RPX 5292 and RPX 5262 are two new pumpkin varieties with heterozygous tolerance to powdery mildew. Both hybrids weigh between 18 and 20 pounds.
RPX 5292 is taller and more cylindrical in shape than traditional pumpkins. This dark-orange, shipper-sized pumpkin features an easy-to-grasp handle, distinct ribbing, and is for 40-count bins.
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RPX 5262 for web
RPX 5262 features less-defined ribbing and a long handle on a rounder fruit, and is a 40-count variety, as well. Both RPX 5262 and RPX 5292 are scheduled for release in 2015.
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RBX 4023
Rupp Seeds has announced three new powdery mildew-tolerant butternut hybrids, RBX 4023, RBX 4756, and RBX 4757. RBX 4023 is a uniformly elongated blocky variety for the processing industry. It has excellent yields, good flesh color, and high sugar and dry matter. RBX 4023 is in pilot production with limited seed to be available in 2015.
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RBX 4756
For fresh market sales, RBX 4756 has prime boxing capabilities with excellent neck-to-bulb ratio. RBX 4756 is slightly larger in size and has a more distinct neck-to-bulb contrast when compared to RBX 4757.It has excellent sugar and dry matter content.
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RBX 4757
Also for fresh market is RBX 4757. Like RBX 4756, this variety has prime boxing capabilities with excellent neck-to-bulb ratio. It has excellent sugar and dry matter content.
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Aligote
Rupp Seed’s experimental station tomato trials included several round, Roma, and grape/cherry varieties from various companies. Aligote grape tomato was one variety that rose to the top. From French seed producer Vilmorin, Aligote is a new variety that grows on a vigorous plant, can be grown in protected cultures or open field, and has high Brix. “The flavor of this grape tomato is a big attribute,” says Barry Rupp, vegetable consultant at Rupp Seeds.
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Garfield
Garfield from Abbott & Cobb is “one of the nicest orange peppers on the market,” says the company's Barry Rupp. He adds that it is the biggest orange pepper for open-field production, and is not recommended for high tunnels. This new variety has resistance to tobacco mosaic virus and is a main-season blocky bell.
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Milena
Milena, from Enza Zaden, is an orange pepper variety that is better-suited for use in high tunnels. High tunnel peppers are typically smaller than those grown in open-field production, but they are earlier to market, Rupp says. “Growers producing colored peppers in high tunnels will be picking them before open-field producers,” he adds.
This three- or four-lobed blocky bell matures early and has resistance to potato virus Y and tobacco mosaic virus races 0-3.
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Black Magic
Kale, one of the latest superfoods, was another highlight of the Rupp Seeds trial. Black Magic, a variety from Tozer Seeds, “is produced on a healthy plant and is very uniform”, says Sheldon Sutton, product development coordinator for Rupp Seeds. Black Magic has darker and more savoyed leaves when compared to other conventional varieties.
As part of American Vegetable Grower’s (AVG) 2014 variety trial coverage, we made a stop at Rupp Seeds in Ohio to find out about some of the new offerings from the seed company. AVG toured several demonstration plots and got the scoop on new squash and pumpkin varieties.
Check out the slideshow for some of the highlights.
Click here to view additional vegetable offerings from 2014 variety trials.
November 25, 2014 
