Chili pepper can be said to be a very common dish on the table, and it is an ingredient in various dishes. In some areas, there is a saying among the local people, "You can eat without meat for three days, but you can't eat without chili peppers." In the local food culture, chili peppers are preferred over meat. Therefore, in the countryside, chili pepper is one of the most common vegetables.
Although farmers grow chili peppers all year round, they do not achieve a bumper harvest of chili peppers every year. Many old farmers have planted the land all their lives, but the peppers at home are not necessarily well grown. In fact, it can be seen from here that many farmers lack some detailed management in planting, which leads to no bumper harvest of chili peppers. For example, someone asks if there is a large need for water during the fruiting period of peppers. How should I water chili peppers?
First of all, we can be sure that the water demand of chili peppers is still relatively large. Because peppers are crops that are harvested in multiple crops, simply put, during the growing period of peppers, pepper trees will continue to bloom and produce peppers. Since it needs to produce fruit continuously, it needs to have enough water to maintain it. Therefore, if you want to produce more chili peppers, you naturally need to water them frequently.
So, in the management of chili peppers, how should you water them?
Here you really need to pay attention to the fact that although peppers require a lot of water, they are not watered indiscriminately, so it's fine. If you don't do it well when you are watering, it is likely to lead to a reduction in pepper production. Therefore, when we water peppers, we should consider many aspects comprehensively. One is the growing season of the peppers, the other is the temperature, and the other is the amount of watering.
The growth period of pepper can be divided into seedling stage, growth period, flowering and fruiting period, fruiting period, and decline period. At the seedling stage, we have to look at it in combination with temperature. In order to eat fresh peppers, many farmers will raise seedlings in advance and transplant them to vegetable gardens. In this case, after transplanting pepper seedlings, they should be covered with plastic film to keep warm.
At this time, the amount of watering we have, and the frequency of watering, will be relatively low. On the one hand, there is less watering, and on the other hand, there is a long interval between waterings. Because the temperature at this time is not high enough, frequent watering will lead to a decrease in low temperature, which will affect the root growth of peppers, and finally the situation of stiff seedlings.
When the peppers are in the fruiting period, our watering amount will start to keep up. However, in the early stage of pepper fruiting, we need to adjust the timing of watering and the amount of watering in time according to the current temperature. According to the general situation, the temperature warms up at this time, and the temperature stabilizes at a maximum of about 20. At this time, the pepper plants are also larger, so they can be watered more often and the interval time is shortened.
When the pepper enters the peak fruiting period, it means that the pepper needs a lot of water to supply the pepper to grow. At this time, we need to water more, but it is not suitable to flood with large water, but it is not suitable to water small water.
Because when the pepper enters the peak season, the temperature is already relatively high, mostly around 30 degrees Celsius. At this time, the soil loses water more quickly and the surface temperature is higher. If we water too little, we will only wet the surface of the soil. In this way, it is easy to cause water evaporation, and the high temperature water vapor will burn the pepper tree. At this time, we should avoid watering at noon when the temperature is high, and choose to start watering in the middle of the afternoon, when the soil is cool. The soil needs to be watered thoroughly, but it is not suitable for large amounts of water.
In short, don't look at growing peppers is a simple job, but if you want to plant peppers well and harvest more, you still need some fine management.