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Peppers on the windowsill in winter

"Treasure Island" on the winter window

Many gardeners grow bell pepper on the windowsill. In winter, it is especially pleasant to look at the bright bushes of pepper, strewn with fruits. And the agricultural technology of growing vegetable peppers in winter on the windowsill is not much different from growing it in a greenhouse.

In this case, pepper seedlings are prepared in the same way as for the greenhouse. Sow it as usual with seeds for seedlings, then dive. At the stage of 4-6 leaves, the seedlings can be transplanted again (or rather, transferred) without deepening into beautiful pots with fertile soil, in which a drainage layer must first be laid. The volume of the pot must be at least 1-1.5 liters.

One of the main conditions successful cultivation vegetable pepper on a winter windowsill is the correct selection of varieties. To do this, it is necessary to select varieties and hybrids that have a small bush size and a compact crown. The ripening period should be early, or even better - ultra early.

Western - highly early variety... Plants are compact, 30-35 cm high. Fruits are bright red, weighing 60-80 g, fruiting amicably. The variety is unpretentious, shade-tolerant, grows well on the windowsill.

Winnie the Pooh - early maturing dwarf variety... Fruiting occurs 100-110 days after germination. Standard bushes up to 30 cm high. Fruits are cone-shaped with a pointed tip, weighing up to 70 g, red when fully ripe. Differs in the simultaneous ripening of fruits. To obtain the maximum yield, the plants must be planted thickened.

Yova - early ripening variety... Fruits weighing up to 200 g, thick-walled, juicy. In technical ripeness - salad, in biological ripeness - red. The variety is unpretentious, harvestable, grows well on a loggia and on a windowsill.

Carat - an early ripe variety. Spreading bushes, 60-70 cm high. Fruits weighing 60-70 g, dense, fleshy, directed upwards. The plants are very decorative.

Gingerbread man - an early ripe variety. The plant is semi-stemmed, undersized (20-30 cm), leafy. Fruits are round, smooth, slightly ribbed, tender skin and pulp, ripen together. The color of the fruit is from light green to dark red. The walls of the fetus are thick (7-8 mm). Fruit weight 100-160 g. The taste is excellent.

Red bell - ultra-early maturing, high yielding variety... Fruits of great taste. It grows well in the open field, in the greenhouse, on the window and on the balcony.

Sturdy - early ripe, high-yielding, with abundant fruiting and amicable ripening of fruits. The plant is compact, 37-55 cm high, the fruits are cone-shaped, with a blunt apex, smooth and slightly wavy, sticking upward, the color of the fruits is from yellow to red. Fruit weight 70-75 g.

Treasure Island - early maturing variety for pot culture. Plants 40-60 cm high. Fruits are orange-red, weighing up to 60 g.

Sweet chocolite - mid-early variety with very beautiful fruits with a surface color chocolate color... Fruits weighing up to 100 g, excellent taste. It grows well and bears fruit in winter indoors.

Triton F1 - ultra-early ripening hybrid, unpretentious, undersized and fruitful. Fruits are conical in shape, directed upwards.

Filippok F1 - early ripening (75-80 days) hybrid. The plant is low, slightly leafy. Fruits are small (50-60 g), cuboid. The color changes from green to dark red. Taste qualities very high.

The most important condition for the successful cultivation of pepper on a winter window, in addition to correctly selected varieties, is supplemental lighting of the plants. Most gardeners use incandescent bulbs for lighting.

But these lamps give little light and a lot of heat and therefore are not suitable for illuminating plants at close range, since they can quickly burn the leaves.

General-purpose fluorescent lamps, which give cold light, are much more convenient for illuminating seedlings. For an apartment "plantation" with an area of \u200b\u200b1 sq. m requires fluorescent lamps with a total power of about 100-150 watts.

These lamps give almost no heat, so they can be placed close to plants. But their spectrum contains not enough orange-red light, at which photosynthesis is most active.

It is worth paying attention to the so-called phytolamps, which are more effective for illuminating plants both in terms of physiological indicators and in terms of efficiency. But their lilac-pink glow is unnatural for humans, irritates the eyes and can cause headaches.

The greatest effect in additional illumination of seedlings is provided by sodium gas-discharge lamps DNaZ or Reflax, which combine high radiation efficiency with a spectrum favorable for photosynthesis. Their orange-yellow glow (the setting sun) does not irritate human eyes, which is very important when using them for lighting in an apartment

Pepper is a thermophilic plant, so the tray with pots should be placed not on the windowsill, but on a layer of foam, which will protect the soil and plant roots from hypothermia. If the apartment is warm, i.e. 23 ° C, this does not mean that the soil on the windowsill is warm. Don't be too lazy to stick the thermometer into the ground, and you will be very surprised.

If the box is located far from the window glass, then the temperature of the soil in it is usually 5 ° C lower than the air in the room. And if the box is on the windowsill next to the frame, then it may be 10 or more degrees lower. At this soil temperature, heat-loving peppers will not grow or may rot at all. Plants in such cases must be removed from the windowsill at night or as a last resort window glass hang carefully with thick paper.

And if your living conditions allow, then it is better to place boxes with plants not on the windowsills themselves, but on specially made wooden or metal gratings (attachments to the window sill) at a distance of 20-30 cm from the window. And the cracks in the windows must be sealed to avoid drafts.

Top dressing should be carried out regularly every 12-15 days with complex fertilizer containing microelements and only after abundant watering. It is useful to spray the plants with cooled boiled water and water it once a month with an extract of wood ash (20-30 grams per 1 liter of water).

