Description of thick-walled Ural pepper
Ural thick-walled pepper is a hybrid variety that has a thick pericarp. It has a sweet taste and is resistant to changing weather conditions.
Description of the Ural thick-walled pepper variety
Variety characteristic
The Ural-type leguminous vegetable is an early-ripening variety with a high yield. One bush of the Ural thick-walled vegetable f1 gives about 20 vegetables (from 5 to 8 kg).
Pepper is not recommended to be planted where nightshade plants used to grow. Peppers are planted in open and closed ground during the cool summer.
Sweet pepper Ural thick-walled f1 does not like transplants before planting in the ground. For planting, use seedlings or seeds.
The vegetable is designed for growing in extreme, stressful conditions, resistant to many diseases of pepper and is characterized by versatility in growing. It has a long ripening period.
The seedlings of the hybrid are grown for 2 months. For planting in open ground, the right time is mid-June, for greenhouses - May, after frost.
Description of the bush
The thick-walled pepper bush is of medium height (up to 70 cm). After landing in the ground, it is tied up. The variety grows upward with one stem. One bush has about 7-10 wide, elongated leaves.
This is an annual vegetable crop with single or group leaves in the form of a rosette. The flowers of the vegetable are large.
The bushes are planted in a 40 cm x 60 cm pattern or 3 bushes per 1 sq. m indoors.
Description of fruits
According to the description, the Ural thick-walled pepper has an early ripe fleshy sweet fruit f1. It has a prismatic shape. Weight is about 250-400 g. The length reaches 18 cm.
The main characteristics of the fruit of the Ural vegetable:
- At the time of ripeness, it is green, and at the stage of biological maturation, it acquires a rich dark red color.
- The thickness of the vegetable is up to 1 cm.
- Juicy fruit with a sweet taste, no bitterness.
The large fruit is suitable for any use. It is consumed fresh, but is more often used for cold salads. The fruits are good for canning or cooking lecho, they tolerate freezing well in the refrigerator.
Care
The variety is resistant to various diseases
First you need to decide on the landing site. The vegetable culture of the f1 thick-walled plant grows in the vegetable garden, film greenhouses and greenhouses. The plant's resistance to ailments allows it to be grown in any soil.
Vegetable seeds sprout from 15 to 20 days. To accelerate germination, it is recommended to use a mixture of water with aloe juice, soaking the seeds in it.
Taking care of the plant is easy. The main care is:
- loosening;
- watering;
- plowing the land;
- good feeding.
Unpretentious variety and to sudden changes in temperature. To achieve high yields, it needs moist, warm and loose soil. The hybrid loves moisture, but it is important not to overdo it with watering.
Top dressing
An excellent top dressing for the Uralsky variety is a solution with bird droppings. To do this, take a bucket of water and a small glass of droppings (200-250 ml).Humus is also introduced into the soil, but already just before planting.
A hybrid vegetable reacts well to fertilization with minerals. In the summer, add dressing 3-5 times per season. The plant is fed with fertilizers with phosphorus or potassium before active flowering and fruiting. Nitrogen fertilizing is used only in dosage, increasing the green mass.
Watering
For good yields, you need to maintain soil moisture. It is necessary to wet the soil to great depths in hot weather.
Thick-walled hybrid peppers are watered only during dry days without overflowing. In rainy weather, there is no need for additional watering.
Loosening
Weeds must be removed throughout the season. Loosening makes the soil rich in oxygen and promotes high-quality fruiting.
You need to dig in the plant as needed. To increase the yield, large vegetables are harvested even at the technical stage of ripeness.
Mulching
The ideal option for a vegetable crop of the Ural variety is mulching. Use fertile mulch. To do this, take humus and sprinkle it around the bush. Together with watering or rain, all the nutrients enter the root.
Mulching retains moisture well, does not allow the soil to become covered with a dry crust. Mulch makes the ground soft.
Pests and diseases
With poor plant care, external deterioration is possible. A weak plant is most exposed to pests.
The main ailments for a hybrid plant are:
- Phytoplasmosis (stolbur). It appears from the top of the shoots. Leaves curl and dry out. The transition to the whole plant is possible.
- Late blight. Starting from the leaves, the vegetable shrub becomes brown in color, over time it becomes covered with dark spots.
- Blackleg. It affects seedlings and vegetable seeds. Its sign is a dark stem that rots and dries up.
- Fusarium. The disease is not treated - the bush is dug up. The leaves turn yellow, the vessels in the stem are clogged.
- Verticillosis. Its signs are pale leaves, a decrease in the number of fruits, deformation of peppers. It also does not heal, the bushes are destroyed.
- Spotted wilting. The leaves turn purple-bronze. When it gets worse, the fruits fall off with spots in the form of multi-colored rings.
Before using preventive methods, you need to carefully examine the bush or fruit. Daily inspection is recommended for timely prevention. For the prevention or control of disease:
- use "Topsin-M" 0.2% and "Fundazol", which prevent the development of fusarium;
- the soil is treated with a solution of vitriol (1 tbsp. copper sulfate is diluted in 10 liters of water);
- in case of leaf mold, the bush is sprayed with the fungicides "Barrier", "Zaslon";
- against the top rot of the pepper, calcinite 3 or calcium nitrate is added 3 times per season.
Sometimes the leaves are sprayed with Vuksalom. Incurable bushes must be burned or discarded to protect the rest of the crop. After removing the infected plants, the remaining ones must be treated with Fitosporin.
Conclusion
Ural thick-walled pepper has high yield rates. It is immune to most ailments. Its fruits are juicy and strong, therefore they tolerate transportation well.