When planning to get a good harvest, it is important that the preparation of pepper seeds and eggplant for sowing seedlings is carried out correctly.
Having spent time on calibration, disinfection, soaking and hardening, even a novice gardener will be able to grow strong, healthy and viable seedlings, which will perfectly transfer the transplant to a greenhouse or to open ground.
Selection of seed
Eggplant and peppers enough capricious and difficult to grow. Small and light seeds do not differ from one hundred percent germination, germinate for a long time and need special conditions. To minimize risk and get strong seedlings, you need to select the most promising varieties before sowing.
Collecting seeds yourself is not worth it. Most of the productive hybrids do not provide high-quality seed with all the properties of the mother plant. It is better to buy them in a good gardening center, which guarantees quality, freshness and lack of re-grading.
Bags with seeds should be hermetically sealed, each package must have the expiration date and the correct name of the variety or hybrid.
Too old seed does not guarantee good germination.. It needs to be searched, discarding the deformed and empty. Select a full-fledged seeds will help 3% solution of salt.
The seed is soaked in the solution, the empty ones float to the surface, and full-fledged sink to the bottom. After the “salt test”, the selected specimens must be thoroughly washed and dried, spreading out on a sheet of paper.
Some gardeners recommend check the germination of the party. This is especially important when planting a large number of plants. A few seeds are folded into a bag of cotton fabric and soaked for a day in warm water.
Then the bag is removed and left until the seeds swell, moistening the cloth from time to time.
After 5 days you need to check the status of the material. At least 70% of the seeds must be turned. The higher the percentage of germination, the better and stronger the seedlings will be. If less than half sprouted, it is better to try another batch..
Next, let's talk about how to prepare the seeds of peppers and eggplant for sowing for seedlings?
The details of disinfection and nutrition
Selected seeds are recommended to be disinfected.. Some gardeners believe that industrial seed does not need this procedure, because the purchased seeds are already undergoing disinfection before packaging. But light preventive training won't hurt.
Seeds can soak in a dark cherry solution of potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide or wrap them in cotton cloth soaked in fresh aloe juice. Processing lasts 20-30 minutes, after which they need to be washed with clean warm water.
Next stage - growth promotion seeds. The procedure speeds up the spitting, strengthens the sprouts and adds vitality to them.
Plants treated with stimulants suffer less, tolerate transplantation and other manipulations more easily. Industrial growth stimulator is dissolved in water according to the instructions on the package, and then seeds are soaked in it.
Novice gardeners should try one of proven circuits:
- Soaking the seeds for 20 minutes in a solution of potassium permanganate, washing and moving in water solution "Epina" (0.5 cups of water and 2 drops of the drug). Soak in solution for 16-18 hours at room temperature.
- After treatment with potassium permanganate, seeds are soaked. in zircon solution (1 drop per 1 glass of water). After 18 hours, they are moved to a damp cloth before pecking, and then sown.
- Seeds are disinfected in 10% hydrogen peroxide solution and washed. Then poured melt water at room temperature for 2 days. Water changes every 6 hours. After germination, planted in containers or peat pots.
- Prepared water aloe fresh juice solution, dry seeds are soaked in it for 48 hours. After swelling, the seed is planted in the ground.
- Seeds treated with potassium permanganate or hydrogen peroxide are soaked in a solution of 1 liter of water and 0.3 tsp of complex mineral fertilizer. The procedure lasts 12 hours.
- For soaking seeds used a solution of 1 liter of water, 0.3 tsp. of nitrophoska, 0.5 tsp. of wood ash. Another option: 0.3 tsp of nitrophoska and 1 tsp of mullein per 1 liter of warm water.After treatment for 16 hours, sown in the ground.
Hardening pepper seeds and eggplant
Popular procedure - hardening in the refrigerator. Such treatment will prepare the plants for a possible temperature difference, strengthen their immunity and resistance to disease. Hardening is especially useful for sweet peppers, but eggplants react positively to it.
For hardening need decontaminated, treated with stimulants, but not yet germinated seeds.
The prepared seed is wrapped in a damp cloth, spread on a plate and placed in the lower chamber of the refrigerator. The temperature should not fall below 1-2 degrees.
After 12-24 hours, the seed is transferred to heat (18-20 degrees) for a day, and then returned to the refrigerator for another day. All the while, the fabric in which they are wrapped should be damp, but not too wet. After hardening, the seeds are immediately sown in the prepared soil.
Another useful procedure is bubbling or bubbling. Seeds treated with stimulants are placed in a glass filled with water at room temperature.
The aquarium compressor is lowered into it and turned on for 20-30 minutes. The constant impact of air bubbles improves germination and significantly strengthens the immune system of plants.
Preliminary preparation of pepper seeds and eggplant for planting seedlings will take from 16 hours to several days, depending on the method. Each gardener chooses his own, ideal scheme.
The more difficult the preparatory stage, the better the grown seedlings will feel. Particularly noteworthy plants that will be planted in open ground or in a greenhouse without additional heating.
Pay attention to the different methods of growing eggplants, especially their sowing according to the lunar calendar and is it possible to grow them at home?
Useful materials
Read other articles on pepper seedlings:
- Proper seed growing and should they be soaked before sowing?
- How to grow black pepper peas, chili, bitter or sweet at home?
- What are growth promoters and how to use them?
- The main reasons why the leaves are twisted at the shoots, the seedlings fall or stretch, and also why the shoots die?
- Terms of planting in the regions of Russia and features of cultivation in the Urals, in Siberia and the Moscow region.
- Learn yeast based fertilizer recipes.
- Learn the rules of planting Bulgarian and hot peppers, as well as dive sweet?
As well as articles about eggplant seedlings:
- How to prepare the seeds for planting?
- All causes of white spots on the leaves, and why they can curl?
- Major pests and how to get rid of them?
