For the first year of my dacha life, I didn’t even think about pepper; It seemed to me that we couldn’t get serious harvests in the Urals even in a greenhouse. But then I looked at the neighbors, talked to people - everything is growing in the greenhouse and it’s very beautiful. Already in the second year I decided on pepper, but I studied the varieties carefully; I didn’t want to take risks.
I simply adore pepper, it “reigns” in all my dishes, I am a connoisseur and very discerning. Naturally, my own pepper now seems to me a hundred times tastier than store-bought pepper. And now it’s time to talk about its varieties.
Why we love pepper
For vitamin C, first of all - there is more of it in peppers than in currants and lemon. And all of it is concentrated... in the top part of the pepper, which many people mercilessly cut off and throw away. I don't throw away anymore.
There is more vitamin A in peppers than in carrots, which my grandmother fed me with, protecting my children’s eyesight.
An extremely useful element is routine. It strengthens the walls of our blood vessels, making them stronger.
Vitamins of group B, of which there are a lot of peppers, help strengthen nerves, good sleep, and good mood. Very useful for diabetics and those who suffer from edema.
Popular varieties of hot peppers for growing in an apartment
There is a line of varieties of this crop for growing indoors. As a rule, these are perennial plants that require special care. The fruits of indoor peppers are smaller in size than their garden brothers, but they taste just as hot.
The following plants are suitable for an apartment:
- Ogonek is a mid-season hybrid with classic capsicums. The tips of the pods are slightly curved. The fruits are small, fiery red. They are distinguished by their pungency and pronounced peppery aroma.
Ogonyok - Rowanushka is an ultra-early high-yielding hybrid. The fruits are bright red, spherical. Outwardly, they resemble rowan bunches. Peppers have good pungency and a strong aroma.
- Aladdin - compact bushes bearing fruit with small multi-colored peppers. They are presented in the shape of a cone and are directed upward. Light green, dark green, dark pink, beige, red and purple fruits grow simultaneously on one bush. The pods are great for canning.
- Confetti are dwarf ornamental bushes, not exceeding 35 cm. The fruits are relatively large: from 3 to 7 cm in length. They are presented in a classic cone-shaped shape of various colors: as they ripen, green peppers turn yellow, then turn purple. Ripe fruits have a rich red color.
Confetti - Salute is an early-ripening ornamental pepper that grows in dwarf spreading bushes. The cone-shaped fruits change color during ripening from dark green to bright orange. Peppers are consumed fresh and canned.
Indoor hybrids have high decorative value. With their exotic appearance, they are in no way inferior to indoor flowers.
How to plant it correctly
Pepper has a long growing season - from three months to 120 days. You can’t even grow it in our south if you plant seeds in open ground. So here, in the Urals, we plant it with seedlings.
If you don’t have a greenhouse, in principle you can grow it in an open garden bed, but then build arcs and cover it with agrofibre or polyethylene. In June, the seedlings need to be covered at night, then the edges of the film can be raised, but do not remove it completely. Personally, I plant seedlings in a greenhouse. I haven’t taken any risks with open ground yet.
Pepper loves soil that is saturated with oxygen and loose. If the soil is clayey, mix it with ash, peat, and sawdust that have already rotted. Pepper has fragile branches, so you need to tie it to pegs, and, in general, handle it quite carefully. In the first year I didn’t know this, I ruined the bush with indelicate treatment.
Immediately plant the seeds in separate containers - pepper is never a collectivist. You will transfer it into the ground carefully, all in a lump - you will have to cut the glass. After planting, you don’t need to water it for five days, you just need to loosen the soil frequently. We feed three times a season, water only with warm, settled water. And we do this carefully, spraying water all over the bush from a watering can - this is before the pepper has bloomed. And then we water closer to the root, when the fruits already appear.
Sweet pepper, variety “Bogatyr”
Another time-tested variety of sweet pepper is “Bogatyr”. Suitable for planting in greenhouses under film, I also grow it under arches with covering material. The plants are strong, up to 70 cm high. The variety is average in terms of ripening time.
Unripe peppers are light green and then turn bright red. Peppers weighing up to 180 grams, walls of medium thickness, approximately 5 mm.
The advantages of this variety: good stable yield, resistance to disease and high quality peppers. They are very tasty, easily transported and stored.
