Pepper Jack

The popular sweet bell pepper Jack is more than 10 years old, and during this period a huge number of gardeners managed to grow it. In addition to its great appearance, the fruit tastes great and ripens in abundance. And also Jack is available for cultivation in a wide variety of climatic zones.

A pepper culture called Jack was created by the team of the well-known SeDeK seed-growing company near Moscow. The authors of the variety were breeders Lukyanenko A.N., Dubinin S.V., Dubinina I.N. ground, and in any film shelters.

First of all, Jack is a variety of sweet pepper, the seeds of which can be independently prepared and used for the next year, which distinguishes this culture from hybrids. The variety also attracts by early maturity, high yield and rather large fruits. And in order to achieve a good harvest, it is quite enough to simply apply standard agricultural techniques.

Jack pepper plant of medium height, bush of a closed structure. The leaf plates are medium in size, there are also large ones, painted in dark green tones, with a slightly wrinkled surface. Fruits on the bush are wilted.

The shape of the peppers is cylindrical, cuboid, the skin is highly glossy, the fruits are colored dark green at the stage of technical ripeness, and in a bright orange tone at biological maturity. Each pepper has 3-4 nests. Fruits weigh 150-200 grams, they are thick-walled, with a wall up to 8 mm.

The product is very widely used in cooking for various fresh dishes, all kinds of preparations. Sweet pepper fruits add an exquisite taste to any side dishes, soups, salads.

The early representative of sweet orange peppers ripens in 105-110 days from the first germination to the beginning of fruiting.

Jack is a highly productive culture. From one square meter, on average, you can get 5-6 kilograms of delicious peppers.

The Jack sweet pepper is cultivated according to the traditional seedling technique.

Sowing seed should be planned for February-March. Substrate for immersion of seeds can be made independently, using turf and adding peat, compost, humus to it. Seedling care is standard: watering from a spray bottle, a couple of dressings. Shoots will appear in 1-2 weeks.

It is necessary to dive seedlings when one or two leaves appear on them. 10-12 days before transferring to a permanent place, young plants are hardened (grown seedlings are placed in the open air for 20 minutes at first and up to 5-6 hours at the end of the procedure). A transplant can be carried out when the plants are 60 days old.

Seedlings are transplanted into the beds when the air temperature rises to 15-16 degrees, and the soil warms up to 10-12 degrees. For the middle lane, these dates most often fall on the middle days of May.

For 1 sq. m, it is advisable to place no more than 4 peppers, and the depth of the holes is 15 centimeters. The planting scheme is 30x60 cm. The planted plants are regularly watered and fed. Do not forget about loosening and weeding the soil.

Domestic breeding Jack pepper is distinguished by good immune protection against fusarium wilting. However, it does not have increased resistance to other ailments. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out disease prevention.