The Latest Vegetable Varieties For Covered Production
August 27, 2015 Check out cucumber, pepper and tomato offerings available from DeRuiter, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, Rijk Zwaan, and Syngenta. The greenhouse varieties are presented in alphabetical order.
Avaya cucumber from DeRuiter
Avaya
Avaya is a summer cucumber hybrid with improved fruit quality. De Ruiter trials showed a competitive level of production with improved fruit quality over the current market leaders. Avaya has the potential to produce a high percent of medium fruit with a nice dark-green color, good shape, and strong ribbing. Avaya has intermediate resistance to cucumber green mottle mosaic virus and high resistance to powdery mildew. This combination makes the variety well-suited for summer crops in Canada.
Monsanto.com/products/pages/deruiter-seeds.aspx
Climstar from Syngenta
Climstar
Demonstrating high production potential for the cluster tomato market, Climstar from Syngenta is a large-size variety that produces dense clusters of five fruits ranging from 140 to 160 grams. Climstar bears jointless, flattened, round fruits with ideal firmness and good stem shelf life. Its strong, generative plant maintains sufficient leaf length throughout summer months and consistently sets dense, flat clusters ideal for pruning. Climstar has high resistance to tobacco mosaic virus, leaf mold, and wilt.
Syngenta-us.com/crops/vegetables
Conga from Syngenta
Conga
Bringing color to the lineup, Syngenta introduces its yellow bell pepper variety Conga. Conga produces very large to extra-large bell peppers of uniform size with a blocky shape and sweet taste for increased consumer appeal. Plant characteristics for Conga include a well-balanced habit with powerful vigor and consistency throughout the season for high yield potential. Conga offers high resistance to mosaic virus.
Syngenta-us.com/crops/vegetables
Florantino from Rijk Zwaan
Florantino RZ
Florantino RZ from Rijk Zwaan USA is a mini plum (grape tomato) with excellent shelf life. The sweet, crunchy fruit weigh between 8 and 10 grams and are said to be very easy to work with.
Lemoncello from DeRuiter
Lemoncello
Lemoncello is a De Ruiter yellow blocky pepper hybrid for the Ontario bulk market. Its size and production potential provides growers with a great new option for this segment. This variety has a higher level of vigor and ideal generativity. It showed a uniform size throughout the season with a high percent of the fruit meeting the extra-large category. A commercial launch of Lemoncello is planned for the fall.
Monsanto.com/products/pages/deruiter-seeds.aspx
Margold from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Margold
Margold from Johnny’s Selected Seeds has a more regular plant habit and higher vigor than heirlooms, plus disease resistances for protected culture including leaf mold. This variety does not compromise on the excellent flavor and soft texture that customers have come to expect. Margold is said to be the first hybrid Striped German type for the greenhouse.
Mountie from Syngenta
Mountie
Syngenta’s Mountie produces multiple, high-quality attractive fruit with strong ribbing and a dark, shiny color. Fruits range in length range from 12-14 inches and fill out well at the tip. A fit for all segments and seasons, Mountie maintains a strong, open generative plant habit and has high resistance to scab, leafspot, and powdery mildew.
Syngenta-us.com/crops/vegetables
Redline From Rijk Zwaan
Redline RZ
Redline RZ is a versatile red blocky sweet pepper for heated greenhouse production where extra large fruit is desired. Fruit quality is very good in the summer season. This variety from Rijk Zwaan USA is produced on a vigorous growing plant that remains open in habit.
Sprinter from Johnny Selected Seeds
Sprinter
Sprinter is a red bell pepper very high in vigor, which makes it adaptable to a wide range of protected growing conditions. According to Johnny’s Selected Seeds, it produces high yields of shiny, dark red blocky bells over a long season.
Unistars from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Unistars
Unistars is a high-yielding cocktail cucumber for greenhouse production. This cucumber from Johnny’s Selected Seeds can set multiple dark green 4-inch fruits per node, leading to high yields of popular snack cukes. It has resistance to powdery mildew and scab that helps keep the plants healthy over a long season.
Verdon from Rijk Zwaan
Verdon RZ
Verdon RZ is a long English cucumber with medium sized fruits. It is the industry standard variety for spring and summer in heated greenhouses. This variety from Rijk Zwaan USA offers high production levels with a very strong resistance package, including high resistance to powdery mildew and cucumber green mottled mosaic virus.
Subscribe Today For
