City residents often adapt window sills and balconies for growing parsley, dill, and green onions. Hot peppers also attract the attention of home vegetable growers; they bear fruit well at home and decorate the room.
Hot pepper for the windowsill
There are many varieties of colorful peppers for indoor growing. But gardeners choose those that are not inferior in yield to garden and vegetable plants. Five varieties that have stood the test of time have gained popularity.
Aladdin
Description:
- The variety is early ripening. The ripening period is 95–100 days. The height of the bush is 50–60 cm, on the balcony - no higher than 35 cm.
- Highly decorative bush. Easy to care for. Does not require high lighting.
- Fruiting is abundant, lasting at least 4–5 months.
- Medium sized green leaves.
- The fruits are elongated, cone-shaped, smooth and glossy. With a pungent taste and aromatic smell.
- Fruit weight - 3.5 g. Length - up to 3 cm. There are up to 120 such specimens on the bush.
- During the period of technical ripeness, the fruits are green, purple and cream in color. When they reach biological maturity they turn red.
- The bushes bear fruit at home for at least 5 years.
- Productivity - up to 1 kg.
- Does well at home.
Pepper is used for canning vegetables and marinating meat.
Indian summer
Description:
Peppers are grown on the windowsill in 3-4 liter pots, buckets, flowerpots or cache-pots.
- The variety is early ripening.
- The bushes are evergreen, branched, up to 30–40 centimeters high.
- Decorative, leafy plants. Unpretentious to care and do not require high lighting.
- The foliage is green, medium size.
- Pepper fruits are similar to tomatoes or apples.
- There are up to 20 such fruits on a bush.
- The colorful peppers, white, yellow, dark red and purple, resemble a beautiful mosaic.
- The weight of the specimen is 5–7 g. The skin is dense and durable. The walls are 2–4 mm thick.
The pepper is aromatic, but hot. Suitable for canning vegetables, preparing medicinal tinctures with alcohol. For food it is used only by bitter lovers.
Ogonyok
Description:
- A universal variety obtained by crossing chili peppers with cayenne peppers.
- The ripening period is 120–140 days.
- Compact bushes on the windowsill grow up to 35 cm.
- The shape of the ornamental plant is pyramidal. Fruits and flowers exist simultaneously.
- The elongated peppers, about 5 cm long, resemble a cone. The sharp tips point in different directions.
- Fruit weight - 10–15 g. Skin thickness - 1.5 mm.
- As it grows, the color changes from green to dark red.
- The smell of pepper is intense.
- Fruit ripening is 120 days.
It is grown at home for harvesting and room decoration.
Jellyfish F1
Description:
- Compact bushes of original appearance, 30-40 cm high.
- Unpretentious to light, heat-loving.
- Plants are early ripening. 95–105 days after germination, the crop is harvested.
- The fruits are sharp and thin cones, the corners of which are directed upward. The length of each is 5–7 cm.
- The color depends on the stage of ripening.At first it is light green, then yellow and finally bright red.
- Fruit weight is 10 g.
The fruits are spicy, with a bright pepper aroma and a piquant taste. The harvested crop is used for canning and as a seasoning for spicy dishes.
Queen of Spades
Description:
- The bush is dense, compact, round. Height - up to 20-30 cm.
- The variety is unpretentious, does not require increased lighting.
- Grown all year round. In summer it grows on a balcony or loggia. In winter it returns to the apartment.
- The fruits are cones with a pointed top.
- Fruit weight is 8-10 cm. Typical pepper taste. Strong aroma.
- Actively bears fruit 4-5 weeks after the first shoots. The whole range of colors is possible on the bush at the same time. But upon reaching biological maturity, the color changes to red.
- The ripening period is mid-early.
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