When growing peppers, it is necessary to perform a variety of activities in a certain period: from sowing seeds to harvesting. At the stage of obtaining a good planting material, a pickling of pepper seedling takes place, on account of which the gardeners have different opinions.
From the article you will find out whether you need to pick up the pepper and how to do it right.
Do I need to pick up peppers?
The answer to this question is ambiguous. Let's see what is, in general, a picket, and why it is done.
Diving is the removal of a part of the stem root from seedlings to stimulate the development of lateral and accessory ones, which occurs most often when seedlings are planted in individual containers. As a result, plants receive a large area of nutrition, as well as enough air and light. The spiked seedlings have a powerfully developed root system and better hold the earth clod when transplanting.
The rod root of the plant is usually shortened by 1/3 to 1/4 of the length before planting into a new container. After such a procedure, the root system of pepper is restored very long, which leads to a slow development of the plant, and sometimes to its death. Therefore, if there is no special need, it is better not to dive the pepper seedlings.
How to pick the pepper?
Due to the fact that when buying even the best seeds, no one is immune from unstable shoots, so 2-3 pips of seeds are usually planted in one pot. If enough sprouts have risen, unnecessary plants simply pinch the top or completely cut off the scissors above the ground, leaving only the strongest at a certain distance. If you planted valuable seeds or sprouted a little, then when the seedlings grow, they will need to be dived.
Pepper can also be dived in the phase of cotyledonous leaves, and when it grows 2 real leaves. It is important to remember that while its central root can not be shortened.
Preliminary it is necessary to prepare:
- nutrient mixture - mixing soil, sand and humus, 5 liters of this mixture can add 2 tbsp. spoons of ashes ;
- cups for seedlings up to 0.5 liters - they can be made of paper, bottles, boxes of milk, take plastic or peat, make holes in the bottom;
- seedlings - it is necessary 2 hours before transplantation to water it well, since the plant is easier to pull out of moist soil, and the harm done to the roots is minimized;
- a spatula or a peg.
Dive the peppers according to the following algorithm:
- Fill the cup with 2/3 of the earth mixture, compact it, make a depression in the center of the peg and moisten it.
- Carefully, taking two fingers with a sprout, we take it with a clod of earth. If several people are at the same time, then they should be separated so as not to damage the roots.
- Place the plant carefully in the groove so that the roots look down and do not wrap, and the cotyledon leaves protrude 2 cm above the surface. To do this, you can lower the sprout a little deeper, just sprinkle it with earth and then slightly pull it upward, this will allow the root to occupy a vertical position.
- With your fingers, squeeze the soil around the pepper.
- All plants are well watered with warm water, it is possible with the addition of a biostimulator (HB-101).
Transplanted seedlings for a couple of days put in a warm, but darkened place. Observe the temperature regime + 18-22 ° C is very important, since the coolness is harmful to the young pepper and its root system. In the future, provided with all the conditions for growth and development, plants will grow up healthy and strong.
Thus, if you properly spend the pickling of pepper seedlings and arrange proper care for them, you will receive, like many other truck farmers, a full-fledged harvest of this wonderful vegetable.