Decorative pepper

The beautiful decoration of the window sill in the kitchen is a room flower capsicum or simply - decorative pepper. Due to their changing color (from green to all shades of yellow and red colors), fruits that, depending on the variety, are of different shapes (oval, pointed, stubose, curved, pear-shaped, cylindrical or conical), they perfectly decorate the kitchen interior. But in order for these fruits to ripen and not fall off immediately, you need to know the rules of care and use the right varieties.

Decorative Peppers: Growing and Care

Caring for the decorative pepper, like an indoor flower, is simple enough, it is enough to choose the right location and adhere to certain rules of care.

1. Location . Pepper is a light-loving plant, so a pot with it must be placed on a well-lit place, where there is a slight airing. When the heat it can be put on the balcony, but with cooling it is necessary to bring.
2. Landing . It is better to sow in late February - early March in a well-permeable nutrient soil consisting of sand, peat or compost and leaf land.
3. Formation of a bush . To form a beautiful bush, once the seedlings go to growth, they should be pinched, repeating this procedure 2-3 times during the summer period.
4. Temperature regime . For the formation of ovaries in the room where the pepper is located during the day should not be above 28 ° C, and at night - not lower than 20 ° C.
5. Watering . This moisture-loving plant requires frequent watering under the root and spraying 1-2 times a week, because for good growth it needs high humidity.
6. Top dressing . Throughout the growth period, pepper needs fertilizing: at the beginning of the growth of seedlings - complex mineral fertilizer, and after the beginning of flowering - potassium and phosphorus fertilizers three times a month.

Varieties of decorative pepper

For domestic growing, it is better to use low-growth varieties, of which the most common are:

• Blau is a compact shrub with a height of 13-16 cm, giving the fruit a cone-like shape from a dark blue to a dark red color;
• Mouth - a bush height of 20-25 cm, giving an elongated cone-shaped fruit (2-4 cm), with maturation having a yellow to bright red color.

Very often the question arises: is it possible to eat the fruits of home decorative pepper? In food, you can use only certain varieties of this plant.

Edible varieties:

• Orient's bouquet is a semi-sharp hybrid;
• Masquerade F1 - an acute hybrid;
• Black Prince;
• Troll;
• Carmen;
• Firework;
• Bride.

Inedible varieties:

• Goldfinger;
• Red rocket;
• Pepperoni;
• Clown;
• Orangina;
• Filius Blue.

Decorative pepper: problems and diseases

With improper planting and growing conditions, decorative peppers can be affected by the following diseases and pests:

• root rot - due to too deep planting, excessive moisture in the ground and low temperatures in the room;
• aphids and spider mites - when placed in too hot, poorly ventilated room, with dry air.

With a lack of fertilizers, the leaves of pepper immediately change their color:

• the lower layer becomes purple - due to lack of phosphorus;
• become brittle and light - in the absence of nitrogen.

To cope with these problems very quickly help to carry out foliar top dressing (spraying) with a solution with the necessary elements.

Since pepper is a perennial plant in the natural conditions of life, then after the harvest was harvested, the bush should be rejuvenated, passing it to a new land and cutting old shoots to the middle. In this case, the home decorative pepper will please you with a crop several times a year and will stay on your window for about 5 years.