Fertilize your Chili Plants!

When you grow in a pot so it is important to use a good soil. In a good soil, chili plants don't need to be fertilized for 3 – 5 weeks depending on the containers size and on the nutrition contained in the soil.

I add nutrients to my soil mix my pots when I’ve transplanted to 4 liter pots and larger with chicken manure pellets by pouring in a little soil in the pot, add in a little chicken manure, and then fill in with soil and then plant the seeds I plant.

When and how much fertilizer and what nutrients and then give their chili plants is often discussed, but according to my tests, it doesn't really matter what kind of liquid fertilzier you use, You can use e.g. ”Prosper” or ”Biobact”, that are among the most common to give to potted plants or the ones I use (see below.)

I can't say that any of these nutrient solutions is better than the other when I get about the same results from all. If you will succeed or not depends more on when and how to nourish.

What I have come to is that it is better to add small quantities of nutrients each time that you water the pepper plants, than to give fertilize to a greater amount of 1 – 2 times a week.

I use about 1 ml. nutrients for 1 liter of water, 10 ml. to 10 gallons of o water. There is no need to pour in more nutrition in the water then chili plants can't take care of larger amounts of nutrition at once.

I'm not going to go into detail when it comes to all the nutrients the chili plants need to flower, to grow and so on but I take up the four primary.

Nitrogen: A driver of growth and an important component in chlorophyll.

Magnesium: A key element in chlorophyll

Phosphorus: Promotes flowering

Potassium: Gives the tissue the statute and allowed the fruit to mature.

(Chlorophyll is the substance that gives plants their green color. The substance plays a crucial role in photosynthesis, i.e. the conversion of carbon dioxide, water and energy into carbohydrates and oxygen.)

Here are the different nutrient solutions m.m as I've tried to give my chili plants.

Bat Guano

a completely natural organic fertilizer free from additives. The fertilizer packed with nitrogen, phosphorus, and nitrates.

Formulex

Is a nutrition that is specially formulated to use for cuttings and small seedlings. Formulex can be watered or sprayed on the leaves for the extra fast effect. With Formulex, you can get quick stocky and fine cuttings and seedlings with strong root system.

Chilli Focus is developed based the needs of the commercial cultivation and contains pure mineral salts and organic plants acid, completely matched to these plant needs.

With Chilli Focus is getting your plants healthier, stronger and more colorful, and produce juicier fruits.

Biobact fertilizer is an organic liquid fertilizer. Biobact is made of a waste product from paper production. Biobact should be combined with a fertilizer with K (phosphorus) ad it is absent in Biobact.

Biobact Tomato is an organic plant food that is approved for organic farms. The industry is specially adapted to vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Biobact should be combined with a fertilizer with K (phosphorus) in the absence of Biobact

Epsom salt

To increase the uptake of nutrients. Magnesium helps the plant to soak up phosphorus and nitrogen. Sulfate contributes to chlorophyll production and makes the industry more efficient.

Special fertilizers, PK

For bloom and fruiting. Does not contain nitrogen, only phosphorus and potassium, and is used to increase the hardiness and provide higher quality of plants and harvest. Combined with, for example, Bat Guano for nitrogen.

Now you know a lot about fertilizing your peppers and you can, along with using grow lights (see this post for everything you need to know about lights and chili plants), increase your yield!