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Nutritious Nitrogen

Fertilizing Chile Interactive Questions

  1. Chile pepper yields are maximized under the following fertilizer regime:



  2. Assuming that plants need a lot of nitrogen to grow and yield lots of chile peppers, why don’t we just add as much nitrogen as we can?



  3. Why don’t we add a high dose of nitrogen fertilizer during the seedling stage?



  4. Adding enough nitrogen at the seedling stage means you don't need to add nitrogen after flowering.
  5. If you are planning to add nitrogen anyway, it's not important to test the soil first.
  6. When fertilizing with nitrogen, how can you best pursue a profitable yield while avoiding water contamination?


  7. At the seedling stage: Too ____ nitrogen reduces flowering; too ____ nitrogen reduces growth