Technisem Beetroot Seed - Beet Crimson Globe - 250g

Crimson Globe’ also known as Rote Ruben is a popular improved Detroit globe beetroot. It is a classic, main-crop globe beetroot which produces excellent quality, smooth-skinned globe beets with strong skin and ox-blood flesh colour. This high-yielding variety has good internal colouring and excellent taste. It is suited to both early and main crops and can be grown in containers all year round. It is resistant to downy mildew and does well in all kinds of soils. It is recommended as a good cultivar to use for succession sowings. The young luxuriant red-veined leaves can be eaten like spinach and the dark red, delicious tasting roots are ideal for baking, pickling, or grating raw into salads. Alternate roots can be thinned for use as baby beet and the rest allowed to grow on to maturity.

CHARACTERISTIC: CRIMSON GLOBE

KIND: Round red beetroot (Beta vulgaris L. subsp. vulgaris var. conditiva Alef.)

MATURITY: 60 – 70 days for warm season production. 90 – 110 days for cool-season production

SEASON: Warm and cool

ROOT SHAPE: Round to flat-round

CROWN SIZE: Medium

SMOOTHNESS: Smooth

INTERNAL COLOUR: Deep red

ZONING: Light

SUGAR CONTENT: Medium

TOP HEIGHT: 35 – 40 cm

LEAF HABIT: Semi-erect

LEAF COLOUR AND GLOSS: Medium green/matte

PURPLE IN LEAF (BETALIN PIGMENT): Moderate

BOLTING HABIT: Slow to bolt when sown in spring and summer

DISEASE REACTION (SCIENTIFIC): Intermediate resistance: Cercospora beticola (Cb) and Peronospora farinosa f.sp. betae (Pfb)

PLANT POPULATION: 450 000 – 550 000 seeds per ha for normal roots

UNIFORMITY: Good

MARKET USE: Fresh market, home garden and bunching in warm season

SPECIAL FEATURES: High yield, widely adapted, refined shape and smoothness

Quantity: 250 Grams