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open-pollinated
Principe Borghese
Also sold as: Prince Borghese, Principe Borghese Tomato
Italian semi-determinate drying heirloom producing prolific small red plum fruit with dense, low-juice flesh.
- Shape
- Oval / ellipsoid
- Fruit type
- Plum / Roma
- Growth habit
- Semi-determinate
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 28 g (14–57 g)
- Days to maturity
- 75 days (72–78)
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- Very high
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Moderate
- Growing notes
- Traditionally valued for drying. For hanging/storage of whole trusses, dry conditions and mineral-rich soil are more important than for ordinary fresh harvest. Support heavily loaded branches.
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