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open-pollinated
Aker's West Virginia
Also sold as: Aker’s West Virginia, Aker's West Virginia Heirloom
Large red West Virginia family heirloom preserved through Carl Aker and Craig LeHoullier, with firm juicy beefsteaks and balanced full flavour.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 500 g
- Days to maturity
- 87 days (85–90)
- Sweetness
- Medium-high
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- High
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Not for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Large late-season vines need strong support. A Rutgers page carrying the same name but describing a yellow bell-shaped hybrid was treated as a mismatched identity and excluded.
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