16.09.2017
Even though it is cold outside, January and February are the ideal months to start growing hot chili peppers. IN Lately this culture is especially popular. Read tips on how to grow hot peppers on a windowsill and how to properly care for them - it’s fun and economical, because the plant will bear fruit year after year.
This exotic, pungent plant can be used to prepare a variety of dishes, from pizza to pasta and sauces. Chili will make you feel the heat even in winter.
The pungent taste of pepper fruits is due to their content chemical substance capsaicin, which has incredible pungency. A drop of a solution containing only 1/1000 mg of capsaicin can cause a prolonged and severe burning sensation.
There are many types and varieties of hot peppers that can be planted on the windowsill. Take a look at the range of seeds that are most often grown at home:
In an apartment, you can start sowing as early as January, since the hottest varieties usually have a long growing season.
Pre-soak the seeds overnight in warm water or epin solution.
Fill small low containers with prepared soil for seedlings, sow the seeds (not too thickly) and sprinkle with a thin layer of soil.
Peppers need large quantities heat for germination, so first place the container with the crops in a warm, dark place and cover with a plastic bag. They germinate at a temperature of 21-28 C.
Shoots will appear approximately a week after planting. But don’t worry if they are in no hurry - the pepper germinates well if the seeds are fresh.
Once germinated, move the hot peppers to a warm, sunny windowsill.
After the seedlings have their first true leaf, they are transplanted one plant at a time (picked) into pots with a diameter of 10-15 cm.
As a rule, hot peppers grow quite successfully on the windowsill, develop well, bloom and bear fruit, but there are still important recommendations for care.
Chilies are demanding of heat and die even from minor frosts, so the room climate is very suitable for them. In a pot on the windowsill, hot peppers can grow for many years. Most of all they like sunny windows facing south.
Make sure that the temperature does not fall below 15 C. Peppers do not tolerate sudden changes in heat and cold and abundant watering with cold water.
You need to water the peppers regularly, avoiding overdrying, but be careful not to “flood” them.
Hot peppers need at least 6 hours sunlight in a day. With a lack of light, plants stretch, their leaves turn yellow, buds and ovaries fall off.
If plants receive additional lighting in winter, they will bear fruit better.
While light and water are the most important for the development of hot peppers, there are others nutrients necessary for growth and fruiting. These are nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. But don’t overdo it with fertilizer!
After the plants bloom, you can feed them a little potassium.
If the leaves of the chili pepper become wrinkled or appear on the tips of the pods. dark spots, your plant lacks calcium and phosphorus.
Peppers self-pollinate well. Just gently shake the plants from time to time. This simulates the action of wind that occurs in nature.
As the plants grow, larger pots will be needed. The standard progression of diameters is 7 cm, 15 cm, and then the final 20 cm.
To repot a plant:
To make the bush grow more lush, its upper shoots, which have reached 40 cm, are cut off. Chilies respond very well to pruning.
One of the main pests of chili peppers is the green aphid. Even one individual that accidentally gets into your apartment from the street can infect your plant, creating an entire army of offspring.
To get rid of aphids, wash the leaves and stems with a stream of water. Use chemicals wrestling is not recommended.
60-70 days after sowing, the plants bloom, and subsequently they produce fruits of various colors (depending on the variety) - from brown to bright purple or yellow. When the fruits ripen, in most varieties they turn red. It is better to cut them with a knife.
It is better to pick the very first fruits while they are still green to stimulate further fruiting.
You can harvest fresh chiles from late spring until December. One plant can give you over a hundred hot peppers.
So, to grow hot peppers on a windowsill in winter you will need a sunny window, a spacious pot with fertile soil and easy care. Compact bushes with many original bright red and green fruits are extremely beautiful and perfectly decorate the apartment.
Add some spice to your life... literally! There is no need to run to the vegetable store: let's find out how to get pepper fruits at home.
Pepper cultivation on the windowsill can be carried out in order to obtain fruits and for decorative effect. Both tasks can be combined, since its fruits look very aesthetically pleasing in the interior thanks to interesting form and bright colors.
The species division includes two subgroups:
What pepper crops can be grown in a pot at home?
Popular varieties of hot chili peppers:
Sweet peppers are the most delicious varieties:
Growing hot peppers indoors is not only a cultivation activity, but also decorative process. For planting, a special variety of vegetable is used, called “Little Miracle”. The “wonderful” pepper comes from Holland, but it has been bred in our country for a long time. Gardeners love this variety for its abundant fruiting and original decorative appearance. The fruits of the “Little Miracle” are quite miniature, but this does not affect its taste at all.
Tiny red peppers are hot and piquant; they can be rolled into jars, pickled, or added to salads, soups, and stir-fries. The bush itself looks unusually picturesque and attracts the eye. The plant is very compact in size, so it is grown even on small kitchen in cramped conditions.
The grown bush is covered with thick-walled, small-sized fruits with the shape of a blunt cone. Their length is only 3 cm and their weight is five grams. From just one bush you can collect over 50 fruits. At different stages of ripening, peppercorns change color, the colors of which have many variations: green, beige, yellowish, orange, red and purple. The “Little Miracle” variety lives up to 5 years in greenhouse conditions. When growing at home, you can achieve almost the same results if you care for the plant with the utmost care.
There is a way to speed up the ripening period by the end of spring. To do this, various manipulations with lighting and thermal conditions are carried out. A vegetable planted in the fall is deliberately placed in less than favorable conditions so that it does not waste energy on flowering and growing on cold days. As daylight hours increase, the pot is placed in a bright window: for this, the most adventurous gardeners “watch out” for sunny weather, moving the pot closer to warmth and light whenever possible. This method can speed up the appearance of ovaries, which grow into pods by May.