In rooms with central heating it is necessary to carefully monitor both the moisture content of the soil coma, preventing it from drying out, and the humidity of the air. Plants need to be watered in moderation, but very warm water. Cold, unsettled tap water will quickly kill the plants.

Pepper, sown for seedlings in the fall, will already develop a powerful root system by the beginning of winter and branch out to form several lateral shoots. With sufficient light and temperature, the pepper begins to bloom and bear fruit in early February.

In order to better pollinate and set fruits, you can additionally walk with a cotton swab over the flowers, transferring pollen from one flower to another, or spray the plants with "Ovary" or "Bud".

At low air humidity, pepper is often affected by spider mites. In this case, regular treatment with Fitoverm can help. But it is very difficult to deal with a tick in an apartment, because children may accidentally feast on treated fruits.

There is also an easier way to grow peppers in the winter. Pepper is a perennial plant. Therefore, in the fall, you can dig up a suitable pepper bush, cut off each shoot shortly, plant it in a pot with fresh soil and transport it home to a bright window. It is advisable to spray the future crown of the plant with a solution of "Epin" or "Novosil". Such a plant will continue to bear fruit with proper care without interruption throughout the winter.

By replanting plants from open ground with an already formed crop, without removing all fruits and without shortening the shoots, we doom the plants to rapid death.

V.G.Shafransky

Hot peppers are not only useful, but also very ornamental plant... Many housewives grow it as a pot culture in order to always have a burning spice on hand. To grow spicy pepper on the windowsill is not difficult at all. This perennial culture is distinguished by its particular unpretentiousness in care and continuous fruiting for 3-5 years. Planting hot peppers on the windowsill and growing them - we will talk about this in the article.

It is more convenient to grow on windowsills decorative varieties, bred by breeders specifically for home conditions. Such peppers are undersized (up to 50 cm) or completely dwarf (about 20 cm high), and their distinctive feature - numerous bright fruits and long undulating ripening. Compact green bushes, dazzling with round or oblong peppercorns of red, orange or purple color, look very impressive on home windowsills and give good mood cold winter... But, in addition to aesthetic pleasure, you can season your favorite dish with hot pepper.

If you prefer classic peppercorns to red colors, then you will surely like the variety "Aquarelle", "Falcon's Beak" with cone-shaped small fruits or "Carat", "Dwarf", "Kolobok" with miniature round fruits, as well as variety "Medusa F1" with long (up to 7 cm) fruits , gathered in dense bunches, and resembling the tentacles of this very jellyfish. The wonderful Dutch variety should not be ignored either. " Small miracle»Also with conical, but very small peppercorns.

Lovers of exotic and bright colors can choose more decorative and unusual varieties:

Confetti is a low, highly branching bush with tiny round peppercorns of yellow, red and purple;
Lilac cone - dwarf plant with dark foliage and bright purple cone-shaped peppercorns;
Goldfinger - cone-shaped fruits of bright yellow or orange;
Bishop's crown - red, but very unusual shape fruits that are real exotic in the home interior;
The Queen of Spades - miniature pointed peppers of yellow, red and purple color on one bush;
Indian Summer - Tiny round peppers about the size of a lingonberry, white when ripe, red when fully ripe;
Ryabinushka is a miniature dense shrub covered with round yellow and purple fruits.

Bright contrasts in the color of the fruits are due to the fact that indoor peppers practically do not have a dormant period, therefore, flowers, green ovaries, ripening and already ripe fruits can simultaneously be found on the same bush.

Video "Pepper Varieties"

From the video you will learn what types of peppers are.

Seed preparation

When choosing seeds, remember that varieties for home growing year-round must be self-pollinating, otherwise the plants will have to be manually pollinated, and this will affect the number of fruits and add hassle to care. Any seeds purchased from the store or harvested by yourself should be soaked in water for several days before planting to accelerate germination.

Before soaking, the seeds are first disinfected - they are kept for half an hour in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate and only then placed in warm water for 2-3 days. Alternatively, the seeds can be wrapped in a wet cloth, which must be constantly moistened during these 2-3 days.

Natural growth stimulants can help speed up the germination process, for example, aloe juice or ash solution - these components are added to the water in which the seed is soaked. Sowing seeds for seedlings is best done in late February - early March, but given the year-round crop cycle, these dates can be changed.

Landing

The agrotechnics of hot peppers is in general terms similar to the cultivation of sweet peppers, but since decorative peppers will grow in a pot for more than one year, containers for plants need to be selected of high-quality, better clay, and a drainage layer (expanded clay, crushed stone) should be laid on the bottom. Plastic containers can be used to grow seedlings.

As for the soil, it is better to buy it for domestic plants in a flower shop - such soil has already been disinfected and contains all the fertilizers necessary at the first stage. When using garden soil, the mixture must be ignited or well watered with potassium permanganate, and then add mineral fertilizers.

Pepper seeds are planted in shallow (1-1.5 cm) furrows or spread over the surface, after which they are covered with a layer of earth. Further, future seedlings need to be watered, covered with foil and placed in a warm (23-25 \u200b\u200b° C) place for 1-2 weeks until shoots begin to appear. At the stage of 2-4 leaves, plants dive into individual pots. For normal growth and fruiting, the volume of the pot per plant should be at least 2 liters.

Top dressing

Like all perennial fruiting crops, hot peppers quickly deplete the soil, so it needs regular feeding. Without them, the bush is more likely to age and stop fruiting. You need to feed peppers in pots every 2-3 weeks, starting from the moment when the seedlings have 3-4 true leaves. For top dressing, you can use both organic and mineral fertilizers, but it is best to combine them.

