How to plant colorful peppers? Planting method and time

Colorful pepper growth environment requirements

Colorful peppers like a warm, slightly humid, sunny growing environment. They are not cold-resistant, drought-resistant, and afraid of waterlogging. Colorful peppers do not have high requirements for soil. They only need sandy soil that is rich in fertility, organic matter, loose, and well-drained.

Colorful pepper planting time

Colorful peppers prefer a warm growing environment and have relatively high temperature requirements when planted. They are generally planted in February-March or July-August.

How to grow colorful peppers

Colorful peppers are usually propagated by sowing. If they are carefully cared for, they will bear fruit in 3 months. However, if colorful pepper seedlings are planted, the time can be shortened by 1 month, and they will bear fruit in just 50-60 days.

Steps for growing colorful peppers

Seeds can generally germinate in an environment above 15 degrees. The more suitable germination temperature is around 25-30 degrees. First, you need to choose a suitable flowerpot, put in sterilized nutrient soil, and water it thoroughly at 3 cm from the mouth of the pot.

Wait until the water penetrates to the bottom, then evenly sow the colorful pepper seeds in the flowerpot, cover with a thin layer of fine soil, and then water once to wet the seedbed. When the colorful pepper seeds grow 5-6 true leaves, you can transplant them into pots.

Key points for planting colorful peppers

Colorful peppers like moisture, but do not water them too much. Just water them when they are dry and wet when they are wet. Appropriate water control before flowering will help flower bud differentiation and increase fruit setting rate.

How to grow colorful peppers quickly

Colorful peppers do not like fertilizer very much. After transplanting, when the plant grows to about 20 cm, you can apply compound fertilizer once, and then apply phosphorus and potassium fertilizer before flowering, so that it will grow well.

Precautions for growing colorful peppers

It is not suitable to apply chloride-containing fertilizers (such as thionyl chloride, ammonium chloride, etc.) to colorful peppers, which can promote the growth of fruit shape. Colorful peppers have a short growth period and a long fruiting period. If managed scientifically and the environment is suitable, the fruiting period will be particularly long, and they can even bear fruit in a year.