How to feed pepper after planting in a greenhouse. How to feed peppers for growth in a greenhouse: the choice of fertilizer. Use caution when choosing fertilizer.

Pepper is a popular vegetable crop, although inferior to leaders such as tomatoes, potatoes or cucumbers. Despite its heat loving nature, this vegetable crop is grown not only in the southern regions of our country, but also in the Volga region, the middle zone and the Moscow Region, in the Urals and Siberia. But in areas with a short summer period, this vegetable crop is pre-grown seedlings at home, and then planted in greenhouses.

Getting a rich crop of this vegetable (sweet and bitter) in a greenhouse is not as easy as it seems at first glance. It is necessary to prepare the soil and the greenhouse itself in the spring for planting seedlings, grow strong and strong seedlings at home, and after transplanting the seedlings to a permanent place in a protected ground, properly care for it. Care for the bushes of this vegetable crop includes not only watering, loosening the soil and removing weeds, but also the timely introduction of nutrients.

Peppers are fed in the greenhouse at about the same time as in open soil. About what fertilizers should be used, what folk remedies exist for feeding these vegetables in protected soil - all this will be written below.

Advantages of Polycarbonate Greenhouses

Many gardeners make greenhouses from any improvised materials, but those who grow vegetables in regions with short summers prefer to build polycarbonate greenhouses. This relatively recently appeared building material has several advantages: the ability to retain heat at night, when the ambient temperature drops sharply, retains a certain air humidity, independent of weather conditions.

In addition, polycarbonate does not transmit ultraviolet radiation into the premises. Even a person who does not have special building skills can work with the material. Polycarbonate is easy to cut with reinforced metal scissors or an electric jigsaw. In addition, this lightweight material is flexible and ductile. Therefore, polycarbonate greenhouses can take any form that is convenient for growing vegetables or flowers.

Spring preparation

The preparation of the soil for planting seeds, as well as for planting seedlings of this heat-loving vegetable crop in greenhouses should be taken seriously. Seedlings should grow at home in the same soil as in the future after transplantation. Therefore, the identity of the composition of the soil in which the seeds will grow, and subsequently transplanted seedlings, will depend on how quickly the seedlings acclimatize after transplanting into greenhouses. And the quicker and easier the seedlings of peppers transfer the transplant to the protected ground, the further growth of the bushes, their growing vegetative mass, active flowering, abundant ovary formation and friendly ripening of the crop depend on it.

The soil in which these vegetables will grow must meet the following conditions:

Be fertile, loose and well-tolerated.
Have a slightly acidic, neutral or slightly alkaline pH. If the soil in the greenhouse is acidified, then in the autumn after harvesting vegetables for digging into the soil, adding lime or dolomite flour.
Fresh bird droppings or manure can be added to the greenhouse soil only in autumn. In spring, such a fresh top dressing will provoke a rapid growth of pepper foliage, but flowering will be weak.
In the spring before planting peppers seedlings, the protected soil is fertilized with complex fertilizers, which include more nitrogen and potassium, but less phosphorus.

Important! Fresh manure introduced into the soil in spring or summer provokes the development of rot on vegetable plants such as peppers or tomatoes.

Therefore, for fertilizing it is better to use complex types of fertilizers, which are sold in specialized stores and adapted directly for pepper.

How to fertilize

Top dressing of this vegetable crop in a protected soil is divided into:

the main ones that contribute to this vegetable crop according to a certain pattern;
additional, which are necessary for peppers grown in greenhouses.

Feeding with certain nutrients is necessary at specific times, they also differ in their composition:

introduction of organic matter (humus, compost, chicken droppings, rotted manure, horse peat);
complex mineral dressings, which include nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus in different proportions;
the introduction of complex fertilizers.

There are several ways to feed plants:

the introduction of nutrients "under the root";
foliar top dressing.

In the first method of fertilizing, the absorption of nutrients introduced directly into the soil is carried out by the roots of peppers. Fertilizers are applied both on the surface of the soil and inside the soil.

Scattering fertilizers on the soil surface, it should be remembered that in this case, fertilizing will be absorbed by the plant for a long time:

fertilizers will slowly decompose into nutrients that are more easily absorbed by the roots;
these beneficial substances can reach the root system with irrigation water or with rains.

With intra-soil top dressing, fertilizers are directly embedded in those places where the plant roots can get them faster. Thus, liquid manure or chicken droppings, as well as other mineral fertilizers rich in nitrogen, are introduced into the soil.

