American Takii 2015 Vegetable Variety Showcase
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Celebrate
Celebrate is a “Cheers” type cabbage with a slightly more compact plant. It features an attractive blue-green head with good wrapping leaves. With the potential to produce large heads, it is uniform, highly resistant to Yellows, and has intermediate resistance to black rot. Celebrate has wide adaptability. -
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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 and 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). 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. -
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Honeydew
Salmon-orange flesh Honeydew melon is for seasonal melon production territories in North America. Fruit size class is 5 and 6, firmness is 5-6 psi, and Brix is 14-16%. It boasts good field holding ability, maturing in California in 60 to 90 days, the Southwest desert in 80 to 95 days, and Mexico and Central America in 60 to 70 days. -
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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. This early variety has an outstanding fruit set resulting in high yields. J-7 has a long shelf life and good heat content. -
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Ruby Perfection
Ruby Perfection has a deep-red, globe-shaped head weighing approximately 3½ pounds. It has strong tolerance to heat and cold. Very late to burst, this variety produces solid heads with good uniformity. It has light resistance to black rot, is recommended for early to late fall harvest, and -
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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. Fruit is about 8 inches long, and 1 inch in diameter, weighing between 3 and 3.5 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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For more information, contact American Takii:
301 Natividad Rd., Salinas, CA 93906
PHONE 831-443-4901
FAX 831-443-3976
www.takii.com
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Rosemary Gordon is editor of American Vegetable Grower, a Meister Media Worldwide publication. See all author stories here.