Description
An extremely productive selection with very good taste
Season
- Mid-season short-day variety
Growing tips
- Very well suited to open-ground plasticulture with bare-root plants
Appearance
- Attractive bright red color that tends to darken as it matures
- Short, flattened, globular cone shape
Taste
- Very good sweet and aromatic taste with little acidity
Caliber
- Large size on the first fruits but tends to diminish during harvesting
- Very small size at the end of harvest
Firmness
- Medium firmness, requiring regular picking
- Low firmness in hot weather
Yield
- Excellent yield in plasticulture when plants are well balanced and growing conditions are optimal.
Sensitivity and resistance
- Very vigorous plant with good overall resistance to leaf diseases
- High leaf mass acts as an umbrella against rain damage and reduces fruit exposure to the sun.
- Very good resistance to winter cold
- Sensitivity to phytophthora cactorum and botrytis
- Sensitivity to heat, which tends to reduce fruit firmness
Hybridizer: Fresh Forward (Netherlands)
Features
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Types of plants available for this variety
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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