Description
One of the most beautiful strawberries on the market
Season
- Early short-day variety (5-7 days before Jewel) that tends to stretch longer than other varieties.
Growing tips
- Very well suited to full-soil plasticulture with plug and bare-root plants
Appearance
- Bright red color that tends to darken when fruit is fully ripe
- Extremely shiny skin
- Attractive rounded conical globular shape
- Very few misshapen fruits
Taste
- Good taste with low acidity
- Very juicy and tender fruit
- Taste can be irregular throughout the season
Caliber
- Large size at the beginning of harvest which tends to diminish
Firmness
- Good firmness in cool climates, but tends to be less firm in hot climates
- Requires short picking intervals (e.g. every 2 days) to maintain firmness
- Keeps well in cold storage
Yield
- Very good yield in plasticulture
Sensitivity and resistance
- Very vigorous plants that are easy to grow
- Good tolerance to winter cold
- Good overall resistance to foliar and root diseases
- Fruit sensitive to abrasion, especially during hot periods
Hybridizer: Fresh Forward (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.
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.
