How to feed the pepper?

Not every summer resident succeeds in obtaining seedlings of Bulgarian pepper of good quality.There are various problems associated with lack of vitamins and other nutrients. How to act in such a situation, we will understand today.

Sweet pepper, by analogy with tomatoes and eggplants, belongs to the family of nightshade. It is considered a rather capricious culture that requires serious attention. This applies not only to watering and other care, but also to make supplements.

If you do not feed the pepper on time and in the required quantity, its growth will slow down, at the same time the seedlings will be drawn out, the taste of the fruit and the yield will drop significantly. To avoid such problems, fertilization is required.

Before you choose the type of fertilizer that will be used for feeding, you need to make sure that you comply with the terms of application. The frequency of fertilizing is influenced by several important factors:

• your pepper variety;
• climatic conditions of the region;
• number of seedlings.

All these conditions are important, but do not deprive attention and quality of the soil in which the vegetable grows. If we are talking about normal soil, then pepper needs approximately 5 dressings. The first is usually carried out after picking up the seedlings in separate cups.

24 hours before the pepper is transplanted to a permanent place, fertilize so that the seedlings become stronger. After the end of the adaptation period (approximately 14-15 days), fertilize again. The following dressing should be made at the beginning of the flowering period, then at the fruit formation stage.

Experts point out that it is not necessary to fertilize at the moment when the fruits are already acquiring their color, this is bad for the taste and quality of the crop.

To begin with, let us clarify: top dressing can be carried out both with the help of special vitamin preparations bought in garden centers and folk remedies. In general, the fact that you like and fit. Focus on the needs of culture and their capabilities.

Let's start our review with popular tools that are very popular among summer residents and are very effective, and practically do not require financial expenses. Let's start with the first recipe, which includes iodine.

Iodine is a beneficial substance for the growth of crops such as peppers. It makes the fruit tastier, increases the yield. It is believed that this result is achieved by improving metabolism. And also iodine is a kind of antiseptic, it can even be used to fight against fungal plant diseases. But do not forget that the use of such fertilizer is permissible only in small doses.

The recipe itself is simple: 10 g of iodine is added to 10 liters of water for irrigation. Then whey in the amount of 1 liter is added, now top dressing is ready for use.

You can feed the peppers with organic matter that is found in almost every home. For example: banana peel, chicken droppings, manure. Now more about the recipes.

Chicken droppings - a source of nitrogen. On its basis, the following infusion is prepared: take 1 part of the litter, add 2 parts of water. Leave everything to insist for 2-3 days. Before you apply, you need to dilute with water in proportions of 1 to 10. This feeding gives the maximum effect when you make at an early stage of development of seedlings, and later allows you to grow leaves.

With the help of a banana peel, the soil is saturated with potassium. According to the experience of summer residents who have tried this tool, the fertilizer is effective, harmless. To prepare the dressing, take 3-4 banana peel, place in a three-liter jar and leave for three days.During this time, the liquid will receive a large amount of potassium. Then water this water peppers. As well as banana skin can be dried, pounded into a powder, and add substance to the soil.

Fresh manure is diluted in warm water in the ratio of 1 to 10. Infuse the solution for a day, then the plants are watered with this liquid. Here it is important to prevent overdose.

Another fertilizer from the category of organic - wood ash. Feeding with ashes is necessary for young peppers when they are transplanted to a permanent place. At the same time, a small handful of ash is placed in each well.

Many gardeners use a relatively new agricultural crop: feeding the Bulgarian pepper with yeast. In yeast, a large amount of nutrients: nitrogen, minerals, phosphorus and other vitamins. The benefits of yeast dressing are as follows:

• the root and aboveground parts of the peppers are developing intensively;
• beneficial bacteria multiply actively.

You can use the dry and fresh yeast you find. Fresh yeast recipe:

• take 1 kg of yeast;
• heat 5 liters of water and pour yeast;
• insist 24 hours;
• infusion diluted in 5 buckets of water for irrigation;
• we water the bushes of pepper.

