The development of chilli hybrids which can offer the great yields and fruit quality is the current research in chilli breeding. Based on mean performance, the evaluated hybrids varied significantly for all the studied traits. On the basis of analysis of variance, significant differences were recorded for all the studied traits. The results from the present investigation on the per se performance of twelve genotypes of chilli revealed that the cross Tejaswini × VNR-145 was found superior in terms of number of fruits per plant

and fruit yield per plant followed by Tejaswini × VNR-305 which expressed superior performance for fruit width and fruit yield per plant.

Highlights

• Chilli hybrid Tejaswini × VNR-145 recorded the highest number of fruits per plant and fruit yield.
• Chilli hybrid Tejaswini × VNR-305 exhibited the maximum performance for fruit width and yield.