For irrigation, you can use ready-made dry mixtures and combined liquid fertilizers: Agrolife (scatter 1 teaspoon over the surface), Sprout (1 cap / 2 l of water is applied at the root), Kemira-Lux, Superphosphate, potassium sulfate.

During the flowering period, peppers can be sprayed with "Ovary" - this drug has a positive effect on the number of flowers and ovaries. But peppers always have ash as their favorite fertilizer. It is used for foliar dressing at the rate (2 tablespoons / 3 liters of water) at any time, but with an interval of 10-14 days.

Care

To hot peppers for a long time decorated the house and pleased with the harvest, you need a little: warmth, light and moisture, and, of course, additional feeding. The plants are watered with exceptionally warm, settled water at intervals of 2 times / week (in hot weather it is possible more often), each time loosening the soil. It is important that the water does not stagnate in the pots - this leads to decay of the roots and death of the plant.

It is a pleasure to grow sweet bell peppers on a windowsill. The southern vegetable is easily "domesticated" and makes our family happy juicy fruits... In addition, it is useful. What to say about the fact that multi-colored peppercorns have become a real decoration of the kitchen.

The first vegetables have already been tried five months after the germination of the plants. Long? I don’t think, but how much joy and true pleasure there was. He extended his hand, and the fragrant miracle is already in the salad.

Bell pepper on the windowsill - real

Growing bell peppers at home is a fun and somewhat profitable activity. It is tempting to cook meals with your vegetables without leaving your apartment. Is not it?

The plant is perennial, because the bushes feel great on the windowsill for at least 2-3 years.

Add bell peppers to green onions, cucumbers, and herbs to your windowsill. You will not regret. Add another vegetable crop to your home garden.

We are happy to share the secrets of growing sweet bell peppers in the house.

What varieties of bell peppers to choose

In order for the pepper to grow and bear fruit, you need to choose the right varieties for your home garden. These are self-pollinated and early maturing hybrids.

From home crops, varieties of universal use would be an excellent option. They feel good both outdoors and in containers on the windowsill (protected ground).

The selection of sweet bell peppers is great, but we offer the following:

"Patio-Ivo" - indoor peppers with bright yellow fruits all year round (also suitable for growing on the balcony);
"California miracle" - the bush grows up to 75 centimeters, the fruits are thick-walled, have a ribbed surface and a bright red color (improved selection);
"Jupiter F1" - a high-yielding mid-early hybrid with fleshy large fruits, which are first green and later red (Dutch selection);
"Oda" is undersized (up to 50 centimeters) and fruitful, and the purple fruits are fragrant and very sweet.

If you come across mid-season varieties "Bulgarian-79", "Gift of Moldova", "Winnie the Pooh", "Swallow" or "Novogoshary", grow boldly. They all received good reviews.

Conditions for growing bell peppers

Sweet pepper is not whimsical, therefore it is not very capricious. But certain conditions must be observed to obtain a good harvest.

Better if you place a southern plant on the windowsill of the sunniest room. Otherwise, additional light will be needed.
Make sure that the peppers are not disturbed by drafts. He doesn't like them.
It will grow and develop well with optimal temperature air + 20-26 ° C during the day, and at night not below + 18 ° C.
The soil must be loosened regularly.
Pests of bell pepper at home can be spider mite or aphids, so be vigilant and look at your green pets.
When the bushes begin to bear fruit, tie them to a trellis.
As in the open field, and on the windowsill, do not place containers with hot and sweet peppers in the same room. Only in different! As a result of cross-pollination, the fruits will become bitter.

Video clip on growing bell pepper at home

How to grow bell peppers at home from seeds

Before planting, be sure to soak the seeds for 30 minutes in a weak potassium permanganate. Then you need to give them time to dry out a little. Transfer to a damp gauze for pecking.

Transplant the seeds ready for planting into a pot with purchased (mixture for growing vegetables at home) or prepared soil. In equal proportions, a mixture is made up of:

peat;
leafy land;
turf land;
sand.

When the seedlings get stronger and are ready for transplanting in separate containers, you need to pinch the main taproot. The first shoots appear in 3 weeks.

The soil must be constantly moist. Only warm, settled water is taken for irrigation.

For feeding, once a month, plants are watered with a solution of wood ash (6 tablespoons per 3 liters of water).

Growing and caring at home for bell pepper will give you pleasure. Feel like a gardener today.

Irina Velichko for Pro100ogorod.

16.09.2017

Even though it's cold outside, January and February are ideal months to start growing hot chili peppers. IN recent times this culture is especially popular. Read on for tips on how to grow hot peppers on a windowsill and how to properly care for them is fun and economical as the plant will bear fruit year after year.

General information

This exotic, burning plant can be used to cook different dishes: from pizza to pasta and sauces. Chile will make you feel hot even in winter.

The spicy taste of peppers is due to the content in them chemical capsaicin, which is incredibly hot. A drop of solution containing only 1/1000 mg of capsaicin can cause a prolonged and intense burning sensation.

Varieties

There are many types and varieties of hot peppers that can be planted on a windowsill. Take a look at the range of seeds most commonly grown at home:

Jalapeno - grows quickly, forms compact bushes 50-100 cm high.Up to 40 fruits 5-8 cm long, 2-3 cm in diameter, weighing up to 50 g ripen on the bush at the same time.The color is dark red, but green, unripe fruits are also used ... The taste is fruity-burning, moderately spicy.

Hot cherries - from sowing to first harvest 85-90 days. The plant is small, compact, all dotted with small round red fruits 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter.