The fertilizer is made from dry yeast almost in the same way: 1 bag is dissolved in a bucket of heated water, 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar are added. All this is left for 2 hours to ferment. Then take 500 g of the resulting infusion and dilute it with 10 liters of water. It should be clarified that it is enough to make such dressing 2 times for the entire period of pepper growth.

The following recipe gardeners gave the original name "green beer". Prepare it as follows: first collect dandelions, wormwood, tomato tops, nettles, yarrow. Fill 1/6 of the barrel with this grass, but without seeds. The whole mass is poured with water almost from the top and allowed to stand in a warm place for a week. Note that the aroma of the infusion is very unpleasant, but the action is beyond praise. Before you carry out dressing, 1 liter of concentrate is diluted in 1 bucket of water.

You can feed the peppers with egg shells. For example, according to this recipe: the shells of three eggs are crushed and poured with three liters of water. Insist the solution, stirring occasionally, for three days. Then the infusion needs to be filtered, and each glass should be diluted in three liters of water.

Boric acid is known to all as an antiseptic and fungicide. But not all gardeners use it as a top dressing for Bulgarian pepper. Although the benefits of using this substance are obvious:

• the growth of peppers is accelerating;
• productivity becomes higher;
• peppers become more resistant to diseases of fungal origin;
• ovary is formed more actively;
• fruits get juiciness, bright taste;
• increases the shelf life of harvested vegetables.

Boric acid can be used as a powder and solution. It is important that the crystals should dissolve completely in the process of preparing the solution. The powder should be diluted in hot water (boiling water is not suitable), then gradually with cold water topped up to the norm. The treatment is carried out when the solution becomes cold.

You can use boric acid in combination with tar soap or potassium permanganate. It also does not hurt to add a glucose solution (10 ml of glucose per 10-liter bucket of water). You can add baking soda as a prophylactic ingredient.

Feed boric acid is root and foliar. The second type involves spraying, which is carried out 3 times: the first time before flowering, the second time during flowering, the third time - at the beginning of fruiting.The solution should be evenly distributed, for this purpose a sprayer capable of dispersing moisture in the form of fog is used.

Boric acid in the form of top dressing is safe for humans. But it is better to use means of protection, therefore you should not refuse from gloves.

In order to feed the pepper with hydrogen peroxide, 20-30 g of peroxide is diluted in 1 liter of water. This solution is watered pepper bushes. You can also carry out spraying, as in the case of boric acid. Watering is carried out often, the peroxide solution alternate with ordinary water.

Top dressing is best done early in the morning or after sunset, so that it is relatively cool. This saves the leaves of pepper from possible burns if the solution is injected.

You can feed and spray the peppers safely, it will not cause you any harm, but the plant immunity will significantly increase.

To compensate for the need for pepper in nitrogen, watering with ammonia is carried out. Processing pepper ammonia sometimes gives much more benefit than the introduction of organic matter. In addition, such treatments increase the stress resistance of the crop, increase the yield and, thanks to its sharp, specific aroma, drive pests away from pepper.

For watering pepper prepare the working solution. There are several options:

• if you want to feed the newly sprouted seedlings, in 1 liter of water, add 1 teaspoon of ammonia;
• to spray, in a 10-liter bucket of water, pour 50 ml of ammonia;
• for watering at the root in a bucket of water, pour 3 tablespoons of ammonia;
• if the peppers do not have enough nitrogen in 1 liter of water, add 1 tablespoon of ammonia.

Watering the pepper should be carried out of the watering can, remove the sprinkler. The stream is directed under the root so that the leaves do not get burns. It is better to spray the leaves with water.

Now we will discuss the feedings scheme.

• The first feeding is carried out with phosphorus and nitrogen immediately, in order to strengthen the so-called skeleton of the seedling and normalize the exchange process. These drugs are made using watering, but do not allow solutions on the leaves.
• In the second stage, it is necessary to increase the immunity of plants and to activate the development of the root system. Therefore, we use organic. Foliar fertilization will be the best solution.
• In the third stage, we use either mineral supplements or organic. For application are used equally and watering and spraying. Pay attention that there is enough potassium for the peppers to make buds together.

If the peppers do not grow well, and this is clearly due to a lack of nutrients, fertilization will be the best solution. Consider what feedings can be used to make the pepper grow.

