Watermelon

SUMMER BREEZE

Summer Breeze is a striped elongated seedless (triploid) watermelon suitable for production in Australia. Fruit has high internal quality and some resistance to HH. Colour is a deep red, high brix and good eating characteristics. Fruit is 7-8kg, vine vigour is strong.

  • Medium relative maturity and high concentrate yield
  • Excellent internal colour and flavour

Features

  • Good plant vigour and canopy cover
  • Uniform set
  • Competitive of marketable yield
  • 7-8kg fruit
  • Medium rind thickness
  • Excellent taste and attractive deep red flesh
  • Demonstrates good resistance to hollow heart
  • Competitive firmness and brix content

Advantages

  • Longer productions period; better coverage of fruits under stress conditions
  • Early production
  • Meeting grower expectation
  • Safe shipping ability
  • Meeting with consumer demand

Agronomic Tips

  • A slightly smaller size than our competitor, can be susceptible to rain conditions (could lose setting on high wet weather conditions), in very hot conditions the variety could lose set uniformity and under stress conditions the variety could present some hard seeds in the fruit.

Disease Resistance

DISEASE RESISTANCE (HR)

Co:1

DISEASE RESISTANCE (IR)

Fon:1

Characteristics

SEGMENT
Triploid
FLESH COLOR
Intense/Deep Red
COLOUR
Light-Green
SHAPE
Round-Blocky
BRIX POTENTIAL
12-13
AVERAGE LENGTH X DIAMETER
26cm x 24 cm cm
AVERAGE WEIGHT
6.5-7.5 kg
HARVEST UNIFORMITY
High Uniformity
RELATIVE MATURITY
Early-Mid
MATURITY (DAYS)
60-90
SEEDLESS
Seedless
SHELF LIFE
Medium
SKIN DESCRIPTION
Mottle Stripe
SOWING SEASON
Year Round, Summer, Winter
HARVESTING SEASON
Year Round, Autumn, Spring
VIGOUR
Strong
ABILITY TO MECHANIZE HARVEST
No
TRANSPLANTING SEASON
Year Round, Summer, Winter
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