If the vegetative mass of the bushes of this vegetable is actively growing, but flowering is inactive, then the introduction of any fertilizer containing nitrogen into the soil should be stopped. The abundant appearance of buds and ovaries contributes to the introduction of liquid fertilizers containing superphosphate into the soil.

Comment! Fertilizing “under the root” is slowly absorbed by the root system of the culture - it can take at least 2-2.5 weeks before nutrients get to the plant.

But often an experienced vegetable grower, as peppers see what substances the plant urgently lacks. In this case, foliar top dressing is usually carried out.

Top dressing "on the sheet" should be alternated with the introduction of nutrients "under the root" in greenhouses. The main positive effect of foliar top dressing is faster absorption of nutrients by the aerial part of plants. Therefore, fertilizers "on the sheet" is carried out when some specific types of mineral or other useful substances are urgently needed by vegetable plants.

This type of fertilizer application is economical and is recommended for carrying out in cases where it is required to introduce trace elements so that they are quickly absorbed by peppers. When applying top dressing in the greenhouses, you can not pay attention to weather conditions, but in open ground foliar top dressing is carried out only in dry weather so that rainfall does not wash off undigested fertilizer from the foliage.

When to make nutrients

The main elements necessary for this vegetable crop in the process of growth, flowering and ripening of fruits are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But at different stages of growth of this vegetable crop, the proportions of minerals will be different, because each of these elements affects the plant in its own way. So, additives with nitrogen, which are part of organics or complex mineral elements, contribute to the active growth of the root system and vegetative mass. However, this same element negatively affects the beginning of flowering plants. Therefore, by the time buds appear, nitrogen is no longer introduced under plants in greenhouses. During this period, peppers growing in polycarbonate greenhouses require phosphorus and potassium. There are a number of top dressings that are carried out exclusively during the ripening period of the fruits. So, to feed peppers in greenhouses should be in the following dates:

The first top dressing is introduced 14-15 days after the seedlings are transplanted into the covered ground. During this period, seedlings will have time to take root in a new place - in a polycarbonate greenhouse. The first introduction of nutrients into the closed ground is necessarily organic (diluted in a 1:10 ratio liquid solution of chicken manure or diluted cow manure also in a ratio of 1:10). Organics, which contain a lot of easily assimilated nitrogen, help peppers growing in greenhouses to build up vegetative mass faster. 10-12 days after the first organic top dressing, it is recommended to introduce a mineral fertilizer consisting of calcium salt and superphosphate.
The second top dressing of peppers is carried out at the beginning of flowering - 7-10 days after the appearance of the first buds. This time, a solution of mixed fertilizers consisting of organic matter (cow manure) and phosphorus-potassium mineral fertilizer is introduced.
For the third time, peppers should be fed at the initial stage of fruit ripening. This time, substances similar to those introduced at the beginning of flowering are added to the ground.

Folk recipes for feeding vegetables

Not always complex mineral nutrients or organics can be applied on time under the bush of peppers in the open ground or in greenhouses. However, these plants require top dressing for growth, active flowering and normal fruiting. Here, folk recipes can come to the rescue.

Advice! You should not throw food waste into the bin - for example, drunk tea bags, banana peel or egg peel.

The peel from 4 bananas is brewed with boiling water (based on 3 liters of water for 4 skins) and infused for 3 days. Then the solution is filtered and introduced under the bushes of peppers in the greenhouse. Such an infusion contains a lot of potassium.

Egg shells, drunk tea leaves are usually laid in compost. This waste contains many useful trace elements, in particular calcium.

It is useful to prepare the following “green tea” for watering peppers in a greenhouse: plantain, nettle, dandelion, wood lice and coltsfoot are taken in equal proportions and poured with cool water. Insist such grass should be within 7 days. Then 1 liter of this infusion is diluted in a bucket of water and 1 liter of this “green” tea is added under each pepper bush.

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Depending on the natural conditions, the purpose of vegetables, the type of soil on the site, you need to choose the appropriate variety. There are plants that will feel good on heavy clay soils, although peppers with a mixture of sand or peat are more suitable.

You can select according to precocity, colors, productivity.

Some cultures constantly bloom and set new fruits until the fall. But in order to constantly get a crop, you need to know how to feed peppers during fruiting. And not only to know, but also to conduct regular events in the garden. All types of pepper come from America, where the air temperature is higher.