Habanero is one of the hottest peppers. The plant is branched, fruits 3-4 cm long, up to 2 cm wide, uneven cone-shaped, red or orange when ripe.

Pungent Bouquet - Productive, delicious chili, great for cooking. Fruits are conical, curved, red.

Spice Boys are small plants ideal for a 1 liter windowsill pot. White, green, purple pods become orange, red, yellow as they ripen.

How to grow hot peppers from seeds on a windowsill

In the apartment, you can start sowing as early as January, since the most acute varieties usually have a long growing season.

Pre-soak the seeds overnight in warm water or epin solution.

Fill small, low containers with ready-made seedling soil, sow seeds (not too thickly) and sprinkle with a thin layer of soil.

Peppers need a lot of heat to germinate, so first put the seed container in a warm, dark place and cover plastic bag... They germinate at a temperature of 21-28 C.

Seedlings will appear about a week after planting. But don't worry if they are in no rush - peppers germinate well if the seeds are fresh.

Once germinated, move the hot peppers to a warm, sunny windowsill.

After the first true leaf appears in the seedlings, they are transplanted one plant at a time (dive) into pots with a diameter of 10-15 cm.

Care

As a rule, hot pepper grows quite successfully on the windowsill, develops well, blooms and bears fruit, but still there is important recommendations when leaving.

Temperature

Chile are demanding for heat and die even from minor frosts, so the room climate is very suitable for them. In a pot on a windowsill, hot peppers can grow for many years. Most of all they like the sunny south-facing windows.

Make sure that the temperature does not drop below 15 C. Peppers do not tolerate sudden changes in heat and cold and abundant watering with cold water.

Watering

Water the peppers regularly to avoid overdrying, but be careful not to overfill them.

Lighting

Hot peppers need at least 6 hours sunlight in a day. With a lack of light, the plants stretch out, the leaves turn yellow on them, the buds and ovaries fall off.

If additional lighting is arranged for the plants in winter, then they will bear fruit better.

Top dressing

While light and water are most important for the development of hot peppers, there are other nutrients required for growth and fruiting. These are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But don't overdo it with fertilization!

After the plants bloom, you can feed them a little potassium.

If the chili leaves become wrinkled or appear on the tips of the pods dark spots, your plant lacks calcium and phosphorus.

Pollination

Peppers self-pollinate very well. Just shake the plants gently from time to time. This simulates the action of wind that occurs in nature.

Transfer

As the plants grow, larger pots will be required. The standard diameter progression is 7 cm, 15 cm, and then the final 20 cm.

To transplant a plant:

Fill pots with fresh soil and lightly dampen it with water.
Then make a fairly large indentation in it.
Take the plant carefully from the previous container, grabbing the roots with a lump of earth so as not to damage them.
Place the pepper in new pot, gently compact the soil around the stem and water a little.

Pruning

To make the bush grow more lush, its upper shoots, which have reached 40 cm, are cut off. Chiles respond very well to pruning.

Pests

One of the main pests of chili peppers is the green aphid. Even one individual who accidentally got into an apartment from the street can infect your plant, creating a whole army of offspring.

To get rid of aphids, rinse the leaves and stems with a jet of water. It is not recommended to use chemical control agents.

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Harvesting

After 60-70 days after sowing, the plants bloom, and later on they form fruits of various colors (depending on the variety) - from brown to bright purple or yellow. When the fruits are ripe, they turn red in most varieties. It is better to cut them off with a knife.

The very first fruits are best removed while still green in order to stimulate further fruiting.

You will be able to harvest fresh chili from late spring to December. One plant can give you over a hundred hot peppers.

Chile can be planted any time from January to May, but with more early term more likely to quickly start receiving fruits. By sowing seeds in January, you will be harvesting as early as July.
By mid-May, when it's warm enough, move the pepper pots to an open balcony or veranda, but out of the sun.
The hottest and most unusual varieties, such as the habanero, take longer to mature.
The yield of peppers increases in the second and third years.
Inspect your plants regularly to make sure that no aphids are growing there and that the soil is still relatively fresh.
After 4-5 years, the yield of peppers will decrease, and it will be time to grow a new plant.

So, to grow hot peppers in winter on a windowsill, you need a sunny window, a spacious pot with fertile soil and easy care... Compact bushes with many original bright red and green fruits are unusually beautiful and perfectly decorate the apartment.

Fruitingusually copious. At the same time, there can be from 20 to 50 fruits on a bush, and their total number per season reaches hundreds.

How often does bitter pepper grow at home?

This plant is perennial, it will delight you for 5-6 years.

Small-fruited pepper varieties

shrub varieties .

Preparing and sowing pepper

Feed

If you want to get pepper seeds

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Hot peppers can be grown not only on garden plotbut also at home. SuperDom will tell you how to grow hot peppers at home.

How to grow hot peppers from seeds at home

Some varieties of hot peppers boast compact dimensions, so they can be grown at home on a windowsill. To do this, it is enough to follow a few simple rules.

Features of planting hot peppers

It is rarely necessary to transplant peppers into another pot, so initially you should choose a suitable container for it.

The volume of the pot is required at least 5 liters. A drainage layer of stones or expanded clay is laid out on its bottom.

The soil in the pot should be good for moisture and air, and its composition may vary.

Pepper on the windowsill. Growing from seeds in winter and summer

A mixture of humus, turf soil and mullein in a ratio of 7: 2: 1 is well suited for growing hot peppers. You can take a mixture of turf and humus in proportions of 1: 2 or 3: 6 with the addition of one part of the mullein.

You should not add rotted compost to the soil, as it is the causative agent of pepper diseases.

