OUTSTANDING QUALITIES
- Compact plants with good leaf cover
- Large blocky fruit
- High resistance to tmv, cmv and pvy
- Ideal for open field production
Excellence is a widely adapted, early, hybrid blocky pepper with a compact growth habit and good leaf cover. The fruit are large, strongly four lobed, blocky, show very little purpling and ripen to a uniform glossy red. Fruit set is concentrated, resulting in high first pick yields. Excellence has high resistance to Tobacco mosaic (TMV), Cucumber mosaic (CMV) and Potato Y (PVY). Excellence is recommended for open field production, but can also be trellised using the “Spanish” method under protection.
SPECIAL VARIETAL REQUIREMENTS
- As fruit set is concentrated, we suggest that flowers of the 1st and 2nd bottom splits are removed to allow the plant to maintain a good balance between leaf cover, fruit load and roots
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CHARACTERISTIC* |
EXCELLENCE |
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KIND |
F1 hybrid pepper (Capsicum L.) |
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TYPE |
Blocky, California Wonder type |
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MATURITY |
Early |
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FRUIT DIMENSIONS |
Approximately 10 x 10 cm (app. 250 g) |
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FRUIT SHAPE |
Blocky |
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FRUIT WALL |
Thick |
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SMOOTHNESS |
Smooth surface with medium deep lobes, shoulders and blossom end |
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FRUIT COLOUR |
Dark green turning glossy red |
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PLANT TYPE |
Compact |
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DISEASE REACTION (SCIENTIFIC) |
High resistance: Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV); Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) and Potato Y virus (PVY) |
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PRODUCTION |
Under protection (shade net) and open field |
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POPULATION GUIDE |
Open field: 20 000 – 35 000 plants per ha Under protection: 3.6 – 4.82 stems per m² |
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USE |
Bulk packaging |
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SPECIAL FEATURES |
Uniformly blocky, large fruit and ideal for open field production without trellising |