Pepper Bison red

Pepper Bison red clearly stands out among other varieties of sweet peppers both in the size of the fruit and in their shape. However, the main ones are taste, meatiness and wall thickness of the fruit. To this should be added the unpretentiousness of the culture in the care, its high immune potential against typical diseases, as well as the versatility of peppers in use.

The authors of the variety are Gavrish S.F., Kapustina R.N. and Verba V.M. The culture was introduced into the State Register in 2017 with a recommendation for its cultivation in most regions of Russia.

The culture is early ripening, with vigorous plants and fruits of considerable size. Red bison is a hardy and highly productive variety, characterized as an unpretentious and plastic plant.

The process of fruit bearing is amicable, somewhat stretched in time (from July to the end of September). During the entire fruiting period, flowers, ovaries and ripening peppers can be seen on the plants.

The culture is grown in open soils and in greenhouses. The appointment is universal.

Plants are semi-spreading, vigorous (about 90 cm), sturdy stems (up to 90-100 cm in length). The leaves are large, dark green in color, slightly wrinkled. The level of foliage and branching is high.

Fruits are elongated (20–25 cm), 14–15 cm in diameter, weighing 150–190 g, are located drooping. The configuration is narrow conical. The walls are thickened (5–6 mm), fleshy. The surface of the peppers is slightly wrinkled, slightly ribbed, glossy. The number of seed chambers is 3-4. The consistency of the pulp is largely juicy and crunchy.

Peppers have good transportability and shelf life (up to 6 weeks at 5–6 ° C). For longer storage, they are frozen or preserved.

The fruits of the culture have a pleasant and well-balanced taste and aroma typical of peppers. Due to the high degree of juiciness and meatiness, they are wonderful in vegetable salads, they are very convenient to stuff, fry, boil, pickle, and also prepare adjika, sauces, ketchups and lecho from them.

In terms of ripening, the culture is early maturing: 95–105 days from the moment of germination to fruiting. The ripening period is from July to September.

The crop is high-yielding: on average up to 7.5 kg / sq. m.

The standard landing pattern is 40X80 cm.

Sowing seeds for seedlings is usually done at the end of February. Seedlings are planted in open ground around the end of May. At the same time, it is planted in greenhouses and hotbeds. Culture prefers sunny places.

In the southern latitudes, the culture is planted in open ground, and in the northern latitudes, cultivation is carried out in closed places. Seedlings are transplanted after 60–70 days of their growth. In this case, it is recommended to adhere to a number of rules.

• Irrigation should be done regularly, 1–1.5 liters for young shoots, 4–5 liters for plants in the ripening phase. At the same time, they are guided by the intensity of precipitation.
• On plants, it is important to eliminate the lower leaves and lateral shoots, and to form in 2 trunks, starting from the location of the fork.
• The culture must be tied to supports.
• The surface of the soil must be loosened, the lower parts of the stems must be earthed.
• Organic and mineral compounds should be added. Nitrogen and phosphorus-potassium supplements are mandatory. In the course of active flowering and fruiting, it is recommended to use "Lifdrip", "Humisol", "Ideal".

From the peculiarities of crop care, we note the fact that the process of picking seedlings should be carried out at the stage of cotyledons, and not at the stage of the emergence of the first or second pair of true leaves.

Planting crops in open soils is usually carried out from 20 to 30 May. More accurate time is determined by the state of the weather. The best time to perform this procedure is cloudy weather with a temperature of + 18 ° C.

Before planting, the beds are prepared with planting recesses of about 45 cm. The sprouts are planted according to the planting scheme, while saving the lumps of earth on the roots. Fertilizers are placed at the bottom of the planting recesses and partially covered with soil. The holes are completely covered with soil after the sprouts are placed in them. The seedlings should not be overly buried, as they will root better.

In general, the culture is sufficiently resistant to diseases typical of nightshades. Some of them may occur when the rules of agricultural care are violated.For example, with excessive irrigation, the process of root decay occurs. It is better to remove and burn such plants, and treat the location with fungicides. There are a number of typical problems to be aware of when growing a crop.

• Disease of black leg seedlings, which can be caused by poor-quality soils, excessive moisture, drafts. With contaminated soils, they are usually disposed of. If this happens in a greenhouse, then the top layers of the soil are removed up to 7 cm deep, and then the disinfection process is carried out using a sulfur checker or bleach. In a preventive sense, moderate irrigation with warm water and avoidance of drafts will be beneficial.
• Late blight disease is most likely in the second half of the summer season, it manifests itself in the blackening of peppers. Manganese seed disinfection is a good defense. During the activation of the disease, it is recommended to cover the beds with a film or other moisture-proof material. Spraying is also used. Additionally, it is useful to use infusions made on onion peels, as well as chemical preparations.
• Bacterial black spot develops in areas not harvested since last year. Therefore, cleaning and burning plant residues is the best preventive measure for diseases.
• Tomatoes and peppers have common diseases, and therefore these crops should be planted away from each other.