Notes
Italian frying/corno di toro. Two rows on 30-inch, stake once. Sets in heat better than bells. Green at 60 d from transplant, red at 80. Bottom heat at sow.
Cultivars / Solanaceous
Carmen
Pepper · Capsicum annuum
DTM
70 d
165 d occupancy · tender
Rows
2
12 in in-row
Density
2
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4.4
lb / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$15.18
$3.75 / lb
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 56 d
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 65°F – 90°F (opt 80°F)
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 12 in
- Seed spacing
- 12 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 2
- Plants / 50 ft
- 100
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 70 d
- Holding
- 50 d
- Occupancy
- 165 d
- Multicut
- yes · 10 cuts · 5 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- lb
- Units / bed-ft
- 4.4
- Avg unit wt
- 1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 4.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 8%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.10 / $3.75
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.3 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 50
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 101.3
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 1.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.7 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 2.8 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.9 / 0.4 / 1.4 lb
- Family
- Solanaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-01
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-18
- First harvest
- 2026-06-24
- Successions that fit
- 1 · every — d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 13 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 118 seeds · 100 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $425.04 / $759.00
Companions
basil · onion · carrot
Avoid
fennel