To pick up the grade of pepper of sweet - business difficult. The harvest for 50% will depend on whether this grade is correctly chosen, whether it will be able ""to equal"" the laid hopes for receiving good harvest.
What it is necessary to know about pepper, choosing seeds in shop?
All pepper can be separated into two groups on the place of cultivation. These are spring greenhouses and the open ground / the open ground with the temporary shelter. It is necessary to decide where your pepper will grow. In hothouse conditions it is better to grow up pepper srednerosly semi-determinant (height of 70-110 cm) fully to use height of the greenhouse. Undersized standard grades (40-70 cm) land to the open ground.
On cultivation terms pepper are early ripening (enter fructification from shoots within about 120 days), mid-season (more than 120 days) and late-ripening (more than 140 days). Considering the short period of cultivation (3-4 months), it is more preferable to buy early ripening varieties or ripening in average terms.
What it is necessary to pay attention to, studying information on bag of seeds of pepper?
1 Marking. It is obligatory for all seeds and has to supply with the information on firm (address, phone, etc.), the lot number, effective life, quantity of seeds in bag, the name of grade whether seeds in package (whether demand soaking), use where it is more preferable to grow up grade are processed.
2 Description of grade. Many firms give such information differently. For example, this grade has the period from shoots before the first collecting 115 days. Means, the grade belongs to the early term of maturing. And if it is written that the period from planting of seedling before fructification of 75-80 days, then it is necessary to add 45-50 more days of the period of seedling - the grade will be mid-season. Some firms give information that from shoots to technical ripeness of 90-105 days, biological - 120-135 days. It means that on transition from green color in red (yellow or orange) about a month, without weather patterns will be required.
3 Resistance of the chosen grade to adverse weather conditions, to diseases. It is good if the chosen grade is resistant to viruses or topmost decay of fruits.
4 Everyone chooses the size, form, color of fruits on the taste. Everything depends on culinary preferences.
5 Grade or hybrid. It is important to remember that hybrid grades are more fruitful and demand higher agrotechnology of cultivation. To grow up excellent harvest, it is necessary to grow up excellent healthy seedling, to create necessary conditions for growth (soil, power supply, light, heat, forming of plants). Most ""appeasable"" on the nature of cultivation of grade undersized standard. Plants of such grades of forming do not demand.