The color of the peppers with the name Bucharest resembles eggplant. They are the same purple hue. In addition to its beautiful appearance, pepper contains many useful micro- and macroelements contained in the peel and seeds of the plant.
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It is said that if you eat this culture frequently, your mood and physical condition will improve.
What is Bucharest pepper
This culture is grown not only in the garden. If you take care of it properly, it will take root in a pot in an apartment and will bear fruit. When grown on a windowsill, the maximum height of the culture grows up to half a meter.
The plant itself is small and does not have a spreading crown. Needs cutting of lateral shoots. It requires more sun, so it is advisable to grow it on the sunny sides of the apartment.
Attention! If the sun is not enough, then experienced gardeners recommend using special lamps to bring to full summer daylight. Otherwise, the resulting ovaries may fall off, the pepper will not bear fruit.
When the plant is grown outdoors, it reaches a height of 1 meter. The first fruits appear 100 days after planting the seed of the plant in the soil. Peppers are purple in color, but if the grower waits until they reach biological maturity, they will see the fruits turn reddish.
The pepper has a weight of 150 grams. The walls of the fruit are up to 6 millimeters thick. It can be easily transported. Experienced gardeners claim that with proper care, yields can exceed 4 kilograms per square meter of land.
How to care for a crop in the garden
In order for the plant to take root and actively bear fruit, solar beds without wind are selected for planting, since the culture does not like drafts. Loamy soils are used as soil, but sandy soils are also suitable. Chernozem is considered the best land for growing crops. Only its composition should be neutral and not sour.
Seedlings are grown from February on the windowsill. For soil, take humus, peat, sand in equal parts and mix. Watering, pitting and planting the seeds of Bucharest.
The optimum temperature at which the culture should grow is 26 degrees. Seedlings will appear in a week. If the temperature is lower, then you will have to wait more than half a month before the first shoots.
Peppers are hardened by opening the vents and arranging airing when the plant gives inputs and remains half a month before planting. After 50 days, the bush is planted in open ground. It is better to do this on a cloudy morning. Water the bushes with warm water.
Watering is carried out in this way:
- twice a week on hot days;
- when it blooms - three times every 7 days;
- when it bears fruit - 4 times a week.
They are fed with wood ash, herbal infusions, poultry or cow droppings.
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