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F1 hybrid
Big Beef
Also sold as: Big Beef F1
1994 AAS-winning F1 beefsteak combining large red fruit, full traditional flavour, early maturity, very high yield and one of the strongest disease-resistance packages among classic garden slicers.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 283 g (227–454 g)
- Days to maturity
- 73 days (70–75) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- Very high
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Strong staking or caging is essential. Do not merge this record with Big Beef Plus, a later improved hybrid with additional resistance traits.
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