Therefore, the greatest results in the cultivation of pepper crops can be achieved only by the seedling method in a greenhouse, where it is easier to control the process. Feeding peppers in a greenhouse is slightly different from soil. It is necessary to observe the daylight hours: oddly enough, but plants bear fruit better when the day lasts less than 12 hours.

Care Features

Care should include:

the formation of the crown of plants, so that all branches receive the same amount of light;

pruning long stems;

mulching;

watering;

soil disinfection before planting;

pest and fungal diseases.

And, of course, top dressing - root and extra root.

Seed germination

Seeds before planting need keep in warm water for 5 - 6 hoursso that they swell. Water temperature - 50 degrees. Next, a container is prepared, on the bottom of which a wet cotton cloth is placed.

Seeds must lie 2 - 3 days for the formation of seedlings, after which they can be transferred to the ground - separate pots. Pepper seedlings do not tolerate picking, so it is better to use medium-sized pots, 8 cm in diameter. It no longer makes sense, since the root system grows slowly and does not have time to fill the entire volume.

Pre-germination allows you to get seedlings for 2 to 3 days after planting in pots. It is advisable to water them and cover with a film. When the sprouts appear, you need to control the temperature: in the afternoon it should be 26 - 28 degrees, at night 10 - 15.

Soil preparation

To achieve good absorption of nutrients, peppers must grow in loose soil, which is mixed in the following proportions:

compost - 2 parts;

sand - 1 part;

soil - 1 part.

Furnace ash is usually added to such a mixture to provide seedlings with phosphorus and potassium to form the root system. Enough 1 tablespoon of wood ash per 1 kg of the mixture. With the advent of the first large leaf, you can add a little nitrogen fertilizing so that the plant gains green mass.

Transplant to the soil

Based on the principles of crop rotation, the forerunners of pepper should be:

gourds - pumpkin, zucchini, cucumbers;

carrot;

cabbage.

Topping pepper in a greenhouse should begin with soil disinfection sulphate - 1 tablespoon per bucket of water. Another important point is the regular ventilation throughout the entire flowering and fruiting period. How to feed pepper in a greenhouse is up to the owner.

You can use both mineral mixtures and organics, if it is available in sufficient quantities. Suitable manure, chicken droppings, wood ash, various food waste from the kitchen, green nettle infusion.

After transplanting into open ground or in a greenhouse, which should be carried out carefully, without damaging the roots, you need to wait two weeks before starting to make nutrient mixtures. When the plants adapt, the first thing you can do is to water the infusion of manure:

in a bucket to pour 1/3 manure;

to fill with water;

wait 5-7 daysstirring occasionally;

dilute all amount of substance yet 10 buckets of water, that is - 1/10 .

Water under the root, making sure that the liquid does not fall on the leaves. The soil must be moist. For young seedlings, 1 liter of nutrient solution is enough.

Fertilizers for feeding peppers - dosages, folk recipes

In order for the ovaries to form in large quantities, you need to make a sufficient amount of potassium. But for potassium to be absorbed, phosphorus is necessary, since it directly affects the formation of a strong root system.

These two trace elements are added simultaneously.

Pepper is fed during flowering and fruiting with any available substances - mineral or organic. You can combine - it's even better. Mineral mixtures are used complex, containing nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.

Dosages are calculated according to the instructions. Do not exceed the norm, as this can cause damage to the roots and death of the plant. The principle is always the same - it is better to underfeed.

Organic fertilizer

The best organic fertilizer for feeding peppers during flowering and fruiting are all types of manure:

cattle;

horse;

sheep;

bird droppings.

But it’s dangerous to add fresh substance before landing, since large amounts of ammonia can burn the roots. Manure is added rotted or composted, which is even better.

Video: Feeding peppers during fruiting

Experienced gardeners who have specialized in growing various varieties of pepper for years recommend digging fresh manure with the ground during autumn soil preparation. During the winter, soil bacteria manage to process the substance. By spring, it goes into the form available for plant nutrition.

Peppers can be fed during the fruiting period with fresh manure or droppings, provided that it is pre-infused for a week with water and diluted:

cow manure 1/10;

chicken droppings 1/20.

Chicken droppings are very concentrated, therefore add 20 buckets of water to the tincture bucket.

The disadvantage of manure is the lack of phosphorus. It must be added separately in the form of superphosphate or ash. But ash can not always be found, since to obtain it you need to burn a lot of wood or coal.

A backup option may be the introduction of bone or fishmeal, which is also very costly if vegetables are grown for sale. Although the use of organic substances makes it possible to obtain environmentally friendly products that are not oversaturated with chemical components.

