Sweet Pepper Red Cherry
Sweet Pepper Red Cherry. An Heirloom sweet cherry variety from 1860 bearing heavy crops of 1-1 1/4″ bonbon shaped fruits with a thick meaty sweet crisp flesh on bushy 20” plants. Can be used in the green stage or in the red, ripe stage. 68-80 days from germination.
This variety has is mildly spicy and has a scoville rating of 500 units.
Cultivation Advice Vegetable Sweet Pepper Red Cherry
Days to Germination: 10-21
Optimum Soil Temp. for Germination: 65 to 70F
Days To Harvest: 75 days
Planting Depth: 1/8 inch
Spacing, Seed: 1 inches
Spacing, Plant: 12-18 inches
Light: Full Sun, Warm location, Greenhouse, Conservatory
- Sow seeds 1/4″ deep in 3in pots with quality seed compost. Keep moist. Seedlings emerge in 10-21 days at 65-70degrees F.
- Transplant to individual containers when seedlings have at least two pairs of leaves.
- When 4-5 inches plant 15-20″ apart in greenhouse / conservatory with root ball 1/2″ below the soil surface.
- Keep moist and feed when flowering with tomato type fertiliser.
Harvest when fruits have reached full-size and full colour.
