How to grow peppers room in the home. A few important rules
Ornamental plants are able to decorate and transform any room in the house. Bright colors of buds and fresh green leaves cheer up in the frosty winter days. Indoor plants can not only please the eye, but also useful.
Vegetables and herbs grown at home, decorate and diversify everyday meals at any time of the year.
Decorative room pepper unpretentious in the care and is not inferior to taste pepper, grown in the open field. But it is unusual for houseplants appearance will not leave anyone indifferent.
Types of ornamental peppers
Room pepper, as well as its counterpart, has many varieties. They differ in taste, size, color, flowering time.
The most popular varieties are:
· Chile;
· Small miracle;
· Spark;
· Purple bullet;
· Dragon.
Rules on growing:
1. Selecting a location
Pepper - heat-loving plant. The optimum temperature in summer / spring - up to 25 degrees, in the winter period of at least 10.
Humidity plays an important role in the maturation. In the case of dry - fruits smorschatsya, the plant will throw off the leaves.
Lighting should be sufficient - at least 3-4 hours a day.
2. soil preparation
The primer may be purchased or prepared independently: peat (1) + river sand (1) + coconut fiber (1) + pearlite (1) + ground sheet (2).
For planting seeds required volume of soil - 1 liter for an adult bush - 3 liters.
3. Selection of seeds
When choosing seeds should pay attention to self-pollinating, pollination, otherwise the process will have to hold their own.
4. seedling
· To speed up the germination of seeds, it is recommended for several days to keep them in a container with water.
Pre necessary to treat them with a solution of 1% potassium permanganate for 30 minutes;
· Sow the seeds into the ground at any time of the year, but in compliance with the temperature 20 - 25 degrees;
· It is recommended to sow the seeds in peat cups, sealing depth - 1.5-2 cm. Close plastic wrap until the sprouts. Seeds germinate in 10-20 days;
· When the 2-3 leaves can be transplanted into the ground.
5. care of chilli peppers
· Watering should be 1 time a day warm water. In the case of drying plants can be watered more often and spray the sheets;
· Feeding is carried out 1 time in 2 weeks: the composition of the nitrogen - Leaf, potash - the root;
· The first fruiting - pinch superfluous shoots carried out pruning of leaves;
· The fruit is removed as maturation. There are varieties of peppers, which should be cleaned before. Since they lose their sharp taste at full maturity.
Using the simple rules can be grown indoor pepper at home.