Sweet pepper, the best varieties
Prince Silver
An early ripening variety, ripens approximately on the hundredth day after the seeds are planted. That is, we start seedlings at the end of February - beginning of March. In May or June (this is if the spring was snowy, like ours), we transfer the seedlings to the greenhouse. In open ground - when the heat sets in seriously and for a long time. But who will promise you this in our latitudes? And the earth should warm up to at least plus ten.
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The pepper itself, its fruits, small conical in shape, ripen to red color. It is thick-walled, juicy, tasty. It’s great to use for canning, cooking in season, cutting into salads. The variety is very well protected from diseases, quite productive - more than 2 kilograms of mature peppers can be harvested from one bush.
Features of growing early varieties of pepper in open ground
In general, fruits from early ripening varieties of pepper are harvested approximately 90-115 days after germination of the seed material. And from super-early varieties, ripe fruits can be collected 85 days after germination of the seed material.
Photos of early varieties of pepper
To receive ripe produce earlier, many summer residents grow peppers using seedlings. In this case, early pepper seeds are planted in containers in the last ten days of February - the first ten days of March. In this case, the peppers begin to ripen in mid-July.
When planting pepper seedlings in open ground, you need to remember that this plant is thermophilic and does not tolerate spring frosts and nighttime drops in temperature - the bushes stop growing and begin to shed leaves and flowers. But during the ripening of the fruits, bell peppers can tolerate even slight frosts.
The usual requirements that vegetable growers place on selected early varieties of sweet peppers are as follows:
- good yield;
- resistance to most diseases and pest attacks;
- resistance to temperature changes and natural disasters;
- good taste of fruits;
- sufficient wall thickness;
- size and diameter of bushes;
- soil composition;
- care requirements.
How to grow peppers in open ground? Pepper care - video
When growing this vegetable crop for further sale, productive varieties resistant to diseases and weather changes are planted on the site. If bell peppers are planted for personal needs, then vegetable growers first of all pay attention when choosing a variety for planting to the taste of the fruit.
In general, growing bell peppers requires warm weather, fertile soil, timely watering, fertilizing and regular harvesting. In the spring, if the return of spring cold snaps is possible, a metal frame is installed on the beds with sweet bell peppers, on which a film covering is stretched. This measure is necessary to protect young plants from the negative effects of low temperatures.
Review of pepper “Prince Silver”, Galina Yakovlevna, 71 years old, Perm
My sister started planting the variety, and then I simply collected the seeds and planted them, at my own risk, on the windowsill. I immediately liked this variety - very beautiful, bright, juicy. I make a signature recipe for lecho and from peppers of this variety I now make the most delicious preparations. I got 10 fruits from one bush; last year even more came from some bushes. I think this is a good harvest. I grow peppers in a greenhouse.
"Hercules"
If you were late and did not sow pepper in February, pay attention to this variety - it is mid-season, it is grown throughout Russia. Start seedlings in mid-March. Do not plant in the ground before May - if you live in the middle zone. And if in the Urals, then it is possible in the second half of June.
Sweet pepper, variety “Vesnushka”
I plant “Vesnushka” pepper every year for its early ripening and excellent taste. The fruits of “Vesnushka” are very juicy, tasty and have a wonderful aroma. They are great for preparing a variety of dishes, canning and freezing. But most of all we simply eat them fresh.
Ripe peppers are orange; when not fully ripe, the color of the fruit is dark green. The fruits are prism-shaped, quite large, weighing approximately 150 grams, walls about 7 mm thick. The variety shows good productivity; there are always a lot of peppers. According to the description, the yield is up to 11 kg/m2. The sweet pepper variety “Vesnushka” is adapted to grow in unfavorable growing conditions.
Review of pepper “Gift of Moldova”, Nikolai Pavlovich, 63 years old, Omsk.
I started sowing peppers a long time ago, when many people still didn’t dare. I immediately decided on the “Gift of Moldova”: Soviet breeders knew their business, and what they created was a hundred times better than all the newfangled varieties. And so it happened... My wife bought seeds of two more varieties, but we reaped the largest harvest from my bushes. And the most delicious peppers were also “mine”, Moldavian. We don’t buy anything newfangled anymore, we settled on this variety. And all my seeds germinate, there was no such thing that I bought unsuccessful ones.
"Poltavsky"
This is not a new variety, but that’s what’s good about it: it has stood the test of time and has many fans. Poltava pepper bushes grow up to 70 centimeters; they need to be tied to wooden pegs. The most remarkable thing about this variety is its frost resistance. Perhaps I’ll risk planting it outside the greenhouse this year if the snow doesn’t fall in June like last year. But, they say, he is not even very afraid of night frosts. Another advantage is that it has a long fruiting period. You can safely collect seeds from ripe fruits and prepare them for seedlings next year.
