To grow up decorative pepper not so difficult, the main thing is to provide constant moderate watering and comfortable air temperature. Plant it is regularly necessary to feed up mineral fertilizers.
The homeland of decorative pepper or kapsikum of family of nightshade family is Central and South America, East Asia. This plant with burning taste of fruits is called also "siliculose pepper", "vegetable pepper", "the Mexican pepper", etc. In many countries it is used as spice and hot spice in sauces.
Cultivation and leaving
Seeds need to be sowed at the very end of winter or the first half of March. As well as all pepper, kapsikum hard transfers change therefore it is better to take peat tablets or torfoperegnoyny pots at once and to powder the seeds sowed randomly with thin layer of small sifted earth. To cover from above with polyethylene or glass. The shoots which have appeared in 3-4 weeks place in the warm and light place. It is desirable to prishchipnut the seedlings which have started in growth that they clustered better. The created bush is required to be replaced in pot of the sufficient size, without waiting until the tablet acquires the sticking-out backs. But even if it also does not happen, lag in growth and development is guaranteed.
Big care for decorative pepper is not required. It is very important to maintain constant, but moderate humidity. Unlike tomatoes, pepper very badly transfer even short-term drying of the soil. Besides too dry air can promote defeat of plant web mite whom to bring much more difficultly, than to prevent its emergence. Therefore it is necessary to water plant often, but it is not abundant. To regularly air and moisten air by means of spray.
Temperature condition and fertilizing
Ideal conditions for infructescence is air temperature in the afternoon not above +28 °C, and at the night of +20-22 °C. For strengthening of bush and formation of additional roots the plant should be hilled slightly. At the same time the root neck always has to be open, otherwise it will cease to grow. The first fertilizing is made complex mineral fertilizer as soon as seedlings go to growth. After the beginning of blossoming of fertilizer on the basis of potassium and phosphorus the plant will need three more times a month. The attentive owner himself also will notice when kapsikum it is necessary to feed up. At lack of phosphorus the bottom side of leaves will begin to cast in violet color and if nitrogen is required, then they will become fragile and will brighten. In this case it is necessary to use extra root fertilizing and to spray leaves in the evening that solution has not dried, and it was absorbed. During blossoming the buds are required to be pollinated artificially soft brush. About the onset of cold weather burning pepper dumps foliage, but you should not throw out it. Having removed old escapes, it needs to be replaced in pot with Novaya Zemlya, having provided due watering and rather high temperature and then kapsikum will go to growth again, and in due time will bring new harvest. Bushes of decorative pepper can stand on window up to 5 years, pleasing the owner with dense foliage and scattering of multi-colored peppers which can both be eaten, and to cook curative tinctures on their basis.