It is necessary to plant hot pepper seeds at the very end of winter. If you bought seeds from a store, then they do not need additional processing. Seeds collected at home should be kept in a 1% manganese solution for 20 minutes, then rinsed with clean water.

In order for the seeds to germinate faster, they must be placed in a growth stimulator solution for 2 days.

When planting, they are laid out in shallow grooves, and then sprinkled with earth. Until emergence, containers with seeds should be kept at temperatures up to 25 degrees Celsius. Immediately after their appearance, it is necessary to transfer for a week to a cool place - up to 17 degrees Celsius.

If you grow seedlings in a common container, then you should dive it in pots when it has two real leaves.

Seedlings are transplanted into a large pot after two months.

How to grow hot peppers on a windowsill: the necessary care

The care of an adult plant includes only two activities - watering and fertilizing.

Water the pepper regularly with warm, settled water.

In a particularly hot season, it is recommended to spray the leaves of the plant with water in the evenings.

If the water for irrigation is hard, then upper layer the soil should be changed regularly.
It is also worthwhile to regularly loosen the soil in the pot, and periodically turn the pot itself to evenly illuminate the plant with the sun.

In winter, additional lighting can be provided to the pepper.

Growing pepper at home: how to properly fertilize

The first feeding of hot peppers is carried out a couple of days after the pick, the second - after 10 days.

As a fertilizer, complex mineral fertilizing is used for indoor plants.

Top dressing should be applied every month, and to protect against diseases, foliar dressing can be carried out with a 0.2% solution of calcium nitrate.

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Home Tips To grow small-fruited peppers at home on a windowsill

Christmas pepper, so called in the English-speaking countries, small-fruited hot pepper, pots with which Europeans decorate the windowsills of their kitchens. You can understand them, who would refuse to admire the graceful peppers in winter, burning like lanterns among the bright green foliage?

The use of multi-colored hot pepper lanterns is twofold: decorating windows and getting fruits that fresh will give a spicy taste to any vegetable and meat dishes... If you dry the peppers from only one plant, then you can provide yourself with seasoning for canning for the entire summer-autumn season.

Small-fruited pepper bushes are low (15-50 cm), compact, small leaves, single fruits or grow in bunches. Their shape is different varieties different, they can look like balls, plums, elongated pyramids, cylinders that are directed up or down.

Pleasing to the eye and color: orange, bright yellow, red of all shades, less often white or black.

Hot chili peppers: growing from seeds, planting and care

There are varieties whose peppers change color several times during ripening, for example, first lilac, then orange and red, and they all decorate the bush at the same time, add to this flowering that does not stop during fruiting, and you will understand why this plant is so popular in many countries.

Fruiting

Indoor pepper not only cheers up, gives fruits, but also takes care of the health of the owners. Due to its bactericidal properties, where it grows, the air is cleaner, there are fewer harmful microbes and people are less likely to get sick.

Hot peppers also have a beneficial effect on other indoor plants - they are rarely damaged by insects, and the owners, if necessary, always have a means of protection against aphids, whiteflies and caterpillars. They will no longer bother you if fresh or dried peppers are soaked in water for a day (1:10), strain, sprinkle on the plant suffering from pests and the soil in the pot. You can make a garland of peppers and decorate the kitchen with them. And if you extract the seeds from the fruit, you will receive first-class planting material.

Ornamental peppers grow well not only in the room, but also on the balcony, loggia, as well as in the summer on the garden bed under the film with a return in the fall to the windowsill.

Small-fruited pepper varieties

For growing on the window, we recommend domestic shrub varieties, which are not inferior to foreign ones in decorativeness, bear fruit all year round and can decorate the windowsill for as long as 5 years. it Indian summer, Carmen, Bride, Spark, The Queen of Spades, Mountain ash, Fireworks, Inflorescence, Flint.

Preparing and sowing pepper

As practice has shown, it is best to sow sprouted seeds from the end of February to the first decade of March. As a soil, you can use ready mix for peppers, tomatoes, eggplants. The sowing box is filled with this mixture, watered, and the next day the sowing is carried out, deepening the seeds by 1 cm. After the sowing box is closed with foil or glass. They are placed in a warm place and kept in this form until shoots appear.

Transplant and care of small-fruited peppers

When 3-4 leaves are formed on the seedlings, they are transplanted one by one into pots with a volume of 1-1.5 liters. The bush of hot pepper does not need a large pot, but it should be beautiful, not inferior in decorativeness to the plant planted in it. There must be a drain hole in the pot excess water and drainage laid on the bottom.

The pot is best placed on the south, southeast or southwest window. In the north, in the autumn-winter period, you will have to light up in the mornings and evenings, since the pepper is photophilous. He also loves moisture, so he needs regular watering. You need to water only with settled water room temperaturepouring it into the tray as the plant drinks it.

Feed plant every 10-14 days, more often in the spring and summer. For feeding, you can use any complex mineral fertilizer (soluble, kemira-lux, kemira-wagon, nitrophoska) by dissolving 1 teaspoon in 5 liters of water. Before feeding, the bush is watered, and in a pot, and not in a pan.

In order for the pepper to bear fruit all year round, daytime temperature required 22-24 degrees and night 17-19 degrees. And so that in winter on the windowsill it does not suffer from overheating, the battery should be covered.

In the spring, the pepper should be transplanted into fresh soil. With the onset of warm weather, it is advisable to take it to the balcony, placing the pot in a place where there are no drafts. Indoor pepper can even be planted in a garden bed in a greenhouse, if its sweet brother does not grow there. Otherwise, pollination will occur, and instead of sweet vegetable pepper, you will get bitter, albeit with large fruits.

