F1 hybrid
Vivacious
Also sold as: Burpee Vivacious, Vivacious F1
Burpee-bred orange-scarlet F1 slicer with oval 4–8 oz fruit, balanced sweet-acid flavour, heavy yields, long keeping quality and strong crack resistance.
- Shape
- Oval / ellipsoid
- Fruit type
- Slicer
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 170 g (113–227 g)
- Days to maturity
- 70 days (70–85) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium-high
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- Very high
- Cracking resistance
- Very high
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Growing advice
- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Indeterminate plants are listed around 5–6 ft and need staking or trellising. Suitable for open ground, protected growing and raised containers, breeder material describes roughly 70 fruit per plant.
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7.0/10
Grower rating
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7.0 / 10
Flavour · 1 review
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Would grow again · 1 of 1 answered
Sweetness
Medium
1 grower observation
Acidity
Medium
1 grower observation
Flavour intensity
Strong
1 grower observation
Productivity
High
1 grower observation
Generally low cracking reported by growers— observed by growers, not a breeder resistance rating (1 report)
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AHAlan H
7/10 overall · 7/10 flavour
East of England · Greenhouse · Container 5L · Full sun · 2026
- Sweetness: Medium
- Acidity: Medium
- Flavour intensity: Strong
- Productivity: High
- Cracking: None
- Would grow again: Probably not
Very productive although most fruit came at end of season. Fruit much smaller than described typically 1 oz although look fabulous had very tough skins
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