Crop Care in Chilli

(i) Irrigation

• Depending of soil and climatic conditions irrigate the crop 5-7 days once.
• In black soils irrigate 15 days once.

(ii) Top dressing

• Inter-cultivation needs to be done every 10-15 days once to check the weeds.
• Six weeks after transplanting do the hand weeding and apply remaining 50 percent of recommended in organic fertilizers and do earthing up.

(iii) Use of growth regulators

• At the time of flower initiation spray the crop with 50 ppm NAA.
• Second spray one week after first spray this avoids flower dropping.

(iv) Weed control

• Spray of pre-emergent weedcide viz., butachlor @ 1.50litre per hectare.