Growing hot peppers
Peppers love a lot of light and warmth. Therefore, ensure a constant temperature of 22 degrees or more with sufficient sunlight. If the temperature is too low, the growth stops completely and with too little light it becomes small weak pepper plants. Of course we don't want that. Enough talk, let's get started!
You have received a package with seed tablets of coconut soil and bags with pepper seeds. The breeding steps are fairly simple and we explain below.
NB! These pepper seeds are so hot that it can be harmful when the skin or eyes can be touched. Therefore pick them up with gloves or tweezers.
- Place the germ tablets on a flat plate or a bowl.
- Pour water over the tablets until they are completely swollen (they retain their shape through the bold net around it).
- Are they completely sucked with water? Then press a pepper seed in each potting soil tower (half a centimeter deep is sufficient).
- Spray the seeds regularly with water and ensure that the soil does not dry out. Do this with all the next steps too.
- As soon as the cuttings come up, two leaves quickly form on the stem. The moment they have two normal leaves in addition to the first 2 germ leaves, they can be repotted
- Place the cutting including coconut soil tablet in a larger pot of approximately 10 centimeters in diameter filled with cutting soil.
- As soon as they are even larger and have several leaves, the plants can move to a larger pot of at least 15 centimeters in diameter filled with special vegetable garden mix or normal potting soil.
- Depending on the moment when you have sown, you can also place the pepper plant outside on a sunny and sheltered place from mid -May.
- From this point it is a matter of keeping the ground wet and ensuring sufficient sunlight and warmth. You will see the first peppers appear within a few weeks!