What causes poor seedling recovery after transplanting chili peppers?

Chili pepper is an indispensable side vegetable in many people's daily diet, and its planting area in China is also very extensive. Most chili peppers are now grown mainly by raising seedlings and transplanting them, but many friends find that after transplanting, the chili peppers show stunted growth and poor seedling recovery. This seriously affects the growth of chili peppers and reduces planting benefits. So what causes poor seedling recovery after transplanting chili peppers? Let's take a look together below!

1. Transplanting too deep

The transplanting depth of chili pepper seedlings requires some care, because the root system of chili pepper seedlings is distributed relatively shallowly. Some farmers, when transplanting, think that watering is needed after transplanting, and if transplanted too shallowly, they worry the water will wash the seedlings over. In fact, this is completely wrong. If the transplanting depth exceeds 1/3 of the stem, then in a high-temperature and high-humidity environment, the roots cannot breathe, causing the stem color to darken and, in severe cases, even rot. And note that this is not caused by disease, so it cannot be treated with chemicals.

2. Adaptation process

Before transplanting, chili pepper seedlings grow in the seedling bed, and the environment of the field where they are transplanted will inevitably differ somewhat from that of the seedling bed. Because the soil, nutrients and so on are different, the seedlings cannot adapt in time after transplanting, and some adverse phenomena appear. So we need to give the seedlings a period of time to adapt to the growing environment. The adaptability of seedlings is related to variety, environment, and so on, and their adaptation time will vary to some extent, so the seedling recovery time will also differ. Therefore, a long seedling recovery time does not necessarily mean an adverse phenomenon; the seedling may be in the process of adapting.

3. Improper timing

The transplanting time of seedlings also has requirements. Many friends do not have the habit of ridging when transplanting during seedling raising. And when watering, they do not pay attention to the watering method, using flood irrigation, which causes the soil to become compacted and its permeability to decrease, and because of transplanting too early, the seedlings suffer root drowning and rot. After pulling out seedlings with poor recovery caused by this reason, you can see that the fine roots at the seedling roots have already rotted. And the absorption capacity of the remaining roots is completely unable to meet the nutrients and water needed for seedling growth. If it is on a sunny day with high temperature, the water evaporation rate speeds up, and adverse phenomena such as wilting will also appear.

4. Improper fertilization

Fertilization is an essential task in growing chili peppers. Many vegetable farmers, when fertilizing, in order to promote seedling growth, advance the maturity time, increase yield, and so on, fertilize blindly. If undecomposed farmyard manure is used, or the fertilizer is not fully mixed with the soil, or excessive fertilization is applied, and so on, all of these will cause the soil temperature to rise rapidly. This robs the plant of water, causing the seedling roots to be burned, seriously affecting the nutrient absorption of the roots, and leading to phenomena such as poor seedling recovery. Fertilization is the key to ensuring the healthy growth of chili peppers and increasing yield, and it is also an important measure to prevent soil continuous cropping obstacles, so everyone must pay close attention to it.

There are many factors that cause poor seedling recovery in chili peppers, among which some are normal phenomena, and of course there are also causes from pests and diseases. Therefore, when poor seedling recovery occurs in chili peppers, we should pay attention to checking the specific cause of the poor seedling recovery and then take corresponding measures; do not handle it blindly. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and I hope it can help everyone!