How to Collect Pepper Seeds from Your Crop: Do It Right and Get 100% Germination
Collecting seeds from your own peppers ensures high germination and vigor. In the first and second year from the moment of collection, peppers show maximum germination.
But if you want this figure to approach 100%, you should collect seeds in accordance with the rules shared by the expert of the online publication BelNovosti, agronomist, landscape designer Anastasia Kovrizhnykh .
Important: Seed collection should be done exclusively from varieties, not from hybrids, in order to preserve varietal characteristics.
In addition, sweet peppers that grow together with hot peppers are not suitable for collecting seeds, since they cross-pollinate and can give you an unpleasant surprise.
Seeds should be collected from the first set and ripened fruits. The first fully set fruits should be left on the bush until they are fully biologically ripened, and then seeds should be collected from them.
The optimal time to collect seeds is when the fruits begin to wrinkle due to overripeness.
If the fruits are picked from the bush earlier, they should be left in a dark, warm place for final ripening so that all the nutrients pass into the seeds.
Separate the stalk with seeds from the fruit and place the seeds in water to immediately get rid of those that rise to the surface. You can also add a preparation based on trichoderma or hay bacillus for disinfection.
After selecting the best seeds, they are carefully dried in the sun or in a dry, ventilated room.
Earlier we told you how to sow eggplant seedlings .
