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Thunderbolt Sweet Pepper Seeds & Plant
Huge Marconi sweet peppers are a marvel for flavor and texture
Item Number: 51560FM
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A sweet pepper dream come true! One great big beautiful sweet Marconi pepper, the largest we offer, and a marvel for flavor and texture. Prolific plants produce plentiful yields of tapered 13” beauties that transition from green to red. Shows stalwart resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus and tobacco mosaic virus.
F1 Hybrid
An F1 hybrid is created by crossing two different parent plants to combine their best qualities.
Key Attributes
Light Requirement
The amount of sunlight this product needs daily in order to perform well in the garden. Full sun means 6 hours of direct sun per day; partial sun means 2-4 hours of direct sun per day; shade means little or no direct sun.
Full sun
Lifecycle
This refers to whether a plant is an annual, biennial or perennial. Annuals complete their life cycles in one year; biennials produce foliage the first year and bloom and go to seed the second year; perennials can live for more than two years.
Annual
Sow Method
This refers to whether the seed should be sown early indoors and the seedlings transplanted outside later, or if the seed should be sown directly in the garden at the recommended planting time.
Indoor
Mature Spread
The width of the plant at maturity.
40 in
Days to Maturity
The average number of days from when the plant is actively growing in the garden to the expected time of harvest.
65
Mature Height
The typical height of this product at maturity.
45 in
Fruit Size
The average size of the fruit produced by this product.
13 in
Variety
Some flowers and vegetables fall into subcategories that may define how they grow (such as pole or bush), what they are used for (such as slicing tomatoes or shelling peas), flower type, or other designations that will help you select the type of a class of plant that you are looking for.
Sweet
When to Plant in Your Area
Average Last Frost
Average First Frost