Chili peppers are a staple ingredient in Italian cuisine. Whether spicy or sweet, they can add a touch of flavor to all our savory dishes. If you want to make sure they’re never missing from your kitchen, we reveal the easiest way to grow chili peppers at home without the need for a garden.
In addition to being very useful in cooking, chili peppers are rich in therapeutic properties, they are able to stimulate metabolism and have a thermogenic effect that contributes to fat burning.
How to grow chili peppers in pots?
Extract the seeds from a chili pepper, wash them well and let them dry in the sun for 2 or 3 days.
Next, fill a few pots with soil. If you wish, you can recycle the yogurt pots. Place 4 to 5 chili seeds in each jar, burying them about 1 centimeter.
Water every three days, without overdoing the quantities of water. Place the pots near a window with good sun exposure. Seedlings will need direct sunlight.
After 8 to 12 weeks, the seedlings will already be formed. Once they reach a height of 5 to 10 centimeters, you can transplant them into a larger pot.
To do this, fill a pot with topsoil and leave a space of 10 centimeters between one plant and another.
Place the pots in a warm, sunny area of the house.
Once it reaches a height of around 40-50 centimeters, the plant will be ready to bear its first fruits. The plant can produce peppers 3 to 4 times per year.
Now that you know how to grow chili peppers at home, you can have a steady supply of them and give your plants a boost of flavor and heat.