Rispens Seeds Highlights Its Latest Vegetable Varieties
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ACes
Aces is a main to full season 79-day bicolor supersweet that has improved eating quality over hybrids currently available for that slot. It has high resistance to common rust to handle the disease pressure associated with late-season conditions. Aces is tender, sweet, has nice kernel color contrast, picks easily, and has good husk protection.
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Argento
Argento is a new 105-day option in Rispens' expanded onion program including Spartacus, Maximus, and Focus. Argento has a very nice round shape and bronze color with excellent uniformity. This hybrid also has long-term storage potential and good tolerance to pink root rot. It was previously trialed as Rocca.
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Captivation
With firm, high-quality flesh, and maturing in 89 days, Captivation is ideal for growers looking for a main-season maturity seedless watermelon. Its fruit weigh an average of 14 to 17 pounds, and the plant has intermediate resistance to Fusarium wilt race 1, and Anthracnose race 1. Captivation will be available through the Full Count® Plant Program.
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Latte
Latte is a new bicolor synergistic type that puts together the unique combination of earliness, strong seedling vigor, and outstanding eating quality. With a relative maturity of 67 days, Latte works well as a first or second spring planting while providing improved ear length and eating quality. Trial results have shown strong emergence and cold soil vigor.
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Mountain Majesty
Mountain Majesty is a fresh market determinate round tomato that has shown outstanding fruit quality and excellent yield potential. The fruit are firm, extra large and have a deep-red color. Mountain Majesty also has good disease resistance including high resistance to Fusarium wilt, two races of Verticillium wilt, and intermediate resistance to tomato spotted wilt virus.
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PS 11435810
In 2014 trials and commercial production, 5810 produced the highest yields and largest fruit size compared to other industry standards. It has a vigorous plant and strong disease package. Dark green-to-red fruit set continuously and have a smooth bullet shape with good pungency.
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Red Crown
Red Crown is yet another excellent Harris Moran hybrid radish release with market leading interior quality, uniformity, and high marketable yields. Red Crown also has thick, dark-red skin, is early to mature, and has high resistance to black root and Rhizoctonia, with intermediate resistance to downy mildew and Fusarium yellows. Short tops make Red Crown easy to pack.
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Spartacus
Spartacus is a new long-day yellow onion hybrid with impressive yield potential and bulb size. With 115 days relative maturity, it finished well in Midwest trials over the last two growing seasons as a full-season onion, handling hot and cool conditions. The bulbs are very uniform and have good long-term storage potential. It works well in areas where Bradley is grown.
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SV4643NT
This 114-day red onion is suitable for direct seeding in most areas in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. It has a nice red color, medium- to-large size and an attractive round shape that complements its excellent yield potential. SV463NT's red color holds well into the interior and the bulbs have good storage potential.
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ACes
Argento
Captivation
Latte
Mountain Majesty
PS 11435810
Red Crown
Spartacus
SV4643NT
For more information, contact:
Rispens Seeds
1357 Dutch American Way, P.O. Box 310,
Beecher, IL 60401
708-946-6560; 888-874-0241; fax: 708-946-6115
www.rispensseeds.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.