Capsicum annuum L.
Hot pepper seeds Amboy H F1 from the Baltic Seeds PREMIER Professional series. An early, heavy-cropping hot pepper hybrid from the Dutch company Bejo Zaden. The fruits are medium hot, very uniform and smooth-skinned, about 14–15 cm long and up to 4 cm in diameter; green when unripe, bright red when fully ripe. Plants are compact and low. Suitable for fresh use, drying and preserving.
Hybrid features
- Type: F1 hybrid, early
- Taste: hot, medium pungency
- Fruits: 14–15 cm long, up to 4 cm in diameter, smooth, uniform
- Colour: green, ripening to bright red
- Resistance: tomato mosaic virus ToMV (0)
- Where to grow: open field, under cover, greenhouse; in large pots on a terrace or balcony
Growing
- Sowing for greenhouse seedlings: February – early March
- Sowing for open-field seedlings: second half of March
- Sowing depth: 1–1.5 cm; grow from seedlings only
- Transplanting: 50–70-day-old seedlings with 8–10 leaves and flower buds; greenhouse in May, open field late May – early June
- Spacing: 40 × 30 cm
- Soil: light, fertile, deeply cultivated, sufficiently moist (sandy loam, light and medium loam, black soil), pH 5.5–7.0
- Crop rotation: after legumes, root crops, cabbage; not after potatoes or cucumbers; after potatoes only after 3–4 years
- Temperature: optimum 18–25 °C; growth stops below 13 °C, above 35 °C flowers and fruit sets drop; plants die at 0 °C
- Watering: before flowering once a week 10–12 l/m² (twice in hot weather), during flowering and fruiting 2–3 times a week 12–14 l/m²; water not colder than 25 °C; stop 2–3 weeks before the last harvest
- Training: remove side shoots below the first branching and the crown flower; leave 5–7 fruits per plant for large uniform fruits; do not plant next to sweet peppers
- Harvest: greenhouse July–August, open field August – early September
Product information
- Brand: Baltic Seeds (PREMIER Professional series)
- Breeder: Bejo Zaden, Netherlands
- Hybrid: Amboy H F1
- Latin name: Capsicum annuum L.
- Package: 10 seeds; seeds treated with Maxim 480FS (fludioxonil)
- Barcode: 4779031161047