Seeds of hot mini peppers are sown in February. A container with a volume of at least two liters, which is first doused with boiling water for disinfection, is suitable as a pot. A drainage layer consisting of expanded clay or crushed stone is poured onto the bottom of the pot. charcoal. The composition of the soil laid over the drainage should include rotted leaves, leaf soil and river sand.The proportions of the mixture are 5:3:2. A little trick: before planting, pour boiling water over the soil and let it cool for 15 to 20 minutes.
Holes are filled in the cooled soil layer; their diameter is 1 - 1.5 centimeters. Seeds, previously soaked and swollen in water, are planted in a hole, two to three grains per hole. A thin layer of film, food grade or polyethylene, is stretched over the top of the pot or container. If at the potty rectangular shape, instead of film you can use glass or plastic cover, however, each gardener himself determines what is more convenient for him to work with. The finished container with seedlings is removed to a warm place. The light source must be present, but not burn the soil.
After just five or seven days, the first shoots begin to break through the soil. The time has come to move the seedlings to the kitchen window sill or balcony, where they will receive sufficient sunlight, heat and fresh air. When leaves appear on the plants, you can pick and plant the strongest specimens according to separate pots. Weak leaves are not needed; they should be removed so that they do not interfere with the development of the root system, taking resources from it.
In the near future, the planted bush will grow to 18 - 20 centimeters in height. During this period, the top of his head is pinched. A pinched specimen will be branched and lush, which also contributes to better fruiting. Watering is carried out with warm (not hot) water as needed, approximately once every two days.
Conditions for keeping miniature hot peppers are determined based on the basic rules of agricultural technology:
At proper care the bush will quickly begin to bear fruit and will live for at least two to three seasons. The maximum lifespan under window sill conditions is about five years. To prevent the plant from developing fungal diseases and pests, spray it with difocol or malathion for preventive purposes. If traces of gray rot, aphids or spider mite The pepper, unfortunately, will have to be destroyed.
Pepper of the “Little Miracle” variety is considered ready to eat when it acquires a yellowish color. Plants planted in February bear fruit in early July and continue to produce until early November. Fully ripe peppercorns have a red or orange hue. Ripening of the vegetable, if necessary, is carried out at a temperature of 20° C. You can give the pepper an even more pronounced hot taste by drying it, stringing the stalks onto a harsh branch.
Chili peppers aren't for everyone, and it's not just about growing conditions and opportunities. The Capsicum annuum variety is considered the most pungent spice, not suitable for use if you have problems with the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, you can try cultivating on a windowsill bell pepper.
Bell peppers are not only tasty, but also healthy. It contains one of the highest concentrations of vitamin C, so doctors consider it an excellent product with dietary properties, as well as a beneficial effect on the immune system.
What is sweet pepper famous for?
The agricultural technique for growing sweet peppers at home is not much different from the greenhouse technique or the method of cultivating hot peppers. The process of sowing seeds and picking is carried out in a similar way.
When the pepper seedlings have about six leaves, they need to be carefully transplanted into pots filled with fertile soil. Take a pot with a volume of at least 1.5 liters, cover its bottom with gravel, expanded clay or fine crushed stone.
For the growth of bell pepper, the moisture regime of the soil coma and air humidity are important.
Drying out and overflowing should not be allowed. The soil is irrigated warm water, which stood for several days. Tap water will destroy the shoots.
Fertilizing is done every two weeks with fertilizer based on microelements. Once every 30 days, pepper is watered with an extract of wood ash, prepared in a proportion of 20 grams per liter of water. To stimulate the ovary, you can “help” the plant: to do this, walk over the flower with a cotton swab, transferring pollen from one inflorescence to another.
Or maybe some of you have already planted these plants? Then let's talk about the next resident of our windowsill - sweet peppers.
Sweet pepper is very beautiful with its tight fruits, bright, tasty, filled with vitamins. This is exactly what we miss so much on rainy autumn days, and on harsh winter days, and during the period of spring vitamin deficiency.
Do you want to admire the pepper and eat it? all year round? In this case, feel free to start planting pepper on his windowsill, since these plants are ideal for caring for and growing in an apartment.
Ideal for planting houses will be compact, low-growing varieties pepper (they are the most unpretentious and persistent). The growth of this plant will reach half a meter and it will fit perfectly into the size of your window. The best varieties:
These pepper varieties are highly productive and will delight you with their attractive fruits all year round.
To save future plants from infections, the seeds should be kept for 20 minutes in a 2% solution of potassium permanganate, then rinsed with cool water. And soak in nutrient solutions of epin or zircon (growth biostimulants):
The seeds should be kept in the healing solution for about a day at room temperature. Then place them in damp gauze and place them in a dark, warm place.
Keep the pepper seeds there for 3 days at a temperature of +20° C to +25° C. Periodically moisten the cloth with warm water (do not allow it to dry out).
As soon as the seeds hatch, they can be transferred pepper on the windowsill.
We need to prepare several containers in advance for pepper growing. Each pepper needs its own home, a separate wide and deep enough pot (so that the rhizome of the plant is spacious and comfortable).
Don't forget about a drainage layer (fine gravel, expanded clay or broken small pieces of red brick will do).
You can plant seeds at one of the most convenient periods for you:
For peppers, it is better to purchase ready-made soil (Terra-Vita or Ogorodnik). This soil is already enriched essential microelements and does not contain harmful microorganisms.
