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open-pollinated
Pruden's Purple
Also sold as: Prudence Purple, Prudens Purple
Pink potato-leaf heirloom beefsteak with excellent flavour, very few seeds and notably good crack resistance.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 397 g (227–567 g)
- Days to maturity
- 70 days (67–85) from transplant
- Sweetness
- High
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- High
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Large potato-leaf vines need stout support. The cultivar is useful where growers want a Brandywine-like eating quality with earlier maturity and strong crack resistance.
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