Peppers have a shallow root system and is extremely sensitive to overheating, and the temperature reduce. At temperatures below 12 ° C the roots are paused. If the soil for a long time has a low temperature, then the roots die off peppers. Especially pepper suffer upon the occurrence of rainy and cold weather. Long stay of plants in the open ground without additional shelters leads to diseases, plants can not restore the roots. The time is lost, and with it the hopes for a good harvest lost.
How to protect peppers from stress and to preserve the harvest?
The first thing you need to do is cover the plants with a film from the cold rain. At low temperatures on plants it is possible to throw a nonwoven covering material. If possible, it's best to grow peppers in assorted tunnels of the arcs. They can at any time to remove or put on again.
All feeding during cold weather should be stopped. At the onset of warm Sunny days to help the plants to adapt from the stress. Feeding on the leaves soluble fertilizers with microelements in chelate form with the addition of Alpin in such a situation will benefit the peppers and the plants quickly recover.
You can apply this composition: one ampoule cytovite (siliphant) diluted in 1,5 l bottle with water and add a few drops of EPIN. Solution sprayed all the plants in the morning in Sunny weather, or anytime in cloudy weather. But later in the evening more processing to do. It is important that the mix is well soaked and drain. the plants until the evening. A week later you can start to nutritional feeding at the root.
Such an effective foliar application can be distributed to other needy plants, especially warm-season crops (cucumbers, tomatoes, eggplant, etc.).