Pepper

Get informed about the properties and requirements of peppers, and we will guide you to the best formulations to optimize your horticultural cultivation. 

Get to know the pepper to achieve excellent results in your crops.

The pepper is also known by other common names such as  bell pepper, sweet pepper, red pepper, or in some countries, paprika, but its scientific or Latin name is  Capsicum annuum.

It is an annual vegetable with deep roots, slightly woody erect stems, and petiolate leaves with a pronounced apex. The flowers are solitary, whitish, and undergo self-pollination. The fruit is a semi-cartilaginous, hollow berry with a color closely associated with the plant's ripening stage. 

In Spain, the cultivation of sweet peppers covers approximately 20,000 hectares, with 45% of them being grown in greenhouses or under mulching. They yield around 1,200,000 tons of production, and almost half of it is dedicated to export. The provinces of Almería and Murcia are the two major producers of sweet peppers in Spain.

There are multiple varieties of peppers that are grouped into different cultivars based on the shape and color of their fruits. In Spain, the sweet varieties with triangular-shaped fruits, such as the sweet italian pepper, Najerano, Abdera F1... If we group them by colors, we have cultivars with yellow fruits, orange fruits, purple ripening fruits, among others.