If you want to grow something unusual on your windowsill, pay attention to the ornamental pepper, which is also called the caspicum. This is a small plant covered with small leaves of dark green color. On the site of its small axillary inflorescences, small fruits develop.
Indoor pepper - varieties
Among the plant varieties the most popular are:
- "Mouth". Its bush reaches 25 cm in height. Fruits 2-3 cm long bright red color have a conical shape.
- Blau. In a small bush (14-15 cm), before ripening, there is a rounded fruit up to 2 cm long with a blue color, and with maturation - dark red.
Both these varieties refer to edible peppers, their peppers have a pleasant sweetish taste. Moreover, some plant growers prepare medicinal tincture from them. There is also a roomy bitter pepper, for example, "Little Miracle", the fruits of which will be a fine spice to the dishes.
Growing of indoor pepper
Kaspikum difficult to call a capricious plant. For the bush to grow and bear fruit, it will require:
- timely and quite abundant watering;
- fertilizing with fertilizers;
- loosening of the soil.
To form a beautiful crown of a house plant pepper in a pot, its tops are gently pricked. During flowering, it is recommended that the pollination be done by brushing or simply shaking the inflorescence to obtain a crop.
The transplantation of the caspicum can not be tolerated, so if necessary, the bushes are transferred to a new pot with an earthen lump.
Plant in front of the room easily seeds. Prepare the soil from humus, peat and turf land, taken in equal parts. Seeds before planting soak for 24 hours, deepen in the substrate by 1 cm and watered. The container with seeds should be covered with a film and placed in a warm place. After a week and a half, the film is removed, because the shoots already appear.