Pepper Ratunda, Ruby, Kolobok, Olenka (Gogoshary): description of varieties

Advantageous characteristics of the type

Ratunda sweet pepper belongs to the mid-season plant types. It ripens 95-100 days after pollination. The plant has a long, strong stem, from half a meter to a meter in height. The description of the variety includes the main qualities of the fruit:

At ripeness they reach a weight of one hundred to one hundred and fifty grams.
The thickness of the fleshy walls is from seven millimeters and above.
Unripe fruits are dark green, turning red or yellow as they ripen.
The pepper tastes sweet and hot, with a honey aftertaste.

If you grow sweet pepper varieties correctly, in warm summers they produce from three to five kilograms of tasty vegetables per square meter.

Sowing seeds

After the seeds hatch, start sowing them. Fill the containers 1/3 full with fertilized soil mixture. Do not plant seeds deeper than 5 mm. Sprinkle the seeds with a mixture of sand and soil. For every part of sand, take one part of soil. This will give lightness to the soil. It will be easier for sprouts to break through such a layer of soil.

Cover the containers with cling film and leave, maintaining the temperature at least 25 C. As soon as the first shoots appear, remove the film.

First shoots

For normal development, vegetable seedlings need twelve hours of daylight. In winter, there is not enough natural light. Solve the problem of lack of light by installing additional lamps. Remember to let the plant rest at night.

Top dressing

Hybrid sprouts require feeding. Carry it out after the first two true leaves appear. Dissolve a mixture of 10 g of urea, 40 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium salt in 10 liters of water. Water the seedlings with the resulting solution.

The culture will gratefully accept foliar feeding. To do this, make a solution based on a growth stimulator and spray the plants. Carry out this procedure on cloudy days. After this, do not place the seedlings on the windowsill for one or two days.

Hardening of seedlings

Two weeks before planting the sprouts in a permanent place, begin to harden the plant. In the first days, take the plant outside for one to two hours. Gradually increase the time the seedlings spend in the fresh air until daylight hours. Immediately before transplanting, leave the plants outside for a day.

Representatives of round peppers

There are few varieties of vegetables similar to Ratunda pepper, but they are all popular among summer residents. Some please with early ripening, others with medium and late ripening. It depends on the growing region and summer weather conditions. When choosing one variety or another, you need to decide on the purpose of using the fruit. If cutting a vegetable is necessary, then the shape of the fruit does not play a role here.

But stuffed fruits should have a regular, preferably round, shape. Small peppercorns are also good to preserve.

Popular semi-standard variety

It’s not for nothing that the Kolobok pepper is called that, because its fruits are spherical with almost no edges. Thick walls can be nine to fourteen millimeters. And the size of the fruit is 5 by 8 centimeters with a weight of ninety grams or more. Kolobok reaches technical ripeness after 108-112 days. In this case, the fruits will be light green. They will turn red if 140-158 days have passed since the first shoots. And the taste will depend on the color of the vegetable. Red fruits are sweeter than green ones.

There are only excellent reviews about Kolobok pepper. All summer residents note its ease of care, rapid ripening, and the sweet taste of its thick walls. I especially like to use the fruits for canning along with tomatoes and preparing stuffed vegetables.

Ruby sweetness

Excellent canned food is made for the winter if you use Ruby pepper. It is grown in regions with different climatic conditions in greenhouse conditions and open ground. The height of the bush is no more than half a meter. The round-flattened fruits begin to ripen 160-178 days after emergence. At first they are light green in color, then gradually turn red, acquiring a ruby hue. Peppers reach a weight of 110-150 grams. From one square meter you can harvest over three kilograms of juicy vegetables.

Landing

You can start sowing seeds in March or at the end of February, with the expectation that the fruits will have time to ripen before the cold weather.

For planting, it is recommended to use seeds that have been stored for 2-3 years. Fresh ones grow into a weak bush that does not fully retain the necessary qualities.

