Pepper Claudio: description, features of care, productivity and reviews

The famous hybrid of sweet Bulgarian pepper Claudio has been around for more than 20 years. This time, many vegetable plants are enough to be safely forgotten, but the spectacular large-peppered Claudio pepper, on the contrary, is becoming more and more in demand. This is not surprising. Cuboid, sweet, thick-walled, reaching a very impressive size, this vegetable is not inferior in popularity to the newest varieties and hybrids. We learn more about the features of this culture, its preferences, merits, shortcomings and prospects.

Pepper Claudio: description

The famous hybrid of Dutch breeding is universal and is able to develop productively both on open ridges and under conditions of greenhouse farming. Southerner by origin and preferences, pepper Claudio is included in the Russian state register of promising vegetable crops of the North Caucasus region and is grown in the south on an industrial scale. But gardens of the Urals and Siberia are familiar with this culture and have long been removing spectacular pepper harvests in greenhouses and greenhouses, despite the climatic conditions of temperate latitudes that are not suitable for the heat-loving plant.

Positioned by the manufacturers as an early hybrid Claudio is one of them when cultivated in warm southern regions, however in temperate zones of our country the period of its vegetation is prolonged for quite legitimate reasons, and the grower is considered a medium-season vegetable grower. However, this fact does not affect the popularity of culture.

Pepper Claudio F1 forms a powerful medium-sized semi-sporadic bush, reaching a height of 0.7 to 1.2 m. The leaves are emerald green, bright and large. Despite the fairly strong trunk, the plant needs a garter, since under the weight of the pourable fruit it can tilt or fall altogether.

Fruit

The hybrid form of Claudio conquered the hearts of gardeners with magnificent tasty and beautiful fruits - drooping, correctly cuboid-elongated, formed by four chambers. When fully ripe, the color of the fruit is saturated red, close to the dense burgundy, at the stage of technical ripeness - emerald, in the process of maturation - dark green. Ripening fruit is characterized by uneven staining - on the red surface dark, almost black irregularly shaped strips, which subsequently disappear.

The average weight of the fruit is 150-175 g, often reaching 200-250 g, it is less possible to obtain maximum fruit weighing up to 300-350 g, although, as a rule, the hybrid is characterized by one-dimensionality.

The declared thickness of the wall of pepper is impressive - 6-8 mm, but, according to the vegetable growers, it can reach 10-14 mm. The skin is glossy, dense and strong enough, but absolutely devoid of rigidity. Pepper Claudio F1 - fleshy, juicy, sweet with slightly perceptible piquant bitterness, delicious, possessing excellent aroma of true Bulgarian pepper.

Advantages of culture

Typical qualities that distinguish Claudio pepper (reviews of vegetable growers are confirmed) from other varieties and hybrids are:

• High enough (and predictable!) Productivity - depending on the area of cultivation from 1 hectare is collected from 300 to 450 c.
• Output of high-quality commercial products is 95-97%.
• Heat resistance.
• Stress-resistance of culture.
• Confronting the traditional diseases of Solanaceae - the mottle of peppers, the potato virus, tobacco mosaic.
• Commodity hybrid, manifested in an almost ideal form of the fetus.
• A good balance of the palatability of the fruit with the yield and shape.
• Uncomplicated care - indifference of culture to increased density of planting, regularity of fertilizing and watering.

Features of the variety

In one bush, up to 5-10 fruits are fastened at the same time. At the end of flowering, after a while comes the 2nd wave, less generous - 2-5 pieces. The disadvantages of the hybrid include a low speed of transition from technical ripeness to biological ripeness, i.e. complete staining of the fruit - bright red, characterizing the Claudio F1 pepper. Comments of vegetable growers, who are competent in growing, unanimously assert that speeding up the staining will be helped by removal of an excessively small ovary that does not have time to mature, but pulls the plant's forces towards itself. In addition, you should regularly break off stepsons, withering leaves, to pinch the tips of shoots by the end of July.

Cultivation

Pepper Claudio, like many other solanaceous cultures, is grown in seedlings in various containers, containers or pots. Seeds of pepper, previously rejected and etched by any of the biostimulants, are planted in seedlings with light loose fertile soil in February or March (depending on the region). After the germination of seeds and the emergence of seedlings, it is necessary to arrange the illumination by any lamps up to 12 hours per day. Seedlings need additional lighting 3-3.5 weeks, then, when the light day increases, the containers are exposed in a warm light spot.

In stage 2-3 of these leaves, seedlings dive on individual pots. Plant them in a permanent place when the soil is warmed to 13-15 ° C. The scheme of planting - 40 * 40 cm, per 1 sq. Km. Meter place 3-4 bush.

Care of plantings

Despite the enviable unpretentiousness of this culture, high yields can be achieved only by correctly implementing the basic rules of agricultural technology, such as:

• Providing support, tying and mandatory removal of stepsons and leaves of the lower tiers.
• Formation of the bush in 2-3 stems: the first flower-crown is cut off, and after the fork, select a couple of the strongest shoots, removing the rest.
• The optimum temperature for the qualitative growth of the culture is 22-25 ° C, when the staining stage of the fruit comes 25-27 ° C.
• Timely watering with warm water, loosening the soil under bushes.

Feeding

Intensive development of culture involves regular application of fertilizers. Claudio - pepper is sweet, and its taste essentially depends on the periodicity and quality of dressings. Usually, fertilizers are used standard for culture: a week after planting young bushes, nitrogen fertilizing is applied, during flowering, tying and formation, compounds of potassium, phosphorus, and also calcium, manganese, zinc, iron. With the onset of the period of recruitment of fruits (in June-July), Claudio pepper twice feed the plants under the root with preparations of potassium and nitrogen, and foliar and ovary are sprayed with solutions of trace elements - magnesium and calcium. On personal plots, complex micro- and macrofertilizers are often used, for example, Plantafol, Nutrivant, Kristalon, and others.

Pepper Claudio F1: reviews

Analyzing the responses left on the network by farmers and summer residents, we can note the following:

• Excellent seed quality, high seed germination.
• A remarkable productivity of culture - more than 2.5 kg of peppers from one bush.
• Claudio - sweet pepper, has excellent taste properties of fruits, which are characterized by fleshy walls, rough skin, fragrant pulp, juicy, without pronounced bitterness and a pleasant traditional flavor of classic Bulgarian sweet pepper.
• Uncomplicated and years of proven technology for growing this hybrid.
• Predictable, very high yield of culture.
• Excellent marketable appearance.

Despite the emergence of new varieties of pepper, the army of connoisseurs of this famous hybrid is increasing every year. An unpretentious and responding to care with bright useful and tasty fruits, Claudio has become the most acceptable and convenient for growing a vegetable for many.