How to Make Moving Peppers From Home to Greenhouse Comfortable

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Contents:

How to extend the growing season;
Greenhouse shading;
When and how to plant;
Useful recommendations;

Nightshade cultures have a long and fruitful life. All the most famous representatives of this family — tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, physalis, nightshade, Datura — perennial.

But, unfortunately, in the climatic zones of our country, even when grown in greenhouses and shelters under the arches, these plants can maintain good yield, health and energy of growth only a short period of time. Increasing the duration of vegetation due to the advance of traditional planting dates and extending the “creative cycle” of plants at the end of their life path, it is still possible to obtain significant yields.

How to extend the growing season

If in primitive shelters to install a small heater, and even with a fan (there are inexpensive models of very good quality), the timing of planting seedlings can be postponed for 2-4 weeks. Hence, the seeding is obviously produced at the same time before. In the autumn the vegetation period can be extended on a month — also at the expense of the heater. Of course, the yield will not double, but an increase of 40-50% can be expected.

This year, most of the plants from the seeds sown in early February, already in the 20s of April bloomed, many specimens tied fruit. If we had not planted the seedlings before flowering, we would have had to remove all the flowers, since the forces for the development of fruits in the root system would not be enough. Or the fruits would grow at the expense of the development of bushes, which means that the plant tissues grew older faster and in the future a good harvest from them was not expected.

Highly recommend for small (500 ml) earthen coma in seedlings to prevent the flowering and the fruit set. When planting flowering plants in a permanent place, be sure to remove both flowers and buds. Only in this case, the seedlings can easily take root, and then quickly bloom.

Greenhouse shading

To make the adaptation of seedlings to the conditions of polycarbonate greenhouses easier, we covered them with a wide nonwoven white material (density 40-60 g/m²). “Why?”you ask.

There are 6 reasons for this:

In this case, the walls almost no condensation.
The heat accumulated inside during the day remains much longer.
The sun’s rays do not burn the pampered seedlings and further maturing plants.
The soil does not overheat, therefore, much longer retains moisture and does not “weld” roots.
Do not provoke root and root rot and other diseases.
Possible in may-June freezing plants are not afraid even without the installation of electric heaters.

Soil protected soil, wintering under a covering material that does not pass moisture, try to fill and lead to the desired acidity (for nightshade pH 5.5-6.5) in the fall. In winter, we throw snow to maintain the minimum humidity of the substrate. The nutrient content of the soil of the open ground beds is corrected in the spring — so the elements necessary for the plants are not washed out during the melting of snow.

When and how to plant

It is better to plant seedlings in cloudy weather at a temperature of +16…+22°C. Direct sunlight is not allowed. The soil for 10-15 days after planting should be moderately moist, which is very simply determined by the color of the surface of the barrel circle (diameter 20-30 cm) — it should be dark.

If tomatoes and physalis can be planted deeper, with peppers should be careful, deepening is possible only to cotyledons. The leaves should not touch the ground surface.

When choosing seeds, consider the size of the plants they will reach in adulthood, and when planting, follow the recommendations for density: 4 or 5 bushes per 1 m² – a big difference. Often you can hear disputes about the removal of the flower in the middle of the first fork. Leave — get the first ripe fruit earlier, remove — get 2 fruits weighing more, but later.

Useful recommendations

To get really good yields when stopping the development of plants, pay special attention to watering — use only warm water with a temperature of +20…+30°C. Also watch the food (feed), remove excess shoots (form), maintain an average temperature of +20…+24°C. Protect plants from pests.