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 our country is also very extensive. Most chili peppers are now grown mainly by raising seedlings and then transplanting them, but many friends find after transplanting that the chili peppers fail to start growing and show poor seedling recovery. This seriously affects the growth of chili peppers and reduces planting returns. 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 matters, because the root distribution of chili pepper seedlings is relatively shallow. Some farmers, when transplanting, think that watering is needed after transplanting, and if transplanted too shallow they fear 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. Also 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 the seedling bed. Because the soil, nutrients and so on are different, the seedlings cannot adapt in time after transplanting and show some adverse symptoms. So we must 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 somewhat, so the seedling recovery time will also differ. Therefore, a long seedling recovery time does not necessarily mean an adverse symptom; the seedlings 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 seedlings. 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 decline, and because transplanting was done 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 root have already rotted. The remaining roots' absorption capacity is completely unable to meet the nutrients and water needed for seedling growth. If it is a sunny day with high temperature, water evaporation speeds up, and symptoms such as wilting will also appear.

4. Improper fertilization

Fertilization is a necessary task in growing chili peppers. Many vegetable growers, when fertilizing, blindly apply fertilizer in order to promote seedling growth, advance the ripening time, increase yield and so on. If immature farmyard manure is used, or the fertilizer is not fully mixed with the soil, or too much fertilizer is applied, all of these will cause the soil temperature to rise rapidly. This robs the plant of water, causing the seedling roots to be burned and seriously affecting the roots' nutrient absorption and so on, resulting in symptoms such as poor seedling recovery. Fertilization is the key to ensuring healthy growth of chili peppers and increasing yield, and 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 recovery of chili pepper seedlings, among which there are also normal phenomena and, of course, reasons such as pests and diseases. Therefore, when poor seedling recovery occurs in chili peppers, we should pay attention to checking the specific cause of the poor recovery and then take corresponding measures; we must not handle it blindly. That is all for today's introduction. This article is for reference only, and we hope it can help everyone!