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Sweet Pepper Red King F1 Seeds
Vegetable Seeds from Sow Seeds Ltd
Sweet Pepper Red King is one of the largest sweet peppers to grow, with each fruit growing up to 18cm long and 12cm wide. A King by name and a King by size!
Due to the size of Red King, they are ideal for stuffing and roasting.
To ensure a good crop, it is best to sow with heat early and grow in a greenhouse/polytunnel. It can be grown outside but the crop needs quite a bit of warmth so crops may be smaller in size & quantity and not as many will ripen fully.
Sweet Pepper Red King is a heavy cropper producing fruit all summer long, on strong bushy plants, with the peppers ripening from green through to red. Height 50cm and spread 40cm.
Sweet Pepper Red King Vegetable Seed Information
| Seed Quantity: | Approx 10 seeds per pack. |
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Full sun. Greenhouse/polytunnel or sheltered fertile soil.
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| When to Sow |
February to April (Best in March).
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| How to Sow: |
Sow in seed trays/modules in a greenhouse and lightly cover with compost and gently water. They need heat to germinate so place in a heated propagator at about 22C (or an airing cupboard but remove seeds as soon as they sprout and give them warmth & light). They can be slow to germinate from 21-28 days. Pot on into 9cm pots when a set of true leaves have grown and keep at a constant temperature of 14C. Pot on again into 2L pots when they have rooted well. Either plant out in June or into 4/5L pots or the soil in a greenhouse in May/June.
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| Care: |
They can be left to grow as cordons with supports and just pinch out the top when they reach the greenhouse roof. But the best method is to pinch out the growing tip and produce a smaller bushier plant that will only need a little staking and produce earlier fruits which should ripen easier. To help stimulate pollination just brush the flowers lightly with a paintbrush, going from one flower to the next, transferring the pollen. Water with a nitrogen-rich feed (tomato feed) once a week when fruiting has begun.
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| Harvest: | June to September. Can be harvested & eaten early when green or left to ripen to red, but the earlier fruits are picked more will be encouraged to follow. |
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