Preparing pepper seeds for sowing - instructions

Every year before the beginning of spring, the summer resident begins to think about what he will plant in the beds. Among the traditional list are potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, and, of course, peppers. Any gardening enthusiast dreams of growing a rich harvest. Before the start of the summer season, it is worth taking seriously the preparation for sowing pepper seeds. In this way, you will ensure quick germination and increase the chances of a good harvest. Before starting sowing, you should use one of the methods - disinfection, soaking and bubbling, hardening.

Selection and disinfection

Careful selection should be made before sowing pepper seeds. To do this, you need to lay them out on paper, then reject large and very small ones. Only medium-sized should be left, while it is necessary to pay attention to the hollowness.

To determine, you need one liter of water and 30-40 g of table salt. Seeds must be placed in the resulting solution. So, the hollow ones will float to the surface, and the good ones will remain at the bottom. The procedure will take only seven minutes and you will be able to determine the quality. After you throw away all the bad floating seed, the remaining ones at the bottom must be washed and dried by sprinkling on paper.

In addition to selection, disinfection must be included in the preparation of pepper seeds for sowing in order to ensure the health of the plant and prevent infection.

To carry out the disinfection procedure at home, the easiest way is to use potassium permanganate or potassium permanganate. For this, a 1-2% solution of potassium permanganate is prepared and for a period of ten to fifteen minutes, the already selected seeds are dipped into this solution. After disinfection, they must be rinsed with water and dried. The disinfection procedure must be carried out just before sowing.

Soaking and bubbling

For the impatient, who wants to see the sprouts sooner, there is a soaking method. Pre-disinfected seeds are placed on moistened foam rubber or gauze and left in a warm place. It is necessary to control the moisture content of the fabric, protecting it from drying out.

After the swelling of the pepper seeds is noticeable, they are planted in moist soil, or they wait for the germination of sprouts, and then they are planted. It is very important to remember about soil moisture, otherwise the sprouts will die.

Instead of a soaking procedure, you can use bubbling. This technology is the treatment of seeds with oxygen. The result is seeds that are free of harmful microflora. This technology is carried out as follows.

Before sowing, in a period of one to two weeks, it is necessary to lower the tip of the aquarium compressor into a high container filled with two-thirds of water (temperature 20-22 ° C). When bubbles appear in the water, place the seeds in such water. The bubbling procedure is carried out within 24–36 hours, after which they must be dried.

Hardening

To make the seeds easier to transfer planting to the ground, and also be resistant to temperature extremes, a hardening procedure should be carried out before sowing. There are two ways to carry out this technology.

1. After disinfection, they are soaked in warm water until they swell, after which they are placed in a cold place at a temperature of -1 ° C for a day. After that, they are dried.
2. A slightly complicated way.Since the swollen seeds are exposed to variable temperatures for 10-12 days, that is, for twelve hours it is necessary to keep the workpiece at a temperature of 20-24 for planting, the next 12 hours at low temperatures - -2 ° C.

Saturation with trace elements

To improve the penetration of the pepper, a micronutrient saturation procedure can be applied. It is believed that processing with trace elements allows the pepper to improve its resistance, increase its resistance to temperature extremes and increase yields. This stage is carried out the day before sowing.

Among the various trace elements, ash is considered the most accessible. It contains about thirty nutrients. To prepare a solution, you need to take one liter of water and dissolve twenty grams of wood ash in it. Insist such a solution for a day.

After all the procedures have been carried out, we place the pepper in a gauze bag and immerse it in the solution for five hours. After the end of the procedures, the seeds must be washed and dried. Of course, in addition to ash, you can use any other trace elements, but you must not forget clearly, follow the instructions.

Sowing

To obtain an early and good harvest of pepper, it depends to a large extent on the sowing time of the seedlings. After all, it takes about a hundred days for a plant to germinate. So, for greenhouses, it is already possible to sow in the period 1-25 February. Seedling soil can be purchased at the store or prepared independently.

For good seedlings, containers with nutrient mixtures are needed. A depression 0.5 cm in size is made in each cell. The soil must be moistened. Place one seed in each cell. After the end of the seeding procedure, the containers are placed in a warm place for 4-5 days. During this time, the germination process will begin.

Then the containers are transferred to a bright place with a temperature of 12-14 ° C, which is optimal for plant growth. A big mistake of gardeners is that they want to get a large number of seedlings in a small area, and this can only harm the plants. Quality only deteriorate the leaves of plants will oppress each other.

For seedlings at home, you need to purchase fluorescent lamps and place them at a height of 8-10 from the plant, so as not to burn the leaves of the sprouts. To obtain volumetric illumination, plants should not be fenced with foil, the plants will receive light due to sunlight, and if there is a lack of light, lamps will make up for it. Already well-prepared seedlings have flower buds, and the height of the plant itself will be 25-30 cm.

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