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Home Gardening Green Chilli Tips: Growing green chillies at home is no longer difficult. Just start fresh chili cultivation with a pot, right soil and a little sunlight. The chili plant is small and also gives good fruit in less space. Enjoy breaking fresh chili daily in the balcony of your house.
How to Grow Green Chillies at Home: If you are also one of those people who seem a bit sharp in every vegetable, then green chillies will be the life of your kitchen. But have you ever thought that the green chillies you buy from the vegetable market, how fresh and chemical free is it? If you want, you can grow fresh and pure green chillies in a small pot, on your balcony or roof. Neither the need for land, nor the farm, just a little sun, a little meditation and hard work, then the fun of breaking fresh chillies every week.
Nowadays people are returning to healthy food and homegron vegetables, in such a situation, growing green chillies can be a good start. The special thing is that the chili plant is not very big and also gives comfortable fruit in small pots. From above, this plant also looks very fresh and green, which also improves the look of the balcony of the house.
If you have a place with 2-3 hours of sunlight, then the chilli plant can grow very easily there. Whether you live in a flat or in a small house, after reading these guides you will also say- it is very easy to grow chillies. Let us now know step by step how you can also grow freshness of sharp taste sitting at home.
Right choice of pots and soil: To grow green chillies, you do not need a very big pot. An 8 to 12 inch pot or bucket is also enough to run. But keep in mind that there is a water drainage hole in the pot, so that water does not accumulate in the roots. For soil you can add 50% garden soil, 30% cow dung manure and 20% sand or cocopet. This will keep both moisture and nutrition in the soil.
Seed or plant- What to take?: If you want the result soon, you can bring a small chili plant from a nursery. But if you are fond of growing from the beginning, then green chili seeds will also work. Cut any fresh green chili and remove its seeds, dry 1 day in the sun and then sow 1 to 1.5 cm deep in the soil.
Incense and water- The right balance is necessary: Green chili plant prefers strong sunlight, so choose at least 4 to 5 hours of sunlight a day. There is no need to give water daily, especially if there is moisture in the soil. It is enough to give water every 2 days in summer and 1-2 times a week in winter. Just remember that the soil should not dry.
Manure and care: It is good to give a vermi compost or cow dung manure to the chili plant once a month. If there is yellowing in the leaves or flowers are falling, then spray neem oil. Apart from this, do not allow weeds or dry leaves around the plant.
Time to arrive chili: After about 40-60 days of sowing the seeds, flowering starts coming in the plant and then gradually green chillies. As the chillies get ready, keep breaking them from time to time. This increases the chances of planting new fruits.
Take care of the weather: Green chili is a hot weather crop. March to June and then September to November is considered best for this. The chili plant can weaken in a very cold or more rain.
Tips that will be useful: Apply chili in more than one pot, so that chili is constantly available. Tomato, basil or coriander can also be grown along with chili, it is called compani planting. Take a little scraper to the soil of the plant every 15 days, this keeps the air circulation. After drying the chili, you can use the seeds to grow again next time.
The green chili plant not only gives your kitchen fresh taste, but also fulfills gardening hobby. It is really relaxed to see when we break fresh chili from their planted plant and put it in the vegetable. So what is the wait now? Today, start growing green chillies by bringing a pot, a little soil and some seeds, and make your house a little more green, a little more healthy.
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