Full Sun
Medium
Days To Maturity: 70—85, Height At Maturity: 20"—26" 1 Plants are resistant to Potato Virus Y and Tobacco Mosaic Virus.2
Enjoys a full sun position in your garden and remember to water moderately. Keep in mind when planting that Red marconi is thought of as tender, so remember to wait until your soil is warm and the night time temperature is well above freezing before moving outside. Planting Red marconi in potting mix, loamy and silty soil with a ph of between 5.5 and 7.5 is ideal for as it does best in weakly acidic soil to weakly alkaline soil.Soil Temperature: 75—85°F, Days To Germinate: 6—15 1
Start seeds indoors six to eight weeks before last frost date.
Sow 0.25 inches (0.64 cm) deep with a guideline distance of 0.98 inches (2.5 cm). Soil temperature should be kept higher than 24°C / 75°F to ensure good germination.By our calculations, you should look at sowing Red marconi about 32 days before your last frost date.
Start this pepper in two in. containers. When seedlings are about three inches long it is time to transplant them to the ground. Make a hole twice the size of the container and place the seedling even with the ground. Press gently around the stem and water well.
As Red marconi is tender, ensure temperatures are mild enough to plant out - wait until after your last frost date to be on the safe side.Harvesting this heirloom pepper is easy when they are turning red. They can be left on the plant until they are completely red and they will taste sweeter.
This variety tends to be ready for harvesting by early autumn.Mar·co·ni (mär-kō’nē)-Italian engineer and inventor who in 1901 transmitted long-wave radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean. He shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in physics. 3
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