Currently numerous hybrids and varieties of sweet peppers differ in ripening period, which is considered from seedlings to technical ripeness.
Early ripe peppers ripen in 90-110 days, for medium early ripening period is defined in 130 days, mid-ripening ripen after 130 days. Peppers are determinant in the growth and development of stems (their growth is limited) - such are low and medium-sized varieties. They are suitable for cultivation in open ground and in greenhouses without heating. Tall, full-grown and large-fruited peppers are indeterminate - they grow constantly and their growth is not limited. Such varieties are best grown in heated greenhouses, but early ripe indeterminate yields excellent yields in unheated greenhouses.
Pepper is very picky about light and heat. Seeds that were in the cold may not germinate; consider this when storing. Do not store them for long - germination is reduced to 30% after 2-3 years of storage. Some varieties like germination temperatures above 30 degrees. Sown seeds should be warm all the time, otherwise they will die for a long time. Only a nighttime temperature drop of up to 25 degrees is possible.
The best seeds will be full-bodied - they will give amicable shoots. This is pepper, the seeds of which will settle to the bottom of the cup, if they are poured with water. Absolute empty float to the surface of the water. An interesting feature is this vegetable. Peppers whose seeds have been stored for a long time lose their germination and growth power - sprouts hatch weak. But the seedlings quickly move, and the fertility of such specimens is excellent. Buy seeds from time-tested companies.
Dutch pepper seeds can not be distinguished from ordinary. The seeds of Dutch hybrids are expensive, but they are worth it. For greenhouses, they are excellent: the most practical - F1 Orange Vander - yield 10 kg per 1 sq. Km. m, cuboid fruits with a wall thickness of 1 cm, larger than it is F1 Indalo. A little inferior in appearance, but also early ripe F1 Montero and F1 Pantino are fruitful and tasty. In addition, Montero F1 is resistant to
tobacco mosaic of peppers.
For guidance in the world of sweet peppers based on the experience of vegetable growers, the names and brief characteristics of some varieties are given below. The best seeds of early ripe pepper: Belozerka (even cone-shaped fruits are good for freezing), Spanish sweet (really sweet and fruitful), Bogdan (very sweet and thick-walled). Snezhok, Snegirek, Kind, Freckle is good for the conditions of the Siberian summer. These varieties are planted at a seedling age of 65 days, it is desirable that by this time they have reached the budding phase. Then these peppers of excellent taste will please with friendly return of a crop.
The following varieties have proven to be the best mid-early:
Red giant, Claudio, Bogatyr, Red giant. Pepper fruits in all of the above high-yielding varieties are sweet, juicy, large. Varieties Agapovsky, Fidelity, Dobrynya, Golden Rain, Health, as well as domestic hybrids - Orange Wonder F1, Rhapsody F1, Yubileiny Semko F1, Atlant F1 - were created for unheated greenhouses. Mid-season unpretentious variety Korenovsky in favorable conditions produces a wonderful harvest of very tasty and
large fruits.Many people know the California miracle pepper (there is red, there is yellow). The fruits of this variety are large, thick-walled, very juicy and tasty. Thick-walled, weighing up to 350 g, grow with Ilya Muromets, Lolita, Titan, Tolstoy master. Tall Vikings (red and yellow) will generously bestow a caring host with elongated fruits with excellent taste. If you want to diversify the red-orange-yellow-green color gamut of peppers with purple and chocolate colors, you need to plant a variety of Stars of the East and grow the fruits to biological ripeness.
By planting pepper on the plot, seeds from the best varieties can be prepared yourself, but first find out how to do it right. Do not stock up on the seeds of hybrids - this is in vain. They will not give a crop. And, of course, for the best harvest, you need to provide this vegetable with the sunniest spot on the site, ensure timely agricultural activities - loosening and weeding, applying the necessary fertilizers, pest and disease control.