Recommended Citation
Phillips, Ben, "Evaluation of 18 Bell Pepper Cultivars in Southwest Michigan in 2024" (2024). Midwest Vegetable Trial Reports. Paper 270.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/mwvtr/270
Date of this Version
11-13-2024
Keywords
pepper, bell, capsicum, varieties, variety, cultivar, trial, michigan, yield, quality
Abstract
A bell pepper cultivar trial was planted at the Southwest Michigan Research and Extension Center (42.081985, -86.354087, Benton Harbor, Michigan). Bejo (BJ), Clifton (CL), Enza Zaden (EZ), Sakata (SK), Seminis (SE), and United Genetics (UG) seed companies donated bell pepper cultivars for plastic-mulch bedded and trellised hand harvest. Overall trial conditions were excellent, however our pre-plant fertilizer mixing was outsourced this year, and a spreader was rented from the same company. Due to either a mixing error or a misapplication with a piece of unfamiliar or malfunctioning equipment, the plots received a toxic level of boron, which remained in plant tissues for the whole season.