When summer ends, it's time to harvest and harvest seeds for planting next year. Many summer residents are wondering how to collect the seeds of Bulgarian pepper . For a beginner vegetable grower, this can be a real dilemma. Get the seeds yourself is preferable, as their presence will save from losing the variety. In addition, the purchased may not be of such quality.
How to collect the seeds of pepper for planting?
The process of collecting the seeds of Bulgarian pepper includes the following actions:
- Before collecting the seeds of Bulgarian pepper, carefully choose the fruit. They must already be fully ripe. It is better to tear them from the first three branches of the bush. Only a healthy, strong fruit is chosen for the collection of seeds. Their age should be at least 40 days. Too soft, overripe immediately discarded. To verify the maturity of the fetus, it is pressed on it. If there is a characteristic crack, the pepper ripens.
- After harvesting, they are left to ripen for another week.
- After the fruits are fully prepared, they separate the stalk with a knife. Seeds are carefully shaken to the table. If some of them are stuck, they are neatly separated with the same knife. After extraction from the fruit, the seeds are left to dry completely.
- To understand how much quality material was collected, bite off one of the seeds. If it is hard, then the seeds are high class. If it is soft, then it is better to discard it, because nothing good will grow from such a seed.
When learning how to collect the seeds of sweet pepper, you should think about what it will be like. This is done taking into account the climatic conditions of the landing site. Another problem is that pepper is a self-pollinating plant. Therefore, two different varieties can often mix. To collect seeds of exceptionally sweet variety, it is planted at a distance from others.
Collected seeds can be planted in the soil for two to three years. For all this time they will give excellent shoots.