How to properly grow Gladiator peppers, tips and tricks

21.12.2017 Pepper Varieties

It is necessary to pre-prepare special containers for subsequent seedlings. After this, plant seeds should be planted in these containers. First you need to prepare the seeds for further planting. Professionals in this matter are advised to adhere to the following instructions:

First of all, the seeds must be immersed in the aquatic environment. It is best to allocate a separate container for this, which will determine the quality of the seeds used for planting. Those that pop up are unusable and empty.
Next, it is necessary to soak the seeds in water for 2 days. In order to increase the speed of seed growth, you can add a growth stimulator to the water.
Treat the selected seeds with a weak solution of potassium permanganate, then wash them in warm water.

Such manipulations will not only accelerate the growth time of your seeds, but also increase their immunity to various pathogenic bacteria that often parasitize on the leaves and fruits of vegetable crops.

Important! The most favorable time for planting Gladiator pepper is from mid-February to mid-March.

When you begin to prepare the soil for planting seeds, it is necessary to make indentations of no more than 1.5 cm, as this is enough for the successful development of your pepper. Regarding the temperature regime, it is extremely important to observe a range from 23 to 28 degrees Celsius, since it is this interval that is most favorable for the successful growth of the Gladiator.

Prepared seedlings should be planted in a permanent place at the age of 2 months. It is necessary to carefully approach the choice of a site for landing. This place should be sunny, warm and isolated from strong winds, since this culture is quite thermophilic. In advance (best in autumn), organic fertilizers should be added to the ground, which will enrich the soil with additional minerals and subsequently increase productivity.

The distance between the plants must be made a little less than half a meter, since peppers should not be crowded. As mentioned earlier, this variety is sprawling. This fact must be borne in mind, regardless of whether you are planting a plant in covered ground or open.

Interesting! The optimal concentration of Gladiator pepper bushes is 4-5 plants per square meter of planting.

Content

1 Basic Gladiator Pepper Care
2 Features of planting pepper Gladiator in the ground
3 Gladiator Pepper Reviews

Basic Gladiator Pepper Care

To increase the fruiting of the Gladiator pepper, you must be guided by several basic rules:

It is important to provide the plant with an increased concentration of heat and light. If you plant pepper in open ground, then at night you can safely cover it with film, and if pepper is planted in a greenhouse, you need to worry about the constant ventilation of the room.
Take care that your peppers do not suffer from thirst. It is very important to provide the Gladiator with constant and timely watering. In the climatic conditions of our country, this is no more than 2 times a week.
It is necessary to use mulching or periodic loosening of mail and its weeding. For this type of pepper, straw and green manure are best suited for this purpose.
Constantly feed the soil of your pepper with various mineral fertilizers.These procedures can be started as early as 14 days after planting the seeds of the plant.

If you have met all the above conditions, then the Gladiator pepper will begin to bear fruit in mid-July, and this period will last until October.

Advice! Many seed producers independently process them before sowing, doing it manually. Such seeds do not need to be further prepared for sowing, they can be immediately placed in the ground.

Features of planting pepper Gladiator in the ground

After a period when the frosts are no longer terrible, you can plant the Gladiator pepper at a constant place of growth. Some gardeners take advantage of the moment and plant pepper seeds already in the open ground on May days, however, many do not dare to dare to take such a risk and use covering material or a standard film for planting, which protects the future plant from possible climatic changes. In various regions, weather anomalies may occur at different times. In this case, the conditions for planting the Gladiator pepper must be adapted to the weather in the place where you live.

For high-quality seedlings of pepper, it is necessary to place about 6 bushes of a plant per square meter of open ground. Peppers should be planted without deepening it, just as it had previously grown in cups.

The reason for the unnecessary deepening lies in the fact that, unlike other vegetable crops, for example, tomatoes, Gladiator pepper rarely enough allows roots to grow sideways. After a successful planting of the plant in the soil, further productivity already depends on timely feeding, watering and loosening the soil.

Gladiator Pepper Reviews

Reviews about the gladiator pepper are the most diverse. Many write that they have been planting this vegetable crop for quite a long time and are absolutely satisfied with the results. Gladiator didn’t like the other peppers, and these gardeners switched to other crops that suit them better. Many gardeners in their reviews talk about the fact that all the neighbors praise the beautiful bulk yellow color of their peppers, constantly ask about what fertilizers they use and how often they look after the plant.

As a rule, negative reviews are left by those who did not carefully enough carry out all the procedures necessary for a high yield of this crop or who first encountered the cultivation of Gladiator pepper and did not fully understand the whole scheme of its growth.