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Sweet Pepper Etiuda
A variety of bell pepper
How to sow sweet pepper etiuda: Direct seed indoors, transplant seedlings outside after hardening off
Sun requirement for sweet pepper etiuda: Plant in Full Sun
The chilli pepper (from Nahuatl chīlli) is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum which are members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae. Chilli peppers are widely used in many cuisines as a spice to add heat to dishes. The substances that give chilli peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically are capsaicin and related compounds known as capsaicinoids.
Chilli peppers originated in Mexico. After the Columbian Exchange, many cultivars of chilli pepper spread across the world, used for both food and traditional medicine.
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Sweet pepper etiuda facts
Lifespan
Annual
living and reproducing in a single year or less
Optimal temperature
17–30 °C
Absolute temperature
8–35 °C
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal rainfall
600–1250 mm/year
Absolute rainfall
500–1700 mm/year
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal soil pH
5.5–6.8
Absolute soil pH
4.5–7
FAO EcoCrop
Crop cycle
60–180 days
FAO EcoCrop
Max altitude
3000 m
FAO EcoCrop
Optimal light
very bright
FAO EcoCrop
What are growing degree days?
A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.
Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.
For sweet pepper etiuda, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 8°C and a shortest growing cycle of 60 days at its best temperature, about 930 growing degree days to a first harvest.
Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your sweet pepper etiuda will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.
Varieties of sweet pepper etiuda
Plant sweet pepper etiudas with
eggplant
lettuce
spring onion
yellow onion
ginger
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Time to harvest
If sown now, expect a first harvest in about 60 to 180 days.
From the growing cycle in the FAO EcoCrop database, which is the same wherever it is grown.
Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Capsicum annuum L.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Asteridae Solanales Solanaceae |
|---|---|
| Life form | herb |
| Life span | annual |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | medium (50-150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, organic |
| Optimal soil fertility | moderate |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours) |
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