The productivity of sweet peppers mainly depends not on the variety itself, but on the climate of the area in which it is grown. Just for this reason in our latitudes it is advised to select varieties bred by specialists of domestic breeding and adapted to unstable climatic conditions. One such example is the variety, which is called Hercules, the description and characteristics of which are presented in this review.
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Description and characteristics of a grade of sweet pepper Heracles
This vegetable belongs to the mid-season varieties. The bush grows powerful, branchy, with enough foliage, somewhat squat. Its height, as a rule, reaches fifty centimeters, there are also higher specimens. The technical maturity of the fruits comes in three months, and another twenty days later the peppers reach biological maturation. If you plant seedlings in May, then in August and September you can harvest.
There is an unusual appearance of fruits that resemble cubes in their shapes. The immature pepper has a rich green tint, which, when fully matured, turns into a red color. The rind of the fruit is rather dense, without roughness. Juicy fleshy pulp has a sweet taste. The size of the fruit can reach twelve centimeters, weighs one pepper from two hundred to three hundred grams. The variety is considered fruitful, with proper care it can produce up to three and a half kilograms of fruit from one square meter.
Most gardeners grow it Hercules,as this variety is able to produce stable yields of large fruits, to resist many diseases. It is characterized by good keeping quality and transportability.
Vegetable is considered an excellent additive in salads and hot dishes, it can be preserved or frozen.
Advantages and disadvantages
Pepper differs in various quantity of microelements and vitamins. Vegetable contains alkaloid capsacin, which is considered a source of delicious taste.. It helps lower blood pressure, improves gastric secretion, increases appetite, thins blood.
- Vitamins A and C help improve the condition of the skin, perfectly affect vision, stimulate the growth of nail plates and hair, improve the immune system.
- The presence of vitamins B1, B2 and B6 - good help in stressful situations, insomnia and diabetes.If the pepper is eaten in combination with folic acid, it is capable of reducing the risk of strokes and seizures.
- Vitamins P and C have a strengthening effect on the vascular system, giving it elasticity.
- The presence of calcium, iodine, iron, magnesium and zinc helps with anemia, premature baldness, osteoporosis.
- Helps with oncological diseases contained in the composition of the vegetable lyomin.
Even in cosmetology, pepper could find its application. Its pulp perfectly improves skin condition.
The disadvantage can be attributed to one feature - too large fruit sizes.
Planting seeds
Hercules is grown in seedlings. It is best to perform seed planting in March. All planting material is soaked in a weak solution of manganese, aged there for about fifteen minutes. Seeds are dried, sown in containers filled with fertilized soil composition. It is recommended to use cassettes or peat pots for planting.
Seedling growing conditions
To create a greenhouse effect, containers must be covered with cellophane or a piece of glass, so that the seeds begin to germinate as quickly as possible. The soil is moistened from time to time.
As soon as the first shoots appear, mineral supplements can be used.. Young seedlings are transferred to a cooler room, they begin to hardening a couple of weeks before transplanting to unprotected soil.
Transplantation in open ground
This is best done at the end of May, when warm weather sets in and the soil composition warms up. The landing pattern is forty by sixty centimetersso that the plants do not interfere with each other's development.
Diseases and pests
Vegetable can be affected by the same diseases and parasites as tomatoes. - Fusarium, whitefly, scoop and others. Accordingly, preventive measures for these plants are very similar.
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- Whitefly on pepper
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- Fusarium
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- Pepper struck scoop
Serious danger to pepper is dry top rot.. It is capable of striking pepper fruits at the moment of their formation, appearing first in the form of spots, which then dry out and create a thinish crust. If you withstand the desired soil moisture and as a preventive measure to treat calcium nitrate, then such a nuisance can be avoided.
Pepper Care Rules
For a good harvest, three main conditions should be met:
- timely watering Here everything happens individually, depending on the climatic conditions of the area. But pepper, in any case, should receive at least three liters of water twice a week;
- fertilization. During the period of budding and the initial stage of fruit formation, the plant especially needs nutritional components. It is best if you support the plant once every two weeks, using mineral and organic additives for this;
- loosening the land. The condition is optional, but it helps speed up the process of saturating the roots with useful components.Another important feature when loosening is the removal of weeds.
If you follow these simple recommendations, then you can get excellent yields of pepper in your own garden. The wonderful taste of the vegetable will help you to diversify almost any dish.