Plant care, in addition to watering and loosening, consists in regular feeding. Topping up pepper in a greenhouse is not so much a troublesome matter as a very responsible one, requiring attention and certain rules.
Vegetables growing in a greenhouse need more fertilizing than growing in open ground. Peppers need mineral and organic nutrition for normal development. Mineral feeding of pepper in the greenhouse is responsible for the growth of the plant itself, while organic - for the formation of the fetus and productivity in general. You can feed pepper with the help of various mineral fertilizers.
So, in order to form a beautiful plant and get a good harvest, top dressing of pepper in a greenhouse is required. The plant needs the following minerals:
- calcium - it is necessary throughout the entire period of growth and fruiting of the plant;
- phosphorus - it is important for the formation of fruits, pepper is fed to them from the moment of emergence;
- nitrogen - it enhances the growth and ripening process of not only the fruit, but also the plant itself;
- potassium - it is involved in the fruit setting process and their proper formation.
Lack of minerals - how does it threaten pepper?
Sometimes even if top dressing of peppers is done in accordance with all the rules, the plant may become ill. This may be due to a shortage of a mineral or, conversely, to its overabundance.
For example, a
lack of calcium causes fruit to rot. Due to an excess of calcium, the leaves turn yellow and fall off, the apical buds develop poorly, and fruits are slowly tied.
If the leaves become covered with brown spots, turn yellow and intensively fall off, this may indicate a lack of magnesium. An element such as potassium directly affects the biological ripeness of the fetus. With its deficiency, the leaves dry, the growth of the stems slows down, the fruits grow unsweetened or do not even ripen at all.
Untreated plant nutrition can lead to a lack of phosphorus. As a result, the leaves change color from bluish green to reddish brown. Ovaries are slowly forming, the fruits ripen poorly, the leaves fall off.
Is the plant growing fast but not blooming? This may be a sign of an excess of nitrogen fertilizer in the soil.
Organic fertilizers are also used to top pepper. Mullein infusion is prepared in two steps. First, take two parts of the mullein and dilute with one part of water, put the mixture in a warm place (you can in the greenhouse) for a couple of days. Before use, dilute one part of the settled mullein with nine parts of water. For an adult plant, one liter of such fertilizer is enough. If instead of mullein you took bird droppings, then it should be half as much.
Topping seedlings of pepper and tomato is done twice. The first time - as soon as the first leaves are formed, the second - a week before transplanting to a new place. Plants are fed in this period only with mineral fertilizers.
Two weeks later, when the pepper is already used to a new place, it is again watered with mineral fertilizers. Two weeks later, during flowering, they are fed with organic compounds.
During the fruiting period, peppers are fed in the greenhouse with both mineral and organic fertilizers.