How to feed peppers after planting in the ground during flowering and fruiting

It is important to know how to feed the peppers after planting in the ground and how to care for them in order to collect a large, high-quality crop and not ruin the plant.

Preparing for transplant

Seeds begin to be sown two months before transplanting seedlings into separate pots or other small containers at a distance of 1.5 cm. It is useful to place the seeds in a wet napkin for 2 days beforehand. Cover containers with planted seeds with a film to create a greenhouse effect.

The seedlings themselves need nutrition. The first feeding should occur when two leaves appear on the sprout. Mineral fertilizers or self-made compost from organic components will do. Fresh manure is not permitted at this stage.

Re-feeding is done in another two weeks. By this time, at least five leaves should appear on the sprouts. Urea mixed with potassium monophosphate is often used. You can buy ready-made mineral fertilizers for pepper, for example, Krepysh, Ideal, Aquadon-micro.

It is useful to replace mineral fertilizers with organic feed at any stage of plant development. Can be treated with mullein and water or chicken manure and water.

At the beginning of summer, the seedlings are moved to open ground - it is desirable that the weather is not too sunny. You need to plant each bush in the garden at a distance of 35 cm. You can not choose a shady area. The plant does not like drafts and strong winds. The hole is not dug very deep and nitrogenous, potash, phosphorus fertilizers are added. One bush is carefully taken from seedlings along with an earthy clod.

14 days after planting, the plant will take root, it will be possible to carry out the first feeding with mineral fertilizers or bird droppings. You can treat with mullein diluted with water and add superphosphate. Purchased solutions are also suitable, for example, Sudarushka or Ideal.

Useful compositions

Even more, top dressing of peppers in the open field is needed. To decide how to fertilize pepper, you need to take into account the condition of the bush, the soil in which the vegetable grows, and the stage of development.

In order for the peppers to feel great in the ground when planting, you need to prepare the soil. You can buy soil or prepare a nutrient medium yourself. At the same time, the great benefit of peat oxidant is noted:

• thanks to this component the earth becomes soft, porous;
• peat is a natural antiseptic;
• retains nutrients in the soil;
• the need for peat is seen when a crust forms on the surface of the soil.

How to use fertilizer correctly? There is a lot of advice from agrotechnicians on how to use plant food: “If you scatter peat around the site, there will be no benefit. Before I plant peppers, I use one of the recipes for preparing the soil for a meeting with sprouts.

You can apply fertilizer at any time of the year. There are several options for how to properly prepare the ground:

1. Take equal parts of humus, peat and ordinary soil, add charcoal and dilute with superphosphate.
2. In equal quantities, you can take humus, peat, river sand and ordinary soil.
3. You can make a mixture based on peat, river sand and soil (the components are taken in equal proportions). To impregnate the mixture, you will need urea, potassium sulfate and superphosphate.

Absorption of trace elements occurs not only through the roots, but also through the leaves. Foliar top dressing of pepper is prepared by adding ammonium nitrate or potassium sulfate to a bucket of water. The prepared solutions are diluted with water intended for watering plants. You need to take 1 liter of solution and mix with 10 liters of liquid.

Superphosphate is popular, which needs about 60 g. The composition is poured with hot water, left to infuse for a day. The resulting solution is filtered and diluted in 9 liters of water. It is convenient to use a spray bottle for spraying.

Variety of types and occasions

You need to feed the pepper after planting in the ground correctly. It is recommended to alternate fertilizer compositions. You need to know, for example, how to feed the pepper during flowering or when there are problems.

To get juicy and sweet fruits, the bushes can be treated with nitroammophos, preferably in the spring. The first top dressing of peppers should be carried out a couple of weeks after planting seedlings. For 10 liters of water you need to take 40 g of fertilizer. We water the beds with a similar composition.

There is a wide variety of outdoor pepper fertilizers. Feeding pepper after disembarkation includes several stages:

• feeding pepper during flowering is to use nitrogen compounds;
• during the appearance of ovaries and first fruits, it is useful to cultivate the soil with ash (ash fights bacteria and fungi);
• calcium deficiency in the soil is replenished with calcium nitrate 0.2%;
• Phosphate fertilizers can be applied throughout the season and during fruit formation.

Even in the early stages, for the growth of a bush of sweet pepper, calcium is needed. Without it, the plant may rot, the ovaries will fall off, and growth will stop. If the necessary feeding is not used in time, the plant will die.

