The key to a high harvest. How to Soak Pepper Seeds in Aloe Juice?

Once, when I came to my grandmother for the summer in the village, I always admired her gardens - how big, bright, strong everything grew there and how much! But these were the most ordinary varieties of vegetables, without GMOs and chemical fertilizers. And once my grandmother told me a secret - this is aloe.

I want to note right away that store seeds do not need such processing, they have already undergone everything that can be done in industrial workshops. But it will not harm your own planting material. In recent years, I have consistently cooked bell peppers for the season.

The fact is that aloe:

1. One of the most powerful natural antibiotics, its juice is capable of destroying many pathogens.

2. The sap disrupts the outer shell of seeds, increasing their germination and enhancing their ability to draw nutrients from the soil.

3. And it itself contains amino acids, vitamins, minerals that serve as "feeding" pepper grains.

For soaking seeds in aloe juice, I am used to taking 3-4 lower leaves from a plant over 3 years old.

I put them in the refrigerator for the night, and in the morning I grind them (you can chop them with a knife and scroll them in a meat grinder). Then I squeeze the juice out of this gruel and dilute it with boiled clean water in proportions of 1: 2 or 1: 1.

Someone preliminarily, before processing, withstands pepper seeds in the refrigerator for several days (on a shelf, not in the freezer), but I prefer to warm them up near the heater for an hour or two.

Then I scatter the seeds over a single layer of linen cloth or gauze folded in several layers. And gently dip it into a wide bowl with aloe juice solution. On top of it you need to put another layer of matter - this will protect the seeds from drying out.

Then I will leave the dishes with the planting material at room temperature for 12-18 hours, but no longer than 24 hours. There is no need to rinse the seeds - you can plant like this.

For varieties of vegetable peppers with low germination, I recommend soaking directly in the leaves of aloe. The plant will again be needed over 3 years old.

All that is needed is to cut the leaf lengthwise, but not reaching the end. Then you should open it and put more seeds on the concave side. Then you need to cover them with a free half of a sheet and, for reliability, so that the seeds do not fall out, tie everything with a thread.

Leaves "stuffed" with seeds should be placed in a plastic bag and refrigerated for 24-72 hours. Then you can again - just plant it right away.