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Farao

Crop:
Watermelon
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Overview

A hybrid, elongated, Crimson Sweet type seeded watermelon. Farao is a high yielding, medium-early watermelon. The variety exhibits strong plant vigour with a very good vine growth habit. Farao shows excellent uniformity and fruit set with high interior quality. It produces large elongated blocky shaped fruits of medium-green colour with broad, medium dark-green stripes. The fruit have medium thick but durable rind for long distance shipping. The fruit are characterized by flavourful, dark red flesh texture with high sugars and small brown seeds.

Traits & characteristics

Traits & characteristics
Fruit Color Medium-green with broad, medium dark-green stripes. Dark red flesh texture
Index of earliness Medium early
Pack size Average fruit weight is 10 - 14 kg
Plant type Very good vine growth habit
Plant vigour Strong plant vigour
Yield High yield

Characteristics

Characteristics

Maturity

75 - 85 Days

Resistance

Resistance

Disease Resistance

  • Target:
    Fon: 0, 1
    Rating:
    IR
  • Target:
    Co:1
    Rating:
    IR

Downloads

Downloads
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Farao

Crop:
Watermelon

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