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F1 hybrid
Contessa
Also sold as: Contessa F1, Contessa Organic F1
Red indeterminate F1 beefsteak for field or protected cropping, producing firm roughly 10-ounce fruit with good flavour, high yield and extensive disease resistance.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 283 g (255–310 g)
- Days to maturity
- 72 days from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- Medium-high
- Productivity
- High
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Not for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
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