If you decide to use ordinary garden soil, first calcine it with a saturated solution of potassium permanganate, then water it with water. Or prepare enriched soil:
It is better to take turf soil from the place where meadow clover grows. Ash must be added to any soil (2 cups of ash for every 10 kg of soil). Pepper is extremely sensitive to the salt content in the soil and the level of acidity. Add to soil dolomite flour or lime (take 16 grams of the substance per 1 kg of soil).
Special hydrogels can be used. It is designed for home gardening. When hydrogels are mixed with soil, they swell, absorb excess water and at the same time make the soil looser, retaining nutrients.
To wait for the first shoots of pepper on the windowsill, you need to be patient. Peppers germinate after 1-2 weeks.
If the plant stubbornly refuses to germinate, increase the length of daylight hours (extend additional lighting from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m.).
Picking. Transplanting seedlings into a more spacious home (with root shortening). The shortened root begins to branch and develop more vigorously.
After picking, the rhizome becomes stronger, wraps around and holds the earthen lump better, and the homemade pepper itself on the windowsill brings more harvest. Dive process:
In order for the pepper to grow large and fertile, it needs to be replanted and grown in small, capacious buckets or large ceramic bowls.
Before picking, gradually accustom the young sprout to more severe conditions (gradually take it to Fresh air, increasing the walking time).
But make sure that the small pepper does not fall under drafts or exposure to low temperatures that are detrimental to it (below +13° C).
| Operation | Pepper's wishes | Adviсe |
| Watering | As needed | Pepper on the windowsill should be watered with settled warm water (water temperature +30° C). Spray the pepper with additional warm water every day. To prevent the plant from overheating during the winter heating season, cover the battery with a damp cloth. Do not forget to constantly loosen the soil. |
| Lighting | In winter, daylight hours should be 12 hours | Periodically turn the plant with different sides towards the window. Fluorescent lamps are suitable with a regular white spectrum. Avoid direct exposure to sunlight. |
| Temperature | Day +25° - +27° C Night +10 ° - +15° C | In summer it is good to keep the pepper on the balcony, in winter it is good to move it to windows facing south. Beware of drafts and sudden temperature fluctuations. |
| Top dressing | It is necessary to fertilize once every two weeks after watering. | You can feed peppers on the windowsill using purchased nitrogen fertilizers for indoor flowers. Or do nutrient solution(3 liters of water and 6 tablespoons of ash). As a top dressing, you can prepare decoctions of nettle, plantain, and clover. This is very beneficial for peppers. |
The plant may suffer from a lack of minerals. How to grow peppers in the most favorable conditions? Just monitor the condition of its leaves and promptly apply the necessary fertilizer with the appropriate composition:
Do not use potassium salt or potassium chloride (their composition with excess chlorine is harmful to pepper roots). But pepper is not afraid of excess nitrogen.
Most domestic pepper varieties are self-pollinating plants. By the way, they can also cross-pollinate. So try to keep different varieties peppers at a distance from each other.
When the first fruits appear, do not overload the plant - leave up to 4-5 fruits on it.
To do this, we select red, ripe fruits. We carefully trim the pepper around the stalk and very carefully remove the seed pod, holding it by the stalk.
We devote the next 4 days to drying the seed carrier at a temperature from +25° C to + 30° C. And separate the seeds. They must be stored in a paper bag in a warm, dark place.
The maximum shelf life of seeds is 5 years.
Peppers need to be replanted on the windowsill once a year. He wants new, fresh land for a richer harvest (after all, he has already taken everything useful from the old soil). Change the soil completely to fresh one.
Replant the plant carefully, trying not to injure the root system with a lump of earth.
And after two years of the pepper’s life, it needs to be changed. It is a biennial plant and will readily pass the baton to younger and stronger peppers.
Have a rich harvest!
See you soon, dear readers!
Hot pepper on the windowsill is not only a necessary spice that is always at hand, but also an excellent decorative decoration at home, easy to grow. Pot of bright beautiful plant will serve as an exquisite decor for any home, and the piquant taste of such a hot spice will make this pepper indispensable in the kitchen of every housewife.
It is possible to grow sweet bell peppers and hot hot peppers at home, either the Drakosha variety or another. We will tell you further how to plant seeds for seedlings and the conditions for planting in an apartment.
Breeders have specially developed several varietal varieties of hot peppers for growing on windowsills. This indoor pepper is also divided into a fruit variety and an ornamental one (without fruit).
The fruit variety of indoor hot pepper is a perennial that reaches a height of no more than 40 cm. The plant has bright green leaves and richly colored multi-colored fruits: scarlet, sunny or orange.
Growing indoor peppers is not difficult and does not require any special knowledge or wisdom. Very unpretentious and low maintenance.
Flowering begins in June. During this period, delicate white flowers with a slightly yellowish tint appear on the stems.
To get a plant with beautiful fruits on the windowsill, you need to sow seeds for seedlings. Do it late February – early March.
To speed up the process of seed growth, they can be pre-heat-treated. To do this, pour the seeds with warm water (no higher than 40 degrees) and seal them in a thermos for 3 hours.
The soil for seeds must be nutritious. You can prepare it yourself. To do this, mix 5 parts of humus, 2 parts of turf soil and peat and 1 part of sand. Mandatory at the bottom of the container there must be drainage. Small expanded clay or pebbles are suitable for this.
The soil must be additionally disinfected: treated with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate and thoroughly loosened. Seeds are sown to a depth of 1 cm.
The containers are covered with glass or film and left in a warm place where the temperature should not be below 20-25 degrees.
You can use a regular pot or box as a container, it all depends on how many seeds are sown.
