The landing campaign for keen gardeners begins in February – with crops of seeds of sweet and hot pepper. To accelerate germination of seeds, it is necessary to prepare them for crops properly. In this case plants will receive additional running in time and will manage to be prepared better for landing to the greenhouse.
It is required to you
- - pepper seeds;
- - margantsovokisly potassium;
- - hot water;
- - salt;
- - gauze.
Instruction
1. Pepper seeds pretty fast lose sowing qualities therefore it is better to take fresh seeds (on packings the effective life is specified). Before crops it is necessary to examine attentively them, to ruthlessly throw out the flattened, small, underdeveloped seeds – not to receive good harvest from them.
2. The next stage – in 0.5 l of water it is necessary to dissolve 1 tsp of table salt and to fill up there seeds, to mix and wait 10 minutes. Those that have emerged on surface can be thrown out too. For crops are necessary settled on bottom, full seeds. After that it is necessary to warm up planting stock in hot water at temperature +40os within 20 minutes, then to place for 2-3 minutes in cold water.
3. It is desirable to pickle pepper seeds to get rid of wreckers who can appear on seed peel. For this purpose it is necessary to make dark pink solution of margantsovokisly potassium and to place seeds in it for 15-20 minutes. Then to wash out in flowing water and to scatter on plain surface for drying in case above-mentioned procedures were carried out in advance, not before crops.
4. If crops is going to be carried out right after etchback, then it is not necessary to dry seeds. It is necessary to spread out them in the damp gauze put in several layers and to leave in the warm place for day. Seeds, ready to crops, have to have the turned-up boring. In this case plants will ascend quickly as far as it characteristics of grade will allow.
5. Special preparation is demanded also by soil for seedling: the soil has to be friable, easy, air. It is possible to achieve it, having mixed three parts of the earth from kitchen garden with one part of peat, handful of sawdust and ashes. It is also necessary to add bag (10gr) of superphosphate. One more option is to buy ready soil for seedling, it is on sale in specialized shops. In both cases it is desirable to sterilize the soil. Best of all it is reached by vymorazhivaniye when soil is prepared since fall and for the winter is left at street temperature.
6. Seeds of pepper need to be sowed in moderately humidified soil, at distance of 1-1.5 cm one from another, after that to cover with glass before emergence of shoots and to put to the warm place. As a rule, shoots appear in 14-16 days.
7. After seedlings have about three real leaflets, it is necessary to raspikirovat pepper in separate pots.