The Correct Way To Move Habanero Pepper From Nursery

It's been a while since I talked about the Habanero peppers. It's a beautiful season and I'll talk about one important thing.

Planting Habanero pepper seeds straight into the field where they will be grown is actually a bad idea. Young pepper plants are no match for weeds and the scorching sun. They should be grown in a nursery first where they can develop good strong roots before they are moved out to the main field.

As you can see from my video today, the seedlings have reached the ideal size. If they were left in the nursery bed any longer, the roots would start to constrict each other completely, resulting in the seedlings refusing to grow tall. One of the farmers I saw was very carefully pulling the seedlings out of the bed while holding their roots together with some soil.

I learned long time ago that the time for transplanting of seedlings to bigger area of field is when clouds are over and it is about to rain.

Seeds that are transferred to their new homes in wet ground immediately stand up straight and start to get used to new environment with their newly formed roots that start to get used to taking water from new soil. This is completely opposite to when the sun is high in afternoon and all of a sudden seedlings are exposed to heat, which in no time starts to affect their roots and kills the seedling.

Pepper farming is not something that can be done by simply throwing some seeds in the mud. It requires planning and a close observation of the weather and of the plants. Beautiful hot peppers can be found in many markets. It took hard work to grow them.