Hello my fellow homesteaders and agriculturist
Good morning and happy new week to you.
I believe that this week will be awesome for me here on hive especially the discovery aspects and learning, and I must say I learnt a lot and am applying it on my daily schedule.
This morning, before attending to my daily schedule activities, I had to visit my bag of pepper seedlings, so as I decided to go to my little farm yard where the seedlings are kept, to inspect what have been going on there for the past three weeks of being absent, harvest wasn't among the plan.
I did not go there to do much work but I saw myself doing what I didn't plan for as the situation called.
Some month ago, I got some fresh spicy peppers from a local market, not for planting but for cooking but after using the first half of the quantity I bought, I decided to cultivate it because of how spicy and the aroma it gave out in my meal, I spare two balls out of the rest and bisected it in order to remove the seedlings and then I headed to get a bag filled with good loamy soil and welled manure.
My roommate disagreed with me, he told me that the pepper may not grow due to weather and soil conditions here presently, he said that the pepper grows better on a site close to water or cold environment and wet soil.
After listening to him, I had to improvise by creating a place that I believe will be suitable for the growth of the pepper. I took the seed to where I have my water tank stand, I dugged the bag where water will be dropping when the tank is filled with water, I did that in order to achieve a faster and better growth of the pepper.
After a week of plantation, I noticed that some folding leave have started coming out from the place where I planted. I watch the spicy 🍃 growing for few weeks before I move it to a permanent site where I intended to transfer to the permanent site but I failed to do that because of time factor against my schedule.
I nurse the pepper growing day by day before I resumed work due to strike called off.
For one month now I haven't gone to see what is going on.
HOW TO CULTIVATE GIANT SEED PEPPER ON NIGERIA SOIL.
It very simple to cultivate the pepper if you can follow due process.
Remember I told you the condition behind the spicy process of planting and if you want to harvest heavily at the end and to prevent it from dying.
After I move the bag of pepper from the water tank site, I took it to a loamy soil area, till the soil and I added animal waste like goat or sheep waste, after that I mixed the local manure with the soil and irrigate it directly in the bag since I had no time to transplant.
I left the bag for two to three days in order for the manure to ferment and mix with the soil.
By that time of waiting for the manure to mix with the soil well, you can start removing the seed from the bug of pepper for easy planting.
The smallest farm fork is used to dig the soil and you put two to three seed on the soil and cover it lightly with enough manure.
After that process give three to five days to germinate.
The giant seed pepper grows faster after germination.
BENEFITS OF GIANT SEED PEPPER.
The pepper is mostly used for stew and sauce because of the chilling effect of hotness on it, the pepper is naturally hot just like the Carolina reaper and bhut jolokia chocolate pepper.
Due to the spicy hotness of the pepper, I think that blood pressure, cholesterol and heart issue can be prevented through eating it.
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