Description
A very early selection with very good taste
VARIETY IN TESTING
Season
- Very early short-day variety with the same season as Clery but with a short harvest.
Growing tips
- Well-suited to plasticulture in the field, but requires optimal or protected conditions (e.g. tunnels).
Appearance
- Dark red color
- Elongated conical to biconical shape
Taste
- Very good taste and aromatic flavour
Caliber
- Average size tends to decrease during harvesting
Firmness
- Medium firmness, requiring special attention to harvest frequency in outdoor cultivation
Yield
- Very good yield in plasticulture if soil conditions are optimal
Sensitivity and resistance
- Open, slender habit requiring management to obtain compact plants
- Very long flower stalks above the canopy, which weaken the fruit by exposing it to the elements.
- Requires ideal soil moisture without excess or water deficiency
Hybridizer: Flevo Berry (Netherlands)
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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.