American Takii 2016 Vegetable Variety Showcase
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Buena Vista
An orange-flesh honeydew melon is for seasonal production territories in North America. Fruit size class is 5’, 6’. Firmness is 5 to 6 psi, Brix 14% to 16%. Bright white skin and salmon-orange flesh is complemented with a nice, tight cavity. Good field holding ability. Maturity: California 60 to 90 days; southwest U.S. desert 80 to 95 days; Mexico and Central America 60 to 70 days. It is ideal for fresh and process markets.
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Centerstone
Featuring a high percentage of single centers, Centerstone is a long day, early- to mid-season, yellow-Spanish-type cross and produces excellent bulb size for high yields. It’s slow bolting, best for fresh and export markets, and stores well under favorable conditions.
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Green Lunar
Green Lunar has medium-to late-maturity (approximately 80 days after transplanting). The heads are uniform, oblate in shape, bright green, and late to burst. Head weight is typically 4 pounds. Semi-upright plants have vigorous frames. Green Lunar has high resistance to black rot and Yellows, and it has high tolerance to cold. Fall is the recommended harvest season.
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J-7
Jalapeño pepper J-7 is large and firm, uniformly dark green with beautiful smooth skin, and a thick wall that matures to rich red. This early variety has an outstanding fruit set, resulting in high yields.
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Promise
Medium-large plants produce large, round, very dense, smooth heads. Good field holding with mid-storage potential, Promise is ideal for both fresh and process markets. It matures approximately 105 days from transplant. With high tolerance to Fusarium yellows, its yield potential is excellent. Recommended harvest is summer to fall. Primary growing areas are the Northeast U.S. and Southeast Canada.
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Ruby Ring
This red onion is dark red, both internally and externally. Ruby Ring is a mid-season variety, with hard, firm bulbs and durable skin, making it ideal for the storage market. It features a high percentage of single centers and a strong growing habit.
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Spring Crisp
This Napa-type cabbage is very early maturing, just 63 days after sowing. A hybrid Chinese cabbage, Spring Crisp also is slow to bolt, so it holds well in the field. Best suited for harvesting spring to summer, Spring Crisp has intermediate resistance to clubroot.
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Summer Dance
This variety is a high-yielding, vigorous, glossy, deep-green, Japanese burpless-type cucumber, suitable for open field. The fruit is about 8 inches long, and 1-inch in diameter, weighing between 3 and 3½ ounces. It is suitable for sowing April through July, is highly resistant to powdery mildew and downy mildew, and has intermediate resistance to Corynespora blight and target spot.
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Sweet Peridot
A main-season melon for the San Joaquin Valley, Central America, and Mexico, this melon's firmness measures 6 to 7.5 psi, Brix 14% to 16% with size class of 5 and 6. It is resistant to Fusarium race 0 and 2, and has intermediate resistance to powdery mildew, strong against sulfur. Ideal for domestic fresh and process markets.
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Buena Vista
Centerstone
Green Lunar
J-7
Promise
Ruby Ring
Spring Crisp
Summer Dance
Sweet Peridot
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Rosemary Gordon is editor of American Vegetable Grower, a Meister Media Worldwide publication. See all author stories here.