Reed’s Seeds Showcases Latest Vegetable Varieties For Florida
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SuperElite
SuperElite is a fancy variety with thick, tough, high, tight wrappers, making it a great shipping cabbage. It holds its quality in the field and has excellent internal quality with a very sweet flavor. It is a popular and widely adapted variety with resistance to Fusarium Yellows, tip burn, and black speck. SuperElite matures in 85 days.
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SuperStar
SuperStar is a high-quality fresh market hybrid green cabbage. It has excellent holding ability in the field and after harvest. This cabbage is adapted from Florida to Canada, has excellent flavor and is Fusarium Yellows resistant. It matures in 85 to 88 days.
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Grand Vantage 2
Grand Vantage is a uniform, very dense, dark-green, hybrid cabbage with excellent holding ability. It has a good disease package, with resistance to Fusarium Yellows and tolerance to thrips and tip burn. Grand Vantage matures in 78 days, making it an excellent companion variety with SuperStar.
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Storage Hybrid #4
Growers are now harvesting Storage Hybrid #4 in 85 to 90 days for fresh market. Solid, upright heads, with very fancy, tough, waxy wrappers, make this a great shipper with an excellent shelf life. For best storage results, this variety should be planted later in the season. For storage purposes, Storage Hybrid #4 matures in 105 days.
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SC100
SC100 is a very uniform savoy with solid heads that mature in 100 days. It is finely
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Super Red 80
Super Red 80 is a mid-season, uniform, medium height variety with fancy, thick, tough wrappers. It has excellent uniformity and round solid heads with a nice dark color. This variety holds very well in the field, giving some flexibility in harvesting. This variety matures in 80 days.
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Super Red 115
Super Red 115 is our first yellows-resistant storage red hybrid cabbage. It has upright plants, very good vigor, very good yield, dark-red color, and is thrips tolerant. This variety matures in 115 days.
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Thunderhead
Thunderhead is a uniform, dark-green, fresh market cabbage. It has excellent holding ability and stays very clean in the field. Thunderhead has a good disease package with yellows resistance and high tolerance to black rot and thrips. Thunderhead matures in 74 days.
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SuperStor 112
SuperStor 112 is a high-yielding, clean- growing storage variety with a vigorous upright growth habit. It should be planted a little earlier for best results. It matures in 112 days.
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SuperElite
SuperStar
Grand Vantage 2
Storage Hybrid #4
SC100
Super Red 80
Super Red 115
Thunderhead
SuperStor 112
For more information, contact:
Reed’s Seeds
3334 NYS Rt. 215
Cortland, NY 13045
607-753-9095; fax: 607-753-9511
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Paul Rusnak is the Senior Online Editor of American Vegetable Grower, American Fruit Grower, and Greenhouse Grower magazines, all Meister Media Worldwide brands. He is based in Northeast Florida. See all author stories here.