Trial: Annual
Year Trialed: 2005
Good Qualities
Bright white color (3); Strong thick stems (2); Good spike, fair stem; Nice big stems; Lovely; Fairly long stems; Tight floret spacing along the stem, great in summer heat.Problems
Too short (3); Weak grower - plants not productive; Not many stems per plant; Bud blasted out; They did better than 'Animation' series and 'Potomocs' but were not happy campers, most of them survived but didn't thrive; Low productivity; did not recover after the hot weather of summer.Trial Data
| Yield (stems/plant)¹ | Stem Length (inches)¹ | Market Appreciation Rating² | Repeat Again Rating² | Ease of Cultivation Rating² | Average Spacing (in2) | Average Postharvest Life (days) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wholesale | Retail | Consumer | |||||||
| Average | 4.9 | 19.6 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 110 | 6.9 |
| Range of Responses | 1-15.5 | 15-32 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 2-4 | 1-5 | 2-5 | 16-432 | 5-8.5 |
¹Data shown are from those respondents who harvested stems. Some respondents may not have harvested stems because they were too short. Flowering stems may be longer next year after plants are established. See comments section for more details.
²1 to 5 scale, with 5 being the best. Market ratings are based on sales to wholesalers, retailers, or final consumers direct.
Comments
Similar to 'Potomac White Improved'; 1 week earlier and about 10 inches shorter than 'Potomac White Improved'; otherwise similar quality; I think I'd like these in spring or fall in hoophouse; General comments on trial (Zone 5, applied to all snaps varieties trialed): Trial grown outdoors on green plastic mulch (Solar mulch), trickle irrigation, 4 rows on a 9 x 9 inch spacing, one layer of Hortinova netting put up shortly after transplanting, season was hot most of the summer, but moderated into the fall, and did not frost until late October - during the summer heat, all varieties stopped producing flower heads, but the Group II varieties resumed production in mid-September, yielding about one third of their total production then.