Sweet pepper "Trio mix"

* When is the best time to sow peppers?
You should start sowing peppers in late February - early March
Do you need to pick peppers?
Since pepper seedlings do not tolerate root injury well, it is better to grow peppers without picking, using cassettes with 6x6 cm or 8x8 cm cells for sowing.
How to properly grow pepper seedlings?
It is convenient to use peat tablets as a substrate, which should be watered in advance, a ready-made mixture for seedlings, or prepare the mixture yourself by mixing turf soil, sand, peat until a loose substrate is obtained. The optimal temperature for pepper seedlings is +25+27°C. As a rule, seedlings appear in 3-10 days, but at lower temperatures, seedlings can appear up to 30 days. Single shoots are a signal to remove the film. You should not wait for all the shoots, otherwise the first seedlings will stretch out. After germination, it is better to provide the seedlings with a lower temperature - at a level of +18+24°C.
It is worth watering the seedlings with a weak solution of mineral fertilizers.
Pepper seedlings tolerate a lack of light much better than tomato seedlings, but nevertheless it is desirable that the plants do not touch.
Do I need to shape the pepper?
Forming the pepper after planting is one of the important components for obtaining large fruits. First of all, before the first fork, it is necessary to remove all lateral shoots. Removing the flower in the first fork is also a mandatory operation.
The left first fruits greatly draw off nutrients, delaying the formation and development of higher-growing fruits. Pepper should be formed into no more than two stems, pinching each time the branched shoot to one fruit and one leaf.
How to water the pepper correctly?
The root system of the pepper is poorly developed, so the pepper often suffers from a lack of moisture. Due to water deficiency, flowers fall off, fruits are formed small and deformed, the number of buds, flowers and ovaries decreases. Watering should be done at least once every 5-7 days using large amounts of water for irrigation: 30-50 l / sq.m.
With good watering, pepper accumulates more dry matter, which means it becomes more useful and tasty.
Moisture deficiency does not allow nutrients to be absorbed and causes growth inhibition and a decrease in yield, over-moistening of the soil causes wilting diseases in pepper, and low air humidity causes flower shedding.
Which pepper is healthier - ripe or unripe?
Pepper can be harvested both in technical and biological maturity. Fully ripened pepper fruits contain more carotenoids and vitamin C in relation to unripe fruits, but unripe pepper contains more folic acid.