A review of peppers in my greenhouse

I'll tell you briefly about the peppers that are growing in my greenhouse this year (2019)

Every year I buy different varieties of peppers, but there are also some that I've been growing for years. This year's pepper harvest is quite good. In total, I grow eight varieties of sweet peppers and one hot pepper.

One pepper variety didn't look at all like the peppers listed on the seed packets. Perhaps it was a mix-up, or I mixed up the seedlings when I planted them in the greenhouse, even though I always label the seedling cups and keep a note of which variety I planted. But that's no cause for concern, because the peppers were simply magnificent.

Perhaps I'll start with this re-sort.

Sweet Pepper Player

I bought this variety for the first time, it looks like this on the package

But the greenhouse produced completely different peppers, both in shape and size. The peppers are large, wide, thick-walled, juicy, and delicious.

The Igrok bushes are low, about 50 cm, and I had no problems growing them. The only problem was that the very first bush, near the entrance, had sunburn on the fruit. Pests also nibbled the leaves, but I didn't treat the peppers for pests in time.

Pepper Atlant

I plant this variety every year. The bushes always bear a multitude of fruits. They start out dark green with purple stripes, and when ripe, they turn a deep, glossy red. They're delicious, with juicy flesh. The bushes are tall and vigorous. The first peppers are large, with 10-12 fruits per bush. If you pick them green, they begin to bloom profusely again, but the fruits are smaller than the first ones.

Pepper Bogatyr

This pepper variety is my favorite. It ripens early, producing large, 15-20 cm long peppers, sweet, juicy, and thick-walled. The bushes are beautiful, reaching 70-80 cm in height. However, some bushes produced long, narrow fruits, while others produced wide ones, and some peppers were small.

Sweet pepper Swallow

I also grow Lastochka peppers every year. I like this variety—the peppers are sweet and the flesh is juicy. The fruits are not large, but medium-sized—great for stuffing. The bushes are not very tall, about 50 cm.

Sweet pepper Queen Elizabeth F1

Another new variety, or rather a hybrid. This pepper is early maturing, productive, with large, thick-walled fruits. The fruits are square, some very large, others medium-sized. The peppers are dark green at first, turning dark red when fully ripe. I really liked this pepper. I'll definitely plant it next year if I can find seeds in the store.

Sweet pepper Fisht F1

Another new hybrid pepper, Fisht, caught my eye with its super-early ripening. The package says it ripens 50-60 days after planting, and that it's sweet and productive.

This is what it looks like on the package.

But the seedlings of this variety actually grew poorly. The leaves were somehow diseased, the plants refused to grow at all, and I even considered ripping them out and throwing them away, but I felt sorry for the peppers and kept them. The first fruits didn't begin to ripen until the end of August. The peppers had curled tips. I'll never buy seeds from this pepper again.


Mini peppers

I also have mini peppers from the store growing in my greenhouse this year. I just bought some small red and orange peppers this winter. They're sweet and aromatic, and I wanted to grow such beautiful peppers.

I collected the seeds, sowed them, and in the spring I planted some of the seedlings in greenhouses and some outside. At first, I covered them with a covering material outside. The peppers grew larger in the greenhouse, and the bushes grew taller than in the open ground. But they also performed well outdoors; the variety is productive, sets well, and doesn't drop ovaries.

The peppers look beautiful in preserves—marinated peppers, lecho, and I've also added them to cucumbers and tomatoes for a pretty touch. I also simply add them to salads and soups. I froze some of the peppers—I sliced ​​red, orange, and green peppers into strips—and they turned out beautifully.

I'll collect the seeds and plant them again next year.

Hot pepper Chinese fire

Back in the spring, I planted three Chinese Fire hot pepper plants—a hybrid. They grew outside. The harvest wasn't large, but it was enough for us; we even gave some away. I use them for preserves. This is how they've grown, but not all the peppercorns have had time to turn red.

The pepper harvest outside has already been picked, some of which haven't yet ripened. It was around zero degrees Celsius overnight on September 6th. It's time to harvest the greenhouse crops.

What varieties of peppers do you grow?