Sweet pepper is a rather heat-loving and high-maintenance crop. While proper care for these plants can still be provided, it is not always possible to influence the temperature regime during their cultivation. Therefore, domestically selected peppers are best suited for our latitudes. They are not so demanding to care for and can successfully bear fruit even at our usual low summer temperatures. These varieties of sweet pepper include the Viking variety.
Description of the variety
Viking sweet pepper is an early ripening variety. This means that the gardener will only have to wait about 110 days to get his first harvest. It is during this period that the technical maturity of Viking pepper fruits is achieved. To achieve biological ripeness they will need from 125 to 140 days. This variety has medium-sized bushes, which makes it suitable even for low greenhouses and film beds. Up to 3-4 fruits can be produced on a bush at the same time.
Large Viking peppers have a prism shape with smooth and glossy skin. Its average weight will not exceed 200 grams, and the wall thickness will be about 4-5 mm. The color of Viking fruits changes depending on their degree of ripeness from green to deep red. The taste of this pepper is excellent. It has juicy and dense flesh with a light peppery aroma. This characteristic of the pulp of this pepper makes it ideal for use in salads, home cooking, and also for canning.It is also important that the fruits are resistant to cracking of the skin. This distinctive feature allows the fruits to be stored a little longer than other varieties of sweet peppers.
The Viking variety has increased yield and good resistance to many diseases, and especially to the tobacco mosaic virus.
Recommendations for cultivation
The soil for planting sweet peppers should be light and fertile. The most optimal way is to plant this crop after:
- Luke;
- pumpkins;
- cabbage;
- cucumber
Peppers show very good productivity when planted after green manure. In addition, green manure can be used as fertilizer.
The Viking variety is grown through seedlings. They start preparing it in February. It should be borne in mind that plants of this crop do not like transplanting very much, so it is better to plant the seeds immediately in separate containers.
Ready Viking seedlings are planted in a permanent place 70 days after emergence. This variety is suitable for growing both in a greenhouse and in open ground. In order for plants to have enough nutrients, there must be at least 40 cm between neighboring plants.
Caring for Viking plants includes regular watering and fertilizing 1-2 times a month. Organic and mineral fertilizers are suitable for feeding. It is also advisable to loosen and weed the soil.
The harvest should not be harvested until July.In this case, the plants will bear fruit until the beginning of September.
You can learn more about growing peppers from the video:
I planted Viking pepper seedlings, three weeks later they turned out to be more developed than other varieties. But unfortunately, small rough bumps appeared on the third pair of leaves; the leaves do not turn yellow. I can’t figure out what this is, a feature of the variety or a disease?
Good afternoon, dear Yulia!
The appearance of tubercles on the leaves of pepper seedlings is not a feature of the variety. Most often, this signals that your plants urgently need your help. The reasons for the appearance of tubercles can be:
• violation of planting and care rules (contaminated soil, lack of light or excessive watering);
• damage to seedlings by pests such as spider mites, aphids, scale insects, or false scale insects.
The cause of pests can be contaminated soil or indoor plants that are poorly prepared for planting. For this reason, it is highly undesirable to place seedlings next to indoor plants. Signs of the appearance of pests are thin cobwebs (indicating the appearance of a spider mite), or droplets of honeydew. In this case, it is urgent to treat the seedlings with drugs.
A sign of oedema (swelling of leaves) is the appearance of tubercles filled with liquid. Most often they appear due to excessive watering or lack of light. If the growing conditions change, this problem will disappear.
We wish you high harvests!