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open-pollinated
Aunt Ruby’s German Green
Also sold as: ARGG, Aunt Ruby's German Green
Celebrated green-when-ripe Tennessee family heirloom with large juicy beefsteaks, a complex sweet-spicy flavour and a distinctive amber-pink ripe blush.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 397 g (227–510 g)
- Days to maturity
- 83 days (80–85) from transplant
- Sweetness
- High
- Flavour intensity
- Very high
- Productivity
- Medium
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Not for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Use strong support for the large fruit. Pick when the green skin lightens and develops amber/yellow and often pinkish blossom-end tones, overripe green-when-ripe fruit can soften quickly.
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