Sweet banana pepper - description and characteristics of the variety

Variety Sweet banana is characterized by high productivity, stable fruiting, high quality fruits. Ripe fruits have an orange tint and are high in sugars. The fruits have a pleasant aroma, taste.

Grade description

Unusual elongated fruits of this variety will help to decorate and make any festive table unusual. This variety is suitable for fresh consumption, for baking, canning. The plant has a fantastic yield. An insignificant amount of seeds ripens in the seed chambers.

The culture is grown by seedlings. One of the main advantages of this variety is its unpretentiousness in care.

Growing seedlings

In order to get an excellent crop, it is enough to strictly follow the recommendations. Before planting, treat planting material with a growth stimulator. You can prepare the soil mixture yourself or buy in a specialized store.

1. Before sowing, the seeds are disinfected, soaked and planted in boxes with fertile soil. Pre-fill the seeds with a glass of water. Those grains that come up are considered marriage.
2. Before sowing the seeds, it is advisable to freeze or steam the soil. Check seed for germination.
3. Grow pepper seedlings A sweet banana is needed in small peat pots. It is recommended to add a little coarse sand to the soil mixture, this will make the soil loose, allow the seeds to germinate faster.
4. Do not sow seeds too thick, with thickened plantings, young plants begin to compete for light, water. After the appearance of four true leaves make a pick.
5. After sowing, spray the soil from the sprayer with water, cover with glass or plastic wrap.
6. The first top dressing is done with urea 2 weeks after emergence.
7. Protect seedlings from drafts and sudden changes in temperature. Do not allow waterlogging.
8. Some gardeners in a hurry begin to grow pepper seedlings too early in February, when daylight hours are very short. Seedlings with such early cultivation need additional illumination. Young plants are sorely lacking in solar energy.

When transplanting seedlings to the site, remember that bell pepper extremely negatively tolerates wind gusts and drafts. If your site is located on poor soils, you will often have to feed pepper with various complex fertilizers.

Crop care

Watering should be done directly under the root, otherwise you can not avoid burns from sunlight on the fruits and foliage.

1. Do not neglect pinching, this procedure will help to direct the energy of the bush to the development of the fruit, and not the vegetative mass.
2. The optimal time for planting in open ground is the last of May. When the temperature drops to 8 degrees, the plants freeze, stop growing.
3. The key to a good harvest is properly grown seedlings. Plants obtained from overgrown, yellow seedlings will bloom a couple of weeks later and, accordingly, later bring a crop.

Add ammonium nitrate to the soil, calculated at 30 grams per square meter. When flowering, it is worth intensifying watering. It is recommended to mulch the stands in order to retain moisture in the upper layers of the soil.

Video: the formation of pepper in the open ground