Pepper hybrid EPIKUR F1

Early-ripening hybrid of sweet pepper with excellent marketability and eating qualities, high-yielding

Epikur F1 - Early-ripening hybrid of sweet pepper. The period from transplanting to industrial ripeness is 60-65 days, to biological ripeness is 75-80 days. Determinate plant type, strong, tall-growing, strongly foliate, well protects the fruit from the sun. Pepper fruits are medium-sized, trapezoidal, 3-4 chamber, the wall thickness of 6-7 mm, weighing 130-150 g. In technical maturity pepper is olive and in biological it is red. Fruits have great eating qualities, they are easily transported over long distances and have long marketable condition. Variety is characterized by the same amount of fruits at all levels of plant. It is resistant to vascular disease, fusarium and alternaria blight and tipburn. For outdoor planting the following scheme is used (90+50) x 25-29 cm (50-55 thousand plants per hectare). It is grown through seedling. The yield is 50-60 t/ha. It is suitable for outdoors or under cover growing.