Baranium Horn - pepper bitter: a description of the variety, characteristics, cultivation

для любителей острого и жгучего. The mutton horn is pepper for lovers of hot and sharp. But unlike the most burning (for example, Chile), you can use it fresh, putting on top of a sandwich. Sensations are incredible - a fierce fire ignites in your mouth, but, fortunately, very quickly fades away, leaving a soft persistent aftertaste.

Red, bent like a sheep's horn, peppers, ripen on the bushes, hanging next to the green. The variety is unpretentious in growing, and with observance of agricultural techniques yields an excellent harvest.

Its origin is due to Italy (according to other sources - Hungary). Breeders began work with him in the early twentieth century.

The amount of capsaicin in peppers according to Scoville

Pepper spicy Baranya Horn traditionally refers not to the most burning. Acuity in them is due to the presence in them of a special substance - capsaicin. American chemist William Scoville in 1912, experimenting with a pharmaceutical company in Detroit (USA), developed a "pepper scorching scale" based on alcohol extracts. сорта горького перца с натуральными химикатами по степени жгучести. She compares the varieties of bitter pepper with natural chemicals in the degree of stinging.

This scale is used not only by scientists, but also by breeders. араний Рог — перец , содержащий около 35 тыс. единиц по этой шкале (некоторые российские производители предлагают не очень жгучие семена гибридов этого сорта, содержащих всего до 10000 единиц Сковилла) . Biraniy Rig is a pepper containing about 35 thousand units on this scale (some Russian producers offer not very burning seeds of hybrids of this sort, containing only up to 10,000 Scoville units) . For comparison: pure capsaicid - 15 million units, gas cartridges - from 2 to 5.3 million units, the famous Habanero pepper variety in Russia - from 100 to 300 thousand units.

The substance capsaicin is used in pharmacology for warming patches, ointments, tinctures. Pure capsaicin is a very burning substance, one milligram of it is enough to produce a severe burn, as from a hot iron.

How to germinate seeds

при проращивании требуют воспроизведения естественных диких условий. All varieties of bitter pepper when germinating require the reproduction of natural wild conditions. High temperature (from 22 to 29 degrees Celsius) should be maintained until the cotyledons are opened and the first leaves appear.

Vegetable growers traditionally separate the process of sprouting seeds of hot peppers from, in fact, growing seedlings. Why? Because to achieve 100% germination of these plants is difficult: excellent is the result, if germinate 65%.

In Russia, the seeds of sweet peppers are traditionally sprouted, placing them in seedlings (boxes) under glass or film. But for the searchers, this process can fail.

Pepper spicy Lamb horn is easier and easier to germinate in wet paper (ideal is a paper towel). Seeds should be neatly spread out on half of the napkin (they must be separated from each other), moistened with warm water from the spray gun, topped with a second half of the napkin, moistened too, placed in a polyethylene tight bag, wrapped in a warm kerchief and constantly maintained at 22 to 29 degrees. You can use the proximity to the heating battery for this purpose, or place it on top of the refrigerator, you can put it on the drying cabinet if it is located near the hob - in short, find any surface where the temperature is constantly high.

, который прорастает на шестой-седьмой день, но следить за состоянием температуры и влажности нужно постоянно, начиная с первого дня. Lamb's horn is pepper , which sprouts on the sixth-seventh day, but to monitor the state of temperature and humidity must be constantly, starting from the first day. Seeds can germinate on the tenth day (sometimes up to three weeks), this depends on their quality and germination conditions.

As soon as a strong good sprout appears, the plant should be placed in an individual seedling, first making a small groove, then lightly sprinkled with earth and moistened from a spray. Until the first leaves appear above the surface, the temperature must be maintained the same (22-29).

Pepper bitter Baranium Rig: growing seedlings

For individual seedlings during the cultivation of peppers, it is necessary to strictly approach the composition of the earth mix. You can safely buy the store ground, the package should have the inscription "For pepper", or use a universal mixture, following the pH indicator (acidity) from 5 to 6 units (weakly acid).

In the case of using soil mixtures from the garden, you need to track that compost (as a component) was not less than three years (otherwise there will be a lot of weeds). The composition of the mixture must include soddy land, sheet humus, sand (or a mixture of perlite, vermiculite and sand), a ratio of 1: 1: 1.

Variety of pepper Baranya Horn: reviews of vegetable growers by planting dates

While cultivating this variety, it is necessary to take into account its average durability. , от всходов до плодоношения у которого 130-140 дней. Baranium Horn is pepper , from shoots to fruiting, which has 130-140 days. Given this factor, you can independently calculate when you need to start germinating seeds.

If fruiting is expected in July (this is realistic in the greenhouse), then we must start germinating for four months, that is, at the end of February. To get a strong seedling peppers need to provide a large light day, in the first month to eight hours, then to twelve. This is achieved by special illumination.

In the absence of providing backlight, you can use the window facing south-west, south. The natural highlight in March will be from four, then to six.

The best time for starting work with peppers is the beginning of March.

Growing in the greenhouse

, к которым относится Бараний Рог, требуют легких почв без застоя воды, теплой температуры (чем жарче и суше, тем острее вырастут плоды) и хорошего полива под корень. The sorts of bitter peppers , to which the Baranic Horn refers, require light soils without stagnation of water, warm temperatures (the hotter and drier, the fresher the fruits grow) and good watering under the root.

In the greenhouse the height of the bush can be up to 70-80 cm. The planting scheme in the greenhouse is 60x60 cm. The bush grows powerful with a large number of fruits. Usually it does not require a garter, but if all the conditions of the agrotechnics of the variety are met, and considering the drooping arrangement of many large fruits, it is necessary to tie some branches.

On the bush, there may be fruits in the stage of technical maturity (green), and ripe - red. Fruits do not crumble, they need to be carefully removed to allow ripening the next.

In polycarbonate greenhouses, peppers can grow until October without heating. If you can create a powerful lighting and heating (at least a minimum), even in the middle zone of the Russian Federation, you can shoot fruits until November.

Outdoor cultivation

Plant plants need to be, when the temperature of the soil during the night hours does not fall below 15-18 degrees, it should not be earlier - the plants will begin to undergo all known and difficult to detect diseases.

Requirements to the soil are similar to greenhouse, but to a covered surface under a bush - a special approach: it must be mulched with hay, mown grass, and leaf-blown leaves. Under the layer of mulch the root system is not overdried, and weeds without light do not even rise.

The formation of a bush is not required, the plant is a sham plant. The height of pepper of this variety can reach up to 50 cm. The planting scheme is 50х50 cm.

Fruiting begins in late July, early August.

In late August and early September (without waiting for low night temperatures), plants can be removed from the soil with roots. If they left unripened fruit, the peppers are turned over and hung under the canopies (most of them will ripen without wrinkling).

It must be remembered that it is not necessary to plant bitter peppers along with sweet ones. Sweet peppers will start to be bitter, as there is a cross self-pollination.