water and after it has cooled, sow 2-3 pepper seeds, pre-soaked and already swollen, into small holes 1-1.5 cm in diameter.

Cover the pot with planted grains with polyethylene or glass and place in a warm place. When sprouts appear after 5-7 days, move the pot to a sunny place in the window.When the first true leaves appear, the peppers can be picked into separate pots, or it is better to remove the excess ones so as not to disturb the roots.

When the plant grows to 20 cm, pinch the crown. This is necessary for better branching of the bush, in which fruits will form.

Don’t forget to water the plant regularly and periodically feed your pet with fertilizers, then you will definitely see a harvest on your windowsill.

Method for obtaining fruits by May

Observing the development of homemade pepper, lovers from the Ivanovo region came to the interesting conclusion that in our northern conditions it is possible to change the timing of the ripening of pepper on the windowsill. They use spring days filled with bright sunlight to flower and ripen fruits.

Peppers are sown in autumn in bowls on the windowsill. They create not very comfortable conditions for the pepper, so that it does not have time to pick flowers before the New Year, so that it does not exhaust its strength for growth in the darkest “dead” days. This saves the plant from pulling out its shoots. At the moment when the days begin to arrive, the pepper is transferred to a bright window (east or south). The plant soon blooms and bears an average of 10 beautiful pods. Yes, the fruits are such heroes that have never happened in the fall.

And immediately after the harvest is harvested, the plant throws out a couple more vigorous shoots and blooms a second time. By the second half of September, another harvest ripens, and out of 20 pods, only three were small. Thus, about 30 pods are harvested from one bush per season, almost 5 times higher than the average yield!

The main secret of a high yield is that by the time of the very first flowering (in early February), peppers from the autumn sowing period have time to develop good, powerful roots.Starting from March and ending at the beginning of October, that is, during a period of abundant sunshine, pepper actively sets fruit and uses its strength to fill them.

You don’t have to throw away a plant that bears fruit in the fall, but let it go before winter. In winter, at the beginning of January, it must be transplanted into a new substrate, cut off the old shoots by half, then move the pot to a bright window (east or south). Such care can bring up to three harvests per season.

On a note

When planting peppers, it is still better not to dive, since they react painfully to transplantation. And they treat transshipment well. When the shoots disperse, simply pinch off the extra weak shoots. Another important point - do not miss the time when the roots begin to crowd in the pot and grow out.

For seedlings, of course, peat pots are best suited. For normal growth, peppers are transferred to spacious containers and pots 30-50 cm high. Be sure to place drainage (a layer of expanded clay, broken brick) at the bottom of the planting containers.

Sometimes props are placed to support ripening fruits, and the bushes are sprayed with warm, settled water to remove spider mites.

To get a good harvest, it is recommended to grow peppers in two trunks, constantly shaping them by pinching them. A strong shoot is left on each stem, and the weak ones are pinched off above the first leaf. Although peppers are self-pollinating, like tomatoes, it is better to shake the plants periodically so that pollination is more effective.

Pepper is a perennial as well as cherry tomatoes, the bush can please you with a harvest for five whole years. In the same way you can grow on a windowsill and sweet bell pepper. Imagine what a pleasure it is to watch a ripe pod fill before your eyes when the weather outside is “non-flying”!