If you want to get pepper seeds, you must wait until the fruits are fully ripe. Then dry them, crush them and select the seeds. They retain their germination capacity for 3-4 years.

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Home Tips To grow small-fruited peppers at home on a windowsill

Grow small-fruited peppers at home on a windowsill

The benefits of multi-colored hot pepper lanterns are twofold: decorating windows and obtaining fruits that, when fresh, will give a piquant taste to any vegetable and meat dishes. If you dry the peppers from only one plant, then you can provide yourself with seasoning for canning for the entire summer-autumn season.

Small-fruited pepper bushes are low (15-50 cm), compact, small leaves, single fruits or grow in bunches. Their shape is different for different varieties, they can look like balls, plums, elongated pyramids, cylinders that are directed up or down.

Pleasing to the eye and color: orange, bright yellow, red of all shades, less often white or black. There are varieties whose peppers change color several times during ripening, for example, first lilac, then orange and red, and they all decorate the bush at the same time, add to this flowering that does not stop during fruiting, and you will understand why this plant is so popular in many countries.

Fruitingusually copious. At the same time, there can be from 20 to 50 fruits on the bush, and their total number per season reaches a hundred. This plant is perennial, it will delight you for 5-6 years.

Ornamental peppers grow well not only in the room, but also on the balcony, loggia, as well as in the summer on the garden bed under the film with a return in the fall to the windowsill.

Small-fruited pepper varieties

Preparing and sowing pepper

As practice has shown, it is best to sow sprouted seeds from the end of February to the first decade of March. As a soil, you can use a ready-made mixture for peppers, tomatoes, eggplants. The sowing box is filled with this mixture, watered, and the next day sowing is carried out, deepening the seeds by 1 cm. After the sowing box is closed with foil or glass. They are placed in a warm place and kept in this form until shoots appear.

Transplant and care of small-fruited peppers

When 3-4 leaves are formed on the seedlings, they are transplanted one by one into pots with a volume of 1-1.5 liters. The bush of hot pepper does not need a large pot, but it should be beautiful, not inferior in decorativeness to the plant planted in it. There must be a hole in the pot to drain excess water and drainage laid on the bottom.

The pot is best placed on the south, southeast or southwest window. In the north, in the autumn-winter period, you will have to light up in the mornings and evenings, since the pepper is photophilous. He also loves moisture, so he needs regular watering. You need to water only with settled water at room temperature, pouring it into the pan as the plant drinks it.

Feed plant every 10-14 days, more often in the spring and summer. For feeding, you can use any complex mineral fertilizer (solution, kemira-lux, kemira-universal, nitrofoska), dissolving 1 teaspoon in 5 liters of water. Before feeding, the bush is watered, and in a pot, and not in a pan.

If you want to get pepper seeds, you must wait until the fruits are fully ripe. Then dry them, crush them and select the seeds. They retain their germination capacity for 3-4 years.

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How to grow peppers at home?

Hot pepper is a plastic plant that allows you to get fruits not only on personal plot, but also at home. Besides practical application, this plant can become an interior decoration, since many varieties for growing in the room and on the balcony are very decorative. The region of origin of this plant is South America, from where it migrated to Europe along with the navigators of Columbus.

The unique taste of this type of pepper is due to the content of the alkaloid capsaicin - a substance that is not found in any other type of vegetable. Its presence determines the degree of pungency of the varieties of this plant. Useful qualities hot pepper:

Despite such a number useful properties, the use of bitter pepper has its own characteristics, which can bring a lot of unpleasant sensations.

In case of contact with the mucous membrane of the eyes, damaged skin, a chemical burn is guaranteed. If hot pepper juice gets under the nails, it irritates the skin under the nail plate. Overuse of this seasoning can damage the stomach lining and cause gastritis.

To minimize these manifestations, it is enough to observe moderation, handle hot peppers with gloves. If pepper juice gets on the mucous membrane of the eyes, rinse them immediately big amount water and consult a doctor.

The main condition that must be observed when choosing a variety of hot pepper is its ability to grow and bear fruit in conditions of lack of lighting, limited space for root growth, and a compact bush. These requirements are met by the varieties of indoor hot peppers belonging to the type "Annual or vegetable pepper" (Capsicum annuum).

Hot pepper variety "Aladdin"

Equipment and soil for growing pepper

Before you start growing hot peppers at home, you need to prepare inventory for performing basic technological operations:

Capacity for sowing seeds.
Peat pots for seedlings.
Water drain pan.
A watering can with a fine strainer.
Humidifier.
Lamp for supplementary lighting of plants.
Mineral fertilizers.
Ready-made or self-compiled soil for growing plants.

Since the bitter pepper at home will have to be held in the same container, its selection should be taken responsibly. The pot or box must be "breathable", have a device for draining excess moisture, be convenient for watering and sub-crust operations, and be roomy enough. It is better if it is a ceramic or wooden pot with a pallet, and its volume will not be less than 5 liters.

Tip # 1: Try to foresee the location of the container for an adult plant on a spacious pallet, where you can put a pot with a plant and put expanded clay, sphagnum moss. Watering these accumulators of moisture creates a special microclimate around the plant, which is very important in winter - during the heating season.

The soil for growing seedlings and filling the pot for the growth of an adult bush of hot pepper should be nutritious, structural, water and air permeable, and absorb moisture well.

Mixes for growing hot peppers

If humus is present in the soil, it will be able to subsequently better retain the nutrients supplied during fertilizing. No need to avoid contributing to potting soil rotted compost or manure humus - in the process of ripening they have lost viable weed seeds, but are saturated with useful microflora that will resist plant pathogens.

