Hot pepper

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Significance: Varieties of this vegetable crop are divided into two groups depending on the amount of bitter substance (capsaicin - S18N28O3): hot (bitter) and sweet pepper. Bitter pepper fruit contains a lot of capsaicin (0.2-0.3%), thin, well elongated, conical, mainly used as a spice in vinegar, pickling and canning vegetables. Sweet pepper fruit is large, fleshy, contains very little capsaicin (up to 0.015%). It is used in the preparation of various canned foods, in addition to being fresh to food. Peppers are the first vegetable to store vitamin C (ascorbic acid).

After fruiting, sweet pepper harvest is technically lost in 35-45 days. In this case, it is of normal size and green color, has a fragrant aroma and taste, the crop is harvested every 4-5 days. Hot pepper is harvested 2-3 times when the fruit is red.

Sowing dates: Alternative sowing period of seeds is 1^st – 2^nd decades of February. Terms of planting: 3^rd decade of March in the southern regions; 2^nd-3^rd decade of April in the central regions; in the northern regions it is the 3^rd decade of April and the 1^st decade of May.