November 2022 - 27

SEED SHOWCASE
PEPPER TRAILBLAZER
SUN DIPPER
PamAmerican expands
HandPicked collection
New varieties are available from
PanAmerican Seed's HandPicked
Vegetables Collection: Pepper
Trailblazer, Tomato BlushingStar,
Tomato Sun Dipper and Basil
Everleaf Thai Towers.
HandPicked Vegetables are a
collection of high-quality vegetables
and herbs bred for earlier and
longer harvests, higher yields and
plant habits to fit smaller growing
spaces. These are varieties perfect for
supplying fresh market farms.
Pepper Trailblazer is an earlyripening
sweet bell pepper that holds
its yellow color when ripe, adding a
vibrant color to your sweet pepper
assortment. The blocky fruit has firm,
thick walls that help maintain its
shelf life. The flavor is sweet and rich.
The seed has a high germination rate
and offers high disease resistance to
Bacterial Leaf Spot 1-3, 7 and 8.
EVERLEAF THAI
TOWERS BASIL
disease resistance to late blight and
septoria leaf spot.
Sun Dipper brings a unique new
shape in small-fruit tomatoes. The
orange elongated fruit shape is eyecatching
and just right for dipping.
The indeterminate plant has resistance
to Fusarium, nematodes and Tobacco
Mosaic Virus. It performs well in field
production as well as high tunnels.
Matures in 60-65 days.
Everleaf Thai Towers Basil
BLUSHINGSTAR
BlushingStar is a pink beefsteak
tomato that combines tasty heirloom
flavor with modern hybrid tomato
performance. It is early-maturing,
sweet and savory that has higher
yield potential and fewer blemishes
than most heirlooms. The plants have
flowers 10 to 12 weeks later than
standard Thai basil. Its aromatic and
vibrant licorice flavor complements
many recipes, especially Thai
cuisine. The well-branched plants
have short internodes making a
beautiful, tidy, towering plant with
huge harvest potential. The tall,
columnar shape makes it a gorgeous
ornamental herb as well - great for
mixing into combination containers
or landscape designs.
Learn more about the
HandPicked Vegetables Collection
from PanAmerican Seed at the
company's fresh market website:
www.handpickedveg.com. VGN
JET SKI
Jet Ski watermelon makes
a splash for Seminis
For watermelon growers, 45-count
varieties are in high demand as
consumers, grocery stores and retail
outlets find they're the ideal size.
To help growers meet that need,
Seminis has a new early variety, Jet
Ski - a 45-count watermelon that not
only meets its high expectations for
performance in the field but provides
growers with a sweet reward in sales, too.
Jet Ski is a vigorous mottle stripe,
seedless watermelon. It features a deepred
interior, uniform oblong shape and
consistently high average degree brix
ratings at 12.6. But just as important as
its physical characteristics, Jet Ski was
bred to be a strong performer in the
field as well. It features a low incidence
of hollow heart and hard spot, two
challenges that can cause devastating
losses and eat into marketability for
watermelon growers.
" Now more than ever, growers need
varieties they can count on for quality
and consistency both in the field
and in the market, " says Nick Pucci,
east marketing lead for Vegetables
by Bayer. " That's why Vegetables by
Bayer and Seminis have been working
closely with growers to bring solutions
that help them meet their specific
operation needs. Jet Ski is a perfect
example of that partnership.
" The new 45-count melon addresses
some of the tougher challenges
growers face in the field like hollow
heart, while providing them with
a sweet, highly marketable melon, "
Pucci said.
Pucci also noted the market benefit
of early season varieties like Jet Ski.
" As one of the earliest varieties in
the market, Jet Ski allows farmers
to get in the fields early, grow high
quality watermelons and profit from
higher produce prices as a result, "
he said.
With good plant coverage, Jet Ski
VEGETABLE GROWERS NEWS
is widely adaptable across the eastern
United States. It joins the other highperforming
watermelon varieties
in the Vegetables by Bayer Seminis
watermelon portfolio, including
Shoreline and Joy Ride. All varieties
are available now through Seminis
dealers and distributors. VGN
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