How to plant potted chili peppers on balcony

When potted chili peppers are planted on the balcony, which aspects should be paid attention to? Growing chili peppers on the balcony is very ornamental.

Balcony pepper planting method of the first step, material preparation.

Materials required: seeds, pond mud, peat soil, garden soil, sand, cultivation containers, horticultural shovels, trimming scissors

A. Variety recommendation

Sheep's horn pepper is a type of sweet pepper, shaped like sheep's horn, slender, with hooks on the tip, thin skin, thick meat, fresh color, fragrant taste and moderate spiciness.

Sun colorful pepper: plant height 30~60cm, development degree 45~50cm. The fruit is conical, growing upright upward, turning from milky white, purple, yellow and orange to red when ripe, and the weight of single fruit is 2 ~ 10g, which is highly ornamental.

B, soil: before entering the basin, the ratio of nutritious soil can be used as pond mud: peat soil = 1: 1; after entering the basin, garden soil or peat and sand can be selected according to a certain proportion.

C, container: generally, you should choose high 10~15cm, the size can be chosen according to your own planting needs, and the planting density per plant is 10~15cm.

The second step of planting balcony pepper, sowing and raising seedlings

A) sow the seeds directly or soak the bought chili seeds in warm water of 50-55 ℃ for 20 minutes.

B. Before sowing, put the prepared nutritious soil into the basin, just away from the 3~4cm, and pour water thoroughly. When the soil is slightly dry, you can sow 1-2 rapeseed at intervals of 10~12cm, and cover 1cm fine soil after sowing.

The method of planting balcony chili pepper the third step is to put it into the pot.

A. when the seedling grows to 2 true leaves, it can be put into the basin.

B, before entering the basin, use tiles to build a "human" shape in the permeable hole at the bottom of the basin, add pebbles, and then add nutritious soil to make the basin soil lower than the basin mouth 2cm, and dig the square hole of 5~7cm.

C. Use a horticultural shovel to dig out the seedlings around the 5cm around the root system of the original plant. Plant the seedlings with dirt into the prepared flowerpot.

D, there is water leakage from watering to the basin bottom.

E, after entering the basin, put it in a cool place indoors, control transpiration, wait for the seedlings to slow down and then put them into the balcony.

The fourth step, daily management

A. Chili peppers like warmth, fear frost and avoid high temperature.

B, drench in clean water every day or every other day

C. Add 5-10g compound fertilizer to each pot every 15 days after entering the basin.

D. Light requirements are not strict, but lack of light will delay the fruit period and reduce the fruit rate.

E. No pruning is needed during the growing period.

F, the key point is the management of fruit period, and the suitable temperature for fruit development is 25-28 ℃. In case of high temperature and drought, strong light and direct light, sunburn or fruit drop is easy to occur, fruit period should not be watered more, air drying is required, otherwise pollination is poor.

(food bar editor: caiba_org)