Production Guide
Adaptability: 18 – 30°C (mean monthly temperature)
Maturity: 50 – 60 days (AFTER TRANSPLANTING) chili / hot pepper
Planting Distance: 30 cm X 100 cm
Plant Population (per ha): 33,333 hills per ha
Seeding Rate: 400 g/ha
Number of Seeds (per gram): 165 – 195 seeds
Method of Planting: best transplanted
Sowing To Germination: 8 – 12
Germination To Transplanting: 30 – 45
pH Requirement: 5.5 – 6.8
Harvesting:
- Fruits are ready for harvest 3 to 6 weeks after flowering.
- Sweet peppers are often harvested at the green mature stage.
- Weekly interval of harvesting is usually practice for sweet
Fertilizer Management
- Basal (2 days before transplanting)
- 1st Sidedressing (10 days after transplanting)
- 2nd Sidedressing (30 days after transplanting)
- 3rd Sidedressing (50 days after transplanting)
- Foliar Fertilizer (60 DAT and weekly thereafter)
- Chicken Manure (1kg/ m²)
- 21-0-0 Fertilizer (200kg/ ha)
- 46-0-0 Fertilizer (200kg/ ha)
- 46-0-0 Fertilizer (200kg/ ha)
- 14-14-14 Fertilizer (20g/ m²)
- 0-0-60 Fertilizer (200kg/ ha)
- 0-0-60 Fertilizer (200kg/ ha)
- 0-0-60 Fertilizer (200kg/ ha)
- 46-0-0 Fertilizer (10g/ m²)
