Capsicum annuum L.
Sweet pepper ODA (Capsicum annuum) is a PlantiCo sweet pepper variety with intensely purple skin and flesh. It produces medium-sized fruits with thick, tasty flesh. A rich source of vitamin C that looks striking on the plate next to peppers of other colours.
Features
- Fruits: purple, medium-sized, blocky, with thick, juicy flesh
- Taste: sweet, no heat
- Use: fresh eating and preserving
- Growing: open ground, greenhouse or containers
Growing
- Sowing for transplants: from mid-March at 20–25 °C; prick out the seedlings
- Planting out: mid-May
- Spacing: 50 × 50 cm (about 400 transplants per 100 m²)
- 1 g of seed gives about 100 plants
- Harvest: from late July to mid-October
- Soil: fertile, loose and well-aerated; a sunny, sheltered spot
- Important: the plant drops flowers and fruits when short of water, so water regularly
Packet
- Producer: PlantiCo Hodowla i Nasiennictwo Ogrodnicze Zielonki Sp. z o.o., Poland
- Seed quantity: 0.4 g
