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How to collect pepper seeds for seedlings at home
You need to take care of the future harvest in advance. To grow large, tasty, allspice peppers, you need to figure out in advance how to harvest pepper seeds for seedlings and store them until sowing.
You can only harvest pepper seeds from ripe fruits.
pepper is a self-pollinating plant. But sometimes the following situation is possible: an insect transfers pollen from a pepper of a different variety to a flower before its own appears on it. As a result, the fruit tastes bitter. When growing peppers of different varieties, you need to ensure that the distance between them is at least two meters. It is recommended to plant tall plants between the beds.
How to collect pepper seeds at home
The best peppers are used for seeds, fully ripe. It’s great if these are the fruits that were formed first. But it is necessary to ensure that they do not overripe.
How to harvest pepper seeds correctly? First of all, observing accuracy.
- The peppers are cut with scissors and placed in a warm place to ripen. When they are slightly soft and shriveled, the seeds are ready to be harvested.
- The fruits are cut with a knife. You need to grab the stalk and remove it.
- Seeds are removed from it by hand. Some may crumble and remain inside the pepper, then they are simply shaken out.
- The resulting seeds are dried in the sun for several days and then collected in a paper bag.
Hot hot peppers should be handled carefully, do not rub the eyes and make sure that the juice does not get on the mucous membranes. Gloves are recommended.
How to properly collect pepper seeds for seedlings and not confuse seeds of different varieties with each other? There is no need to allow confusion and confusion, first peppers of one variety are completely processed, then another. When dried, they are sorted into different dishes, and the bags with ready-made seeds are signed. Properly harvested pepper seeds can last for two to three years.
Can seeds be harvested from pepper hybrids?
The purchased hybrid pepper seeds promise the plant’s resistance to diseases, a good harvest, and large tasty fruits. But if you collect seeds from grown hybrids and try to grow a new crop from them, you can be pretty disappointed with the result.
There is no guarantee that such peppers will inherit all the positive qualities of their “parents”.
Therefore, only hybrids of the first generation of peppers are used, which means that their seeds will have to be bought annually.
Collecting seeds is a simple matter for those who are interested in a rich harvest, the main thing is to approach it responsibly.