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Size/Shape: Saladette or Roma Shape, 160-180 grams.
Production Cycle: Any climate where tomatoes are grown. Greenhouse year round.
Tolerances: Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Verticillium Wilt, Fusarium Wilt Race 3, Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus, Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus.
Features: Mochomo F1 is an Indeterminate Roma/Saladette tomato of 160-180 grams that has a strong and compact plant habit with excellent fruit quality. It has high yield and an ideal disease package.
Fruit are dense & dark red. This variety expresses vigorous growth with large leaves for ultimate sunburn protection. The very latest variety with three important disease tolerancesTSWV, TYLCV, and F3 Ideal for Mexico.
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A determinate saladette tomato with excellent fruit quality on a highly disease-resistant plant
Compact growth, with a very high yield
Extended bearing period
Exceptional leaf disease tolerance
Very attractive shape and size
Unique disease resistance package
Type:
A determinate saladette tomato hybrid with long shelf life, suited to open-field production for the fresh and informal markets as a trellised or untrellised type.
Maturity:
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Early maturing variety. In Summer plantings the first fruit will mature in 75 - 80 days after transplanting. The date of harvesting may vary by as much as 10 days between early and late season plantings. This needs to be taken into consideration when planning planting schedules under different growing conditions.
Plant Characteristics:
Vigorous determinate growth habit with exceptional leaf cover on a highly disease resistant plant.
Fruit Characteristics:
STAR has very high quality blocky/cylindrical fruit with an average mass of 130 - 160 g. Fruit quality is exceptional with a deep red colour, thick walls, good flavour and no green shoulders present. STAR has a very high marketable yield potential with a high percentage of large first grade fruit. Fruit size is maintained to the top of the plant.
Plant Population:
Although STAR could be grown without trellising, it is highly recommended to be trellised to 1 3 wires. The planting density should be chosen to give 15,000 - 21,000 plants per hectare. The row spacing should not be less than 35cm between plants for un-trellised production, a plant population of 10,000 - 15,000 plants per hectare with a row spacing of not less than 2 - 2.5m and an in-row spacing of 27 - 30 cm is recommended.
Disease Resistance:
HR: Verticillium Wilt (Va,Vd), Fusarium Wilt (Fol 1, 2), Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV).
IR: Root-knot Nematodes (Ma, Mi,Mj), Bacterial Wilt (Rs), Powdery Mildew (Lt).
Features & Benefits:
STAR provides the grower with a compact, vigorous, determinate plant, together with its uniform fruit size and high yield capability.
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