The most popular varieties of pepper

Having at least a small piece of land, the vegetable grower always tries to allocate space on it for planting sweet peppers. And if there is also a greenhouse in the yard, then this heat-loving vegetable can be grown in any region. Early maturing crops are considered the most popular varieties of pepper due to the possibility of obtaining a quick harvest, especially in regions with a short summer. Closer to the south, the popularity is not inferior to the varieties of the middle and late ripening period. Thanks to the work of breeders, new varieties of peppers, and today we will try to figure out which ones are the best.

What fruits to choose for stuffing or processing

The popularity of varieties is determined not only by yield, but also by their purpose. First of all, all housewives grow fruits for winter preparations or cooking, that is, processing. Who doesn't love stuffed peppers? Here it is necessary, firstly, to give preference to crops of different ripening periods in order to get a harvest from early summer to late autumn. Secondly, the taste of the fruit is important, plus their shape. For example, medium-sized even peppers are suitable for stuffing.

Let's take a quick look at some of these crops that can be grown quite simply in the garden:

  • Peppers varieties "Lyubava" grow like a blueprint. All the same size, shape and color.
  • For stuffing, of course, a famous vegetable of the variety will go "Divo"... Excellent taste, aroma, ideal shape of the fruit, as if originally intended for this dish.
  • Just for processing, such as preserving salads for the winter, works well "Bogdan yellow-fruited"... The vegetable is good fresh.

These enumerations can be added to the varieties "Golden Rain", "Banana", "Golden Miracle" and many others. Each vegetable is individual and finds its admirers.

Delicious fruit - fleshy

Fleshy fruits are very popular. And not from the greed of vegetable growers that such peppers are large, but from their excellent taste. Who doesn't like to eat a huge vegetable with thick, tender pulp, saturated with sweet juice? There is hardly such an admirer.

Usually large, fleshy fruits bear crops of medium early and medium ripening period. Among the many varieties, one can distinguish "California Miracle", "Red Giant", "Sun of Italy", "Fat Man" and etc.

In addition to excellent taste, peppers have a long shelf life, which allows you to eat fresh vegetables before the New Year holidays. Fleshy fruits are excellent for freezing, salads, making "Lecho". Thick-walled fruits attract with their color. For example, beautiful early yellow vegetables "Golden Pheasant" or "Sun"... Attractive, medium-late red peppers "Bell" or "Anastasia".

Golden pheasant

Thick-walled fruits weigh at least 250 g. There are giants weighing about 0.5 kg. The wall thickness of such peppers is from 8 to 10 mm.

Advice! Most often, hybrids can boast of such indicators as meatiness plus excellent aroma. The breeders have instilled in them the best parental qualities of the varieties.

Dried peppercorns as the best spice

Pepper varieties suitable for drying are no less popular.It is enough to plant a couple of bushes on the site to provide the family with spicy seasonings for a year. It is worth paying attention to the long fruits of the varieties "Sabelka" and "Miracle-paprika"... Peppers grow up to 30 cm long. In a few hot days they can be dried in the sun, ground in a coffee grinder and an excellent spice for any dish is ready.

Miracle paprika

Less doesn't mean worse

This motto can be attributed to mini peppers. Very popular "New Year's garland"... The name is confirmed by small peppercorns weighing about 50 g, densely dotted on the bush like New Year's bulbs. The culture is adapted for growing in open areas. The peppers are so small that they can be added whole to any dish, and rolled up in a jar look just amazing. Fans of small gherkins will appreciate the "New Year's Garland" of peppers.

The video provides an overview of the best varieties:

Review of time-tested popular varieties

In order not to beat around the bush, it is time to get acquainted with different varieties of peppers. It would be more correct if we start our review with crops that have proven themselves well over many decades.

Gift from Moldova

Gift from Moldova

This culture has long won primacy among sweet peppers. It is grown anywhere and in any way, that is, in any region, in open and closed grounds. The crop adapts well to aggressive weather conditions as well as different types of soil. The plant grows to a maximum of 60 cm in height. Strong branches do not require the obligatory garter. Cone-shaped peppercorns weighing up to 100 g and a pulp thickness of 7 mm turn red when ripe.

Poltava

Poltava

The universal purpose of fruits with excellent taste served to spread the culture in all vegetable gardens of domestic vegetable growers. The culture belongs to mid-season varieties. The crop can be harvested 125 days after the seedlings have germinated. The cone-shaped peppers form 4 seed chambers. Medium thickness pulp with a thickness of 6 mm turns red when ripe. The maximum height of the bush is 75 cm. The plant is considered cold-resistant and immune to rot formation. The maximum duration of fruiting is 100 days, and the formation of the ovary is amicable.

Lumina

Lumina

The variety has gained popularity among summer residents since the times of the post-Soviet space. Most of all, the culture is widespread in the southern regions. A plant up to 70 cm tall bears standard beige cone-shaped fruits. When ripe, the peppercorns turn red. The first harvest can be obtained 110 days after the seedlings germinate. The plant bears fruit well in open and closed areas, is not afraid of pests, diseases. Peppers can be stored for a long time, as well as transported over long distances.

Orange miracle

Lumina

The plant grows more than 1 m in height, which requires a partial tie of the branches. The first early harvest can be obtained after 100 days. The peppercorns are shaped like a cube. The walls are fleshy, about 7 mm thick, when ripe, they acquire an orange color. Fruit weight is maximum 300 g. The plant feels good in the garden and under the film. The vegetable is especially popular due to its excellent taste plus its universal purpose.

