American Takii Presents Its Latest Vegetable Varieties
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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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Golden Cross
Extra-early maturing Golden Cross is ready to harvest approximately 40 days after transplanting. Heads are globe in shape, deep green, and very firm with a short core. Its plants are compact. The recommended harvest season is spring to fall.
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Purple Prince
Suitable for spring and summer sowing, Purple Prince matures 55 to 65 days after sowing. It has late pithiness, is late to bolt, and can be harvested when roots are between 3 and 6 inches. It has good uniformity.
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Red Gourmet
A bell-type sweet pepper, Red Gourmet has very early fruit setting and matures from green to a rich, shiny red. It can be harvested 50 to 60 days after flowering. Fruit is approximately 4 ounces (120 grams), and crisp with a delightfully sweet, mild flavor. Plants have a spreading habit and have high resistance to pepper mild mottle virus.
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Ruby King
Maturing approximately 70 days after transplanting, Ruby King has a globe head shape with good head weight and fill. With bright purplish-red head color and exceptional uniformity, this variety has a very strong tolerance to heat and cold. The recommended harvest season is fall and winter.
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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. Spring Crisp also is slow to bolt, so it holds well in the field. It is best suited for harvesting spring to summer. It has intermediate resistance to clubroot.
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Summer Dance
Summer Dance is a high-yielding, very vigorous, glossy deep-green Japanese burpless-type cucumber. Fruit is about 8 inches long, 1 inch in diameter, and weighs between 3 and 3.5 ounces. This variety has a monoecious flowering habit, high resistance to powdery mildew and downy mildew, and intermediate resistance to Corynespora blight and target spot.
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Trailblazer
This early Northeastern type has early- to mid-season maturity, being slightly earlier than Mountaineer. Its bulbs are tight and firm with a globe shape and good size with thin necks. Trailblazer has strong resistance to botrytis, is slow to bolt, and is excellent for storage.
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Centerstone
Golden Cross
Purple Prince
Red Gourmet
Ruby King
Ruby Ring
Spring Crisp
Summer Dance
Trailblazer
For more information, contact:
American Takii
301 Natividad Rd.
Salinas, CA 93906
831-443-4901; fax: 831-443-3976
takii.com
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Alexander is a former associate editor with American Vegetable Grower® and currently a contributing writer in Denver, CO. See all author stories here.