The first shoots are already appearing in 7 – 10 days. There should be sufficient sunlight in the room.
When the first shoots appear, the plants are planted in separate pots. When several true leaves appear on the seedlings, they are picked again, and the strongest and strongest sprouts are selected.
The plant needs a sufficient amount of moisture, heat and light at any stage of cultivation.
During the growth of seedlings, it is necessary to ensure that the seedlings do not stretch too much. To do this, they need to provide a certain temperature. environment.
When the first leaves appear, the temperature must be reduced to 20 degrees within 7 days. And when three true leaves appear, be sure to reproduce the pick in a spacious pot. On permanent place seedlings are planted after 2 months after planting the seeds.
To grow hot pepper on the windowsill you need to provide it light and warmth.
This pepper is very fond of various types of feeding. The most optimal fertilizer is 2 tablespoons of ash mixed with 3 liters of water. The mixture should brew well. It is necessary to fertilize every two weeks.
You can use nitrogen fertilizers, but much less frequently. It is important not to overdo it with such fertilizers, otherwise you may be left without a harvest.
The soil must be loosened and watered regularly two times a week warm, settled or purified water. You need to make sure that the soil in the pot does not dry out, but is not constantly damp. Both will contribute to various plant diseases.
IN winter time You can not use fertilizers and water the plant much less often. If the air in the room is dry, you can slightly moisten the leaves by sprinkling them with water from a spray bottle.
IN warm time year, the pots are taken out onto the balcony or outside.
Until about February, the plant can be kept indoors at cooler temperatures, but not lower than 18 degrees.
But before the start of the growing season (usually it starts in February), the pot needs to be moved to a more warm room and trim it. To do this, you need to trim the stems so that they are no higher than 5 cm.
If you correctly follow all the recommendations for growing and caring for the plant: from the very preparation of seeds to timely pruning, then such a pepper will retain its decorative appearance and will actively bear fruit. up to 5 years.
This variety of indoor plants can be susceptible to the following diseases: blackening of the stem or spotting of the leaves. This happens when you water too much, which causes stagnation of water in the pot.
The main pests of such pepper include aphids, spider mites and powdery mildew . Aphids or mites can appear with the help of wind through an open window.
To combat ticks, you can use the plant itself. To do this, you need to grind the pepper seeds along with the internal veins and fill them with water for a day. Then you need to add a little ground laundry soap to the mixture and spray the plant. To completely get rid of pests, it is enough to carry out three spraying procedures.
To prevent the appearance of mites, you need to provide the plant with sufficient moisture or place a container of water near the pot of pepper.
At proper cultivation and care, the plant will delight the eye with its excellent decorative properties for as long as 5 years, and its fruits will become a piquant spice in the kitchen.
During the cold season, you want to create a special coziness in your home, and plants grown on the windowsill at home are ideal for this. Potted pepper is no exception; it will not only add originality to the interior, but will also give lovers of spicy food the opportunity to spice up their dishes.
Important! With proper care and regular feeding, indoor peppers can grow fully and produce a stable harvest for 5 years.
Growing peppers on a windowsill is not only exciting activity, but also useful. By eating pepper even in minimal quantities, you can normalize the body’s metabolism and reduce cholesterol and blood sugar levels.
For successful cultivation pepper on the windowsill must be created optimal conditions for its growth and development, because this culture is a little capricious. Therefore, it is necessary to familiarize yourself in advance with the characteristics and preferences of the plant, as well as the rules for planting and further care.
To grow peppers at home, you need to consider the following factors:
Important! If you follow all the rules of care, you can get a hundred or more fruits from one plant at the same time.
Before planting pepper, you need to decide on its variety. Having picked up a few different types plants, you can create a multi-colored vegetable garden on the windowsill that will delight you with its bright fruits.
The following varieties of decorative peppers are ideal for growing on a windowsill in an apartment:
Depending on individual preferences, you can select one or several varieties at the same time.
As a rule, the most popular variety for growing on a windowsill is the Ogonyok pepper.
Important! You cannot use seeds from a pod purchased in a store to grow pepper on a windowsill, since it is an industrial variety and requires completely different conditions.
To grow Ogonyok pepper on a windowsill, you need to prepare for the procedure by studying the preferences and features of growing this crop indoors. Only by following all stages of planting can you ultimately achieve the desired result.
Hot peppers are very demanding of light and heat; for its full growth and development it is necessary to choose southern or eastern window sill. During the period of active sun in spring, the plant needs light shading. In summer, the plant should be placed on a balcony or loggia, but drafts must be excluded.
For full growth and development, the plant needs 12 hour daylight hours. During short days from the beginning of October to the end of January, bitter pepper especially needs additional lighting with phytolamps in the evening and on cloudy days.
Important! A lack of light is manifested by a light shade of foliage, which can ultimately lead to leaf fall; in this case, the duration of additional lighting must be increased.
For normal plant growth in winter air temperature should not exceed 18 degrees C, and starting in spring, optimal temperature is 20-22 degrees C.
Hot peppers are very demanding on soil moisture and does not tolerate watering with cold water. It is necessary to water the plant moderately, with water room temperature, as the top layer in the pot dries, but giving the opportunity to absorb moisture from the pan. If 1 hour after watering there is still water in the tray, it must be completely poured out.
In conditions of low air humidity It is necessary to carry out additional spraying of the foliage using a spray bottle.
Important! Pepper does not tolerate cold gusts of wind, so when ventilating the room it must be kept away from the open window.
Indoor pepper forms a compact root system, which is located closer to the soil surface. It is recommended to select plants for planting wide and shallow containers. The height of the planting pot should be within 10 cm.
