Pepper Atlant

A handsome bell pepper can be grown by a gardener with any farming experience. But, of course, it is worth starting with the choice of the variety that you will like. Care and cultivation process should be clear and appropriate and must be accessible and understandable. Bell pepper Atlant f1 is an unpretentious and tasty variety.

Pepper Atlant: description and characteristics of the variety

Bell pepper Atlant: photo of the variety

Pepper Atlant f1 fully justifies its name, its fruits are large, the weight of one can reach four hundred grams, but on average varies from 200 to 400. The length of mature peppers is 26 cm. The Atlant sweet pepper variety differs in the thickness of the fruit walls from 5 to 7 mm, and the diameter about 8 cm. Vegetable cone-shaped with clear borders with a thin and pleasant to the touch skin. The smooth shiny surface changes its color depending on the degree of ripeness: green is ripe, red is technically ripe. The seeds are located in the inner space of the vegetable in large quantities and in several chambers.

The fruits of sweet pepper Atlant are rich in vitamins and microelements, they are great for healthy salads and not only, the range of their use in cooking is quite wide. Delicate aroma adds piquancy to dishes. The juiciness makes it possible to squeeze out the juice, which is later used for medicinal purposes.

Bell pepper Atlant is known to everyone as a storehouse of vitamin C, there are 200 mg per 100 g of one fruit, which in turn is higher than the daily norm of an adult.

How to grow

Bell pepper Atlant f1: video about the variety

The Atlant sweet pepper variety, like many peppers grown in our latitudes, is a hybrid, and as a result, it becomes clear that there is no point in spending time and effort on harvesting seeds. Purchase seeds in appropriate stores, as then you can be sure that your plants will bring you high-quality and large quantities of fruit. Such seeds are bred by breeders who understand this issue.

Pepper variety Atlant f1 grows best in central Russia. It takes root well in almost any conditions from a greenhouse to open ground. The land for cultivation should be fed with organic fertilizers, and preference should be given to loose soils. The suitable growing temperature is 22 degrees, plus minus 2, the soil is well moisturized, the air is dry. Bulgarian pepper Atlant is bred by means of seedlings.

Pre-prepared seeds are sown from mid-March. Preparation consists in pre-germination of seeds in a damp cloth, the air temperature is recommended 25 degrees Celsius.

When choosing a container for seedlings, give preference to peat pots of medium diameter, but not less than 10 cm. Such pots allow you to transfer the plant to a permanent place of growth without transplanting manipulations, but immediately placing it in the ground. If you want to save time, then purchase the ground already prepared for the peppers. You can prepare the ground yourself by fertilizing it with the following ingredients: peat, compost, sawdust. Atlant pepper seeds are dipped into 1 cm holes.

It is necessary to transfer seedlings to the ground when it reaches 40-50 days. Keep in mind that weather conditions must be stable, that is, young plants cannot be transplanted during frosts. As a preparation for seedlings, harden the plants by taking them outside, this will facilitate the adaptation process.

If you skip this moment, you will stop the growth of the Atlant sweet pepper for 15-20 days, since the transfer of seedlings for the Atlant pepper is a huge stress.

Sweet pepper variety Atlant does not spread wide branches, but at the same time it stretches up to 1 meter in height.For this reason, when allocating space for seedlings, proceed at the rate of 4 units per square meter. After the plant gets stronger in a permanent place, pinch the main shoot and cut off the stepsons thus forming the plant into two stems. Tie up overly tall bushes.

During the entire growing season, carry out periodic feeding, regular watering and loosening the soil.

It is enough to moisten the soil 2-3 times within seven days, feeding with nutrients no more often than this once every 20 days. When choosing a fertilizer, be guided by the content of substances necessary for the plant in them, your choice will fall on organic fertilizer or a specially developed complex for Atlant pepper will not make a fundamental difference.

The great advantage of Atlant sweet pepper is that it has good resistance against 80% of diseases, thanks to this quality, you do not need to treat it with chemicals for protection.

The peak of fruiting of the Atlant bell pepper begins four months after planting the seeds. With proper care, pepper bushes growing in open ground can yield a yield of 5 kilograms per square meter of planting, and greenhouse ones even more.

Growing Atlant peppers is within the power of farmers of any level of experience. Pepper gained its popularity thanks to the gardeners' word of mouth. Unpretentious, giving large fruits, the taste of which will delight the most picky gourmets.

Sweet pepper Atlant: variety reviews

Tatiana, 34 years old, Volzhsky.

Sweet pepper Atlant: photo of the variety

I thought for a long time which variety to choose, having studied the Internet, decided the Atlant pepper is mine. In March, she began to operate and in May she already transferred them to the greenhouse. After just a month, I already had a tasting of the future harvest. Then things went like clockwork, the fruits began to develop rapidly. To be honest, the sizes of the fruits of the Atlant pepper variety were 300 grams each. As a result, I can say for sure that I will opt for this variety.

Vladimir, 55 years old, Dolgomostye.

I choose plants for planting only those that give large fruits. Bell pepper variety Atlant f1 to my liking. My family is saturated with vitamins at the time of fruiting, and by the winter my wife prepares lecho. The taste remains magical in both variations. I advise everyone who is just starting gardening and those who have been in the subject for a long time.