How to extract seeds from bell peppers for growing in pots

Many vegetables eaten daily offer the opportunity to grow at hometaking advantage of seeds that can be obtained from fruits bought at the grocery store or supermarket.

This is the case of Bell pepperas it can be easily grown in a common garden and in pots and is that the seeds of this species are stored in a pile inside the fruit, which generally discarded when preparing to cook.

Caution, as it may happen that when you open a Bell pepperyou find little or no seed. In this case, it is a hybrid varietyTherefore, the few grains obtained will not be used to produce other plants.

To guarantee a good resultit is advisable to extract the group of seeds from a fresh and healthy fruit and let it dry in a ventilated place already room temperature for three days, otherwise it will almost certainly rot when buried.

Meanwhile, it will be possible to appreciate how the seed bouquet shrinks and loses moisture until it becomes very dryyet another way to dry pepper seeds is separate them from the membrane that contains them and place them on kitchen paper so that they lose moisture over time.

In both cases, it is advisable to carry out a simple test to check whether the resulting seeds will be used for the production of new plants and for that, some seeds are randomly selected and placed between two sheets of paper moistened after put in a warm place for a few days to see if they germinate or not and if the first case occurs, it means that the seeds are viable.

Thus, small grains can be stored until the best planting season or planted directly in a hotbed in a shady place.

Usually in each hole three seeds of the bell pepper are buried and are covered with soil enriched with organic matter. Once germinated, it is necessary to wait until the small plants have four real leaves or are about 10 centimeters long before transplant them into a pot which will be filled with a rich and well-drained substrate, taking care not to damage its roots or the stem during this operation.

It is important to remember that peppers prefer sunny areasso it is better to place them in a place where they will receive at least six hours of sun exposure per day and as the plant grows, they should place stakes to help carry the weight of the plantespecially when its fruits appear (normally you can get three peppers per plant).

Irrigation and harvest of the bell pepper in pots

It is also important maintain soil moisturesubjecting it to regular watering but avoiding puddles, hence the importance of drain the substrate. For this it is advised prepare the pot with river sand to avoid unnecessary accumulation of water.

The harvest can start 12 weeks after transplant of the bell pepper in the pot, removing the rest and cutting it cleanly with a sharp knife, leaving about 2 centimeters of stem.

For newcomers, I advise you save time and ensure successbuying seedlingsplants in a nursery or in a garden centersince in the towns there is always a stall for sale.

This saves us a lot of time and assures us less problemsbeing the easiest job, you can’t imagine how good you feel when you get your first harvestis better than psychotherapy with Freud himself.

For, get our own seeds of a bell pepper, for example, there would simply be to remove the seeds from the fruitthen put them on kitchen paper in a kitchen cupboard, since humidity and sun are natural enemies for our seedsso that after a week they are dry enough to keep in a glass jar in a dark place.