Chili Pepper Balcony Pot Planting Method
The editor will tell you about the chili pepper balcony pot planting method and the experience of green plant maintenance throughout the process of planting chili peppers in pots. It will surely help you, so let's learn about it together!
In spring, it is good to raise flowers and vegetables. Planting a few pots of chili peppers on the balcony is convenient and easy to maintain. As long as there is enough space and sufficient sunlight on the balcony, you can not only raise flowers but also plant some of your favorite fruits and vegetables, such as chili peppers and tomatoes, which are easy-to-grow vegetables. They can be planted in the ground or in a vegetable garden, as well as in pots. Don't worry, just sprinkle a little seed and you can also enjoy abundant harvests. When you see the vegetables you planted by hand bearing fruit, it feels great. The potted chili peppers can bear fruit continuously for several months, and they are also very easy to plant.
How to plant chili peppers on the balcony? Remember three tips for fast growth, lush leaves, and more chili peppers
1. Seedling raising
Actually, there are many types of chili peppers, such as colorful bell peppers, large sweet peppers the size of apples that turn yellow or red when ripe, which are very beautiful. There are also very spicy pointed peppers and not-so-spicy green peppers, all of which are equally easy to plant. Moreover, the germination rate of chili peppers is really high. As long as they are sown at about 20 degrees Celsius in spring without germination promotion, they will all germinate within a week, and then you can wait for the harvest.
If you sow seeds in spring when the temperature is relatively low, after sowing, you can cover the outside of the flower pot with a layer of plastic film to increase temperature and keep warm, prompting it to germinate earlier.
Chili Pepper Balcony Pot Planting Method
2. Transplanting and Fertilizing Chili Peppers
When the chili seedlings grow to four or five leaves and the true leaves have emerged, they can be transplanted into a larger pot. The diameter of the pot for planting chili peppers should be about 25 centimeters. If you can't find a pot, you can also use some polystyrene boxes or old face basins from home as a substitute, drill a hole in the bottom, which is convenient, useful, and saves money. A little ugly won't matter.
After transplanting the chili seedlings into a large pot, do not place them in the sun at first. Let them recover for two to three days, and then expose them to the sun as usual. Water them in time when the soil is dry. When new leaves start to grow, you can begin to apply fertilizer, preferably organic fertilizer. Common organic fertilizers such as sheep manure, chicken manure, pigeon manure, wood ash, and cake fertilizer can all be used. Some vegetable friends make their own organic fertilizer and dilute it with water to water the chili peppers, which is also very good.