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Many unlucky gardeners and summer residents, who have tried several times to grow sweet peppers on their plots and suffered a fiasco in this matter, do not despair and try to find a suitable hybrid for themselves. Indeed, hybrids of many vegetables, including sweet peppers, are usually more resistant to adverse environmental factors. In addition, they are bred specifically to improve one or another yield characteristic: fruit size, quantity, wall thickness, sweetness and juiciness. Often, they try to improve many characteristics at once.
But a well-known disadvantage of hybrids is that they are only able to bear fruit for one season. In the future, seeds must be purchased anew every year.
But for many gardeners, including beginners who are not used to collecting and sowing their own seeds, this fact is usually not taken into account, so for them, vegetable hybrids may be the best choice.
Among the popular hybrids of sweet peppers, the Jupiter F1 pepper is interesting. This hybrid is distinguished by the thickness of the walls of its fruits, which can reach up to 10 mm.In addition, it has many other interesting characteristics that make its cultivation attractive to many gardeners. By the way, one of the advantages of Jupiter F1 pepper, judging by the reviews, is the low price of its seeds, which allows it to be grown by a wide range of fresh vegetable lovers.
Description of the hybrid
Pepper Jupiter F1 is the brainchild of the famous seed company from the Netherlands, Syngenta seeds. This hybrid was obtained back in the late 90s of the last century. At the turn of the century, it appeared in Russia and already in 2003 it was officially registered in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of Russia for cultivation in open ground and under shelters in all regions of our country.
Therefore, Jupiter pepper will be a good choice for gardeners in the southern regions and for residents of the Urals and Siberia. True, the latter will need to either acquire a greenhouse, or at least build temporary shelters, covering them with film or any non-woven material.
Jupiter pepper plants are medium in height, about 50-60 cm they grow in open ground, in greenhouse conditions they can be a little larger. The bushes are characterized by a semi-spreading, semi-standard form. They have an interesting umbrella-shaped shape, with a small, barely noticeable depression in the center of the bush. The leaves are medium sized, dark green.
As for the timing of ripening, the Jupiter hybrid is a mid-season pepper. It needs 130-140 days from germination to the stage of technical maturity.
But only an attentive eye can notice that we are talking about the growing season from the moment the seedlings are planted in the ground. Pay attention to this, do not be misled. After all, seedlings are usually planted in the ground when they are at least 50-60 days old. Yes, and in such a short period of time it is simply impossible for peppers to form a real thick and juicy shell, which is distinguished by the Jupiter hybrid.
Pepper Jupiter F1 has good yield indicators: in open ground, up to 3 kg of fruit can be harvested from one square meter. In greenhouse conditions, the yield of peppers can increase to 4-4.5 kg per square meter.
Hybrid Jupiter is highly resistant to tobacco mosaic virus. It is also stress-resistant and can withstand various adverse weather conditions, especially hot weather.
The hybrid is also relatively drought-resistant.
Fruit characteristics
It was not for nothing that the Jupiter pepper received its famous name in honor of the main Roman god, and at the same time the largest planet in the solar system. The dimensions of its fruits and their appearance are impressive. The video below shows them in comparison with several other good varieties.
The fruits themselves have the following characteristics:
- The shape of the peppers can be called pronounced cuboid, all four edges are so well defined, although somewhat smoothed out. Sometimes, with insufficient lighting, the fruits stretch out a little more than usual, and the shape can become prism-shaped.
- The growth form of the fruit is drooping.
- At the stage of technical maturity, the fruits have a dark green color, and at biological maturity they become rich red, sometimes even dark red.
- The number of seed nests is from two to four.
- The skin is dense, with a waxy coating. The pulp is juicy and crispy.
- Peppers have one of the thickest fruit walls. At the stage of biological maturity it can reach 10 mm.
- The size of the fruit is determined by the growing conditions; on average, the weight of one pepper is 90-120 grams, but can reach 300 grams. In length, as well as in width, the fruits reach 10-11 cm.
- The fruits of Jupiter pepper have an excellent sweet taste even when they are still green.
- They are universal in their uses, although they are most delicious when eaten fresh. They are good in all kinds of culinary dishes and in the form of lecho, marinades and pickles.
- Peppers have an attractive presentation, are uniform in weight, are well preserved and transported, and are therefore good for farming.
- The yields of this hybrid are stable even in conditions that are not the most favorable for pepper.
Features of cultivation
Pepper Jupiter F1, due to its not very early ripening period, requires sowing seedlings no later than February. You can even do this at the end of January if you have lamps available for additional illumination and are planning to grow peppers in a greenhouse. This means that you will plant peppers earlier than the traditional dates, already in May or even in April.
Thanks to processing, seeds usually germinate quite quickly and amicably. After several true leaves appear, the pepper plants need to be picked into separate pots. As a rule, this procedure causes some delay in development, since peppers have a delicate root system. If time is valuable to you, you can immediately sow the seeds in separate containers.
When the seedlings are 50-60 days old, they can be planted in permanent beds in a greenhouse or in open ground. Peppers are heat-loving plants, so if frosts still occur in your area at this time, then the seedlings need to build at least a temporary greenhouse, preferably from several layers of film and non-woven material.
It must be taken into account that the formation of bushes and normalization of buds only makes sense when growing peppers in a greenhouse. In open ground, all these procedures can even turn out to be harmful, since the more leaves and shoots are formed on the pepper bushes, the higher the plant yield.
When the peppers take root well and grow rapidly, they need to be watered abundantly. It is especially important to maintain constant soil moisture during the summer heat. Only under these conditions will the bushes develop optimally and be able to express themselves in all their glory.
As for fertilizers, they are necessary in the period before and after flowering and during fruit filling. Starting from July, it is advisable not to use nitrogen fertilizers, but to give preference to phosphorus-potassium mineral or similar organic fertilizers.
Reviews from gardeners
The Jupiter sweet pepper hybrid, described above, evokes mostly positive reviews from people who grew it in their gardens. Negative reviews are apparently associated with fake seeds, which are often found on sale or with violations in agricultural cultivation techniques.
Conclusion
Pepper Jupiter is able to interest many summer residents and gardeners with its unpretentiousness and excellent quality of fruits. If you are looking for a productive, tasty and thick-walled pepper with inexpensive seeds, then try growing this hybrid.
