The productivity of sweet peppers mainly depends not on the variety itself, but on the climate of the area in which it is grown. For this reason alone, in our latitudes is advised to select varieties bred by specialists of the domestic selection and adapted to unstable climatic conditions. One such example is the variety, which is called Hercules, the description and characteristics of which are presented in this review.
Table of Contents. The bush grows powerful, branchy, with a sufficient amount of foliage, somewhat squat. Its height, as a rule, reaches fifty centimeters, there are also higher specimens. The technical maturity of the fruits comes in three months, and after another twenty days the peppers reach biological maturation. If you plant seedlings in May, then in August and September you can harvest.
The weight of a Heracles pepper fruit is about 300 grams. There is an unusual appearance of fruits that resemble cubes in their shapes. An immature pepper has a rich green tint, which, when fully matured, turns into a red color. The rind of the fruit is rather dense, without roughness. Juicy fleshy pulp has a sweet taste.
Fruit sizes can be up to twelve centimeters, one pepper weighs from two hundred to three hundred grams .The variety is considered productive, with proper care it can produce up to three and a half kilograms of fruit per square meter.Most gardeners grow exactly Hercules, since this variety is able to produce stable yields of large fruits, to resist many diseases. It is characterized by good keeping quality and transportability.
Vegetable is considered an excellent additive in salads and hot dishes, it can be preserved or frozen.
Advantages and disadvantages of
Pepper has a diverse amount of trace elements and vitamins. Vegetable contains an alkaloid capsacin, which is considered to be the source of the delicious taste of .It helps lower blood pressure, improves gastric secretion, increases appetite, thins blood.
Among the advantages of the Hercules variety are large-fruited, versatile, good transportability, consistently high yield, excellent taste, excellent keeping quality. - Vitamins A and Cimmune system.
- The presence of vitamins B1, B2 and B6 - a good help for stressful situations, insomnia and diabetes. If the pepper is eaten in combination with folic acid, it is able to reduce the risks of strokes and seizures.
- Vitamin P and C have a strengthening effect on the vascular system, giving it elasticity.
- The presence of calcium, iodine, iron, magnesium and zinc helps with anemia, premature baldness, osteoporosis.
- Lycominin contained in vegetable helps to fight cancer.
Even in cosmetology, pepper could find a use for itself. Its pulp perfectly improves skin condition.
The disadvantage is one feature of the - too large fruit sizes.
Planting seeds
Pepper seeds Heracles Heracles is grown by seedlings. It is best to perform seed planting in March. All planting material is soaked in a weak solution of manganese, aged there for about fifteen minutes. Seeds are dried, sown in containers filled with fertilized soil composition. For sowing it is recommended to use cassettes or peat pots.
Conditions for growing seedlings
To create a greenhouse effect, containers need to be covered with cellophane or a piece of glass so that the seeds start to germinate as quickly as possible. The soil is moistened from time to time.
As soon as the first shoots appear, you can use the mineral additives .Young seedlings are transferred to a cooler room, they begin to hardening a couple of weeks before transplanting to unprotected soil.
Transplantation in open ground
This is best done at the end of May, when warm weather is established and the soil composition warms up. Planting pattern - forty to sixty centimeters , so that the plants do not interfere with each other to develop.
Diseases and pests
Vegetable can be affected by the same diseases and parasites as tomatoes - Fusarium, whitefly, scoop and others. Accordingly, preventive measures for these plants are very similar.
Whitefly on Pepper 
Fusarium 
Pepper is affected by the scoop A serious danger to pepper is the dry vertex rot of .It is capable of striking pepper fruits at the moment of their formation, appearing first in the form of spots, which then dry out and create a thinish crust. If you maintain the desired soil moisture and treat calcium nitrate as a preventative, then such a nuisance can be avoided.
Pepper rot Pepper pepper care rules
For the harvest to be good, three main conditions should be met:
- should be watered in a timely manner. Here everything happens individually, depending on the climatic conditions of the area. But pepper, in any case, should receive at least three liters of water twice a week;
Pepper Hercules needs regular feeding during the cultivation of - fertilization. During the period of budding and the initial stage of fruit formation, a plant especially needs nutritional components. It is best if you support the plant once every two weeks, using mineral and organic additives for this;
- loosening the ground. The condition is optional, but it helps speed up the process of root saturation with useful components. Another important feature when loosening is the removal of weeds.
If you follow these simple guidelines, you can get excellent yields of pepper in your own garden in .The wonderful taste of the vegetable will help you diversify almost any dish.