A prerequisite is presence of drainage holes in the bottom of the pot, which helps remove excess moisture. Before planting, it is necessary to pour a 2 cm layer of drainage onto the bottom, which will prevent water from stagnating in the pot.
For planting hot pepper seeds, you can purchase seedling substrate in a specialized store. But you can prepare a nutrient mixture for planting yourself. To do this you will need the following components:
Immediately before planting hot pepper seeds, it is necessary to disinfect the soil by spilling it with previkur fungicide, which will prevent the development of fungal diseases.
To promote seed germination and disease resistance of young plants, it is recommended to carry out pre-sowing treatment of planting material. For this you can use the following drugs:
After processing needs to be dried planting material until free-flowing.
For germination, place in a dark, warm place (25 degrees) for several days, periodically opening, moistening and inspecting for the presence of sprouts. As soon as most of the seeds hatch, they need to be planted in prepared soil.
Important! The seeds must not be allowed to dry out during germination, otherwise they will die.
In some cases, to preserve all species properties It is recommended to carry out cuttings of pepper. Cuttings must be cut from green young shoots without fruits, 7-8 cm long and each of them must have 3-4 leaves.
Before planting them in the ground, you must first soak them in a zircon solution (3 drops per 100 ml of water) for 12-24 hours or dust the lower cut with root powder.
To grow peppers on a windowsill, you must initially plant them correctly. Only if you comply with all necessary conditions procedures can achieve the desired result in the end.
Step 1. Spill the planting containers with a strong solution of potassium permanganate.
Step 2. Fill the pots with the required substrate and level the surface.
Step 3. Moisten the soil generously with water and allow it to be completely absorbed.
Step 4. Place the seeds on the surface and sprinkle with a 0.5 cm layer of substrate.
Step 5. Moisturize upper layer from a spray bottle.
Step 6. Cover containers with glass or film to preserve high humidity air inside the landing container.
Step 7 Place the containers in a dark, warm place (25 degrees) until shoots emerge.
When planting cuttings pepper, the procedure follows the same procedure, only they need to be planted to a depth of 1-1.5 cm. And after planting and covering with film, the pot is placed on the window, shading it from direct sunlight.
Video: how to grow peppers on a windowsill from cuttings
After the pepper sprouts appear, the container with the seeds must be moved to the windowsill and the temperature reduced to 18-20 degrees. In order to exclude warm air from heating appliances, they must be covered with a layer of polystyrene foam.
10-14 days after the sprouts appear, it is necessary adapt seedlings to the external environment. To do this, on the first day it is recommended to open the container for 30 minutes, with each subsequent day increasing this period by 30-40 minutes. After a week, the glass or film must be completely removed.
Pepper cuttings take root within 2-3 weeks. When young leaves appear on them, it is necessary to begin to adapt the plants to the environment. It is carried out in the same way as for seedlings obtained from seeds.
When 2-3 true sheets appear It is necessary to plant the peppers in separate containers. During transplantation, it is not recommended to pinch the main root, as the plant is painful for this procedure and significantly slows down its growth. The first planting should be done in pots with a diameter of no more than 9-10 cm.
Video: how to plant indoor peppers
Further Young seedlings need to be replanted as they grow. As soon as the roots begin to crowd into the pot, it is recommended to replant the plant, increasing the diameter of the pot by 2-3 cm. The container for an adult plant should be 30 cm high and 20-25 cm in diameter.
Pepper Ogonyok needs 12 hours of daylight, so phytolamps are placed at a height of 50-60 cm from the seedlings.
Watering carried out regularly as it dries; the higher the air temperature, the more often the soil is moistened.
For the full growth of hot peppers on the windowsill you need carry out regular feeding. During the active growing season, preference should be given to mineral fertilizers with increased content nitrogen or organic fertilizers, and when forming buds and fruits, fertilizers with big amount potassium The plant should be fed once every 2 weeks.
Important! During the flowering period, it is recommended to shake the pot of pepper occasionally, which will improve the self-pollination of flowers.
Peppers, including indoor ones, are susceptible to fungal diseases and various pests. Therefore, it is necessary to know in advance what problems may arise and how to deal with them.
Video: how to care for and treat indoor peppers for diseases at home
Important! After treatment with the preparations, it is necessary to adhere to the waiting period indicated on the packaging of each product; it is not allowed to use pepper for cooking during this period.
Hot pepper seeds take a long time to germinate, so this feature must be taken into account when planting. Shoots appear within 14-21 days if all planting recommendations are followed.
The first harvest of pepper on the windowsill ripens in 105-120 days from the moment the sprouts appear, depending on the selected variety.
If you follow all the recommendations, growing hot peppers on a windowsill will not be particularly difficult. But it is necessary to understand that further care care for the plant must meet all its requirements, since the pepper will grow and bear fruit only taking into account all the necessary conditions.
Hot pepper on the windowsill is not only a necessary spice that is always at hand, but also an excellent decorative decoration for the home, easy to grow. A pot with a bright, beautiful plant will serve as an exquisite decor for any home, and the piquant taste of such a hot spice will make this pepper indispensable in the kitchen of every housewife.
It is possible to grow sweet bell peppers and hot hot peppers at home, either the Drakosha variety or another. We will tell you further how to plant seeds for seedlings and the conditions for planting in an apartment.
Breeders have specially developed several varietal varieties of hot peppers for growing on windowsills. This indoor pepper is also divided into a fruit variety and an ornamental one (without fruit).
