Bulgarian pepper is tasty and healthy, everybody knows it.
Every self-respecting gardener plant this vegetable in greenhouses.
He does not require particularly careful care in a permanent place, the main thing is to plant the Bulgarian pepper for seedlings in time.
The subject of today's article is Bulgarian pepper: when planting on seedlings, how to plant sweet pepper on seedlings.
When to plant sweet pepper for seedlings?
In greenhouse conditions, it is planted in early May, when the time of frosts and cold weather passes. By this time, the plants should be mature, blooming. The seedling age should be more than 2 months, so you need to spend planting sweet pepper seedlings in February. At a later planting, the fruits simply do not have time to grow and ripen.
Attention! If a later seed is planted, seedlings should be illuminated with fluorescent lamps about 12 hours a day.
Important! It is not necessary to plant too soon, otherwise there will be no good harvest. The best option is the second half of February..
If, after all, the planting is done ahead of time - prepare good greenhouse conditions to plant the pepper in the ground in April.
In the north, northwest and central part of the Russian Federation, these vegetables are planted only through seedlings. Often use early ripe varieties.
In Ukraine and the southern regions of the Russian Federation, seeds for seedlings are planted in late January or immediately into the greenhouse in early April.
Moon calendar
Many gardeners are based on the lunar calendar when planting crops.
The best time to land is to the growing moon. Many use the refinement - the growing moon should be in the sign of Scorpio, Aries and Sagittarius.
Further care is the same according to the lunar calendar - watering, picking, planting in the greenhouse.
Sowing sweet pepper on seedlings
Here we will talk about how to plant Bulgarian pepper seeds?
Sowing seeds of sweet pepper for seedlings. Seeds must be prepared for landing. Some germinate seeds in wet material, but you can do without it. Read more about preparing seeds for sowing.
Land for planting is better to buy in specialized stores, packaging already contains all the necessary components in the right proportions.
If you use the land from the site, it must be disinfected (solution of potassium permanganate) and steamed in the oven. Then the soil should be fertilized (ash, potassium sulfate and liquid sodium humate).
How to plant bell pepper on seedlings? Better to put the peppers in separate containers right away. with a diameter of about 5-6 cm. So you avoid picks and initially strengthen the root system of plants.
There is an opinion that when peeping, peppers lose special hairs with which they absorb nutrients.
If planted in a common container, then distance between shoots should be more than 2 cm.
Depth of landing - about 3-4 cm. It is better to pour the top layer of earth with warm water, sow the seedlings and sprinkle it on the ground with a layer of 3-4 cm. So the soil will be more air-saturated.
Then it is necessary to cover the crops with polyethylene for the formation of the desired moisture, during germination - open.
It is better to put the seedlings on the south side, in a bright place, the optimum temperature for the shoot should be about 25 degrees. then it can be reduced to 20. With a slight increase in temperature it is necessary to increase again.
Water as the soil dries. Initially - once a week, otherwise the appearance of disease is likely (“black leg”), then watering is carried out more often.
Picks are carried out when a well-developed two leaflets appear. A few hours before picking the plants need to be watered well.
Then you can feed once every 5 days. For this use a mixture of urea and nitrate (1 tbsp. spoon) in a bucket of water. Many use a glass of mullein on a bucket.
One month before planting in the greenhouse, the hardening of the plants is carried out. - open the window or carry out to the veranda or balcony.
After a period of 60 to 80 days and with good flowering plants should be transplanted into a greenhouse. The plants must be formed 10 sheets.
The soil in the greenhouse must also be decontaminated and heated.
Properly grown seedlings - the key to a good harvest. All efforts will not be in vain. We told how to sow sweet pepper on the seedlings, led the rules for sowing the Bulgarian pepper to seedlings, planting dates.
Useful materials
Read other articles on pepper seedlings:
- Proper cultivation of seeds and whether to soak them before sowing?
- How to grow black pepper peas, chili, bitter or sweet at home?
- What are growth promoters and how to use them?
- The main reasons why the leaves are twisted at the shoots, the seedlings fall or are pulled out, and also why the shoots die?
- Terms of planting in the regions of Russia and especially the cultivation in the Urals, in Siberia and the Moscow region.
- Learn yeast based fertilizer recipes.
- Learn the rules for planting hot peppers.