Seed preparation

The cultivation of hot peppers begins at the end of February, so that the peak of seedling growth does not fall on a short daylight hours, and the plants do not have to be illuminated. Store-bought seeds are usually pre-planted and do not need to be soaked or pickled to prevent disease. This is evidenced by their color, it can be green or red. If hot pepper seeds are harvested at home, you need to work with them before sowing.

Most the best way seed treatment - dressing for 20 minutes in a 1% solution of potassium permanganate or in manganese sulfate. After aging, the treated seeds are thoroughly washed in clean water and germinate until pecking. To do this, they are placed in a stimulant solution for 2 days:

"Energen" - 10 g per 200 ml of water;
"Bud" - 1 g per 1 liter of water;
"Epin" - 4-5 drops per 200 ml of water;
Aloe juice - 5 g per 200 ml of water.

After aging, the seeds are laid out on a damp cotton cloth, sprinkled constantly with water so that they do not dry out. If the room temperature is within + 20 + 30⁰C, then in 4-5 days the seeds will start to grow.

Growing seedlings

Sowing is done in two ways: with a pick and without a pick. Using the first method, you can select the most powerful and strong specimens; without picking, the growing period for seedlings is reduced from 60 to 45 days. When grown without a pick, seeds are immediately sown in cups or peat pots, in which they will grow before planting on permanent place... When growing pepper seedlings with a pick, sowing is carried out in a box or container.

Growing pepper without picking

The treated seeds are spread on the soil surface in shallow grooves at a distance of 2 cm from each other. In pots, they are sown in shallow holes, 2-3 seeds each. The crops are sprinkled with a small layer of earth, the soil is compacted. Before the emergence of shoots, boxes and pots should be at a temperature of + 24 + 26⁰ C. The soil should be sprayed with water to prevent the formation of a soil crust and friendly shoots.

After the emergence of seedlings, they are transferred for 5-7 days to a room with a lower temperature (+ 15 + 17⁰C). Such a measure will not allow the seedlings to stretch out and provide them with strong roots. A week later temperature regime changes again - in the afternoon + 23 + 25⁰ C, at night - + 16 + 17⁰C. When the seedlings have 2 true leaves, they dive.

Tip # 2: Do not water the crops too abundantly, otherwise they will infect fungal disease “Black leg”, when a dark constriction appears on the stem and the plant dies. For prevention, you can powder the soil under the plants with sifted ash.

Epin-extra solution

The pick is carried out in pots filled with a nutrient mixture, deepening the seedlings to the cotyledonous leaves. Then they are watered with a solution of "Epin" or "Zircon" (3-5 drops per 1 liter of water). To obtain a fibrous root system, after sampling the plants from the seed box, pinch the central stem of the seedling by a third. When grown without a pick, at the same time, one of the strongest plants is left in the pot, adding soil to its cotyledonous leaves.

Adult plant care

Seedlings that have reached the age of 50-60 days are transplanted into a separate container in which the plant will spend the entire period of its growing season. Watering is carried out regularly, as the soil dries up with warm, settled water. If you keep the plant on a limited "drinking" mode, "the ovary will begin to shatter. To prevent such shedding on hot sunny days, hot peppers are sprinkled with water. To prevent sunburn, spraying is carried out in the evening.

If the soil in the pot is depleted, transhipment is carried out annually in new soil and into a larger pot. If watering is carried out with hard water, replace the topsoil in the pepper growing container.

Fertilization and feeding

Soluble fertilizer Agricola

The first feeding is carried out a few days after the pick, the second - 10 days after it. To do this, take complex fertilizers:

Agricola.
Kemira, Kemira luxury.
A mixture of superphosphate and potassium sulfate (35 g / 17g per 10 liters of irrigation solution).

Supporters of ecological farming can apply organic fertilizers: a solution of mullein or chicken droppings (1: 4 and 1:10, respectively). The diluted raw materials are aged for about a week for fermentation, filtered, used after re-dilution - 1 liter of suspension per 10 liters of water. If desired, you can use ready-made horse manure concentrate Bucephalus.

An adult hot pepper plant is fertilized monthly with a complex fertilizer for indoor plants, following the instructions for use. For prevention, the top of fruit rot is carried out foliar dressing adult specimens with 0.2% calcium nitrate solution.

5 answers to specific questions

Question 1: Do I need to pollinate the plants additionally?

Answer: most varieties of hot peppers for home growing - self-pollinated hybrids. If the variety needs pollination, the plant is shaken or the pollen is transferred with a soft brush from one flower to another.

Question 2: Do I need to pinch bitter peppers growing indoors?

Answer: An adult fruiting plant does not need props or pinching. The fruits of this plant are usually small, and the bush can easily withstand stress.

Question 3: Can hot peppers be propagated by cuttings?

Answer: To rejuvenate an old bush with valuable fruits, you can use the vegetative propagation method. To do this, cut off 2-3 branches, put them in a container with a root formation stimulant dissolved in water. After 3-4 weeks, the seedlings will have a developed root system... They are planted in a pot with a renewed substrate, after 1.5 months young plant will begin to bloom.

Question 4: Does the plant need additional lighting?

Answer: Yes, we do. In winter and autumn, the daylight hours for hot peppers are extended by placing a lamp over it for 1 hour in the morning and 2-3 hours in the evening. If the lighting is not carried out, you need to at least turn the bush on the windowsill around its axis so that it does not become one-sided.

