How to choose varieties of sweet pepper

Spring approaches, gardeners are already thinking about crops of vegetables seedlings buy seeds, choose varieties. Let's try to understand the varieties of sweet pepper.
The seeds of this culture is huge, diverse criteria: the form of the fruit, its colour, ripening, growing conditions. Pepper – a good culture for the ornamental garden. Bred varieties and hybrids for growing in containers is a great option for those who want to get a crop on a balcony or windowsill. What is important to consider when buying seeds?
 

Variety or hybrid This option is particularly important for those who are accustomed to using primarily their own seeds. If your chosen package is worth F1, note: this plant harvested seeds should not be. This icon indicates the hybrids of the first generation in seed breeding varietal characteristics are not inherit. That is, even if you manage to get seeds favorite hybrid, grown from them plants can be quite similar to the ones that please you with its fruits. Hybrid seeds of peppers every year have to buy.





But the hybrids are considerable advantages:

• first, most of them have high yields and has large fruit with good flavor.
• second, they are often more resistant to diseasesthan the varietal of the plant.

Popular hybrids: Alenushka F1, Red Baron F1, Maxim F1, Isabella F1, Orange F1 a miracle, Atlantic, F1 and others. Common varieties: Snow white, Winnie the Pooh, Health, California miracle, Gingerbread man, the Tenderness, the Gift of Moldova and others.
The ripening period the best option is to plant crops with different maturity. So you will be able for a long time to get fresh fruit, which is important because the quality on sweet pepper, usually not too high. But in regions with cold climates to grow late-ripening varieties without the use of greenhouses is impossible — it is preferable the early peppers, which are able to produce a good harvest even in a short summer.



For reference:

• from early varieties ripening period is 80 to 100 days;
• middle-ripening varieties and hybrids of crop yield through 115 – 130 days;
• late requires up to 140 days.

Early-maturing varieties and hybrids: F1 Atlantic, Dobrynya Nikitich, Snow white, Dennis F1, Health, Cardinal F1, Swallow, Montero F1, Orange F1 miracle and others.
Medium maturing: Prometheus, Maxim F1, Korenovsk, Marconi, Ilya Muromets, Bilozerka, Vitamin F1 and others.
Late game: gold medal, night F1 and others.
The size and shape of the fruit it is an important topic, if you need peppers for stuffing (in this case, the thick-walled fruits are spherical or oval in shape), and in that case, if you are planting this crop in the decorative garden.



The fruits of sweet pepper can be elongated, conical, cylindrical, cube-shaped, oval or almost spherical; they are smooth and lumpy, with prominent longitudinal ribs or without. For example, the cultivar Bun has a rounded fruit about 5 -6 cm long; Marconi, Sweet banana – thin and long (up to 20 to 22 cm); California wonder thick-walled cuboid; the Swallow is smooth, tapered and so on. Description of the fruit, usually given on the seed pack.
The color of the fruit Bright fruit pepper extremely decorative. Note, however, that color appears as they Mature – in the phase of technical ripeness almost all peppers are green of various shades (from light green to dark green), and only at the time of full ripeness are all inherent variety of the color features of the fruit.



Red fruits varieties of Alyosha Popovich, Winnie the Pooh, Ilya Muromets, Red elephant, Swallow and hybrids Zarya F1 Latino F1, Red Baron F1.
Zheltoplodnaya: Yellow bouquet, Katya, Isabella F1, garden rocket F1, Rais F1.
Unusual coloring from the peppers Maxim F1 (purple in the phase of technical ripeness and dark red when ripe); Cardinal F1 (fruit purple); Bonus (from ivory in the phase of technical ripeness to orange or dark red ripe fruits); Fox F1 (ripe fruits are bright orange in color).
Growing conditions Pepper – heat-loving culture, and it is often grown in plastic film greenhouses or greenhouses. Many hybrids of sweet pepper intended for planting in the greenhouse, for example, Raisa F1, F1 Cockatoo, Red Baron F1 and others, however, there are many varieties and hybrids suitable for both closed and open ground. Such versatile plants include, for example, Belladonna F1, Golden rain, Atlant, Vigor, Isabella F1, Swallow, Gift of Moldova.



If you want to grow peppers in a home vegetable garden is on the windowsill or balcony, loggia, it is better to choose varieties intended for container planting, for example, Fox F1, fit Health, Winnie the Pooh, Swallow, Midget, Carat, Medal.
Other features Of the other distinctive features you should pay attention to the height of the plant – it can vary from 30 – 35 to 150 -170 cm Some varieties, such as Snow white, Yellow bouquet demanding the formation of a Bush, require the removal of lower leaves and side shoots.

Maybe for you it will be significant keeping quality of fruits, yield grade, or its resistance to diseases – there are options for every taste.

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