Growing forms of peppers

Abstract

Pepper (Capsicum anuum L.) is a one-year-oldr plant from the Solanaceae family. Due to its long vegetation (April to November) it represents the most profitable vegetable culture in greenhouses and is one of the most represented crops in the greenhouse production of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Pepper as a year-round culture has several ways of growing. The experimental part of the work was carried out in the Plant nursery Ltd Tuzla, with the aim of growing three different pepper hybrids on three different growing forms and determining which hybrid is best suited for a particular cultivation in terms of the number, size and quality of the fruits, ie. the yield of the plant and the speed of frut maturation. The tested pepper hybrids (´Vedrana F1´, ´Blondy F1´ i ´Bobita F1´) responded in various ways to the removal of offshoots and thus to the formation of different growing forms. The pruning of plants into a growing form with three trees accelerated the development of fruits in the hybrids 'Blondy F1' and 'Bobita F1'. Hibrid 'Vedrana F1' had slower growth than the other two hybrids during the experiment. The pruning of the plants also affected the weight of the fruit, so the heaviest fruits of the hybrid 'Vedrana F1' were in the growing form 3V, the 'Blondy F1' in the growing form 1V, while the hybrid 'Bobita F1' had the heaviest fruit in the 2V growing form. The growing form of the plants also affected the share of market and non-market fruits.