Breeding of New Pepper Variety Qianla 6

For breeding new pepper varieties suitable for cultivation in Guizhou.Qianla 6,a new conventional pepper variety with mid maturity,was bred from system selection and self-directional breeding of the plant selected from local materials.The average growth period,plant height,plant width,node number at the first flowering stage,mean branch number,fruit length,fruit diameter,fruit stalk length,fresh fruit weight,dry fruit weight,fruit number per plant are about 115d,70cm,57.2cm,13~15,8.4,11.16cm,1.36cm,3.97cm,7.76g,1.54g and 30.9,respectively.Its fruits are single-birth and upwards.Fruit shape is crescent-shaped.Green mature fruit color is green,red mature fruit color is bright red.Fruit surface is smooth.It has strong tolerance of storage and transportation because its fruit flesh is thick,fruit is hard.The average dry pepper yield in Guizhou pepper regional tests in 2009-2010 was 240.88kg/667 m2,11.94% higher than CK(Zunjiao 2),the average dry pepper yield in production test in 2010 was 192.39kg/667m2,12.23% higher than CK.This variety is suitable for seedling transplantation,open cultivation and film mulching cultivation.It can be processed by dry-making or chopped-pepper-fermenting.