Ornamental pepper: buy one pot for 4 yuan, harvest 100 fruits, make chili sauce that goes with three bowls of rice

Fellow plant lovers, do you know the ornamental pepper? It can be grown as a flower, and its fruits come in a riot of colors; it can also be eaten as a vegetable, and made into pickled peppers it tastes absolutely superb! The key point is that it is even easier to grow than pothos and spider plants. Huahua already has some planted at home, and today I am going to share some experience with you~

4 little tricks to make ornamental peppers fruit like crazy!

1. Choose fertile soil to grow them in, and you will get twice the result with half the effort!

The ornamental pepper is actually a variety of the small chili pepper, a crop plant. Generally, vegetables are not demanding about soil. A mix of nutrient-rich leaf mold, black soil, potting soil and so on with ordinary garden soil is already the top configuration, and they will immediately grow like crazy!

2. Sunshine is indispensable

Ornamental peppers have the nature of a vegetable: they love basking in the sun, and daily light must not be less than 4 hours, so that they can flower and fruit to the fullest. If you cannot grow them outdoors at home, it is best to put them on a south-facing balcony for care.

3. Control water appropriately

Ornamental peppers prefer a moist environment. Before flowering, you can water once every 1-2 days. Once the flowering period arrives, it is best to control water and only water when the soil is dry, which can stimulate it to flower and fruit. In summer, evaporation is high; if it looks a bit wilted, you can mist it appropriately to increase humidity and lower the temperature.

4. Top-dressing gives more and bigger fruits

Before the flowering period of ornamental peppers, you can spray or water with some monopotassium phosphate to promote flowering; during the flowering and fruiting periods, you can water with urea 1-2 times (2-3 granules of urea dissolved in 500ml of water), which can make the peppers grow more and bigger. If it is not convenient to buy these where you are, you can put rice-washing water in a bottle and leave it in the sun for 1 week to ferment, then mix 10ml of rice-washing water with 100ml of clean water and water the ornamental peppers with it.

Colorful pickled peppers, one meal and you can eat three bowls of rice!

Ornamental peppers start out white, yellow, and purple, and turn red when fully ripe. Because the flowering times on a single plant are not uniform, the colors differ, making it look like a riot of colors.

If you want to keep your ornamental peppers looking pretty, fellow plant lovers, you do not need to do anything with them. Ornamental peppers can be enjoyed for 1-2 months, and in the end they turn into dried chilies on their own.

One plant alone can yield quite a few dried chilies,

which are indispensable for everyday stir-fries~ But fresh

ornamental peppers taste even better, with a crisp texture, refreshing and delicious. They are generally used to make pickled peppers, and all you need is soy sauce and sugar!

1. Prepare the ingredients

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Prepare 50ml of soy sauce, 20g of rock sugar (adjust to personal preference), 3 heads of garlic peeled clean, and ornamental peppers washed and air-dried to make sure there is no water on them.

2. Fill the jar

Prepare a glass jar, boil it in water to sterilize it, and after it dries, first put a layer of rock sugar at the bottom of the jar, then add ornamental peppers and garlic, then more rock sugar... fill it layer by layer like this, pour in the soy sauce, and seal it to pickle.

3. Ready in 1 month

The ornamental peppers and garlic will be pickled in one month. Once pickled, they can be eaten as a side dish, or used in stir-fries, noodle soups... People who love spicy food must not miss out!

You can plant them right now and harvest the fruits in autumn!

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Ornamental peppers can still be sown now. The seeds are inside the ripe chilies. Ask around whether anyone you know grows ornamental peppers, and just ask for one ripe red fruit. Cut it open and you will see it is full of seeds!

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Take out the chili seeds and scatter them on moist soil; no need to bury them. Just leave them like that in a cool, ventilated place, and spray water on top every morning, just enough to moisten them, not too much.

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Seeds like a dark, moist environment to germinate. You can also cover the seeds with a thin piece of cotton cloth, which can increase the germination rate. Once the little sprouts emerge, you can remove the cotton cloth.

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Within a week, the chilies will grow into small seedlings. At this point they can be exposed to the sun, morning and evening both, and you do not need to water too much, to avoid the seedlings growing leggy. Water about once every 2-3 days.

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When the seedlings grow to more than 8 cm, they can be taken out and moved into pots. A medium flower pot can generally hold 2-3 plants. When transplanting, put the roots together with the soil into the new pot, press the soil firm after transplanting, then water thoroughly to settle the pot. Put it in a cool place for 2-3 days to adjust, and once it has survived, move it to a sunny spot for normal care.

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