PEPPER Cigarette of Bergamo

Species: Pepper - Sweet pepper
Latin name: Capsicum Annuum L.
Inscription in the European catalog under: Sigaretta di Bergamo - Dolce di Bergamo
Other usual name: Pepper Cigarette
Variety: Cigarette of Bergamo
Family: Solanaceous
Origin: Central or South America

The Pepper Cigarette of Bergamo: Late variety very productive, with long conical slim fruits of green or red color with a firm, thick flesh of a soft flavor. Used mainly fresh in salads. It belongs to the category of slightly sweetened mild peppers, it prefers grounds rich in compost, the seeds as well as the plants need heat or a warm climate to develop.

Seed sowing: From February to May
Harvesting Peppers : 95 to 115 days after sowing
Height: The Pepperplant  reaches on average 60 cm
Exposure: Sunny, Half shade

Sowing instructions: Peppers are best started under chassis or in greenhouse in February to Mai, in a depht of 1 cm. Germination sometimes difficult see, that you got 2 times more seeds, then plants wanted. Place seedlings in pots when they have two leaves, keep them inside until the middle of Mai when there is no more danger of frost, when soil and air is warmed up you will bee able to transplant seedlings 50 to 60 cm apart directly in a sunny place of your garden.

Sowing distance: 50 to 60 cm between plants
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 24 °C to 25°C
Seed germination: 10 to 15 days
Nutritional value: 22 Kcal for 100 gr.

Net weight of seeds: 2 gr. = +/- 410 seeds

All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.