Description of varieties of peppers Ratunda, Ruby, Kolobok, Olenka (Gogoshary)
Ratunda pepper is a representative of sweet varieties of vegetables, characterized by a rounded fruit shape with moderate ribbing. Peppers have thick fleshy walls, have a honey taste with a little piquant bitterness. In another way, the name of the variety is Gogoshary pepper.
Advantageous characteristics of the species
Ratunda sweet pepper belongs to the mid-season plant types. It ripens 95-100 days after pollination. The plant has a long, strong stem, from half a meter to a meter high. The description of the variety includes the main qualities of the fruit:
- During the ripeness period, they reach a weight of one hundred - one hundred and fifty grams.
- The thickness of the fleshy walls is from seven millimeters and above.
- Unripe fruits are dark green in color, turning red or yellow as they ripen.
- Sweet pepper to taste, with a honey aftertaste.
If sweet peppers are properly grown, then, in warm summer, they give from three to five kilograms of a tasty vegetable per square meter.
Round peppers
There are few vegetable varieties similar to Ratunda pepper, but they are all popular among summer residents. Some delight with early ripening, others with medium and late. It depends on the region of cultivation, summer weather conditions. Choosing one or another variety, you need to decide on the purpose of using the fruit. If cutting from a vegetable is necessary, then the shape of the fruit does not matter here.
But stuffed fruits should have the correct, better rounded shape. Canning small peppers is also good.
Popular semi-stem grade
Pepper Kolobok is called so for a reason, because its fruits are spherical with almost no edges. Thick walls can be nine to fourteen millimeters. And the size of the fruit is 5 by 8 centimeters with a weight of ninety grams and above. Gingerbread man reaches technical ripeness after 108-112 days. In this case, the fruits will be light green. They will turn red if 140-158 days have passed since the first germination. And the taste will depend on the color of the vegetable. Red fruits are sweeter than green ones.
Reviews of Kolobok pepper are only excellent. All summer residents note its unpretentiousness in care, rapid ripening, sweet taste of its thick walls. I especially like to use the fruits for canning with tomatoes, cooking stuffed vegetables.
Ruby sweetness
Excellent canned food is obtained for the winter if you use Ruby pepper. It is grown in regions with different climatic conditions in greenhouse conditions, open ground. The height of the bush is no more than half a meter.Rounded-flattened fruits begin to ripen 160-178 days after germination. At first they have a light green color, then gradually turn red, acquiring a ruby hue. Peppers reach a weight of 110-150 grams. More than three kilograms of a juicy vegetable can be harvested from one square meter.
High-yielding variety of Olenka pepper
Among the early maturing varieties of heat-loving vegetables, Olenka pepper can be distinguished. It is distinguished by its high yield - up to nine kilograms of juicy sweet pods are obtained from one square meter. Their weight is usually ninety grams. The characteristics of the culture include:
- medium-sized bush height;
- drooping fruit of a flat-round shape with slight wrinkling;
- the thickness of the fleshy wall is 7 millimeters;
- color from dark green to red.
It is better to grow the plant under film coatings.
Sweet candy
A hybrid of a round type pepper Sweetie can have a color from yellowish green to red. The rounded-conical shape with the fleshy fragrant pulp of the vegetable allows you to eat it fresh, preserve it with whole fruits. They are small - only forty to fifty grams in weight. But the thickness of the walls reaches five to seven millimeters. The peculiarity of the hybrid is:
- early ripeness in 85-95 days;
- the height of the bush is forty to sixty centimeters;
- high yield - a kilogram from one bush;
- resistance to diseases - fusarium, rot, viral mosaic.
With good care of the plant, you can get the first fruits in May.
Growing features
All vegetable plants that produce round fruits are similar to the Gogoshara pepper variety. It is not for nothing that they are united under this common name. The peculiarity of their cultivation is:
- growing through seedlings at an air temperature of 25 degrees;
- picking seedlings;
- landing in high beds;
- mulching the soil around the bushes;
- regular watering and fertilizing with mineral fertilizers;
- harvesting during the period of acquiring technical maturity.
The seeds of a heat-loving culture are planted on seedlings in February, since before transplanting, its age should reach seventy days.
It is necessary to dive seedlings of vegetable crops as soon as they have two real leaves. Better to put them in separate pots. As soon as the risk of spring frosts goes away, the plant is planted, covering the first time with paper caps. Place the seedlings in holes measuring 30 x 30 centimeters with a distance of 25 centimeters from each other. Sweet varieties should not be planted next to bitter ones, otherwise they will become dusty and their taste will change.
Water the vegetable plant often, abundantly. They begin to feed ten to twelve days after planting. First, mullein, diluted 1: 5 or bird droppings - 1:15. Then dissolved in ten liters of water, thirty grams of ammonium nitrate, forty - superphosphate, seventy - potassium salt. Add one liter of nutrient solution for each bush. The interval between dressings is two to three weeks.
Tie up the stalks of the vegetable when there are a lot of fruits and there is a chance that they will break. The vegetable is not required to be grown. Pepper fruits are harvested when they reach technical maturity, that is, they become an even green color. To make the peppers turn red faster, they are placed in a cool place in a canvas bag.
Ripe red pepper is used to prepare various canned foods. It is good and fresh in salads.
If the pepper is grown in a greenhouse, then it is necessary to warm up the room well before planting by laying manure around the edges. A vegetable is planted only in a warm greenhouse in early May. You can alternate the beds with pepper with tomatoes. Fertile soil in the greenhouse will allow you to plant up to six vegetable bushes per square meter.
During the growing season of pepper, the greenhouse must be aired, trying to keep the air temperature within 25-27 degrees, and the humidity - 85 percent.
Pepper Ratunda, or Gogoshary, is popular for a reason. It can be used to prepare many delicious dishes both on weekdays and holidays.
