open-pollinated
Brandywine
Also sold as: Pink Brandywine
Classic pink potato-leaf heirloom beefsteak renowned for exceptionally rich, intense flavour and large juicy fruit, but typically later, lower yielding and more prone to cracking than modern hybrids.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 340 g (283–680 g)
- Days to maturity
- 84 days (78–90) from transplant
- Sweetness
- High
- Flavour intensity
- Very high
- Productivity
- Low
- Cracking resistance
- Low
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Provide substantial staking or caging for the large fruit. Maintain even soil moisture because cracking, catfacing and uneven ripening are recurrent weaknesses. This record deliberately represents the modern generic pink, potato-leaf Brandywine sold under the Brandywine/Pink Brandywine name and must not be merged with Red Brandywine or named Brandywine strains. Soil/culture: moist, well-drained clay, loam or sandy soil, acid to neutral
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