A simple remedy than to feed peppers for ripening is a green infusion of grass-weeds or nettles. To do this, you need:

chop grass and pour water for insisting. About a third of a bucket of grass, the rest is water.

insist 3 to 4 days;

strain.

To water under the root 1 liter per bush. You can also carry out foliar spraying with green fertilizer, just make sure that there are no drafts in the greenhouse. In the open ground, spraying is carried out in the early morning or evening, when the sun has completely set.

Important! Peppers are fed 2–3 times a month during flowering and fruiting. If necessary, it is possible to carry out therapeutic measures for the bushes so that the flowers and ovaries are not sick and do not drop

When using organics, the need to apply micronutrients to fertilizers disappears, since they are found in manure.

Mineral Mixtures

For the fruits to be fleshy and sweet (as much as possible with pepper), greenhouse plants and plants in the open field require potassium and phosphorus. These elements need to be introduced before planting for digging and added to the flowering period to save the number of ovaries.

An important point than to feed peppers in August. In the greenhouse, plants bear fruit until late autumn. When they have gained green mass and entered the flowering stage, the dosage of nitrogen mineral fertilizers should be reduced to a minimum so as not to stimulate the growth of shoots to the detriment of the crop. From mid-summer to late autumn, the main mineral fertilizers will be phosphorus and potassium.

Caution! Pepper does not tolerate potassium chloride - it is very toxic and causes the movement of juices to stop in shoots

Potassium sulfate (potassium sulfate), superphosphate should be used. For watering on a bucket of water necessary:

1 tablespoon superphosphate;

1 teaspoon potassium sulfate.

If mineral fertilizers are scarce, plants show this through.

In a protected ground, you can achieve a good harvest of heat-loving vegetable crops. In order to understand what types of fertilizers to use for feeding peppers in a polycarbonate greenhouse, you need to know the requirements for soil fertility at different stages of vegetation.

Nutritional needs during the season

The cultivation of bell pepper in closed ground involves several fertilizing from planting seedlings to the formation of fruits. The amount of fertilizer depends on the initial soil composition and the state of the crop. Greenhouse peppers are characterized by a high intake of nutrients from the soil throughout the entire development period.

During the active formation of young shoots and root sprouting, the culture needs phosphorus and nitrogen. The lack of important elements is manifested in the appearance of seedlings in the greenhouse:

the trunk is stretched and becomes thin;
new leaves grow slowly, they are smaller;
the lower shoots turn yellow and die off.

During flowering and pouring fruits in the greenhouse, the vegetable needs top dressing with potassium. This substance promotes the formation of ovaries and accelerates the ripening of vegetables. Calcium and magnesium are necessary for the culture throughout all stages of development.

Gardeners should adhere to several fertilizer rules for pepper grown in a greenhouse:

apply working solutions after moistening the soil;
loosen topsoil after applying nutrients;
use fertilizers under the root of the plantings or for spraying the shoots;
be guided by the appearance of the shoots to determine the need for food;
apply alternately mineral dressings and organics.

Peppers in a greenhouse or greenhouse do not fertilize more than once every 2 weeks. Excess minerals accumulate in the form of nitrates in the pulp of a vegetable. Organic nutrition does not change the composition of the fruit, while it is difficult to calculate the exact content of elements, for example, in compost or mullein infusion.

For seedlings

Favorable conditions and fertile soil help develop strong seedlings of pepper. If seedlings grow poorly, change the color of greenery and stretch, you should feed the soil with the missing substances before planting in the greenhouse. Complex mineral fertilizer will increase the immunity of peppers, allow seedlings to quickly take root in a greenhouse in a new place.

Young shoots of culture are fed up to a pick, when 2 worthless leaf unfolds. Fertilizer is applied under the root in moist soil. Feeding should be high in nitrogen. The second procedure is carried out 14 days after the seedlings have time to take root in individual pots.

After landing at a permanent place

The first top dressing of pepper after transplantation into closed ground is carried out with organic fertilizers. 14 days later, after the seedlings were planted in the greenhouse, the earth is enriched with organic matter. Use a solution of mullein or bird droppings. The recommended concentration of fertilizer in the settled water is 1:10. Before feeding pepper after planting in the greenhouse, it is necessary to compare the fertility of the soil in the beds and the condition of the seedlings. Nutrient composition of the soil and strong bushes do not feel the need for additional enrichment with microelements. Top dressing can be postponed for 1-2 weeks.

Flowering and ovary formation

During flowering, seedlings actively absorb potassium and phosphorus from the soil. During this period, you can feed peppers in the greenhouse with ammonium nitrate and superphosphate. Fertilizer consumption per bush - 0.5 l. Dosage - according to the manufacturer's instructions.

Gardeners recommend additionally feeding plantings in the greenhouse at the time of fruit setting by spraying the ground part of the crop. As a source of nutrients, use green nettle infusion with the addition of wood ash or special preparations Ovary and Bud.

If the pepper in the greenhouse began to drop the ovaries, you should spray the plantings with a teaspoon of boric acid, diluted in 10 liters of water.

Fruit growth and ripening

The last 2 top dressing of peppers in the greenhouse is carried out at the time of ripening vegetables. During fruiting, the culture should receive a sufficient amount of potash and phosphorus fertilizers. Trace elements contribute to the growth of the mass of peppers and the acquisition of a characteristic color. For dressing in the greenhouse using one of the recipes:

40 g of superphosphate and 30 g of potassium sulfate are mixed, 10 l of water are added and plantings are shed at the rate of 1 l of solution per 1 bush.
In a plastic container soaked weeds and ash, insist under the lid for a week. Fermented concentrate diluted with water 1:15 to fertilize the soil.
Potassium humate granules enriched with trace elements are diluted in water according to the instructions, spill the solution under the root of each bush.

Peppers can be fed for fruit growth in the greenhouse with other folk remedies. Gardeners recommend the use of ash, rotted manure and other sources of organic fertilizers.

Features of fertilizing in greenhouse cultivation

Unlike fertilizing peppers in open beds, greenhouse conditions require regular feeding. The gardener should keep a calendar in which the dates and types of fertilizers used are marked.

In closed ground, it is better to give preference to organic top dressing. Ash, infusion of mullein and bird droppings are easily digested with pepper and allow you to collect an environmentally friendly crop in the greenhouse.

Feeding Technique

The microclimate of the greenhouse in which pepper is grown must meet the requirements of the culture. A vegetable likes high humidity, but its excessive concentration can lead to fungal diseases. After each application of root or foliar dressing, it is necessary to ventilate the room.

The plant should be protected from drafts. The greenhouse is ventilated by opening either a door or a window leaf.

Root dressing of the culture is always done in the morning. Heat-loving pepper is watered with a nutrient solution, heated in the sun to 25 ° C. Foliar nutrition is recommended in cloudy weather at a temperature of 20-22 ° C. In such conditions, the stomata on the shoots are maximally open, and the assimilation of useful elements is faster. By spraying in the shortest possible time the deficiency of the elements is filled.

The most common mistakes

The capricious vegetable crop requires close attention of the gardener during the season. Often, a lack of experience forces gardeners to make mistakes in organizing feeding:

excessively supply the soil with nitrogen-containing fertilizers. In this case, the bushes are actively building up shoots to the detriment of setting peppers. It is enough to introduce an element at the beginning of the growing season in the form of 1 glass of urea per 10 l;
fertilize dry soil. This provokes a burn of the root processes, and inhibits the development of culture;
ignore foliar spraying during the cooling period, when the bushes need to strengthen immunity against fungal diseases;
overly addicted to the use of mineral fertilizers to feed the beds. Nitrates accumulate in the fruits;
violate the watering regime. In dry soil, peppers are deficient in boron, which is absorbed by water. The lack of an element leads to the falling of buds and ovaries.

Without additional nutrition, it is not possible to get a plentiful crop of vegetables in the greenhouse. Properly organized nutrition promotes the ripening of a large number of fruits, positively affects the taste and juiciness of the pulp. Peppers should be fertilized based on the recommendations of experienced gardeners to avoid unwanted mistakes.

Bell pepper belongs to the nightshade family and is a heat-loving plant, depending on the climate of the region, it can grow in soil, greenhouses or greenhouses. This vegetable is demanding on potassium and nitrogen, so the question often arises: how to feed pepper in a greenhouse? When feeding, varietal features should be taken into account.

At the initial stages, plants simply need phosphorus fertilizers, since they stimulate root development, and preparations containing calcium and nitrogen should be used to stimulate the formation of fruits. The soil substrate in the greenhouse or in the greenhouse for peppers should also have sufficient fertility, if the soil is sparse, peppers can stop growing and not give such desired fruits.

Pepper is a very thermophilic plant, and it is in the greenhouse that all optimal conditions of humidity and temperature are created, as a result of which bell peppers from the greenhouse will delight you with their appearance and taste.

Greenhouse soil preparation

Feeding Technique

First application

Second application

Feeding Mode

Conclusion

Greenhouse soil preparation

Growth processes directly depend on the composition of the soil in which the seedlings of peppers are planted, so before planting seedlings, it is necessary to prepare greenhouse soil.

For this, measures should be taken to disinfect the soil; for this, a slightly pink solution of potassium permanganate (0.5 l of solution per square meter) is used. Before planting make the following solutions:

a solution of rotted manure, one liter of mullein, a spoon of copper sulfate per 10 liters of liquid is used for its preparation. Such a solution is applied in a dose of five liters per meter approximately 5-6 days before planting seedlings of pepper;
a mixture of 20 grams of superphosphate, potassium sulfate and azofoski;
to prevent the appearance of excess dampness, the soil should be sprinkled with ash or dolomite flour, these substances can avoid an increase in acidity;
the introduction of sawdust, rotted manure and peat into the soil can improve its structure, sometimes crushed eggshells are used for these purposes.

In some cases, greenhouse soil is prepared in the fall, and 5 kilograms of fertilizer per meter can be used as nitrogen fertilizer, and superphosphate can be applied at a dose of 50 grams per meter.

After autumn top dressing, in the spring it is enough to dig the soil with a turnover of the reservoir.

Varieties of peppers grown in greenhouses should have a long growing season. Famous varieties of pepper for greenhouses are:

Amika F1 is an exotic look of peppers with cream-colored fruits;
The Golden Pheasant;
"Sun";
"Orange Miracle";
“Veronica”, “Anastasia”, “Kolobok”, “Shorokshary” possess red fruits.

Feeding Technique

To cultivate pepper in a greenhouse, it is very important not to abuse fertilizers, therefore it is enough to introduce useful elements every two weeks.

Pre peppers should be abundantly watered and only then fertilizer should be applied.

Then carry out loosening, if the soil surface is covered with mulch, loosening is not necessary. Organics and minerals must be correctly alternated throughout the entire growing process.

For proper top dressing, the following terms and proportions must be observed.

First application

At the initial stage, peppers are fed in the greenhouse 10-15 days after placing the pepper bushes in a permanent place.

Often seedlings are planted at the stage of reaching a height of 20 cm. At the time of formation of the ovaries, bird droppings should be made, observing the dosage of 1 part of the litter and 10 parts of water.

Important! Experienced vegetable growers recommend using herbs and microelements as microelements. In this case, various herbs (nettle, wood lice, sow thistle) are finely chopped, two pinches of wood ash and a bucket of rotted manure are added, put all this in a container of 100 l and add water.

In this case, the herbal gruel should be about 8 kilograms. Such a solution is insisted for 10 days, after which they are watered, approximately 1.5 liters per bush.

Second application

The second time, peppers are fed after 15 days, it is during this period that alternation should be taken into account, that is, if at the beginning you treated with mineral fertilizers, then the next time it is carried out with organo-containing elements.

As a top dressing, the following composition of useful substances is used: a glass of urea, half a bucket of bird droppings of rotted manure, all the components are poured into a container or container with a capacity of 100 l and water is added.

Then they are allowed to stand for 8 days, after which they are irrigated, at the rate of 5 liters of solution per meter.

The saturated green color of the leaves and stems indicates that the soil contains an excessive nitrogen content, in these cases you should prepare this mixture: add 10 teaspoons of potassium sulfate and superphosphate to 10 liters of water.

Spraying or foliar top dressing solves several problems:

to stimulate growth processes, peppers are sprayed with a solution: one teaspoon of urea per 10 liters of water;
if pepper discards leaves and fruit ovaries should be fed with a solution: a teaspoon of boric acid and 10 liters of water;
if the fruits are sung unevenly, then it is necessary to spray with a mixture of one teaspoon of superphosphate and 5 l of water.

To protect plants in the greenhouse from pests, spraying with an aqueous ash solution is carried out.

Important! Pepper negatively relates to excess nitrogen-containing fertilizers, such an excess leads to the formation of a saturated green ground mass, but inhibits the formation of ovaries and fruits.

Feeding Mode

To develop a feeding regimen during the growing season should be based on what fertilizers were applied to the soil in autumn and spring.

Peppers that grow in small greenhouses should be fed approximately once every two weeks 3 times per season.

