Colorful pepper is a kind of light loving plant, which should be provided with more than 4 hours of light every day. It is forbidden to have strong light. When the light is too strong in summer, it needs to be shaded and put in the place of bright scattered light for maintenance. Do not allow it to be exposed to direct sunlight, so as not to cause yellow leaves to fall.
Pepper grows in loose, permeable and well drained soil. It can be planted after being mixed with mature fertilizer and garden soil. Choose a flowerpot with a diameter of 5-25cm.
Five color pepper has poor cold tolerance. The best way to keep the temperature around 20 ℃ is to raise the colorful pepper in the seedling stage. After entering the flowering stage, it should be adjusted to 15-20 ℃. When the fruit is ripe, the temperature should be adjusted above 25 ℃, not below 10 ℃.
Colorful peppers like water and moisture. It is usually watered once a day in sunny days, but if the basin soil has not been dried, it can not be watered. Do not waterlog the root, otherwise it will cause rotten root. Before fruit setting, the number of watering should be controlled to ensure the balanced growth of plants; when the soil is too dry, it can only be irrigated with small water, not with large water. After fruit setting, the plant growth will be weakened. At this time, normal water management can be carried out to promote fruit growth.
Colorful pepper is a kind of fertilizer loving plant. It's best to apply fertilizer once every half a month or so during its growth. During the flowering and fruiting period, one or two more fertilizer based on phosphorus fertilizer can be applied.