Pre-sowing treatment includes:

Germination test. The seeds are immersed in a five percent saline solution and wait a few minutes. Some will go to the bottom, and some will float. Those seeds that sink are of high quality; they are selected for sowing.
Selected grains are kept in a one percent solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour.
Rinse and treat with a growth stimulator (this step is optional if germination is planned).
Germinate the seeds. To do this, prepare settled water at a temperature of +20-24 degrees or an infusion of wood ash. The seeds are placed in a saucer on a layer of cloth and poured with this infusion, but so that they do not float. Cover with transparent film and place in a warm place at +25-30 degrees.

The hatched seeds are carefully planted into the prepared soil mixture using tweezers. Use light soil, well drained, loose and nutritious. You can buy it ready-made or make it from peat, soil from the site and humus. For fertilizer, wood ash, superphosphate, urea and potassium chloride are added in small quantities. The homemade soil is placed on a baking sheet and disinfected in the oven at a temperature of +110 for about half an hour.

It is better to take soil for the mixture from the garden bed where the pepper will grow. It should be located where cabbage, radishes, radishes, carrots, onions, garlic, peas, beans, pumpkins or zucchini used to grow.

Sprinkle the sprouted seeds with a layer of soil up to 5 mm, carefully moisten them and place them in a warm, well-lit place. Seedlings need a lot of light. If the day is shorter than 12 hours, turn on the phytolamps.

After the first two leaves, the bushes are pruned, and 2 weeks after the procedure they are fed. For 10 liters of water take 40 g of superphosphate and 10 g of potassium salt and urea.

Pre-hardened seedlings are placed on the bed according to a 40 by 60 cm pattern.

High-yielding pepper variety Olenka

Among the early ripening varieties of heat-loving vegetables, Olenka pepper can be distinguished. It is distinguished by its high yield - up to nine kilograms of juicy sweet hearths are obtained from one square meter. Their weight is usually ninety grams. Characteristics of culture include:

height of a medium-sized bush;
drooping fruit of a flat-round shape with slight wrinkles;
thickness of the fleshy wall is 7 millimeters;
color from dark green to red.

It is better to grow the plant under film coverings.

Sweet candy

A hybrid of the round type, Sweetie pepper can have a color from yellowish-green to red. The round-cone-shaped shape with the fleshy, aromatic pulp of the vegetable allows it to be consumed fresh or preserved with whole fruits. They are small - only forty to fifty grams in weight. But the wall thickness reaches five to seven millimeters. The peculiarity of the hybrid is:

early ripeness after 85-95 days;
height of the bush is forty to sixty centimeters;
high yield - kilogram per bush;
resistance to diseases - fusarium, rot, viral mosaic.

With good care of the plant, you can get the first fruits as early as May.

Reproduction methods and agricultural technology

Typically, raspberry bushes of this variety produce up to seven new shoots per year. To propagate it, gardeners resort to the following procedure:

At the beginning of spring or autumn, the central part of the raspberry bush is cut out. The diameter of this part can be in the range from 10 to 20 cm.

Important! Cut the bush carefully and carefully so as not to damage the rest of the plant. Then the raspberry bushes are provided with good and competent care. If the requirements of agricultural technology are met, then next year the roots will produce at least 20 new shoots, which will serve as material for propagation

If the requirements of agricultural technology are met, then next year the roots will produce at least 20 new shoots, which will serve as material for propagation

Then the raspberry bushes are provided with good and competent care. If the requirements of agricultural technology are met, then next year the roots will produce at least 20 new shoots, which will serve as material for propagation.

The second option that gardeners use is propagation of raspberries by green cuttings. They are harvested in May from annual shoots

It is important to choose green ones and those that are located 3-5 cm high above the ground. They contain a sufficient supply of nutritional components and good growth qualities

Cuttings are not prepared at once. Depending on the awakening of the kidneys, this process lasts from May to June. The shoot is cut off when the rosette is formed, but when the growth of the shoot has not yet begun.

Advice! It is better not to cut off shoots with a high aerial part.

They have entered the stage of intensive growth and will take root less well. Suitable shoots are cut at a shallow depth and removed along with the soil. Immediately transplant into a cuttings with moist and oxygenated soil. After two weeks, new roots begin to grow, but it is too early to replant the cuttings. They are moved to a new place no earlier than in a month.

Many remontant raspberry varieties are propagated in this way.