Characteristics and description of the best varieties and hybrids of sweet peppers

Early varieties

Early sweet peppers ripen 70–110 days after germination. This means that the earliest of them have the opportunity to have time to fully mature in the short northern summer. In all regions of our country, peppers are grown in seedlings. Only residents of the Lower Volga region, Krasnodar Territory, the North Caucasus can afford to grow pepper in the open field, everyone else has to use a variety of greenhouses.

The Ivanhoe variety, 110 days after germination, gives tasty fruits with an average weight of 130 g, with a wall thickness of at least 6 mm. Its unripe cone-shaped peppercorns are very fragile, white in color, but with an already formed taste. As they ripen, they acquire an orange or even red flesh color. Can grow in a vegetable garden or under cover.

Excellent reviews of the popular Belozerka variety. Its bushes grow up to 70 cm tall and bear fruit well in the open air. Fruits, conical with a sharp tip and poorly marked ribs, ripen in 110 days. They have a delicate color: from yellowish cream to reddish. Average weight - 130 g, wall thickness - 7.5 mm. This variety is not afraid of rot, does not succumb to diseases, the fruits are well transported, stored for a long time.

Atlant also bears fruit well in the open field, after 110 days on its modest spreading bushes among small leaves large (up to 170 g) cone-shaped thick-walled pepper pods look defiantly. Their color can be light green or red when fully ripe.

The merchant grows in the garden and in the greenhouse, on his bushes 1 m high ripen very tasty fragrant pyramidal fruits weighing 130 g. They are plucked light green, but if you wait for biological maturity, they will turn bright red.

The Big Mama variety has excellent characteristics, large fruits of which weighing up to 200 g are distinguished by their universal application. In the garden, the bushes grow up to 70 cm, and in the greenhouse - up to 1 m.

Snow White is grown under film shelters, her fruits are small - up to 90 g, greenish at technical maturity, and red when fully ripe.

Of the small peppers, Winnie the Pooh is popular with a short twig up to 30 cm and the simultaneous ripening of all fruits weighing up to 50 g. It is grown in the open field and in a greenhouse.

Orange Apricot Favorite and Red Tusk are also early maturing varieties, but their large juicy fruits ripen better under a roof.

Purple Big Papa - super early, grown in the garden and under a film, pleases with thick-walled tasty fruits weighing 150 g.

An even earlier variety, Zdorov'e, with its large tall bushes, red fruits weighing 40 g, is grown only under cover.

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Mid-season

Thick-walled, fleshy sweet peppers tend to take longer, at least 120–140 days. Their yield is usually not so great, it is used more for harvesting.

Among the mid-ripening, the Swallow is distinguished by good germination, a stable harvest, its plump (with a wall of 6 mm) red fruits grow up to 80 g. The variety is resistant to diseases, grown in a garden or under cover.

The hero forms a sprawling bush up to 60 cm high. Its delicious fruits weighing 180 g have the shape of a prism, a bumpy surface, first green and then red, perfectly transported, used for preparations and fresh salads. The long summer allows you to grow it in the garden, and if there is a lack of heat, in the greenhouse.

The California miracle is grown outdoors or in temporary shelter. Cuboid sweet peppers weighing 150 g for universal use are first dark green in color, and then turn red.

Open and protected ground is suitable for the Gogoshary variety with its compact bushes 50 cm high. Small round thick-walled fruits weigh 50–70 g, dark green in color, which changes to red when fully ripe.

The red shovel grows well in the garden and under a film cover. Red sweet fruits weighing 150 g are distinguished by sweetness, characteristic aroma, thick walls.

Late ripening

The best late-ripening sweet pepper varieties ripen after 140 days, they are cultivated in the garden only in the southern regions, in the north they can be grown using greenhouses.

Large, red, thick-walled, four-chambered Hercules peppers ripen on low bushes.

The Yellow Bell is characterized by large, bright yellow fruits in the shape of an inverted bell. They are slightly elongated, thick-walled, with a fresh taste.

Marshmallow forms bushes 80 cm high, its fleshy juicy fruits of a round-spherical shape, when ripe, change color from dark green to red.

Gamik can grow outdoors. Its compact bushes form many small, plump, tasty green and then orange peppers, each weighing 40 g.

Anastasia and Albatross, against expectations, can grow in the garden, they delight with a rich harvest until the very frost.

Best hybrids

Hybrids are created by breeders to fulfill the wishes of vegetable growers. These plants are resistant to diseases, indifferent to pests, they have high productivity, large tasty fruits. In addition, they are geared towards specific climatic conditions. The only thing to remember when buying seeds of hybrid vegetables is that they do not produce offspring, so the seeds collected with your own hands will not bear fruit, you will have to buy sowing material every year.

Super early pepper Eskimo F1 ripens 60 days after germination. The bush is wide, the leaves are large, the peppers are cuboid, thick-walled, weighing from 150 to 400 g, the color is dark red, glossy. Grows in the garden bed.

Another early hybrid, Gemini F1, is cultivated in the garden and under cover. A powerful bush simultaneously gives up to 10 cuboid, slightly elongated peppers weighing 400 g. They are surprisingly tasty, bright yellow.

Claudio F1 is equally fond of open or protected ground, he has red fruits of a similar shape, only slightly reduced - 200 g.

Several early hybrids of the Star of the East are known: golden F1, white F1, white in red F1. They have tasty fleshy fruits weighing 200-250 g, the name reflects the color. They can be grown in a garden or under a roof, only the Star of the East white F1 grows better under a film, and with a lack of moisture it suffers from apical rot. There is also the Star of the East chocolate F1, but its brown peppers ripen later - after 115 days.

Belladonna F1 ripens early, grows in the garden. Greenish, and then yellow peppers weigh no more than 160 g, but their walls are very thick, fleshy.

Varieties for the Moscow region

The Moscow region is not the most northern region, but vegetables should tolerate sharp changes in weather well, not every plant is calm about jumping temperatures when its fruits ripen. Therefore, summer residents prefer to grow resistant varieties: Winnie the Pooh, Gogoshary, Belozerka.The Gold Medal has proven itself well in open beds, its powerful bushes grow up to 1 m, hung with red long (13 cm) fruits.

In greenhouses, fruitful hybrids Maria F1, Othello F1, Maradonna F1, Rhapsody F1, Denis F1 bear fruit perfectly.

Varieties for Siberia

The heat-loving sweet vegetable came to us from the south, but nothing is impossible for true vegetable growers. Modern breeding achievements allow you to get your own harvest in seemingly completely inappropriate latitudes.

For the short summer of Siberia, only early varieties are suitable.

Specially created ones ripen perfectly in the open air: fleshy red Tolstosum, orange cuboid Golden Taurus, brown outside and red inside Sweet chocolate, dark yellow cylindrical shape on a low bush Dandy. Even late-ripening Albatross and Anastasia are not afraid of frost, they delight with a ripe harvest.

Of course, for greenhouses with constant heating and lighting, a wider range of varieties and hybrids can be selected.