The fruit variety of indoor hot pepper is a perennial that reaches a height of no more than 40 cm. The plant has bright green leaves and richly colored multi-colored fruits: scarlet, sunny or orange.
Growing indoor peppers is not difficult and does not require any special knowledge or wisdom. Very unpretentious and low maintenance.
The windowsill is ideal for growing light-loving peppers
Flowering begins in June. During this period, delicate white flowers with a slightly yellowish tint appear on the stems.
To get a plant with beautiful fruits on the windowsill, you need to sow seeds for seedlings. Do it late February – early March.
To speed up the process of seed growth, they can be pre-heat-treated. To do this, pour the seeds with warm water (no higher than 40 degrees) and seal them in a thermos for 3 hours.
The soil for seeds must be nutritious. You can prepare it yourself. To do this, mix 5 parts of humus, 2 parts of turf soil and peat and 1 part of sand. Mandatory at the bottom of the container there must be drainage. Small expanded clay or pebbles are suitable for this.
Peppers need nutritious soil
The soil must be additionally disinfected: treated with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate and thoroughly loosened. Seeds are sown to a depth of 1 cm.
The containers are covered with glass or film and left in a warm place where the temperature should not be below 20-25 degrees.
You can use a regular pot or box as a container, it all depends on how many seeds are sown.
The first shoots are already appearing in 7 – 10 days. There should be sufficient sunlight in the room.
When the first shoots appear, the plants are planted in separate pots. When several true leaves appear on the seedlings, they are picked again, and the strongest and strongest sprouts are selected.
Pepper seedlings must be pruned after the first shoots appear.
The plant needs a sufficient amount of moisture, heat and light at any stage of cultivation.
During the growth of seedlings, it is necessary to ensure that the seedlings do not stretch too much. To do this, they need to provide a certain ambient temperature.
When the first leaves appear, the temperature must be reduced to 20 degrees within 7 days. And when three true leaves appear, be sure to reproduce the pick in a spacious pot. The seedlings are planted in a permanent place after 2 months after planting the seeds.
To grow hot pepper on the windowsill you need to provide it light and warmth.
This pepper is very fond of various types of feeding. The most optimal fertilizer is 2 tablespoons of ash mixed with 3 liters of water. The mixture should brew well. It is necessary to fertilize every two weeks.
Wood ash diluted in water is suitable for feeding peppers.
You can use nitrogen fertilizers, but much less frequently. It is important not to overdo it with such fertilizers, otherwise you may be left without a harvest.
The soil must be loosened and watered regularly two times a week warm, settled or purified water. You need to make sure that the soil in the pot does not dry out, but is not constantly damp. Both will contribute to various plant diseases.
In winter, you can not use fertilizers and water the plant much less often. If the air in the room is dry, you can slightly moisten the leaves by sprinkling them with water from a spray bottle.
In the warm season, the pots are taken out onto the balcony or outside.
If you follow the recommendations, the pepper will bloom in early May
Until about February, the plant can be kept indoors at cooler temperatures, but not lower than 18 degrees.
But before the start of the growing season (usually it starts in February), the pot needs to be moved to a warmer room and trimmed. To do this, you need to trim the stems so that they are no higher than 5 cm.
If you correctly follow all the recommendations for growing and caring for the plant: from the very preparation of seeds to timely pruning, then such a pepper will retain its decorative appearance and will actively bear fruit. up to 5 years.
This variety of indoor plants can be susceptible to the following diseases: blackening of the stem or spotting of the leaves. This happens when you water too much, which causes stagnation of water in the pot.
Powdery mildew on indoor peppers
The main pests of such pepper include aphids, spider mites and powdery mildew. Aphids or mites can appear with the help of wind through an open window.
To combat ticks, you can use the plant itself. To do this, you need to grind the pepper seeds along with the internal veins and fill them with water for a day. Then you need to add a little ground laundry soap to the mixture and spray the plant. To completely get rid of pests, it is enough to carry out three spraying procedures.
To prevent the appearance of mites, you need to provide the plant with sufficient moisture or place a container of water near the pot of pepper.
With proper cultivation and care, the plant will delight the eye with its excellent decorative properties for 5 years, and its fruits will become a piquant spice in the kitchen.
Hot peppers have not only unique taste, but also decorative qualities. That is why they love to grow it both in plots and as a houseplant on windowsills. For these purposes, several varieties of peppers with small fruits were specially bred.
The plant grows up to 40 cm, is perennial, eats purely decorative varieties, there are fruits. Depending on the variety, the fruits may be different sizes, shapes and colors: yellow, red, orange.
The flowering period falls in June, flowering begins with white flowers with yellow tint. Peppers require a lot of sunlight.
Hot pepper seeds are planted in early March. Seeds can only be germinated in a warm room. When the first shoots appear, they are planted in separate pots, the procedure is carried out again after the appearance of real leaves.
Planting and growing conditions for sweet and bitter peppers are similar. Highly nutritious soil is selected. For self-cooking soil mixtures are taken:
Good to know: When transplanting pepper to a permanent place, pinch off the main root of the pepper. The root system should fit in a box measuring 15*15 cm.
Hot peppers love a lot of moisture and heat. The pot of pepper is placed on a container with liquid gravel. The plant also loves fertilizers; fertilizing is applied 1-2 times a week.
If you overdo it with watering and water stagnation occurs, then there is a risk of getting a black leg or spotted leaves. The main domestic pests of hot pepper:
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An annual plant is not replanted; after harvesting, the plant can be destroyed. Sometimes pruning shoots helps extend the life of peppers by 2-3 years.
Hot pepper is propagated by seeds. To make them rise faster, they are soaked.
