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Old March 2, 2006   #9
Andrey_BY
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I've been growing Yolo Wonder almost every year and weel-satisfied with both productivity and taste.

My friend who is keeping breeding programme for peppers/tomatoes/physalis varieties at our Belarusian Institute of Vegetable Gardening developed 2 blocky bell peppers (Cubik red and Cubik yellow) similar to California Wonder but with better productivity and earliness (ripe 2 weeks earlier than CW). These are two most popular sweet bell pepper among our gardeners.

But as I already told here the main problem for sweet bell peppers is their total productivity. You can grow a healthy bushy plant but only with 2-3 fruits = less that 1 kg in total. So generally it's much more profitable to grow non-bell peppers with different shapes with more than 10-15 fruits can be riped from one plant.

I'm gonna try Neapolitan this year. It bears so many fruits on such pictures like:



And of course I will try many other varieties I've got from many of you this winter.

Wonder if there is heart-shaped sweet bell peppers?! Something like a huge pipiento...
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1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F

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