Vegetable Variety Showcase 2013: American Takii
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Green Festa
Green Festa has high yield potential and medium maturity, in addition to a continuous fruit setting. Peppers weigh approximately 1.5 ounces (40 to 45 grams), mature from green to red, have thick walls, and high pungency. This hybrid jalapeño pepper also has high resistance to bacterial spot races 1-3.
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Katana
Katana is a semi-determinate, beefsteak-type tomato hybrid. It produces uniform fruit that is large and firm with a tight blossom end and smooth shoulders. It has continuous fruit setting which translates to high yields. Katana is resistant to tomato yellow leaf curl, Fusarium race 1, 2 and 3, Verticillium, Root-knot nematode and tomato mosaic virus.
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Paraiso
Hybrid broccoli Paraiso is good for bunching, crown cut, and florets. It is well suited for processing for florets and matures 75 days after transplanting (95 to 98 days after direct sowing). The plant has a good upright habit, and produces heads with a good dome and fine, dark-green beads. It also has excellent postharvest shelf life.
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Rising Sun
Rising Sun is a colossal and super colossal sized, medium-early maturing, short-day hybrid onion with strong bolting tolerance, a high percentage of single centers, and uniform globe shape. It has a strong root system with sizes of 3.5 to 4 inches plus. Plant in fall for spring/early summer harvest. It has a nice mild flavor and is suitable for fresh and process markets.
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Ruby Queen
Ruby Queen, a hybrid red cabbage, matures 75 to 80 days after transplanting and has good size potential. Vigorous plants have an upright habit producing round, bright purplish-red heads. Recommended harvest season is fall to winter. Ruby Queen has good heat and cold tolerance and has intermediate resistance to black rot.
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Ruby Ring
This red onion hybrid 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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Scarlet Wonder
Scarlet Wonder is a Kintoki-type carrot whose skin and core are bright scarlet. It is very sweet and tender, maturing 120 days after sowing. Scarlet Wonder is between 12 and 14 inches in length and approximately 1.5 inches in diameter. Recommended harvest season is fall to winter.
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Spring Crisp
This Napa-type cabbage is very early maturing (just 63 days after sowing), and is also slow to bolt so it holds well in the field. Best suited for harvesting in the spring or summer, this hybrid Chinese cabbage has intermediate resistance to clubroot.
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Valley Dew
Valley Dew is a main season, green flesh honeydew melon with great uniformity. Round, slightly oval with a small seed cavity and firm, sweet, green flesh, Valley Dew is resistant to Fusarium races 0 and 2. Its strong vine protects the fruit from sunburn and extends fruit set.
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Green Festa
Katana
Paraiso
Rising Sun
Ruby Queen
Ruby Ring
Scarlet Wonder
Spring Crisp
Valley Dew
Address
301 Natividad Rd.
Salinas, CA 93906
Phone/fax
ph: 831-443-4901
fax: 831-443-3976
Website
www.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.