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open-pollinated
Royal Purple
Lee Goodwin large dark-purple beefsteak with deep red flesh, rich earthy-savoury flavour and vigorous productive indeterminate vines.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 300 g (200–400 g)
- Days to maturity
- 130 days (125–135) from sowing
- Sweetness
- Medium-high
- Flavour intensity
- Very high
- Productivity
- High
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- Containers
- Not for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Vigorous vines to around 2 m require substantial support for large fruit.
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