How to Plant Cayenne Pepper in Pots and Polybags for Beginners, Let's Try it!

 How to Plant Cayenne Pepper in Pots and Polybags for Beginners, Let's Try it!

Moms who like gardening might be able to start thinking about growing their own cayenne pepper at home.

 Not only beautify the garden with red fruit, chili can also be used to cook at home, right Moms.

 It's not difficult, Moms, to grow your own cayenne pepper at home.  It only takes a few simple steps, Moms can already grow chilies at home.

 How do you grow chili at home?  Listen, Moms!

How to Grow Cayenne Pepper in Pots

1. Prepare the Pot and Fill it with Planting Media

 To plant chili, Moms can choose a pot with a hole.  This type of pot has a good drainage system so that water can get out of the pot and does not make the plant rot.  Fill the pot with planting media until leaving 5-10 cm from the lip of the pot.

2. Spread the Chili Seeds

 You can directly spread the chili seeds that you can buy at the farm shop with a distance of 5-10 cm.  After that cover with planting media.

 Moms can also make your own chili seeds from chili seeds.  The trick, Moms can take chili seeds from chilies that are ripe and red.

 Soak the chilies in a mixture of warm water and mashed shallots.  Leave it overnight.

 The next day, take the sunken chili seeds and dry them.  The chili seeds are now ready to be planted.

3. Flush with Clean Water

 Flush the chili seeds that have been planted with clean water using plant spray.  Do watering twice a day in the morning and evening to keep the seeds moist.

4. Keep away from direct sunlight

 Sunlight is needed by plants for photosynthesis, but for the initial growth process, moisture is needed more.

 Therefore, Moms should keep pots containing chili seeds away from direct sunlight.

5. Separate the Plant Seeds

 After a few days, the leaves will start to grow.  This is also a sign to move the chili plant to another pot or to the garden.

If you want to plant chilies in pots, you can place one plant in one pot so they can get maximum intake to grow and bear fruit.

 Do not forget to do watering twice a day using a spray.

Now, let's look at how to plant cayenne pepper in polybags.

 Did you know that planting cayenne pepper can also be done in polybags?

Growing cayenne pepper yourself at home is indeed very profitable because you can harvest it and use it as a companion to your daily diet.

 You don't have to worry about chili prices going up and down anymore.  Well, here's the trick to growing chilies in polybags!

How to Plant Cayenne Pepper in Polybags

Growing cayenne pepper is very easy and profitable.  While other chilies can be done at an altitude of 0 - 2000 meters above sea level with a temperature of 24 - 27 degrees Celsius, cayenne pepper is not like that.

 Planting cayenne pepper can be done easily because this plant can grow and adapt easily to the environment.

Reporting from Bibit Bunga, here's how you can take care of cayenne pepper!

1. Choosing Superior Seeds

 If you want to grow cayenne pepper from seeds, make sure you choose superior cayenne pepper, yes!

 Superior seeds will make cayenne pepper plants survive better.  When you plant cayenne pepper with superior seeds, the plants will remain resistant and will not die even if they are moved.

 Bad seeds can die when moved to another place during the nursery process to the planting process.

2. Cayenne Pepper Nursery

The process of planting the next cayenne pepper is a nursery.  The nursery itself can be started by soaking the chili seeds in still warm water and leaving it for 30 minutes.

 If you have, you can continue the soaking process using a root stimulant solution and do it for 1 day and 1 night.

 If the seeds seem to float, it is better to throw them away and not use them.

 For seedling containers, Moms can use a plastic tub with a hole in the container with a diameter of 10 cm.  For seedling media, you can use sand and manure in a 1:1 ratio.

If so, flush using root stimulant liquid.

To plant cayenne pepper in this process, you can do it by giving the distance between the chili seeds.  This is done so that when transferred to polybags, the chili seeds can be removed easily.

 1 week before planting chili, the media must be watered using a plant growth stimulant solution.

 If it is ready, then you can choose quality seeds and please remove the seeds from the nursery to be transferred into polybags.

So that the roots of the cayenne pepper are not damaged in the transfer process, previously the soil media in the polybag must be perforated first using a finger.  Make sure the hole size is bigger than the seed size, Moms!

4. The Process of Harvesting Cayenne Pepper

 This process is definitely the most awaited of the series of how to grow cayenne pepper.  The cayenne pepper plant itself can bear fruit at the age of 3 months and can be harvested when it reaches 6 months, Moms!

 The age of the cayenne pepper plant itself can reach 24 months with 15 to 18 harvests.

 However, it should be noted that the older the plant, the lower its productivity.  So, chili plants can certainly become uneconomical when they are maintained.

 This is what makes this plant only maintained until the age of 12 months.

So that's it, Moms, how to plant cayenne pepper in pots and also polybags.  Good luck!