2002 Green Pepper Cultivar Evaluation

 

Bob Precheur, Rick Callendar, Ted Smith, Dennis Ash and Galen Barnett

Muck Crops Branch. Celeryville, OH

Dept. of Horticulture and Crop Science, OSU Columbus

 

In Cooperation with Wiers Farms Inc., Willard, OH

 

Click on the Variety Name in the first column of the table below to see a picture of that variety.

 

Table 1. Yield of Extra Large plus Large Fruit

Early (First Harvest)				Total (3 Harvests)
Cultivar		Boxes/A		Cultivar	Boxes/A
HMX 1660		240		HMX 1660	693
Aristotle		219		Defiance	671
Paladin		200		Paladin	659
Colossal		185		Aristotle	647
Defiance		173		Karma	612
PX 304496		165		Conquer	597
Karma		140		Brigadier	550
Brigadier		138		PX 304496	549
Conquer		138		Lexington	508
HMX 0640		126		Collosal	495
Lexington		116		HMX 0640	414
LSD 0.05		84.3			186.4

 

Table 2. Marketable Yield (Extra Large + Large + Medium + Small + Select)

Early (First Harvest)			% Marketable L	Total (3 Harvests)			% Marketable	% Marketable L
Cultivar	Boxes/A		(Extra L + Large)	Cultivar	Boxes/A		(XL+L+M+S)	(Extra L + Large)
Paladin		428	43	Aristotle		1208	86	45
Aristotle		428	46	Paladin		1126	85	49
HMX 1660)		420	53	Defiance		1101	80	54
PX 304496		405	34	Conquer		1089	84	45
Brigadier		381	32	HMX 1660		1084	86	54
Colossal		378	40	Lexington		1074	83	37
Defiance		349	44	Brigadier		1068	83	41
Conquer		326	34	Karma		1060	78	47
Lexington		304	35	PX 304496		1043	81	42
Karma		269	45	HMX 0640		902	83	40
HMX 0640		246	43	Colossal		833	86	51
LSD 0.05		155.4	17.8			332.9	8.2	11.1

 

% Marketable = the number of Extra Large + Large + Medium + Small fruit divided by the number of Extra Large + Large + Medium + Small + Select + Cull fruit times 100.

% Marketable L = the number of Extra Large + Large fruit divided by the number of Extra Large + Large + Medium + Small + Select + Cull fruit times 100.