Growing pepper seedlings without picking
Planting peppers in seedlings is not an easy and time-consuming business. But it is possible to facilitate work by eliminating one of the processes. Growing pepper seedlings without picking is possible, and healthy seedlings can be obtained with a minimum investment of labor.
Growing pepper seedlings without picking
Preparatory activities
Pepper doesn't like stress. A dive injures him, damaging the delicate roots. In a non-dived plant, the root system is much more powerful and larger.
To grow peppers without picking, you need to perform several preparatory measures: prepare seeds and soil.
Seed preparation
To grow a healthy crop, seeds are carefully selected. You need to soak them for 1 hour in clean water (thawed or distilled). Transfer to a weak manganese solution for another 20 minutes.
Put the soaked seeds on a cloth soaked in honey and water (0.5 tsp. Honey and half a glass of water), wrap them in it. Leave in a warm place for 24 hours. After the time has elapsed, unfold carefully. The roots will hatch during this day, try not to damage them.
Land preparation
The soil for pepper seedlings is loosened up and enriched with nutrients without picking. She needs to breathe so that the plants do not feel discomfort.
Drainage is placed on the bottom of the pots and covered with soil mixture with peat and vermicompost. It is better to sow in ordinary plastic flower pots, measuring 7x7x8 cm and a volume of 1 liter. It is not recommended to grow seeds in peat pots. They dry out very quickly, drawing all the moisture of the soil onto themselves. It is difficult for roots to germinate through them due to the density of the structure.
Growing seedlings
In order for the vegetable to grow longer in the same place, it is necessary to plant no more than 2-3 seeds in each pot. Landing to a depth of no more than 2 cm. Sprinkle with soil on top. It is better to grow in the ground from your own garden. It is tested and free of pathogenic bacteria.
After the sprouts appear, the one that is stronger is selected and left. The second, weaker, is better not to pull out. You can damage the roots that are not yet strong. Better to just cut it off with scissors.
Before sowing peppers for growing without picking, you need to decide on the place where the seedlings will stand. It should be well lit, without drafts and fluctuations in night and day temperatures. It is better not to use a window sill. Direct sunlight through the glass can cause burns on the delicate first leaves.
In the early days, pots with non-germinated seeds are covered with foil or glass. It is better to put them immediately in a warm and dark place. After the sprouts appear, the covering material is removed. The temperature regime is maintained up to 20 ° C during the day, and up to 18 ° C at night.
Transshipment
Be careful not to damage the roots when handling.
Pepper can be grown without a traumatic picking procedure using a different technology. It's called transshipment.
After the appearance of 4 true leaves on each seedling, it is time to move the seedlings to another place. To do this, you must first moisten the soil in the pot well. A wet lump is easier to remove, and the roots are not injured.
The earthen lump, as a whole, is rolled into another container, larger in size. Immediately after that, you need to spray the EO with fertilizer or water with honey.
Water the next 14 days with clean water.
Without picking, they begin to feed the seedlings from the third week, with organic liquid fertilizers and ash. You cannot overfeed. It is necessary to monitor the correct lighting and periodically turn the pot in different directions to the light so that the entire green cover develops evenly.
Transplanting peppers to the garden
Growing pepper without picking differs in the time of transplanting into the ground. Such plants are very strong and can tolerate this procedure a week earlier than dive plants. Planting pepper without picking on the garden bed is done in late May or early June. This vegetable loves warmth very much. The earth must be well warmed up so that the roots can germinate and adhere tightly to it.
Before planting peppers in a bed without picking, you need to take care of its nutrition. For this, the holes are sprinkled with a mixture of humus and ash. Seedlings are pretreated with such preparations:
- Baikal;
- Fitosporin;
- EM drug.
If vegetables grow on the windowsill at home, then for fertilizers it is better to use:
- biohumus;
- complex fertilizers;
- mineral fertilizers.
To make it decorative, you can cut the bush and shape it every month. The plant can delight with its fruits and appearance for many years. Warmth, light and peace at home will give him that opportunity.
Features of growing without picking
When growing peppers without picking, avoid the following mistakes:
- can not be planted in large containers;
- you can not plant different types (bitter and sweet) next to;
- observe the transshipment and transplantation regimes typical for this vegetable.
Some growers want to immediately sow seeds in large pots in order to avoid not only picking, but also transshipment. This is absolutely impossible to do. If the sowing was deeper than 2 cm, the soil sour, the seeds may not sprout at all or the sprouts that appear will have weak roots. Then it will be difficult for them to root in the garden. This will affect the timing of fruit production and the amount of harvest.
High humidity damages seedlings
It happens that the seedlings are strongly stretched for various reasons: they have outgrown or there was an overabundance of light. When transshipment, it is impossible to fill it higher than it should be. Additional roots are never formed on the stem of this vegetable, as is the case with tomatoes. The stem can rot.
Some problems arise due to high humidity or a strong cold snap: there are no buds and flowers. In this case, it is necessary to spray in the morning with Bud or Ovary solutions.
Some recommendations:
- Tomatoes or cucumbers can help deal with aphids when planted nearby. This is convenient in small garden areas or home greenhouses.
- For biofuels, it is better to take hay, not rotted compost or leaves. You cannot take manure, the culture will grow the upper part, and will not tie buds. If the presence of nitrogen in the soil is higher than the norm, the ovary will be thrown off.
- It is not recommended to plant different types of crops nearby. In such conditions, pollination of one species with another occurs at close range. Sweet - will become bitter.
Prevention and treatment of diseases
To get rid of fruit rot, you need to use Uniflor-Bud fertilizer (2 teaspoons per 10 liters of water). They need to work on the leaves.
Thinning the beds will prevent stem rot. Timely adding a solution of calcium with water can avoid top rot.
After the onset of symptoms, it is necessary to stop watering, increase ventilation, remove all infected leaves and twigs before the fork. Wipe off the plaque. Cover the damaged area with putty.It is made from chalk and potassium permanganate with water. Treat with ash.
Mosaic staining is evidence of the stolbur viral disease. The bush is not subject to treatment. It is completely destroyed. It must be dug up and burned so that the remaining plantings do not become infected.
Conclusion
To make it easier and enjoy the process of growing peppers at home, refusal to pick will help. Using the tips, you can avoid mistakes, and it will become simple and interesting to grow a healthy and rich harvest.