Sowing is carried out from February to early March. The soil should be loose and light.
If you use soil for home flowers that contains peat, you need to reduce its acidity by adding wood ash. You can immediately sow the seeds in a permanent place without growing seedlings.
In this case, take a pot up to 3 liters in size and disinfect it with boiling water. A drainage layer is laid out at the bottom and then filled with earth. The best drainage options are:
The soil is also disinfected with boiling water or a solution of potassium permanganate. The seeds are deepened by 1 cm. The top of the pot is covered with glass or a plastic bag. The ambient temperature should be between 20 and 25 °C.
Grow hot pepper at home you can from seedlings. When to plant seeds?
The best period is mid-February, when daylight hours increase. Red peppers are very demanding and love light. The container is taken depending on the number of seeds; it can be a small pot or box.
To make the seeds germinate faster, you can stimulate their growth as follows. Treat the planting material thermally, put the seeds in water at a temperature of 40 degrees and close in a thermos for 3 hours.
Second method: soak in warm water for 12-24 hours. Oxygen is supplied to a vessel containing water.
Note: you need to make sure that the sprout does not stretch. In the first week after the leaves appear, the air temperature drops to 20 ° C, and the lighting is increased. When more than 3 leaves appear, the seedlings can be plucked. A spacious pot is used.
The first sprouts from the seeds will appear in 7-10 days. The pot should receive as much sunlight as possible, and the room should be warm. For further cultivation The strongest sprout is selected, the rest are removed (without damaging the roots).
Growing hot peppers on a windowsill is not difficult. The seedlings are transplanted to a permanent place in a pot after about 2 months.
The main conditions that must be maintained for pepper are light and heat. When will it be installed? warm weather– the pot can be taken out into the garden or onto the balcony.
Payments are made every two weeks complex fertilizers. Your favorite hot pepper fertilizer is prepared from the following components:
Gardening advice: Drying out the soil is painful for peppers, so you should never forget about watering. The soil is moistened 2 times a week with warm water.
This foliar feeding, before use it must be well infused. You cannot overdo it with nitrogen fertilizers, otherwise there is a risk of not getting a harvest. In favorable conditions, flowering begins in May-June and fruiting continues until the end of autumn.
Before frost sets in, you need to return the pot to the house, to a bright but cool place (up to 18 °C). You can avoid fertilizing in winter by watering the pepper minimally, the main thing is not to let the earthen clod dry out. In a room with dry air, the leaves can sometimes be moistened.
In February, before the start of the growing season, the pot is moved to a warm place and trimmed (stems no more than 5 cm long remain). If all procedures are carried out correctly, from preparing seeds to pruning the bush before the new season, the plant will remain decorative and actively bear fruit for up to 5 years.
Watch the following video on how to grow hot peppers on a windowsill:
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Not many garden crops can be grown on a windowsill with such a high degree of decorativeness as small-fruited peppers. It is not only original as a decoration, but also useful in the household. Since pepper is a perennial crop, once you plant it, you can enjoy it for several years in a row. It is not difficult to grow peppers on a windowsill; the main thing is to choose the right planting material, properly prepare the substrate and regularly care for the plantings.
Small-fruited bitter peppers are especially loved by housewives. It is a compact bush with fruits of the highest decorative value. Even your favorite greens on the windowsill are inferior to this vegetable crop. For planting, choose seeds of hybrids that self-pollinate. You should stock up on nutritious soil based on vermicompost and a special lamp for illumination in the autumn-winter period. Everything else will depend only on proper care.
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Before sowing hot pepper seeds, they need to be kept in solution potassium permanganate 2 hours. This procedure is not carried out if the seeds have been treated by the manufacturer. Among the seeds to be processed, you need to select those that have sank to the bottom of the container during this time. The rest have questionable germination, so it’s not worth wasting time on them.
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The more nutritious and lighter the soil in the pot, the better the bush will grow, bloom and bear fruit and will age later. All substrate ingredients are poured into a basin, mixed thoroughly and small containers are filled with the mixture. These can be special trays for seedlings or regular yogurt cups. The earth is poured into them, not reaching the top by 2 cm.
Substrate is good spill warm water and place 2-3 peppercorns on top. Sprinkle with a layer of earth no more than 1 cm. The top of the cups is covered with glass or polyethylene with holes made in them for air exchange. Containers with seeds are placed in a dark, warm place, for example, near a radiator, and watered occasionally.
growing hot peppers on the windowsill. Step by step photos
In about 10-14 days, shoots will appear. They are immediately placed on windowsill to prevent excessive stretching without lack of light. If shoots appear late autumn or in the middle of winter, they must be additionally illuminated using special lamps It is enough to illuminate for 2 hours in the morning and evening. To avoid the appearance of blackleg, seedlings are watered as needed, avoiding overwatering.
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How to grow hot peppers on a windowsill and wait for abundant fruits? To do this, the strongest ones are selected from the total number of seedlings and transplanted into permanent pots with a capacity of 2-3 liters. The soil is not filled to the top; it will be added as the bush grows.
Any greenery on the windowsill requires care, which boils down to regular watering and fertilizing. The water for watering peppers needs to be settled, and the picked seedlings should be fed after 2-3 weeks. For this purpose, special fertilizers are used, for example, Agrolife. Hot pepper bushes are turned over daily so that they grow evenly and do not lean too far towards the sun. Small-fruited bitter peppers are not planted. If the bush seems sparse, you can pinch the top.
