Chili is one of our favorite seasoning vegetables. In order to be able to enjoy fresh fruits at any time, many friends like to grow chili in their yard. Now the peppers are growing very vigorously, and a lot of peppers can be harvested every week. Today, I want to share with my friends 9 common mistakes that often occur when planting peppers, and at the same time make some suggestions, so that friends who grow peppers can effectively avoid these problems.
1. Seed sowing. In many areas where the number of days in the warm season is not long enough, such as our 8th district, if you sow pepper seeds directly outdoors, you may wait until the weather gets cold and the peppers have not grown up. After the pepper seeds germinate, the seedlings grow very slowly. Therefore, when we grow peppers, we generally need to grow seedlings indoors before planting them outdoors. Let the peppers complete the growth process of seedlings in a warm room, and when the ground temperature stabilizes above 10 degrees, then transplant them to outdoor vegetable plots. Moreover, when we raise seedlings, it is very important to treat the pepper seeds before sowing, which can increase the germination rate and help you accurately plan how many peppers to plant. The treatment of seeds when raising seedlings is generally soaking and accelerating germination.
2. The transplanting time is wrong. Too early or too late will affect the pepper harvest.
If you transplant the pepper seedlings outdoors too early, you may get frostbite. In early spring, although the air temperature starts to warm up, the soil temperature rises relatively later. Transplanting too early, the soil temperature has not yet reached the requirements for pepper growth, and growth may stagnate. If the transplanting is too late, the pepper will not have enough time for flowering and fruiting, which will result in fewer fruits harvested.
See how to determine the time for transplanting pepper seedlings. You can check the date of the last frost in the local area. After this date, a few weeks later, when the soil temperature rises and stabilizes between 10-15 degrees, you can transplant peppers. It takes about two months for pepper seedlings to grow. If the pepper seedlings grow bigger indoors, but the outdoor soil temperature has not reached the standard, you need to transplant the seedlings from a small seedling container to a larger container in time. Let the roots of the peppers have enough room for growth. In this way, you can wait patiently until the outside soil temperature is suitable before transplanting outside. If you plan to use plastic mulch in the place where you grow peppers, the transplanting time can be 5-7 days earlier. We can transplant peppers here in June.
3. Mixed planting of different types. Peppers are easy to cross-pollinate between different varieties. If you plant several different peppers, and these peppers are planted too close, they may pollinate each other, and the resulting peppers may not be pure. The flavor and taste will also change. For example, if you plant a hot pepper variety close to a milder pepper, this pepper will occasionally produce some less spicy peppers. Of course, if you don’t mind these uncertain changes, Planting different peppers in close quarters is not a problem. If you want to plant the peppers to taste pure, avoid planting them too close together and plant different types of peppers separately to reduce the chance of pollination between different pepper varieties. If you keep your own seeds, you need to pay special attention to avoid cross-pollination of different types. Planting different varieties of pepper requires a distance of at least 15 meters or more to keep the varieties pure.
4. Improper lighting.
Pepper is a full-day plant, requiring 6 to 8 hours of light per day. Light is very important for the growth and development of peppers, and inappropriate light conditions will affect plant growth.
The first problem that may arise is too much light and too hot. The sun at noon in summer is very strong. Although peppers like light and warmth, if the peppers are exposed to too much strong sunlight, the most direct consequence is that the leaves and fruits of the peppers are sunburned. At the same time, too high temperature inhibits the growth of small peppers, which causes the plant's respiratory rate to become higher, causing the body to run disorderly, lengthening, and reducing flowering and fruiting.
However, if you plant it in the wrong location, such as under a big tree. Peppers do not get enough light, resulting in low photosynthesis efficiency, slow growth, and the plants stay in a small state for a long time. The leaves of peppers with severe insufficient light will turn yellow, which will affect the flowering and fruiting. Even the flowering is very sparse, easy to fall, and the fruit will naturally not be many, or even mature.
30 сен 2024