Selecting sweet peppers for the greenhouse
Orange miracle F1 is not just a large-fruited (peppercorns weigh 210 g), thick-walled hybrid with a pulp thickness of up to 8–10 mm, but also an excellent decoration for garden beds. Despite the fact that the medium-sized cultivar is considered a greenhouse crop - up to 10 kg/m2 is obtained under the film, many gardeners manage to get an excellent harvest of the Orange miracle even in unprotected beds. This is an early ripening pepper with cube-shaped bright orange fruits, they are certainly suitable for stuffing and fresh snacks. The hybrid rarely gets sick and is not prone to shedding its ovary during cold periods.
The walls of the Orange miracle are medium thick, this pepper can be used in any form; I really like to stuff it with meat and then stew it in tomato sauce or bake it with cheese in the oven. It is this shape that allows you to simply place it, and not lay it sideways, and it seems to me that in this way, all the juices are preserved inside the pepper, making it even tastier. It is also good fresh, it is sweet and very juicy. The variety is unpretentious, resistant to some diseases, it grew for me without any problems or unnecessary problems. I really liked the Orange Miracle variety, I will recommend it to everyone!
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The fruits of the hybrid Orange Miracle F1 are incredibly beautiful sliced, in fresh salads and even pickled.
If we talk about bell peppers for greenhouses, one cannot help but recall Fat Baron - one of the most aromatic thick-fleshed cultivars (wall thickness 7–10 mm). Low-growing, drought-resistant, with a small but stable yield of fruits - up to 3 kg per 1 sq. m - early ripening variety bears fruit well in any climate. Dark red, prism-shaped fruits with a richly glossy skin weigh about 200–270 g and are ideal for stuffing, but the pepper is also good in side dishes and for appetizers. Blossom rot and bacterial diseases usually avoid this variety.
By the time they were planted in the ground, the seedlings were quite strong. The seedlings tolerated transplantation well. Weather conditions in 2022 were not conducive to a large harvest, and the pepper had to be picked green from the bushes and ripened in a box. But nevertheless, I am very pleased with the variety - the fruits are thick-walled, tasty, the plant is demanding in terms of growing conditions.
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It’s not for nothing that the Fat Baron pepper has its own name - it’s a truly large-fruited giant with excellent taste.
Video: the largest and most delicious peppers, 2022 season in a greenhouse
Table: selection of greenhouse varieties and hybrids of pepper
| Pepper name | Description of the fruit | Productivity, kg/m2 | Other characteristics of the plant | Distribution region |
| Winnie the Pooh | Cone-shaped, with a pointed tip, weight 50 g, wall thickness 7 mm | 1,8 |
| Middle zone, Siberia, Ural, northern regions |
| California miracle | Cuboid, bright red, aromatic, weight 80–128 g, pulp thickness 5.4 mm | 4,5 |
| Nizhnevolzhsky |
| Flamenco F1 | Prism-shaped, bright red, weight 190 g, wall thickness 6–8 mm | 15 |
| Central Russia |
| Health | Red, prism-shaped, weight 60–90 g, pulp thickness 6 mm | 6–8 |
| All regions |
| Seville F1 | Cuboid, dark yellow, weight 140–170 g, pulp thickness 6–7 mm | 13 |
| Central Russia |
| Snow White | Cone-shaped, from light yellow to red depending on ripeness, weight 80–90 g, wall thickness 7 mm | 3,9 |
| All regions |
| Tenderness | Prismatic, flattened, red, weight 90–110 g, pulp thickness 5–7 mm | 4–8 |
| All regions |
| Agapovsky | Prism-shaped, red, weight 120 g, pulp thickness 7 mm | 10 |
| Middle zone, North-West, Siberia, Ural |
| Rainbow | Cone-shaped, light red, weight 70 g, wall thickness 4–6 mm | 2,7 |
| All regions |
Cold-resistant types of peppers for the Urals and Siberia
This region has a harsh continental climate with short summers. Therefore, here you can only grow super early varieties or hybrids that are resistant to cold, specially bred by breeders.
At the same time, for Siberia, it is worth sowing the crop in February, and after two months the grown shoots are transplanted into greenhouses or hotbeds. Due to the short summer, only early types of peppers are suitable. For the Urals, planting is scheduled at the end of May, but again, only special early varieties have time to ripen before the end of summer.
