Melon Seed Varieties

New varieties, High quality crops

Melon Seed Varieties: Around the world, a large number of varieties of fruits and vegetables of the Cucurbitaceaes family are grown. But what does it take for a fruit or vegetable to be a new variety? There are four things that are needed for a variety to become accepted on the market:

A variety should be new: it should not have been commercialized for one year before the application date in the country of protection.
A variety should be distinctive: botanical differences should be evident, such as height, maturity, color, etc., which sets it apart from other already known varieties. A variety needs to have uniformity: the characteristic traits of the variety must be found in all the plants of the variety.
A variety needs to have stable traits: the characteristic traits of the plants need to be the result of genetics and not caused by dependent variables such as soil conditions or being grown in greenhouses. Consequently the characteristic traits continue to be the same generation after generation or, in the case of hybrids, after numerous cycles of reproduction.

And finally, one should name the variety with a name that will be recognizable in every part of the planet.

HORTOMALLAS® invites you to review, in what follows, some of the melon seed varieties that are available from ag supply businesses.

variedad de mayor venta — **Acclaim**. One of the best selling varieties in Mexico in the TOV segment. It is adapted to active greenhouses and is low tech. Excellent yield of firm, intensely red fruit which is firm, has great flavor and grows in readily accessible bunches. HR: Ff:A-E/Fol:0-1 (US1-2)/For/V/ToMV:0-2.

Melon Seed Varieties

Banzai — **BANZAI.** An early cantaloupe with a small harvest window. Firm fruit with a long shelf life. Excellent flesh and flavor. High in sugar content. Stupendous deep orange flesh and carotene rich. Well suited for the fresh produce market and for processing.

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**ESTORIL**. A beautiful melon of the Galia type. Impressive green flesh and extraordinary flavor. Producers will demand Estoril because of its vigorous plant and uniformly sized melons as well as for its adaptability to high temperatures.

Florentino — **FLORENTINO**. An Italian melon. Its round fruit has an excellent web and a very good orange interior color as well as a small seed cavity. It is PM-1 and F-1,2 resistant. Its quality and good taste make it the melon of choice for demanding markets.

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**Julia F1**. An early Honeydew, a vigorous plant and excellent producer. A concentrated harvest window. Smooth rind, slightly oblong, a seed cavity with a gap, medium in size from 5s to 6s. Sweet flesh, a Brix from 11-13°, clear green in color. Matures in 85-90 days. PM-1,2 resistant.

variedad de ato empeño — **Ovation**. A high performing variety in Mexico. Ovation is a vigorous plant with strong runners. Produces high-yielding fruit from medium to large in size, firm with orange flesh. HR: Px1/Fom:0,2. IR : Px:2US.

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Rio dulce — RIO DULCE. A vigorous cantaloupe plant. Sizes 9, 12. Ideal for exporting. Excellent sugar content (a Brix of 11 or more), firmness from 5 to 5.5 psi. Attractively colored flesh with a sealed seed cavity. Resistant to F 0,2 and to race 1 of Powdery Mildew.

Samantha — SAMANTHA F1. An attractive Honeydew melon, round in shape with a small apical scar. High yield, fruit size 4s, 5s, and some 6s. Medium sized seed cavity and crunchy flesh. Good tolerance to over ripening in the field. Relative maturity from 90-95 days. Tolerance: PM2, S. Patent in process.

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Summer — A very vigorous plant and widely adapted to the region. High-yielding, uniform fruit that is 4,5, and 6 in size; high sugar content (11-14) and excellent fruit firmness (5.5-7.0 psi.) Resistant to races 0 and 2 of Fusarium and races 1 and 2 of Powdery Mildew.

**Saturno**. A round smooth melon with a closed seed cavity and thick flesh, which is sweet due to its excellent level of degrees Brix. Saturno has good shelf life. The plant is extraordinarily hardy, productive, and very adaptable to a range of environmental conditions. R: PM1, F2.

Gold Rz — CARIBBEAN GOLD RZ. Large-sized, oval-shaped fruit of Harper type melons with intense orange flesh. A strong plant with very good fruit set. Good interior quality, sweet flesh, very firm, and long shelf life. HR: Fom: 0,1,2. IR: Px (ex Sf) 2 / Ag.

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variedad con larga vida de anaquel — CARIBBEAN KING RZ. A variety with long shelf life. Harper type melons with light colored skins and fine webbing. Uniform and reliable. Slightly aromatic fruit and between 12 and 14 degrees Brix. Small seed cavity. HR: Fom: 0,1,2. IR: Px (ex Sf): 1, 2, 3, 5.

Victoria — VICTORIA F1. An early variety that produces from round to slightly oval-shape fruit which is thick-fleshed with a normal-sized, closed seed cavity. Very smooth-skinned and medium apical scar tissue. Fruit that is usually 5s and 6s in size, but also some 4s. 80 – 85 days maturity. Resistant to races 0 and 2 of Farsarium and tolerant of Erysiphe polygoni.

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Acorazado — EL ACORAZADO. A hybrid with closed webbing and deep-orange flesh. Very sweet with excellent flavor and a small seed cavity. Matures in 82 days, weighs 2 k (4.4 lbs.), has a fruit size from 9 – 11, and a Brix of 12 degrees. Tolerates races 1,2, and 3 of powdery mildew and races 0 and 2 of Fasarium.

variedad de melones — PALMIRA. A hybrid Harper melon with excellent adatation to melon growing regions in Mexico. Recommended to be planted from the 15^th of July to the 15^th of August and from the 15^th of December to the 15^th of January. Strong, healthy plants. Large, 9-inch melons. Predominantly an excellent exterior appearance with a closed web and uniform interior quality.

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WESTERN CHARM F1. Western shipper melon with extended life. Round to short oval shape. Late ripening. Fruit size of 2.3-2.9 kg. Orange flesh colour. Medium to large sized plant. Resistance to diseases FOM0, FOM2, PX1, PX2.

variedad de el melón — DURAWEST F1. A webbed hybrid cantaloupe with extended shelf life. Round to oval-shape fruit. Medium to late maturity. Weighs from 1.8 to 2.7 kg (4.0 to 6.0 lbs). Orange colored flesh. Plant size is medium to large. Resistant to FOM0, FOM1, FOM2, PM1, PM2.

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The majority of vines from these melon seed varieties need to be well supported and that is what HORTOMALLAS® trellis netting does. Trellis netting is the ideal support for holding up melon vines so that a high quality crop can be harvested. HORTOMALLAS® offers a broad range of trellis netting for your melon crop.

Images obtained from from the poster of vegetables.

«Acclaim | Directorio». Hortalizas.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 8 July 2016.

♦CUCURBITACEAS. www.hortalizas.com: Posters #4, 2015. Print.

♦«Revista Digital». Hortalizas. N.p., 2014. Web. 8 July 2016.

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New varieties, High quality crops

A variety should be new: it should not have been commercialized for one year before the application date in the country of protection.
A variety should be distinctive: botanical differences should be evident, such as height, maturity, color, etc., which sets it apart from other already known varieties. A variety needs to have uniformity: the characteristic traits of the variety must be found in all the plants of the variety.
A variety needs to have stable traits: the characteristic traits of the plants need to be the result of genetics and not caused by dependent variables such as soil conditions or being grown in greenhouses. Consequently the characteristic traits continue to be the same generation after generation or, in the case of hybrids, after numerous cycles of reproduction.

And finally, one should name the variety with a name that will be recognizable in every part of the planet.

HORTOMALLAS® invites you to review, in what follows, some of the melon seed varieties that are available from ag supply businesses.