Content
- Tips for caring for ornamental peppers as a houseplant
- How do you pour ornamental paprika?
- When and how do you fertilize ornamental peppers?
- Why should you cut the first flower?
- Is repot necessary?
- Which diseases and pests can occur?
- Can you bring ornamental peppers over the winter?
- Tips
The ornamental paprika is easy to clean and bears decorative flowers and fruits
Tips for caring for ornamental peppers as a houseplant
Ornamental paprika with its decorative yellow and red fruits is not only in the flower window, but also in the bucket on the terrace as a real eye-catcher. The care is not very expensive, more important is a favorable location. How to properly cultivate ornamental paprika.
How do you pour ornamental paprika?
The non-poisonous ornamental paprika tolerates neither complete dryness nor waterlogging. Water the plant regularly in summer. Excess irrigation water must be poured off immediately so that no rot can develop.
When and how do you fertilize ornamental peppers?
Until the ornamental paprika flowers, fertilize it every two weeks with some liquid fertilizer. From the first flower is no longer fertilized.
If you plan to eat the fruits later, avoid using fertilizer with flower fertilizer.
Why should you cut the first flower?
As the first flower develops in the middle of a single bud, the so-called royal flower. If you cut these, the ornamental paprika branches better and later more flowers form.
Is repot necessary?
Since the ornamental paprika is maintained only one year until the fruit ripens, you do not need to repot it.
However, it can be worthwhile to buy purchased plants immediately after purchase in fresh substrate. Often the supplied earth is too humid.
Suitable substrate is potting soil. When the fruits are taken for consumption, you should put together the substrate of compost and garden soil yourself.
Which diseases and pests can occur?
Gray mold predominantly occurs when the substrate is constantly too moist and the ornamental paprika gets too little air. Do not place it too close to other plants to allow the air to circulate.
Spider mites and aphids are more common, especially at very low humidity.
Can you bring ornamental peppers over the winter?
Ornamental paprika is an annual ornamental plant. After the fruit fall, it is consumed and disposed of on the compost. So it does not have to be wintered, but is re-seeded or bought every spring.
Tips
The fruits of ornamental paprika are edible. However, you should only eat them if you are sure that the plant has not been sprayed. Pre-treated plants are too heavily polluted.