Early
- “Kolobok” is a low-growing bush with small fruits weighing up to 90 g, suitable for consumption and canning.
- “Montero” is a bush up to 120 cm high, red peppers, weighing up to 260 g with fairly thick walls. Unpretentious to soil, with excellent taste.
- “Poplar” are tall bushes that need to be tied to trellises, although there are also low-growing standard forms. Disease-resistant, high-yielding, conical fruits, dark red in color with thin walls.
- “Winnie the Pooh” is an early ripening variety with a ripening period of up to 110 days, bushes no more than 30 cm high with small, conical fruits collected in bunches, encouraging the friendly ripening of peppers.
- “Merchant” - ripening occurs in two months, the size is small, up to 70 g, with fleshy walls and a record content of ascorbic acid for the culture. Productivity up to 3 kilograms per square meter.
- “Bogatyr” is a mid-season variety for open ground and greenhouses, the fruits reach a weight of 180 g and a length of about 18 cm, ideal for preservation - they perfectly retain their taste and juiciness.
- “Red bull”, like the yellow one, is striking in its size - with an average pepper weight of up to 200 g, sometimes there are specimens up to 400 grams and up to 20 cm long. Under the weight of the crop, the branches of the bushes can sag and require tying up.
- “Pioneer” - ripens in 116-135 days, the fruits are red, cone-shaped with a sharp tip, weighing about 55 g, the walls are of medium thickness. The yield is low, but the crop ripens in open ground even under fairly unfavorable weather conditions.
Open ground, temporary shelters, low greenhouses
For outdoor beds and small greenhouses, compact, early-ripening varieties with tolerance to cold weather are needed. The size of the fruit may not be too large, but it is desirable that the wall is no thinner than 5 mm.
38 parrots
A new product from Russia - with increased cold resistance and excellent yield (up to 9.5 kg/sq. m). The variety is early (95 days), medium-sized, with a stable ovary in any weather. Peppercorns are cylindrical, shiny, weighing 120 g; wall 0.5 cm.
The color in technical ripeness is dark green, in biological ripeness it is bright red. The height of the strong stems is about half a meter.
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Wineglass
Mid-season variety for growing under low shelters. Russian selection. The bushes rise 0.7 m. The peppers are heavy (200 - 300 g), cube-shaped. The color is light green, turning red when ripe. The pulp is thick (7 mm), very juicy and aromatic.
Great girl
Russian agro variety with ultra-early fruiting. Vegetables can be picked within two and a half months after germination. The peppers are cone-shaped (great for stuffing and freezing). Weight 150 g, pericarp thickness up to 6 mm.
The color gradually changes from purple to dark red as it ripens. The taste rating is high. The bushes are medium-sized, moderately spreading. Return from 1 sq. m – up to 6 kg.
Wineglass
Great girl
Budulai F1
Early ripening is combined with large cube-shaped fruits (250 g) and a thick wall (0.8 cm). The color is dark burgundy when fully ripe. The bushes are strong and of medium height. Harvest up to 8 kg/sq. m.
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Zlateni
Russian orange-fruited variety. At technical ripeness, the pepper is light green; the weight is small (about 100 g), but the pericarp is thick (up to 8 mm), and the yield is excellent - more than 7 kg/sq. m. Cone-shaped. The pulp is juicy and sweet. The stems are strong and of medium height.
Hero's Gold
Tomato-shaped pepper of yellow color with a fleshy sweet wall (7 - 8 mm). Weight 150 – 200 g. At technical ripeness, the fruits are greenish-beige. The bushes are spreading and of moderate height. The variety is mid-season and grows better under shelters, where the yield exceeds 8 kg/sq. m.
Zlateni
Hero's Gold
Chanterelle F1
This is a whole series of hybrid peppers from agro with early and mid-early periods of technical ripeness. Three options are offered - with yellow, orange and red fruits. The size of fashionable mini-peppers ranges from 20 to 45 g. They are good for whole-fruit canning, original stuffing and decorations. The shape is cone-shaped, the wall is up to 4 mm.
There are practically no seeds inside.
The taste is typically peppery and spicy. From an elegant low bush you can get up to 1 kg of vegetables.
Ginger cat
An early ripening hybrid, the green fruits of which become fiery orange when ripe. The shape is elongated-cuboid, average weight is 155 g. The pulp is 8 mm, fragrant and sweet. The bushes are medium-sized. In greenhouses, the output per square meter reaches 7 - 8 kg.
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