If you grow vegetables at home, choose it in a small flowerpot and plant it to produce more broken branches that are delicious and beautiful.

When we grow vegetables in pots, many vegetable friends like to grow chili peppers. One of the advantages of planting chili peppers is that in places where our balcony is not big, we only need a small flowerpot to grow chili peppers, which can be eaten and look good, with a lot of results.

Pepper is rich in a variety of vitamins and trace elements, whether we cook, or used as seasoning, is an essential vegetable, balcony a variety of pots, can basically meet daily needs.

Several key points of potted chili peppers:

1. Species and flowerpot selection

There are many kinds of chili peppers, we should choose varieties suitable for potted plants and high yield, generally speaking, there are sheep horn pepper, Chaotian pepper, colorful pepper, millet pepper and so on.

Chili potted plants can also choose small pots with flowerpots less than 20 cm. One can be planted in the pot, each bearing about 15 fruit. It is better to choose a large pot with a diameter of more than 30 cm. 2-3 chili peppers can be potted in a pot, and about 45 chili peppers can be harvested in one pot.

2. Soil and temperature

Potted pepper is generally suitable for garden soil, loose, well-drained and fertile humus soil is better, and some coconut kang and peat can be added to the basin. Pot spicy suitable growth temperature is 20-30 degrees, more than 35 bottom is easy to paste leaves, should pay attention to shade.

3. Management of water and fertilizer

Potted pepper also needs sufficient fertilizer and water. When planting, you can add rotten cake fertilizer or manure as base fertilizer, which is enough to make pepper high-yielding. In the future, topdressing can be applied twice a month, organic liquid fertilizer or mature organic fertilizer can be applied frequently.

4. Daily maintenance

Potted chili peppers do not have strict requirements for light, but lack of light will lead to less and slow results, so there should be appropriate light. Chili peppers are relatively drought-tolerant, do not accumulate water in flowerpots at ordinary times, and need more water during the fruiting period of chili peppers. The last one is pruning, removing diseased branches and old branches, after many times of pruning, can have a good shape, but also let the yield of chili go up.

The balcony does not matter, we can still plant some vegetables that do not take up space and have a good output, a variety of pots and enough for the whole family to eat several meals.