Onions - Planting Calendar Mayford

EX 07939002 is a round,MD, medium dark gold skin onion with good uniformity. It has a medium dark green top with good bolt resistance. The recommended transplanting time is between 10 Aug to 31 Aug. Competition varieties are Star 5560,5562,5553,Juanita and Phyton.

Features:
- Earliness
- Uniformity
- Medium dark gold scale with good storability
- High seedling vigour

Wellington is an early to medium maturing intermediate day brown pukekohe selection. Bulbs are firm and uniformly globe shaped with excellent keeping quality. Typical of a pukekohe onion, Wellington has a small root plate and very thin neck. Medium to large bulbs are ± 70 % of the total yield grading, that is excellent for Pukekohe varieties. Wellington is bred in the Southern hemisphere.Wellington is suitable for production in the Western Cape and Kimberley/Douglas areas. The time slot for direct sowing is in August and where seedlings are used, the seed should be sown at the end of April to the beginning of May, transplanting will then be done in the first half of August

Features:
- True Pukekohe Variety
- Excellent Storage Ability
- A high percentage first grade bulbs
- Multiple Attractive tough straw brown outer scales

Tadmor is a very early maturing F1 hybrid, intermediate day brown onion with a good yield potential. The bulbs are uniform, very firm and are globe shaped with attractive multiple brown outer scales. Tadmor enables growers from intermediate day length areas to market high quality onions up to a month earlier than most other intermediate varieties. Tadmor is well suited for direct sowing and transplanting. TADMOR has high resistance to Pink root.

Features:
- Very early Maturing
- High pink root resistance
- Excellent storage ability
- Multiple brown strong outer scales

Tungsten is a very early maturing F1 hybrid intermediate day brown onion. The bulbs are uniform, very firm with a globe shape with attractive brown outer scales. Tungsten is unique in that it enables growers from intermediate day length areas to be up to a month earlier on the market with high quality onions. Tungsten was bred in the Southern hemisphere. Tungsten has better bulb size and scale retention than Tadmor.

Features:
- Very Early Maturing
- Excellent yield and quality
- Very good storage ability
- Medium to large bulb size