Introduction to the Characteristics and Traits of the Tie Jiao No. 3 Pepper Variety
Tie Jiao No. 3
Variety origin: an early-maturing new variety bred by the Tieling Academy of Agricultural Sciences. It is the preferred variety for protected cultivation in early spring.
Characteristics: early-maturing, ox-horn shaped, fruit length 18-20 cm, fruit shoulder width 3.5-4.5 cm, flesh thickness 0.25-0.3 cm, average single fruit weight 48 g. The fruit is green, crisp in texture and spicy in taste, with good marketability. In the 2000 provincial regional trial, its early-stage yield increased by 24.93% compared with the control.
Cultivation points:
1. Grow strong seedlings: unlike Tie Jiao No. 1, one topdressing is required during the seedling stage.
2. Reasonable close planting: about 3,800 holes (two plants per hole) per mu in the greenhouse, and about 4,400 holes (two plants per hole) per mu for open-field cultivation with plastic film mulch.
3. Other management practices are the same as those for Tie Jiao No. 1.