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- Growing hot peppers is easy
- Cuttings or seeds
- The sowing
- The Pikieren
- In the pot or in the vegetable patch?
Making hot peppers from seeds is easy
Growing hot peppers is easy
Gardening makes you happy and is always on the rise. No wonder, self-grown fruits taste better on principle than the offers from the supermarket. In addition, you can be sure that no chemicals are involved in the case of a pepper made in-house. With this guide, you will soon be proud to harvest your first hot peppers.
Cuttings or seeds
First of all, you have to decide whether to buy an already preferred plant from the retailer (available from February) or to wait patiently for the seed to start to germinate. The latter can be purchased either on the Internet or in specialist shops. The advantage of seed breeding is the much wider variety. Even less known varieties are thus available. Alternatively, you can also get the seeds from dry fruits. Make sure that the hot peppers are already fully ripe, because seeds from green fruits often do not germinate. This is how to proceed with semen collection:
The sowing
You first sow a hot pepper in spring pots. Fill with conventional garden soil and press two to three seeds into the substrate. January is perfect for sowing. However, if you keep the soil moist, for example by placing the spring pots in a bowl of water and placing them in a warm place, the germination will be successful all year round.
The Pikieren
Make sure that the pepperoni shoots do not dry out, or due to waterlogging, the plant will grow quickly. If the ground frost for the ice sacred in mid-May is finally over, the best conditions prevail outside to replant the hot peppers.A sure sign is the formation of the second pair of leaves after the cotyledons. Carefully dig the young plant out and remove it with wooden tweezers. In the new pot, a layer of algae substrate supports rooting.
In the pot or in the vegetable patch?
Lastly, the only question is whether you want to continue to cultivate your hot peppers as a container plant or in the soil. Bear in mind that a potato in the pot can be better wintered due to the mobility and the location is easier. The latter can be regulated with a greenhouse that you use in keeping ground but also.