Description of the "Gift of Moldova" pepper: what is good about the variety and how to grow it correctly

Bell pepper grown not only on farms for industrial use, but also for personal purposes. Agronomists are constantly creating new varieties of crops and improving the quality of existing ones. Consider the variety of pepper Gift of Moldova: features and possible difficulties of its cultivation.

What is this grade

A well-known variety - Gift of Moldova - was entered in the State Register in 1973. He made a good showing and was one of the first to be brought into the Soviet Union.

Characteristics and description

Moldova's gift is a mid-season crop: ripening period is from 119 to 124 days. The bushes are compact, reach a height of 35–45 cm, do not need a large area, tying and special care. They feel great both in greenhouses and in open beds.

The fruits are large, smooth, dark red at the stage of biological ripeness. Wall thickness - no more than 5 mm. The taste is sweet and juicy. Peppers are suitable for canning and fresh consumption.

With constant and timely care, 5–8 kg of cone-shaped fruits are harvested from 1 m2. Each weighs 60–90 g.

Reference. The variety is suitable for stuffing due to the thickness of the peppers and their uniform dimensions.

Preparation for growing

Before disembarking seed soaked for disinfection in a weak solution of potassium permanganate for about a day.

They dig up the earth for a future pick and bring in humus. If the soil is heavy, add a little sand to it. They do not plant a crop in the place where tomatoes grew last year. Good predecessors are pumpkin seeds, legumes, cabbage.

For seedlings, the soil is bought in a store or prepared independently from humus or peat, sand and turf.

When grown outdoors, choose a high bed to keep warm enough for the root system.

Growing seedlings

If you plan to cultivate peppers in a greenhouse, sowing seedlings is carried out in February, if outdoors - at the end of March. The term for growing seedlings is about 1.5 months.

It is advisable to plant seeds immediately in separate containers. The culture is difficult to tolerate picking and any transplant, so these procedures are performed carefully.

Seedlings are provided with a sufficient amount of sunlight - at least 14 hours a day. When the first leaves appear, the plants are fed with a mixture of:

• 3 g superphosphate;
• 1 g potassium sulfate;
• 0.5 g of ammonium nitrate;
• 1 liter of water.

This solution is poured over the sprouts, 100 ml for each.

After the appearance of 4–8 leaves, the seedlings are hardened by taking them out into the open air. Starting from 20 minutes, the time is gradually increased to 2 hours.

Peppers dive into open ground in early June, when the threat of night frosts has passed and the ground has warmed up enough; to the greenhouse - in early May.

Important! The distance between the shoots should be about 40 cm, between the rows - 60 cm.

Further care

Caring for the Gift of Moldova comes down to the main procedures:

• watering;
• weeding;
• top dressing.

To get beautiful and juicy fruits, it is important to provide the culture with a sufficient amount of moisture, so many grow peppers in a greenhouse, since it is easier to organize timely watering there. In the open field, special attention is paid to watering.

Pepper does not tolerate being close to other plants, so the soil is weeded regularly. The variety is fed during the growing season 2-3 times (for the first time - during budding). Slurry mixed with water in a ratio of 1:10 is used.

Important! Before applying fertilizers, the soil is moistened so as not to burn the root system of the crop.

Features of cultivation and possible difficulties

Plants do not need leaf breakage and are resistant to basic diseases... To increase the number of fruits, the first flower and pods are cut from the bushes.

There are no particular difficulties in cultivating the Gift of Moldova.

Diseases and pests

Despite the good immunity of the variety, especially against fusarium wilting, with improper care, untimely watering and the presence of sudden temperature changes such diseases may occur:

1. Spotting. Leaves and fruits suffer.
2. Gray rot. The causative agent, the fungus Botrytis cinerea, affects the tops of the stems. Brown, depressed spots appear on them, which grow over time.

They are treated with fungicides and removal of the affected plant parts.

Of the pests to which the Gift of Moldova is susceptible, slugs, spider mites and aphids. Insecticides are used against them, but when the fruits ripen, it is better to use a solution of nettle with garlic so that the vegetables are harmless to the body. Bushes are processed 2 times with a week break.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The gift from Moldova has many positive qualities, thanks to which it has established itself among gardeners:

1. Versatility in cooking. The fruits are eaten fresh, added to salads, main dishes and canned.
2. Good transportability and attractive type of vegetables. Strong and elastic pulp allows the variety to be transported over long distances without losing its presentation.
3. Compact size of bushes that do not require garters, pinching, pruning and shaping.
4. High germination of seeds (more than 80%) and the possibility of using planting material harvested from our own harvest.
5. Ease of maintenance.
6. Adaptation to different climatic conditions (temperate latitudes, the Volga region and the Far East region).
7. Immunity to major diseases.

Among the shortcomings of culture, the instability to sharp temperature fluctuations and relatively thin fruit walls are noted.

Reviews

What do the people who grew it write about the variety?

Tamara, Rostov-on-Don: “I always order the seeds of this pepper, although I mainly grow large thick-walled varieties. I take a gift from Moldova for my family, we use the fruits as they grow. Great seeds and peppers, looks like the photo from the package and is delicious. "

Evgeniy, Krasnodar: “The gift of Moldova is a wonderful variety for open ground. It always bears a lot, albeit not very large fruits. "

Yuri, Perm: “I advise everyone to grow this variety. It is extremely unpretentious and easy to care for, while always producing a large number of fruits with excellent taste. "

Conclusion

Pepper Gift of Moldova is suitable for growing in the Russian climate. Over the years of its existence, it has earned an excellent reputation among professional agronomists and amateur summer residents.

A high yield of the variety is observed not only in the southern regions, but also in the northern and eastern regions. The vegetable is unpretentious in care and resistant to diseases characteristic of the culture.