It’s watermelon season!
Summer conjures up many thoughts synonymous with lazing on a beautiful beach, the smell of sunscreen in your nostrils and of course sharing a bright red, tasty watermelon with family and friends! The sensation experienced when biting into a Red Heaven watermelon is guaranteed to put you on cloud nine due to its excellent taste, superior flavour, and crisp eating quality. Further attributes are its bright red internal colour and external bright attractive rind which will attract consumers in any supermarket.
Qualities
Red Heaven supplies the following advantages to growers, supermarkets, and consumers:
- Large attractive fruit. In trials fruit sizes of up to 20kg were measured.
- The spectrum of fruit sizes harvested were equally distributed across the sizing scale from small, medium, and large, thus satisfying all market segments.
- Red Heaven has a very strong growth habit, also due to its strong level of resistance to Fusarium.
- The strong plant structure and high Brix contribute to the variety’s excellent shelf life and capacity to travel by road.
Image 1: Red Heaven has an excellent shelf life and perfect for the fresh market.
Image 2: One of the farm workers standing proud with a large Red Heaven watermelon.
We strongly recommends that current and potential watermelon growers reserve Red Heaven seed with their Hygrotech representative, as this Seminis watermelon is poised to ensure that a trip to the beach will include a watermelon in the cooler with all the other beach necessities.
(Written by Renier van Rooyen – Southern Cape)
