Cockatoo pepper

Sweet pepper cockatoo is a hybrid of F1, featuring early maturation and high yield. Fruits can be harvested after 100-110 days from the time of the emergence from the ground of the first shoots. In southern regions, the variety is well suited for open ground, in colder climatic zones, cockatoo pepper is grown in greenhouses and greenhouses.

What is he - pepper cockatoos

The plant reaches a height of one and a half meters, a bush is spreading, with medium leaf density. This hybrid differs huge fruits (the mass of each of them can reach up to half a kilogram), having a bright red color and an elongated shape. The length of the mature fruit is from 25 to 30 cm, and its walls are thick (up to 8 mm) and fleshy, very tasty.

Beauty and benefit

Pepper cockatoo is grown not only for purely practical purposes - its bushes are very decorative, and its bright green with spots of scarlet fruits can decorate any garden plot. This culture can be grown either on its own, planting one and a half-two-month plants in the open ground in any order, or in the composition of floral or decorative compositions.

If in your garden there is a round flowerbed-bed, several paprika can be placed in its center, combining it with low-spread plants, for example, cineraria or sorrel. The first option will appeal to connoisseurs of beauty, and the second will be appreciated by practical hosts. Not only is the garden bright with bright colors, but also high-yielding pepper along with vitamin greens is always at hand.

The beauty of this plant is, of course, not its main advantage, the main thing is the value of fruits as a food product. What is useful in peppers? Firstly, these are carotenoids, the precursor substances of vitamin A. In the human body, they are perfectly absorbed and saturated with carotene cells, acting as antioxidants, that is, preventing aging.

At pepper, as at a traffic light, each color has the value. Knowing these features will help you choose a plant variety that will suit your qualities to you. Thus, fruits of yellow color, for example, buffalo varieties or firefly, have more carotenoids than others. Slightly inferior to them in this respect are orange peppers (chanterelle).

Folic acid - an indispensable substance for the restoration of cells and the proper development of organs, including intrauterine, is contained in large quantities in green peppers F1 hybrids, F1, candy, etc. This substance has a great importance for the prevention of cancer.

Growing any sort of pepper: cockatoo, darling, cockerel or grandmother's garden, the fruits of which are painted in a bright red color will not only get a tasty and healthy product, but also get a real medicine created by nature. The content of vitamin C pepper - the record among vegetables. Vitamins of group B establish all spheres of work of an organism, and rutin strengthens vessels and prevents hemorrhages.

Cultivation

Sow the seeds of pepper cockatoo on seedlings or directly into the open ground - it's up to you. Rapid maturation allows you to successfully grow the crop in both ways. Seedlings can be sown in seedlings already in February, diving seedlings at the stage of the first real leaf, or immediately plant each seed in individual pots, if there are many pots or few seeds. There is a risk that some seeds will not rise, then it will be possible to use this soil mixture for planting something else.

By the way, it is better to take the soil for tomatoes and peppers. This is a fairly light substrate with a significant amount of peat, which allows the mixture to "breathe" with equal success, supplying oxygen to the developing roots, and drying up. Therefore, the issue of regular watering should be taken very seriously. And then the cockatoo pepper will pay off a rich harvest already in the middle of summer.