Phosphorus fertilizers should be applied throughout the entire period, it can be said, from seed to the period of fruit formation.

Phosphorus has a beneficial effect on the development of the root system and accelerates the ripening of fruits.

Almost the same effect is exerted by magnesium and calcium, so timely and regular application of such fertilizers will help to get excellent yields of fragrant peppers.

Peppers need organic fertilizers throughout the entire period, the main requirement for such fertilizers is the introduction of drugs in small doses.

Important! To preserve the bushes, fresh manure should not be used as organic fertilizer, as it can cause damage and the bushes will simply burn out.

An effective fertilizer is a solution containing:

Ammonium nitrate - 20 grams.
Potassium sulfate - 30 grams.
Superphosphate - 40 gr.
10 liters of water.

Carry out regular inspections of the bushes, and if you find the following undesirable symptoms:

Twisting the edges of the sheet plates indicates a lack of potassium.
If a darkened color (violet) appears on the back of the leaves of the pepper, this indicates a lack of phosphorus elements.
The gray color of the stems and leaves indicates a lack of nitrogen.

In such cases, top dressing by spraying will help you, a huge plus of foliar top dressing is that the nutrients in this way quickly penetrate the leaves and stems and have a positive effect.

In rare cases, additional feeding is carried out, which have a targeted effect, for example:

strengthening growth processes;
acceleration of ripening effects;
stimulation of the formation of ovaries.

Conclusion

From the above information, it is easy to understand that in order to get a good harvest of peppers, three important steps should be done:

the right choice of variety;
prepare the soil well;
to develop a competent feeding scheme and know exactly how to feed peppers in a greenhouse.

Observing all the stages, be sure that you will delight your loved ones with the sweet and fragrant fruits of bell pepper. Good luck

Sweet pepper is a representative of nightshade (along with eggplant and tomatoes). This perennial plant species, the fruits of which are consumed both in fresh and in processed form, is shrubby. Vegetable culture responds well to substances introduced into the soil. Peppers are especially good at nitrogen and potassium, but you need to be careful with chlorine - the vegetable does not like it.

What loves sweet pepper

In general, pepper is known as a rather whimsical plant, but you should not be afraid of it and refuse to cultivate the culture. It must be remembered that it does not tolerate abundant watering, as well as a lack of water. Pepper bears fruit well when the weather is warm and sunny. Loosening the soil should be carried out carefully, since the vegetable crop has a superficial root system.

It should be remembered that such a vegetable crop as peppers loves loamy and fertile soil. The plant does not tolerate heavy earth because it is acidic. If this is the soil on the site, it should be lightened. To do this, use peat or sand, which is introduced when digging the earth. Along with this, you can add last year's organic mixture, for example, cow manure or compost.

The composition of organic and mineral fertilizers added to the soil depends on factors such as the age of seedlings, the variety of vegetables, and weather conditions. You should also understand what is specifically applied for top dressing for sweet bell pepper. For example, phosphorus additives are necessary for the growth and development of a plant (before the stage of fruit formation). During the period of active formation of ovaries, pepper requires potassium. Throughout the entire period, starting from development and growth, and ending with flowering, the vegetable crop needs to be fed with calcium and nitrogen.

Did you know?
With prolonged cloudy weather, the amount of potash fertilizers should be increased by about 1/5. In the event that it is dry and sunny on the street, on the contrary, their number should be reduced by 20%.

Outdoor feeding

When the seedlings grow to the desired size, they transfer to its planting in open ground. Peppers must be thoroughly fertilized before this. For these purposes, use wood ash, potassium sulfate, as well as humus and superphosphates. To simplify the task, you can use ready-made complex fertilizer for sweet peppers, which contain a balanced amount of nutrients. Fortunately, in the 21st century, such mixtures can be easily found on the market. After transplanting seedlings in open ground, feeding should be continued with a clear frequency until the formation of the first fruits.

In general, the start date for feeding pepper depends on factors such as planting time, volume, quantity and composition of the first fertilizers. For example, in case of top dressing in the fall, in the spring less mineral fertilizers will be required.

Sweet peppers planted on open ground are traditionally fed once every 3 weeks. Planting seedlings is carried out when the plant reaches a height of about 15-25 centimeters, as well as when buds are planted. About 2.5 weeks after transplanting the vegetable crop to a permanent place, it blooms. It is during this period that the first top dressing is carried out.

