Description
The best early variety on the market
Season
- Very early short-day variety (7-10 days before Jewel)
Growing tips
- Our best short-day variety for soilless greenhouse and tunnel cultivation
- Very well suited to full-soil plasticulture with plug and bare-root plants
- Adapts well to different soil types and production systems and tolerates high planting densities.
- Low cooling requirements (600-800 hours)
Appearance
- One of the most beautiful strawberries on the market
- Beautiful light red color and very shiny skin
- Beautiful, regular conical shape
- Erect, attractive calyx
Taste
- Very good sweet and aromatic taste
- Good sugar/acid balance
- Very consistent flavour that holds up well even in poor light conditions
Caliber
- Medium to large size, maintained throughout the harvest by a succession of new flower stalks
- Average of more than 15 grams per fruit
Firmness
- Very good firmness, even in hot climates, and excellent shelf life in refrigerated storage.
- Tender, juicy flesh
Yield
- Very good yield for an early variety in plasticulture (12-15 T/ha) and soilless cultivation in tunnels and greenhouses (4-5 kg/m2).
Sensitivity and resistance
- Sensitivity to excess nitrogen
- Excellent resistance to winter cold
- Good resistance to phytophthora and powdery mildew
- Sensitivity to pestalotiopsis
Hybridizer: Consorzio Italiano Vivaisti (Italy)
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Types of plants available for this variety
The fresh clod plant is a stolon raised on a multicellular plate and delivered in summer with growing leaves. It is planted in plasticulture, generally in August, for a very early harvest the following spring. In addition to excellent recovery in the field, the fresh plug plant reduces runner pruning work, offers better resistance to cold during winter, and enables early harvesting of excellent-quality fruit. Available in August or September for orders received before March 15.
Trayplant (TP) is mainly intended for soilless cultivation in greenhouses and tunnels. It’s a strawberry plant raised in a 250 ml cell that has been kept in a nursery during the flower initiation period in autumn, then kept in cold storage until planting. This type of plant is conditioned to give a large crop of excellent-quality strawberries around 10 to 12 weeks after planting, depending on the growing schedule, and plantings can be programmed to stagger harvests. Trayplant is available from December to July for orders received before March 15th.
The mini-trayplant (MTP) is mainly intended for greenhouse and tunnel planting with neutral-day varieties. This strawberry plant, raised in a 140-ml cell, can be planted in vegetative growth with foliage (fresh plant) between September and November, or dormant between December and July. This type of plant is conditioned for very regular production over a long period, as in winter cultivation in greenhouses or soilless cultivation in tunnels. The mini-trayplant is available from September to November (fresh) and from December to July (dormant) for orders received before March 15.
The dormant bare-root plant (frigo plant) is mainly intended for open-field planting in plasticulture or matted rows, for both short-day and neutral-day varieties. It is a strawberry plant grown in the open ground and harvested dormant at the start of winter, to be kept in cold storage until spring planting. Bare-root plants are available from April to July for orders received before December 15.
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