Red pointed peppers.

A conical sweet pepper with its own spacing and support

Pointed pepper is a conical, elongated sweet pepper sold for its sweetness and for roasting and grilling. It is a distinct product from the blocky bell, with a different fruit shape, a lighter individual fruit and its own retail position. Growers add it to reach a segment the block pepper does not serve.

What the crop needs

The plant is grown on substrate and carried on a high wire, on either a long or a seasonal cycle depending on the market being supplied. Its stem architecture and fruit mass differ from the block pepper, so plant spacing, stem count and the load the crop wire carries are set for this product rather than inherited from the bell crop.

What the greenhouse has to do

A conical fruit on a different stem architecture asks for a different plan inside the same envelope. Plant spacing and the support system follow the fruit the plant actually carries rather than a block-pepper layout, and getting that wrong costs either growing space or fruit quality for the whole cycle.

Cycle choice is the other design input. Pointed pepper is grown long-cycle and seasonal, and the market window decides which. A seasonal crop wants a house that can be emptied, cleaned and replanted without disturbing its neighbours; a long-cycle crop wants heating and screening specified for the whole year. That decision belongs in the brief, because it moves the compartment layout.

DutchGreenhouses® specifies the structure, climate, screening and irrigation around the pointed pepper crop, its cycle and the local climate, so the plant is spaced and supported for the fruit it actually carries. Get in touch to plan a pepper greenhouse.