Planting and care
- Soil should be well-drained, but maintain adequate moisture either with mulch or plastic covering
- Water one to two inches per week, but remember peppers are extremely heat sensitive
- If you live in a warm or desert climate, watering everyday may be necessary
- Fertilize after the first fruit set
- Weed carefully around plants
- If necessary, support plants with cages or stakes to prevent bending
- Try commercially available cone-shaped wire tomato cages
- They may not be ideal for tomatoes, but they are just the thing for peppers
- For
larger fruit, spray the plants with a solution of one tablespoon of
Epsom salts in a gallon of water, once when it begins to bloom, and once
ten days later
Capsicum Green care
- Start seeds indoors 8-10 weeks before last spring frost date
- The temperature must be at least 70 degrees F for seed germination, so keep them in a warm area for the best and fastest results
- Start pepper seeds three to a pot, and thin out the weakest seedling
- Let the remaining two pepper plants spend their entire lives together as one plant
- The leaves of two plants help protect peppers against sunscald, and the yield is often twice as good as two segregated plants
- Begin to harden off plants about 10 days before transplanting
- A week before transplanting, introduce fertilizer or aged compost in your garden soil
- After
the danger of frost has passed, transplant seedlings outdoors, 18 to 24
inches apart (but keep paired plants close to touching
- ) Soil should be at least 65 degrees F, peppers will not survive transplanting at temps any colder
- Northern gardeners can warm up the soil by covering it with black plastic
- Put two or three matchsticks in the hole with each plant, along with about a teaspoon of fertilizer
- They give the plants a bit of sulfur, which they like
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Light
Full Sunlight
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Watering
Water everyday
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Where to grow
Balcony or terrace
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Time Till Harvest
10-11 weeks
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Seasonal Information
All seasons
Sow the seeds 0.5 cm deep in seedling tray
Germination will take place in 6-8 days
Transplant the seedlings in 30-35 days
Space the seedlings at 60cm by 60cm
Harvest in 70-75 days from transplanting