To do this, use stale cow manure or a solution of bird droppings diluted in water. If there are no ready-made organic fertilizers, then pepper is fertilized with a composition dissolved in warm water from ammonium nitrate, superphosphate, and also potassium.

Useful fact

An excellent fertilizer that contains all the necessary macro and trace elements is an herbal cocktail. It is very easy to do it yourself. This will require herbs such as dandelion, nettle, plantain, as well as any weeds. Plants are finely chopped and used as top dressing.

The second feeding of pepper

After two weeks, after the first application of nutrients, a second top dressing should be carried out. It occurs during the formation of inflorescences, up to the moment of formation of the first fruits. In the event that minerals were previously used, now organic substances should be used. For this, you can use urea, bird droppings, as well as manure from last year. The ingredients dissolve in water and infuse for a week. Top dressing is performed as follows: five liters of liquid per square meter of area.

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As already mentioned above, peppers need various trace elements throughout the entire period of development and growth. These include phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, iodine, zinc, molybdenum, manganese and boron. Foliar top dressing is an ideal way to add nutrients. In other words, pepper is sprayed with a solution containing the necessary elements.

Pepper fertilizer in greenhouses

A strange fact, but pepper, which is grown in a greenhouse, and not on open ground, is fed with useful substances in a completely different way. So, organic matter has a positive effect on the amount of future crops, and minerals are responsible for the height and volume of bushes.

When planting pepper in a greenhouse, you should adhere to the following fertilizer application:

Feeding rules

There are a number of rules that must be observed when organizing feeding for seedlings of sweet pepper:

This vegetable crop does not tolerate fresh manure very well. Last year’s best fertilizer is best for these purposes.
Seedlings are forbidden to feed after the picking procedure, you should wait two weeks.
The fertilizer solution should be slightly warmer than room temperature.
Feeding should be done carefully, without getting on the stems and leaves of pepper.
The best time to fertilize peppers is early morning or evening after sunset.

Types of fertilizer for pepper

Mineral fertilizing for peppers is used only in liquid form. It is customary to dilute powders in water at room temperature to the required consistency, after which the composition is watered with soil under the plant, without getting on the stems and leaves. Today, in the market for garden products, you can find various mineral mixtures. Experts and experienced gardeners advise you to purchase integrated products that have a balanced composition.

As for organic fertilizers, the best option here is last year's manure and bird droppings. This type of fertilizing has a beneficial effect on the amount of the future crop and its fruitful properties. Fertilizing the soil with fertilizer is carried out in accordance with previously developed schemes, so as not to overfeed the vegetable crop.

Folk fertilizer from ash and shell

Tip
If you put the fertilizer being prepared next to pepper seedlings, hydrogen sulfide released into the air will positively affect the plant, stimulating its development. Before making the resulting solution, the soil should be thoroughly fluffed.

How to fertilize with yeast

The introduction of yeast into the soil positively affects the composition of the soil, completely rebuilding its structure. Fertilizing microorganisms contribute to the rapid growth of seedlings, as well as increase the productivity of vegetable crops.

In order to prepare top dressing, the following ingredients should be mixed: 10 grams of dry yeast, a bucket of water, 4 tablespoons of granulated sugar. The resulting solution is concentrated, therefore, before fertilizing the soil, dilute it with water in a proportion of one to ten.

Experienced gardeners sometimes replace yeast with wheat grains. To do this, they should be filled with water and left in a warm place for a day. During this time, the grains swell, after which they need to be ground into gruel and mixed with sugar. Before using fertilizers, the mass is also diluted with water in a proportion of one to ten.

Additional fertilization

Sometimes it happens that a vegetable crop requires additional fertilizer in addition to the main scheme and the norm of feeding. This can happen when the soil is too acidic and pepper bushes grow very slowly.

Additional feeding is carried out in accordance with the following rules:

Overfeeding the soil can adversely affect the fertility of peppers.

When applying fertilizers and fertilizing sweet pepper, you need to understand how one substance or another affects the plant, as well as what the consequences of an overdose are:

Conclusion

Pepper is undoubtedly a popular vegetable on the Russian table. It is used in raw form (adding to salads), as well as in processed - stewed, pickled. Thanks to the peculiar taste and useful composition, the vegetable won the love of gardeners.

Summing up, it should be noted that top dressing of such a vegetable crop as pepper has a great influence on its productivity. It is important to make top dressing according to the scheme and within the recommended norm, without overfeeding the soil. And remember, that plant, which was properly looked after, will definitely thank you with juicy fruits.

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