Danai salad peppers
The benefits of sweet pepper are hard to overestimate. It is rich in vitamins and minerals. The vegetable contains vitamin A (carotene), vitamin PP, vitamins of group B. In terms of vitamin C content, it exceeds lemon more than twice. For those who want to grow such a vegetable as early as possible, the Danai f1 pepper hybrid is perfect. Danai pepper belongs to the early high-yielding varieties, suitable for growing in greenhouses and film greenhouses.
Danai salad peppers
Variety characteristic
This variety is an early sweet pepper hybrid. The first crop appears within 100-115 days.
According to the description, Danai f1 hybrid pepper is unpretentious in maintenance and has a lot of positive qualities:
- early ripeness of fruits;
- high yields;
- stress tolerance;
- sunburn resistance;
- disease resistance.
Description of the bush
Medium sized bush with large roots. The plant is powerful, strongly leafy. During the fruiting period, up to 12 fruits are formed on one bush. During the season, you can get from 8 kg to 10 kg per 1 sq. m.
Description of the fetus
The fruit is cone-shaped, smooth and medium in size. The color at harvest is white and cream. After ripening, the fruits turn bright red. The average weight of fruits is from 140 g to 180 g. In length they reach 13-15 cm. In width - 3-4 cm. Wall thickness - from 5 to 7 mm.
Growing seedlings
A good harvest can only be achieved with proper cultivation.
Danai peppers f1 are grown in seedlings. Seeds are advised to be sown in cassettes. This method minimizes root damage when transplanting seedlings into soil. Cassettes should be taken with a cell volume of 230 ml.
The preparation and sowing of seeds has several stages:
- 60 days before planting on the garden, the seeds are disinfected in a weak solution of manganese. 1 g of manganese is diluted in 100 ml of water and the seeds are kept in the solution for 20 minutes.
- After disinfection, the seeds are placed in a solution based on a growth stimulator or mineral fertilizers for 12 hours, then washed with clean water and sown wet.
- The cassettes are treated with a manganese solution before sowing. A suitable soil mixture or peat tablets are placed in the cells.
- The seeds are laid out one by one in each cell, sprinkled with earth and watered, then the crops are covered with film or glass and placed on a plastic tray. The optimum temperature for the growth and development of seedlings is about 25˚С.
- Watering is carried out through the pallet.
In the absence of cassettes, they can be replaced with plastic cups or large containers with earth.
At the beginning of May, two weeks before planting in a permanent place, seedlings of Danai f1 pepper begin to harden. She is taken out of the room for several hours. 2 days before planting, they are left outside at night, sheltered from frost.
Planting seedlings in the ground
The plant loves loose soil, fertilized, moist. The site must be well lit and protected from the wind.
The f1 Danai pepper hybrid performed well when grown with drip irrigation. The planting pattern for this watering is 90 cm x 50 cm.If watering is carried out in the form of sprinkling, the planting pattern for pepper will be 60 cm x 20 cm.
When planting seedlings, you should try not to damage the earthen lump: this way the plant will hurt less and begin to develop quickly. Humus is added to the holes before planting.
Additional shelters
Danai f1 early pepper hybrid is suitable for tunnel cultivation.
Seedlings are planted in the ground during the period when there is a threat of frost and low temperatures at night, so it is very important to provide the plants with additional cover. To create it, arcs are installed above the rows, after which they are covered with thick polyethylene. During the day, the film is rolled up, and at night the structure is covered again. When the threat of frost has disappeared, the additional cover is removed.
Care
To obtain a large harvest, the plant is provided with proper care:
- observe the temperature regime, when the temperature drops, use a covering material;
- water the sprouts 2-3 times a week;
- fertilizers are regularly applied, seedlings are fed 4–5 times per season with an interval of 10 days;
- periodically loosen the soil to a depth of about 5 cm;
- mulch around the trunk with sawdust or cut grass, the layer of mulch should be at least 3 cm.
Disease prevention
This culture is prone to diseases such as black leg, late blight, black bacterial spot.
They can be prevented in the following ways:
- for the prevention of blackleg, use only good soil, do not water the plants with cold water, avoid drafts and waterlogging;
- in order to protect plants from late blight, they are sprayed with an infusion of 150 g of onion husks per 10 liters of warm water, let it brew for 24 hours, filter;
- for the prevention of black bacterial spot in autumn, the remains of old plants are burned, fruit change is observed, disinfecting seeds in a solution of manganese.
It is important to try to follow the rules of care, then the sweet vegetable will delight you with a bountiful harvest.