With its smaller size, seedless red flesh and sweet taste, Sweet Trick appeals to the modern consumer’s tastes and shopping habits. Packed with flavour and weighing 5–7 kilos, it’s an easy-to-handle, fridge-friendly watermelon. Sweet Trick provides reliable yields and matures nearly a week earlier than larger watermelons, increasing on-farm productivity.
- A great tasting, smaller seedless watermelon appealing to the modern consumer
Features
- Fruit size 5-7kg
- Early maturing variety, at around 77 days from transplant
- Uniform round to oval shape with firm, brilliant red flesh
Advantages
- Smaller and easier to handle, whether in the paddock or the supermarket
- Ready for harvest 5–6 days before larger varieties, providing gross margin relief and allowing you to get your product to market more quickly
- Huge consumer appeal with sweetness, flavour, and deep red flesh colour
- Firm flesh means Sweet Trick is suitable for processing and fresh cut as it maintains cube shapes and minimises juice purge
Disease Resistance
DISEASE RESISTANCE (HR)
Co:1
DISEASE RESISTANCE (IR)
Fon:1
Characteristics
SEGMENT
Triploid
FLESH COLOR
Red
COLOUR
Dark Green
AVERAGE LENGTH
33 cm
SHAPE
Round-Blocky
AVERAGE DIAMETER
28 cm
BRIX POTENTIAL
12
AVERAGE LENGTH X DIAMETER
1.2 cm
AVERAGE WEIGHT
5.5-7.5 kg
HARVEST UNIFORMITY
High Uniformity
RELATIVE MATURITY
Early-Mid
MATURITY (DAYS)
75
SEEDLESS
Seedless
SHELF LIFE
Long
SKIN DESCRIPTION
Dark Wide Stripes
SOWING SEASON
Spring, Autumn, Winter, Summer
HARVESTING SEASON
Spring, Autumn, Summer, Winter
VIGOUR
Strong
TRANSPLANTING SEASON
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter