Coming from Central America, sweet pepper,like tomatoes with eggplants, belongs to the family of solanaceous crops, and in weather conditions Russia does not grow in natural conditions. Therefore, it is propagated by seedling method, and only in summer it is planted in open ground, preferably in a greenhouse. Breeders created varieties of sweet peppers, unpretentious to temperature drops and resistant to its decrease, the most diverse color of fruits, from yellow to dark red and even purple.
The form is also diverse:small and round, large cone-shaped, pyramidal, similar to tomatoes, and others. Resistant to cold temperatures, disease-resistant, not requiring hardships in production, pepper gives excellent yields even in Siberia.
Cultivation of sweet pepper
Seedlings are planted on seedlings in February orfirst week of march. Regardless of the variety of sweet pepper, seeds sprout for quite a long time, from 15 to 20 days. In order to accelerate germination, use aloe juice, diluting it with water 1: 1, soaking in it the seeds for a day or two. The seedling does not spike (does not transplant with a tearing off of the central root, like tomatoes).
В открытый грунт сеянцы высаживают, когда почва it will warm up and the temperature will be at least 25 or 20 degrees (14 ... 17 at night). In the south, where it is higher, they need to be watered regularly, otherwise the plants will drop ovaries and flowers.
Heat at 40 degrees and higher results inthe roots can die out and the plants wither. All varieties of sweet pepper prefer sunny areas with good soil, fertile and rich in nitrogen. In the shade they are drawn out, the ovary is poorly formed and the fruits ripen.
Normal care:weed, water and loosen, feed in time (during watering). The best feeding is bird droppings, which need to be diluted with water quite strongly: there is no more glass of droppings per bucket of water. It is good to add humus to the soil before planting.
Varieties of sweet pepper: early ripe
Claudio F1 (72-85 days), Seville (95 days), Orange Miracle (100-110 days), Montero, Ilya Muromets (125 days), Ivanhoe (105-110 days).
Varieties of sweet pepper with medium ripening
All varieties cannot be specified, here are some ofof them. California miracle - ripening 130 days, this variety does not like too much fertilizer with nitrogen, the bush turns out higher, and the fruit is less. The yellow bull is a virus-resistant variety, the fruits are very large, juicy and fleshy, yields a crop of up to 7 kg per m2. The Red Bull variety has the same characteristics.
Drought-resistant plants: Veronica, Anastasia, Lyudmila, Bogdan and Red Giant. Fruitful varieties: Giant orange, Kolobok, Bogatyr, Topboy and Topgerl, Atlas and Antey.
Sweet Pepper Varieties for the Urals
Early ripening: Barguzin, Bulgarian, Pinocchio F1, Dobrynya Nikitich, United F1, Magician, Latino, Kubyshka. Montero, Sonata F11.3, Seville.
Mid-season: Aries F1, Alyosha Popovich, Agapovsky, Freckles, Dawn, Player, Vityaz, Sonata F1 and others.
Sweet Pepper Varieties for the Moscow Region
Very good grade - Gold Medal, whichhas a high yield, up to 10-19 fruits per bush, it is up to a kilogram of peppers. Aries and Atlantic are also well developed and provide a fairly stable crop. Belozerka is an early variety, also high-yielding and distinguished by the simultaneous ripening of a large number of fruits. The plants are of medium ripeness - Bulgarian 79, the fruits are red in color, have a pyramidal shape.
Early - Winnie the Pooh and Gogoshary (local).First grade - a low plant, produces cone-shaped fruits, sweet, with thick walls. Gogoshary - national grade. Medium-sized fruit, similar to tomatoes, weight about 100 grams, dark green. Of the early ripening, Cardinal F1, Denis F1, Indalo F1, Health, Kerala F1, United F1 are also popular. From mid-season varieties - Yolo miracle, Novo-Gogoshary, California miracle, Victoria.
