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Sweet bell peppers are grown as a tall crop, so provisions for working a tall crop must be incorporated into the greenhouse in order to grow the crop successfully. An approximate target yield for introductory growers would be 23 kg/m². However, this web page discusses pepper crop production following the single crop cycle outlined in Figure 22.
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Winter production would offer considerable price advantage for produce if the yield and quality of the fruit were maintained.Īs crop production techniques improve, running a producing crop over the winter months may prove profitable, and staggered crop schedules and inter-cropping (planting young seedlings amongst an already producing crop) may allow for full year production. The prices received for the crop in the winter months are always higher than in summer when the greenhouse produce competes with the field produce. The use of supplementary lights are also generally not cost effective for trying to carry a producing crop over the winter months, through December, January and February. This is also the reason why December is usually the month when crops are pulled and the new crop goes in. This is because the lower winter light levels do not support profitable crop production. When the cropping cycle is considered, it is not recommended to carry a fully producing crop over the month of December. As it takes approximately 20 weeks (4 months) from seeding the crop to first pick as a result, growing more than one crop a year is not considered profitable. That is, production for the entire year is based on the same set of plants. The greenhouses are empty for only 2 or 3 weeks during the year to allow for the removal of the old crop, thorough cleaning of the greenhouse and setup of the greenhouse for the new crop. The transplants go into the production greenhouse in approximately mid to late December at 6 weeks of age, the first pick of fruit begins in about late March, early April and continues to the following December. Greenhouse pepper production is based on a full year cycle (see Figure 3 below). Harvesting the fully-sized peppers when they are still green is not profitable, as the mature coloured peppers command a better price. The colour of the mature pepper is determined by the cultivar grown. No matter what the final colour of the pepper, all sweet peppers start out green in colour and the final colour develops as the fruit ripens.
Greenhouse sweet bell peppers are a high impact superior product primarily grown in 3 colours red, yellow and orange.
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