Hercules peppers - delicious and hardy

Hercules peppers are a type of Bulgarian sweet pepper belonging to the block type of cubic shape, Hercules peppers are suitable for planting and growing, both in the open field and indoors. Hercules pepper is a mid-early variety, which requires an average of seventy days for the fruit to ripen.

Hercules peppers are popular because:

• produces large fruits, up to 11 cm long, up to 250 grams of weight, with a wall thickness of five to seven millimeters;
• pleases with a high yield;
• shows resistance to tobacco mosaic virus, spot virus, potato, etc .;
• has a very sweet taste, regardless of the color of the pepper, or it is green or red;
• perfectly stored and transported;
• suitable for various processing and freezing.

Hercules peppers should be grown like any other pepper. If you grow peppers through seedlings, then they should be grown in peat pots so as not to damage the weak roots during transplantation.

The best temperature for peppers is from eighteen to twenty-two degrees; when the temperature falls, the pepper may die. It is necessary to transplant seedlings into the ground at the age of forty days, when each plant has at least six true leaves.

Seedlings should be hardened before transplanting and fed. Pepper is a demanding crop that does not react well to overheating and overdrying of the soil, hercules peppers, like Nikita, Denver are the best choice in this regard, since they are better able to tolerate any unfavorable conditions.

When planting seedlings, care should be taken not to fill up the neck of the plant, as this becomes the impetus for the appearance of a "black leg", as well as other diseases.

The soil must be loosened regularly, thoroughly and carefully and weeds must be removed. Throughout the season, peppers are fed several times, the first time two weeks after planting the pepper.

Since the fruits of the hercules pepper are very large, they must be tied up so that the plant and its branches do not break.