An excellent option for feeding is the following: we take 2.5 grams of superphosphate, 5 mg of ammonium nitrate, 0.5 tsp of urea and 2 ml of potassium humate. All of these funds dilute in 1 liter of water and pour the peppers.

If we talk about professional drugs, then it is quite common to call Gumi, which is both anti-stress and growth stimulant. To prepare the solution, it is enough to dilute 1 g of the substance in 1 liter of water.

For feeding pepper at the flowering stage and for its further good fruiting, the following recipe is most often used: 1 tsp in a bucket of water is diluted. potassium, add the same amount of carbamide and 20 g of superphosphate (if the soil is low in phosphorus). Mix the solution thoroughly and pour out exactly 1 liter under each bush.

The following composition is used: 1 tbsp. wood ash + 1 kg of mullein + 1 kg of chicken manure. Leave this mixture to wander in a sunny place for 7 days. 1 liter of infusion, add 1 watering can and water bushes. Consumption composition: under one bush 1 liter.

You can also use ready-made fertilizers that are sold in any summer cottage shop, for example, “Summer Resident”, “Eco-Minat” and so on. They are introduced in a dry form, poured under each bush and watered.

Before you feed the peppers that will grow in the greenhouse, you need to prepare the ground for planting. To do this, several different fertilizers are applied to the soil at once:

• humus;
• ash;
• superphosphate;
• potassium sulfate.

As a rule, for the first time for peppers growing in the greenhouse, top dressing is made 14 days after transplanting (in June). During this period, the plants are gaining color, so you need to activate their development to the maximum.

You can water the soil using a solution of bird droppings. As an alternative, ammonium nitrate, potassium or superphosphate can be added. Substances dissolved in water and carry out watering.

Approximately 2 weeks after the first feeding you need to perform the second. For the proper selection of fertilizer carefully inspect each bush. On this basis, acquire the ingredients and prepare the working solution.

One of the compositions:

• a teaspoon of sodium sulfate;
• tablespoon of superphosphate;
• 10 liters of warm water.

These components are mixed in warm water, carry out watering under the bush.

Now about feedings in the open field. In this case, feeding begins at the stage of emergence of the seedlings of the first 2-3 leaves. Apply mineral complexes or compost. Spreading fresh manure at this stage will kill the plants.

After landing in open ground, as soon as the risk of recurrent frosts recedes, urea and superphosphate can be added. They are dissolved in water, mixed, watered bushes.

After the fruits ripen, you can feed again. Two teaspoons of potassium salt and superphosphate are diluted in 10 liters of water, 1 liter is poured under each bush.

If you see that the pepper grows slowly and does not grow well, try using carbamide for feeding. Dosage - 30 g per bucket of water. Stir everything and spray the peppers for 7 days.

We offer you to familiarize yourself with the advice of experienced gardeners on feeding pepper. Perhaps they will help in the cultivation of pepper and will avoid mistakes in the choice of fertilizer.

• If you prefer to feed pepper with natural organic fertilizers, it is better to dilute them in an increased amount of water so as not to burn the plants.
• You can not use for dressing yeast expired, the effect will be exactly the opposite.
• It is not allowed to use as the fertilizer ash, which was obtained as a result of burning painted wood, construction debris or coal. So you will introduce harmful chemicals into the ground.
• If the pepper has pale leaves that also turn yellow, the plant lacks nitrogen. Add fertilizer with its increased content.
• When the leaves of the pepper become purple, it is clearly not enough phosphorus. The root system suffers from this, if the soil is poor, the whole crop dies.

• With a lack of boron leaves fall, and the flowers are subjected to pronounced deformation.
• If the leaves curl into a tube, and their edges turn black, this indicates a lack of potassium.
• Foliage in the form of sewed, with gray-yellow dots - a sign of lack of calcium. If you find such a symptom, fertilizing becomes necessary.
• Do not leave fertilizers on the ground surface; they decompose and lose their beneficial properties.
• Complex fertilizers are applied, observing a two-week interval.
• Do not feed during the day, preferably early in the morning or after sunset.
• You should not plant a number of sweet and hot peppers.

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