California miracle

California miracle

The culture belongs to the middle ripening period. The first harvest can be obtained after 130 days. A cuboid vegetable forms 4 seed chambers. Fleshiness is average, about 7 mm. The maximum weight of 1 pepper is 170 g. Initially, the variety was bred with red peppers, but in the process of selection, an analogue of the culture appeared, in which the fruits are already yellow. The plant is suitable for growing in closed as well as open areas.

Popular varieties of the Moscow region for open beds

As we said, the popularity of varieties is a relative concept. Everyone likes a certain culture. Let's find out what peppers the residents of the Moscow region like to grow in open beds:

  • Quite large peppers "Fidelio" plucked from the bush after 3 months. The plant brings a lot of harvest.During the collection, the peppercorns are white.
  • Popular cultures Rhapsody and Winnie the Pooh go for conservation in red, as well as green. The second variety is distinguished by a friendly ovary, and "Rhapsody" has excellent immunity to diseases.
    Winnie the Pooh
  • Lovers of fleshy peppers have long appreciated the variety. "Atlantic"... The plant lends itself to cultivation in the open air, as well as in a greenhouse. The bush grows about 1 m in height. When ripe, the flesh of the vegetable turns red from green.
  • Pepper "Moneybags" can be called a plant of Siberia, since it is his homeland. The plant grows to a maximum of 60 cm in height, bearing fleshy fruits with a wall thickness of 8 mm.
     Moneybags

Finishing a small review, we gradually move on to getting to know another group.

Popular peppers of open ground in Siberia and the Urals

Oddly enough, but in such cold regions in the open air, you can grow a crop of peppers. Only early varieties are suitable here, cold-resistant and unpretentious to care:

  • Excellent yield of peppers variety "Kolobok"... The small bush is very fertile. The fruits are small but juicy.
    Gingerbread man
  • Pepper has time to ripen in 90 days "Montero"... A tall plant up to 1 m bears fleshy fruits weighing 260 g.
    Montero
  • Popular Siberian inhabitant "United" adapts to any climatic conditions. The plant is 65 cm tall and bears fleshy red fruits.
    One
  • Yellow vegetable "Silvia" gained popularity due to its excellent taste.
  • Harvest of a culture called "Topolin" can be received after 110 days. A bush of 65 cm in height bears fruit weighing 150 g.
  • Early culture "Firstborn of Siberia" adapts to different weather conditions. The first crop of peppers can be obtained after 100 days.
    Firstborn of Siberia

All these crops can also bear fruit perfectly in greenhouses, bringing the best harvest. But now we considered them as an option for open ground.

Popular early greenhouse crops of the Moscow region

It's time to consider early crops of popular greenhouse varieties for the Moscow region. Peppers under cover ripen best because they are not susceptible to frost and cold night temperatures. Indoor planting is possible by seeds or seedlings.

Let's take a look at a few varieties and hybrids:

  • Early hybrid "Pinocchio F1" can bring the first crop after 3 months. Thin-walled fruits with a maximum of 4 mm weigh about 60 g. Yield 6 kg / 1 m2... The vegetable has a pungent flavor.
  • Mid-early ripening culture "Swallow" yields a harvest after 120 days. The plant grows to about 1 m in height. The yield in a cold greenhouse is 5 kg / 1 m2heated - up to 10 kg / 1 m2.
  • Hybrid "Raisa F1" bears ripe fruits in 3.5 months. Fleshy peppers weigh about 220 g. The yield is 7 kg / 1 m2.
  • Mid-early ripening culture Anlita yields a harvest 117 days after seedling germination. Peppers weighing 90 g have a pulp thickness of 6 mm.

In greenhouse conditions, in order to obtain a good harvest, it is important to correctly form the bush, make good lighting and apply top dressing on time.

Advice! For greenhouses, it is preferable to plant seedlings. It can be grown in common boxes, but it is better to sow the seeds immediately in cups.

Popular early greenhouse crops in Siberia and the Urals

We conclude our review with popular greenhouse varieties of cold regions. Under cover, the peppers bring more yield, and the period of their fruiting increases.

Let's get to know the early varieties:

  • Early culture befits its name "Early miracle"... The first harvest can be obtained in 3 months. Tall bush up to 1.2 m in height.
  • Pepper "Sweet banana" considered early maturing. The plant grows up to 75 cm in height. The vegetable got its name due to its shape, which resembles a banana. The thin-walled fruit weighs about 135 g.
    Sweet banana
  • Compact bush culture "Pioneer" grows up to 70 cm in height. Cone-shaped peppercorns can reach a length of 12 cm. The purpose of the fruit is universal.
    Pioneer
  • Fleshy peppers varieties "The leader of the Redskins" are distinguished by excellent taste. The standard fruit weight is about 300 g, but the recorded record is 800 g.
  • Plant with compact bush "Golden calf" yields fleshy fruits weighing 600 g. Excellent taste allows the vegetable to be used universally.
  • Early ripening pepper "Novosibirsk" bred by Siberian breeders. The plant can only be grown in greenhouses. The first harvest can be obtained after 95 days. Red fruits weighing 120 g have a pulp thickness of 6 mm. Productivity is up to 10 kg / 1 m2.
    Novosibirsk
  • Very early pepper "Watercolor" allows harvesting after 80 days. The bush grows up to 80 cm in height. The peppercorns are small with a pulp thickness of 3 mm. The culture can even be grown in the room.

These are, of course, not all greenhouse varieties of the early ripening period. Maybe someone has their own, the best pepperharvested from their seeds.

Advice! When planting seedlings, the greenhouse soil should warm up at least + 15oC. Cold soil will slow down the development of the plant, plus it will create conditions for diseases.

The video tells which varieties are better to plant:

Conclusion

This is the time to finish our review of popular varieties of peppers. Maybe one of the novice vegetable growers will choose a suitable crop for themselves from our list.

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