Pepper Ratunda, Ruby, Kolobok, Olenka (Gogoshary): description of varieties

Ratunda pepper is a representative of sweet varieties of vegetables, characterized by a rounded fruit shape with moderate ribbing. Peppers have thick fleshy walls, have a honey taste with a slight spicy bitterness. In another way, the name of the variety is Gogoshary pepper.

Primary characteristics of the species

Relates sweet pepper Ratunda to mid-season plant types. It ripens 95-100 days after pollination. The plant has a long strong stem, from half a meter to a meter high. The description of the variety includes the main qualities of the fruit:

They reach a weight of one hundred to one hundred and fifty grams in the period of ripeness.
The thickness of the fleshy walls is from seven millimeters and above.
Unripe fruits are dark green, turning red or yellow as they ripen.
To taste sweet and spicy pepper, with a honey aftertaste.

If you grow sweet varieties of pepper correctly, then in warm summer they give from one square meter from three to five kilograms of a delicious vegetable.

Representatives of round peppers

There are few varieties of vegetables similar to Ratunda pepper, but they are all popular among summer residents. Some delight with early ripening, others with medium and late. It depends on the region of cultivation, the weather conditions of the summer. When choosing one or another variety, it is necessary to decide on the purpose of using the fruit. If cutting from a vegetable is necessary, then the shape of the fruit does not play a role here.

But stuffed fruits should have the correct, better rounded shape. Canning small peppers is also good.

Popular semi standard variety

Pepper Gingerbread Man is not called so for nothing, because its fruits are spherical with almost no edges. Thick walls can be nine to fourteen millimeters. And the size of the fruit is 5 by 8 centimeters with a weight of ninety grams and above. Technical maturity reaches Kolobok after 108-112 days. In this case, the fruits will be light green. They will turn red if 140-158 days have passed from the day of the first shoots. And the taste will depend on the color of the vegetable. Red fruits are sweeter than green ones.

About pepper Gingerbread Man reviews are only excellent. All summer residents note its unpretentiousness in care, rapid maturation, the sweet taste of its thick walls. I especially like to use the fruits for canning along with tomatoes, cooking a stuffed vegetable.

Ruby sweetness

Excellent canned food is obtained for the winter, if you use Ruby pepper. It is grown in regions with different climatic conditions in greenhouse conditions, open ground. The height of the bush is not more than half a meter. Rounded flattened fruits begin to ripen 160-178 days after emergence. At first they have a light green color, then gradually turn red, acquiring a ruby hue. Peppers reach a weight of 110-150 grams. From one square meter you can collect over three kilograms of juicy vegetables.

High-yielding Olenka pepper variety

Olenka pepper can be distinguished among the early ripe varieties of heat-loving vegetables. It is distinguished by high yields - up to nine kilograms of juicy sweet hearths are obtained from one square meter. Their weight is usually ninety grams. Culture feature includes:

medium-sized bush height;
drooping fruit of flat round shape with slight wrinkling;
meaty wall thickness of 7 millimeters;
color from dark green to red.

It is better to grow a plant under film coatings.

Sweet candy

Hybrid round pepper Candy can be yellowish green to red in color. The round-conical shape with fleshy fragrant pulp of the vegetable allows you to use it fresh, preserve it with whole fruits. They are small - only forty to fifty grams in weight. But the thickness of the walls reaches five to seven millimeters. The feature of the hybrid is:

early ripeness in 85-95 days;
bush height of forty-sixty centimeters;
high yield - kilogram from one bush;
resistance to diseases - fusarium, rot, viral mosaic.

With good care of the plant, you can get the first fruits in May.

Features of cultivation

All vegetable plants that produce round fruits are similar to the Gogoshary pepper variety. They are not without reason united under this common name. The peculiarity of their cultivation is:

growing through seedlings at an air temperature of 25 degrees;
picking shoots;
landing on high beds;
mulching the soil around the bushes;
regular watering and fertilizing with mineral fertilizers;
harvesting at maturity.

Seeds of a heat-loving crop are planted for seedlings in February, since before transplantation, its age should reach seventy days.

It is necessary to dive seedlings of a vegetable crop as soon as they have two true leaves. It is better to plant them in separate pots. As soon as the risk of spring frosts is gone, the plant is planted, covering the first time with paper caps. Seedlings are placed in holes measuring 30 x 30 centimeters with a distance of 25 centimeters from each other. Sweet varieties should not be planted next to bitter ones, otherwise they will pollinate and their taste will become different.

Water the vegetable plant often, plentifully. Feeding begins ten to twelve days after planting. First, mullein diluted in a ratio of 1:5 or bird droppings - 1:15. Then dissolve in ten liters of water, thirty grams of ammonium nitrate, forty - superphosphate, seventy - potassium s alt. One liter of nutrient solution is added to each bush. The interval between feeding is two to three weeks.

Tie up the stems of the vegetable when there are a lot of fruits and there is a possibility that they will break.Stepsonding a vegetable is not required. Pepper fruits are harvested when they reach technical maturity, that is, they become an even green color. To make the peppers turn red faster, they are placed in a cool place in a canvas bag.

Various canned foods are prepared from ripe red peppers. It is good and fresh in salads.

If pepper is grown in a greenhouse, then it is necessary to warm the room well before planting, laying manure around the edges. Only a vegetable is planted in a warm greenhouse in early May. You can alternate the beds with peppers with tomatoes. Fertile soil in the greenhouse will allow planting up to six vegetable bushes per square meter.

During the growing season of pepper, the greenhouse must be ventilated, trying to keep the air temperature within 25-27 degrees, and humidity - 85 percent.

Pepper Ratunda, or Gogoshary, is popular for good reason. You can cook many delicious dishes from it both on weekdays and holidays.