Normal growth also depends on potash fertilizers for peppers. Potassium is responsible for the movement of nutrients from the soil throughout the plant. With a lack of this component, growth slows down, the tips of the leaves turn black and dry. Potassium is found in furnace ash.

After 2-3 weeks after the first top dressing, the time comes for the second top dressing of peppers. By this time, the ovaries should already be formed. If mineral feed was used for the first time, now it needs to be treated with an organic compound, or vice versa.

During flowering and fruiting, it is best to use organic fertilizers. For this purpose, for example, 1 kg of manure and 500 g of bird droppings are soaked in a bucket of water for 5 days. In the resulting mixture for peppers, you can add 50 g of potassium monophosphate or purchased fertilizer Sudarushka.

How to fertilize a plant if there are problems? If the pepper in the open ground begins to drop leaves, grows poorly, withers, you need to eliminate the lack of trace elements or an excess of minerals.

Tactics of action depends on signs:

• if the leaves become dull, pale green or even gray, it means that there is a lack of nitrogen in the ground (it should be sprayed with urea);
• if the ovaries fall, then spraying with boric acid is necessary;
• lack of phosphate leads to poor fruit development (needs superphosphate).

To increase yields and attract insects that pollinate, it is necessary to treat peppers during flowering with a sweet solution (100 g of sugar and 2 g of boric acid are mixed in a liter of water).

Before you feed the pepper, it must be watered with plain water. Thanks to this, the fertilizer will spread evenly and will not leave burns on the root system.

Folk recipes

Many agricultural technicians prefer to use folk remedies instead of mineral fertilizers.

Bananas

Banana peel fertilizer is very popular. Banana peel contains a lot of potassium. To do this, the peel is dried, crushed and the bushes at the base are sprinkled with the resulting powder.There is an option to make a tincture. The skin of 2-3 bananas is soaked in 3 liters of water for three days. Peppers should be watered with the resulting infusion.

Eggshell

Many summer residents feed the plant with eggshells, which contain a large number of trace elements.

You can just crush the shell and sprinkle the beds, or you can make a tincture. The shells of several eggs are crushed, poured with water and infused for three days.

Serum

Whey is extremely useful for all cultivated plants (the product is obtained as a result of souring milk). Milk whey is rich in vitamin and mineral complex, a lot of protein and lactose. Nourishes the soil and fights bacteria that cause plant diseases.

Whey is used to spray leaves to replenish amino acids. The fertilizer composition prevents late blight - for this purpose, it is recommended to spray the peppers immediately after planting in the ground.

Whey is not used for fertilizer in its pure form. This is the only nutritional deficiency. Its acidic, fatty structure alters the earth's acid-base balance. Be sure to dilute with water.

Iodine

All garden crops, including peppers, need iodine. This component improves growth, increases yield, makes fruits tasty and enriches with vitamin C. In addition, it acts as an antiseptic and increases the resistance of peppers to many diseases.

Peppers for growth can be processed with iodine solution. It is enough to dissolve two drops in a liter of water (whey can replace water). It is best to use iodine serum to care for young sprouts.

After planting in open ground, you can use both foliar (whole bushes are sprayed) and root feeding. For foliar feeding, it is enough to dilute two drops of iodine in 1 liter of water and spray the leaves every 1.5 weeks.

Processing peppers with milk with iodine will not only enrich the plant with useful substances, but also protect against diseases and many pests. Insects are lactose intolerant. After spraying, a protective white film is formed on the leaves, which does not let pathogens through. Mix 4 liters of water, 15 drops of iodine and 1 liter of milk.

Yeast

Yeast top dressing is gaining popularity. Yeast contains phosphorus, nitrogen, vitamins and minerals. Compositions with yeast improve the development of the root system, activate the activity of microorganisms in the soil, which affect a good harvest. You should be aware that yeast inhibits the action of potassium, so you need to add ash.

Both dry and fresh yeast can be useful for preparing the composition. Fresh yeast (1 kg) is poured with 5 liters of water per day. Before watering, the resulting solution is diluted in 50 liters of water.

Nettle

Benefits for bell pepper bring infusions of nettles. This plant contains a lot of iron, magnesium, potassium, calcium, which contribute to the growth and development of pepper.

Collect nettle stalks before the seeds appear, crush and place in a large prepared container. Pour water on top, cover with a lid for a while so that the composition ferments. The infusion can be used after two weeks. Plants are watered, previously diluted in water in a ratio of 1:10.

Nettle infusion can be used to spray the leaves. To do this, the fermented composition is filtered and diluted with water in a ratio of 1:20. Such treatment will protect the plant from many pests.

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