When the pepper on the windowsill begins to bloom, the bush will need to be planted several times a day. shake to carry out pollination. The fruits appear 2.5 - 3 months after planting. If there are too many of them, the plant will shed the excess ones on its own; a person does not need to do this, only if they are found to be sick and underdeveloped. Fruits can also fall off if there is a lack of moisture on hot days. Then the bush is sprayed 2-3 times a day with water at room temperature.
After about 1.5-2 years, the bush begins to age, loses its decorative appearance, sheds its foliage, and stops blooming and bearing fruit. It is thrown away or cut. How to grow hot peppers on a windowsill from cuttings? To do this, the juiciest side branches are cut off from the bush and placed in water. Cuttings give roots in 21-28 days. They are planted in a permanent container and after 1.5 months they become adults. flowering bush. Typically, 50% of cuttings produce roots. Caring for them is similar to bushes obtained from seeds.
In the process of growing small-fruited bitter pepper on a windowsill, beginning hobbyists may have questions, the answers to which can be found here.
When is the best time to sow peppers for growing on a windowsill? Experts recommend doing this from April to July, then the seedlings will not have to be illuminated. Although it is possible to grow peppers in any season of the year.
Is it possible to leave ripe peppers on the bush? Not advisable. If the pepper remains on the plant for a long time, it does not receive the incentive to continue to flower and bear fruit.
How to care for peppers in winter in conditions central heating? If the battery is located under a windowsill, it must be covered with a towel to avoid drying out the roots of the bush. Additionally, take daily baths under a cool shower.
Is it possible to eat the fruits of peppers grown on a windowsill? Can be used either fresh or dried. It is even ground in a coffee grinder to produce paprika.
Will repeated transfer? It is not advisable to disturb mature pepper bushes grown on a windowsill. This will affect the abundance of flowering and fruiting. Stress in the form of dropped leaves is also possible.
What to do if flowers fall a lot? It is necessary to increase the amount of daily lighting for the bush, water it well and shake it 2-3 times a day. Flowers may fall off due to lack of pollination and failure to form fruit.
In an apartment you can also grow sweet peppers, which will produce crunchy, vitamin-rich fruits all year round. There are no particular difficulties in growing it, but some recommendations will help you not only grow strong greens on the windowsill, but also taste the healthy fruits. 
The first stage of work is considered seed selection. Dwarf compact plants are suitable for growing at home, the height of which does not exceed 50 cm, and the weight of the fruit varies from 30 to 80 grams. The smaller the hybrid, the more compact and decorative it looks on the windowsill. Seeds of self-pollinating hybrids are suitable for this.
Stage two - preparation substrate and seed treatment. For pepper on the windowsill, you can buy ready-made mixtures, or you can make them yourself from an equal amount of vermicompost, coconut fiber and earth. You can add perlite or vermiculite to increase soil aeration. All components are mixed in a basin.
To treat seeds, prepare a 2% solution potassium permanganate, in which the seeds are kept for 2 hours, then washed in cold water. There are manufacturers who carry out the processing themselves and sell seeds that are ready for planting. In this case, there is no need to carry out such a procedure at home.
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Third stage – sowing seeds. Small containers from plastic cups to greenhouses with peat tablets. Substrates or tablets are well poured with water and seeds are placed in them, 2-3 pieces each. You can sow the seeds directly into large permanent containers, without adding the substrate to the edge of the pot. This procedure will be carried out later as the bush grows. After sowing, the containers are covered with polyethylene, in which small holes are made for air exchange. Place the containers in a dark, warm place, periodically watering and checking them.
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Fourth stage – seedling care or how to grow sweet peppers from seedlings on a windowsill. The first shoots appear in 10-14 days. As soon as the seeds hatch and sprouts appear, they are exposed to light and, if necessary, additional light for several hours a day if it is the autumn-winter period. If necessary, after 2 weeks the seedlings are thinned out, leaving the strongest specimens. It is important not to overwater the seedlings so that they do not become vulnerable to blackleg, which can destroy all seedlings.
Fifth stage – picking. It is produced 4 weeks after germination. To carry out picking, water the containers with seedlings well, prepare a large 3-liter pot and fill it with a nutrient substrate. The glass with the seedlings is turned over and the lump of earth along with the pepper is carefully pulled out. Place it in a partially filled pot and add soil from above to the cotyledons (first) leaves. Water and lightly compact the soil near the bush. Place the pepper on the windowsill, preferably on the south side.
Adult seedlings are not pinched and are not corrected by pruning. The bush is given free rein to grow and produce flowers. Need a potty every day turn to form an even bush. Watering is carried out as the soil dries out. IN hot weather, it can be additionally sprayed with warm water; in winter, watering is reduced to the required minimum.
How to grow sweet peppers on a windowsill with abundant ovary? When flowers appear on the bush, they begin to intensively feed it with suitable fertilizers, for example, Agrolife. Blooming bush several times a day shake for self-pollination. The first fruits appear approximately 3 months after sowing the seeds. To prolong the life of the plant and get a significant harvest from the ovary, leave 5-6 fruits and remove them during the ripening process. If you leave more ovaries and do not remove the fruits for a long time, the bush becomes severely depleted, ages and dies.
If the ripening fruits are large enough and the bush has grown well, it needs support. She will not allow the bush to tilt and break. Pepper - perennial vegetable crop, but on the windowsill with a lack of heat, light and care it can quickly grow old. In order to admire the plant again after 1.5-2 months and eat its fruits, you can cut cuttings from it and try to root them.
Usually half of the cut cuttings take root. They are planted in permanent containers and cared for as an adult plant. This method of growing peppers is less troublesome and faster.
Sweet pepper on the windowsill. Video