Question 5: How to prepare a solution from the fruits of miniature hot peppers for treating indoor plants from pests?

Answer: Fruits are poured with boiling water at the rate of 1:10, I insist for a day, filter, process the plants from a spray bottle. You can use both dry and fresh fruits.

Growing hot peppers at home is fun. High decorative qualities of this plant are combined with the benefits of practical use. Subject to the cultivation technology, it is guaranteed excellent result - a healthy and beautiful plant.

Growing on the windowsill of various vegetable crops is a kind of alternative to gardening. Although, for many, this lesson is a continuation summer season... Hot decorative pepper, and in a scientific way Capsicum on the windowsill serves not only as a burning seasoning for culinary dishes, but also serves as a decoration for the room. With each season, more and more peppers appear with different colors and shapes of fruits and leaves, for example: "Black Pearl", "Bishop's crown" or, still rare due to its extraordinary fruit shape, "Peter Pepper" (photos are presented below) and others. And if you want the pepper to remain bright, flowering and fruitful for a long time, it is very important to know what is the correct cultivation.

We are used to growing peppers as seedlings and then planting them in a greenhouse as an annual plant. But in reality it is a long-term culture. And growing decorative peppers at home, you can be sure of this. When the right approach the plant will be able to actively develop, give a crop up to 6 years. One of the main conditions, choose special varieties of pepper with compact bushes and high degree fruiting. By the way, you can collect the seeds of your own pepper and plant them after a short drying, constantly getting new bushes.

There are two auspicious periods when you can sow home pepper seeds.

If you want to get a harvest by autumn, then sow in the second half of July; crops made at the end of January will bear fruit in April. Have experienced gardeners planting is practiced in December or even at any other time of the year, but with the obligatory provision of light and heat.

Since it is recommended to immediately plant the pepper in a permanent place, it is better to initially take a suitable container. A 2-liter pot is enough for one plant, up to 50 cm high; pick up a pot of at least 5 liters for the plant above.

Before sowing, soak pepper seeds for a couple of hours in Epin's solution or HB-101. Plant 2 seeds not deeply, sprinkle lightly with peat soil or vermiculite with a light substrate. Cover the planting with foil and put in a warm place. Ventilate as condensation builds up. Seeds germinate at t ° \u003d 22-24 ° C, from a week to two.

But, as it often happens with us, the seeds do not always sprout, so the recommendation is as follows: plant separately in peat tablets, and then, together with them, in the phase of two or three leaves, place them in a permanent place in a pot. Instead of peat tablets use tea bags. Do not forget to remove the wrapping from the peat tablets, and the tea bags are planted whole.

Sowing in small cups (no more than 7 cm in diameter) is possible, so that later from them transfer the plant into a large pot. Then it will already be a "transshipment", not a "pick", and you will not touch the root of the plant.

Fill the pot like this: to the bottom - drainage 2 cm, then the mixture of earth. I will of course write what to do correct soil you can make it yourself from peat, sand and humus (or sod land) in a 1: 1: 1 ratio, but why? For sale special land for growing peppers.

Bitter pepper, how to grow on a windowsill

Take it, bake it in the oven, or place it in the microwave for half a minute. Add vermiculite, about ¼ of the total. Fill the pot with this soil. By the way, before filling the soil, put the peel from one banana on the drainage layer. This trick will help nourish the plant with potassium for a long time.

Then spill the earth well hot water and when it drains, plant seeds or transshipment of the plant; do not forget to tamp the bottom of the hole when planting seeds.

During the growth of ornamental pepper, take care of it: maintain t ° \u003d + 19-22 ° С; water when the earth dries out 1.5-2 cm deep; feed once every two weeks. At first, before the appearance of flowers, nitrogen fertilizers are used, during flowering and the appearance of fruits - potassium-phosphorus fertilizers. Choose fertilizers based on vermicompost. When proper care the crop can be harvested every 2.5-3 months.

Decorative hot pepper is a light-loving plant, but like most crops, it does not tolerate direct sunlight. A good place for him is on the window sill to the southwest. If not, install reflectors from a mirror or foil, or a special lamp for illumination.

Pepper varieties for growing at home are less demanding on light, but at first, while the plant is young, it takes 12 to 14 hours of light, so take care of additional lighting in the autumn-winter period.

If the pepper has finished bearing fruit and has shed its leaves, do not rush to throw it away entirely. Cut the plant to about half its height, remove the pot from the windowsill to a place where t ° \u003d + 16 ° C, do not feed it, just spray the soil sometimes so that it does not dry out completely. After a while, you will see how the decorative pepper will rise again.

And also the hot decorative pepper grown on the windowsill requires

additional shaking - this is necessary for high-quality pollination of flowers;

pinching over the 5th leaf - this will give more branching, which means more flowering and more fruit.

Pepper flowers can fall off if growing conditions are not followed:

if the temperature is higher than + 28 ° С;

if the soil is dry, even for a short time;

if it is very dry indoors (spray the plant with a spray bottle with a foggy (that is, very small holes) spray or install a humidifier);

if there is not enough potassium (feed with ash, 2 tablespoons per liter of water, or liquid potassium humate).

And the last thing. Give the plant a warm shower by covering the ground with a piece of plastic that can be tied around the trunk, like a bib. By washing the leaves with a weak soapy solution with water, you thereby protect the entire culture from pests and diseases.

Pepper on the windowsill will look great not only in the kitchen, but also in the interior of any room. If you have small children, do not forget to warn them about the dangers of eating beautiful fruits.

And with the onset of the summer season, decorative hot peppers will decorate any flower garden or flower bed in the garden.

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