Cultivation of sweet pepper requires a lot of knowledge and effort from a novice gardener. But the harvest of juicy bright and healthy vegetables, collected at the end of the season, will remind later that all efforts were worth it!
The first stage is traditionally considered to be the most difficult in cultivation. If the preparation of pepper seeds for sowing for seedlings is carried out correctly, then further care will not be difficult, and you have every chance to get an excellent harvest of sweet pepper.
The topic of our today's article is the preparation of pepper seeds for planting on seedlings: how to properly soak pepper seeds on seedlings, methods of sprouting pepper seeds at home.
Types of processing seeds of peppers before planting seedlings
It is better to find out what types of pepper seed treatment are available in advance, as some operations are performed with seed just before planting, but there are also those that take place several days before being placed in the soil.
Consider the main pepper seed treatments:
- aging in saline;
- soak;
- growth stimulant treatment;
- hardening;
- bubbling;
- disinfection (dressing).
Salt solution is an optional procedure. According to many experienced gardeners, it allows you to select weak seeds that can not sprout later.
Soak carried out for the germination of pepper seeds before planting. With the same purpose, they are treated with a growth stimulator. Such an unusual procedure as bubbling helps to germinate faster than seeds.
Quenching it is necessary to carry out in order that they were more adapted further to the harsh and changeable weather conditions in our climate. Etching will never be superfluous, as it prevents the development of various diseases in future seedlings.
Salt solution
30 g of salt are dissolved in a liter of warm waterafter which the seed is placed there. Floated seeds can be thrown away, whereas containers that are at the bottom are considered strong and should give good shoots. They are thoroughly washed with clean water and dried, after which you can continue to prepare for planting.
Growth stimulator treatment and soaking
How to soak pepper seeds for seedlings? It is quite realistic to combine these two operations, so they will benefit more from future seedlings.
Soak with stimulant treatment two days before landing, it should be borne in mind that immediately after they are processed and swell, they will need to be planted immediately into the soil.
For soaking, as a rule, use raw defended water room temperature. As a growth promoter epin, zircon or humate. Any of these drugs diluted with water in accordance with the instructions and poured into a wide shallow container.
Seeds can be placed immediately in the selected dish, or gently spread on cosmetic cotton pads, previously absorbed the resulting solution.
IMPORTANT! For many cultures, aloe juice is suitable as a stimulant, but pepper, in this case, is an exception. For this reason, it is worth choosing epine or zircon, which are also based on plant origin and are safe for both seedlings and humans.
In some cases, it is justified to soak the seed in ordinary distilled water. For example, if it is not possible to purchase a stimulant, and the time of planting has already arrived, and urgent need to germinate seeds. Then they are kept in water for two days, after which they can be placed in the soil.
The main condition after placing the seeds in the solution is to maintain the humidity in the environment in which the seed is. They are kept in the resulting solution for two days, after which they can be planted in previously prepared soil.
Hardening
Hardening pepper seeds is carried out in two stages that are repeated several times. Most often, this operation is carried out already with seedlings. Seeds are alternately placed in room temperature conditions and in a cold store.
The temperature in the latter should not be below 2 degrees. Each period ends after 12 hours. After another overexposure in the refrigerator, the seeds are planted in warm, moist soil.
Hardening allows future saplings to be made more adapted to various weather changes, but the cultivation of sweet pepper in our climate is still carried out mainly in greenhouses. This point should be considered with further cultivation of the culture.
Bubbling
Seed bubbling has become popular recently. The essence of the procedure is to enrich the seed with oxygen.. Such an operation can significantly reduce the period of germination. It is quite simple to carry out bubbling at home if there is an aquarium at home.
The seeds are placed in a tank with separated water, after which the hose from the aquarium compressor is lowered. In this state, the seeds are from 1 to 1.5 days, after which they are removed and planted in the ground.
Video instruction on the process of bubbling:
Pickling
If soaking in saline solution and bubbling, for example, can be done at will, then seed dressing is necessary procedure, if you do not want to then engage in tedious treatment of seedlings for various diseases.
With proper preparation, pepper seeds germinate quickly, while seedlings grow strong and healthy.
In order for the seedlings to be resistant to various diseases, in addition to treating the seeds with a weak solution of manganese, it is also possible to water the soil with a hot pink solution of potassium permanganate before planting. It should be remembered that the sowing is carried out in a slightly warm moist soil.
So, today we told how to prepare the seeds of pepper for planting on seedlings, whether it is necessary to soak the seeds of pepper before planting on seedlings.
Useful materials
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- Terms of planting in the regions of Russia and especially the cultivation in the Urals, in Siberia and the Moscow region.
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