Attributes:
- High percentage of large, marketable fruit
- Good shelf life and transportability
- Uniformly well-shaped
- Bright red & glossy
- Very early fruit onset
- Highly productive
- Good flavor
Description:
Florida Fortuna (FL 01 116) is a short-day strawberry cultivar released by the University of Florida strawberry variety development program. Selected for earliness, fruit quality, and productivity, the variety adapts to high value, fresh market, and winter production regions.
The Florida Fortuna (FL 01 116) strawberry variety, also known as Fortuna™ brand, produces a high percentage of large, attractive, and uniformly shaped fruit early in the season. It holds its fruit size and shape throughout its production cycle.
Fortuna™ has an open plant architecture. The variety bears fruit on long pedicels, facilitating both pollination and fruit harvest.
The seeds of the fruit are slightly sunken below the surface, giving the Florida Fortuna strawberry variety a glossy, bright red color. The fruit ships well and tastes as good as it looks.
The Fortuna™ strawberry brand has dominated the Spanish strawberry industry for many years, at times comprising over 50% of the Spanish acreage.
Nursery Production:
Fortuna™ runners well in the nursery field. Nurserymen should take special care, however, to avoid stress to the plants both during the growing season and at time of harvest. Nursery producers should utilize foundation level mother stock (G2) to establish their fields. Select well drained soils on which to propagate nursery stock. Avoid oversaturation at time of irrigation. Excessive applications of nitrogen will weaken the plants in the nursery field. Plants should be lifted at the mid-point of the nursery harvest season to avoid transplanting into hot conditions in the fruiting field.
Since a plant’s life extends from the nursery field into the fruit production field, to avoid fungicide resistance, only multisite fungicides should be used for disease control in the nursery field. This will allow fruit growers the flexibility to use more targeted methods, minimizing the risk of the development of fungicide resistance.
Field Production
Fruit growers should follow a disease management program beginning with pre-plant soil sterilization. Fungicide formulations should be alternated throughout the fruit growing season.
The Florida Fortuna strawberry cultivar benefits from an extended period of heavy nitrogen applications beginning the second week after transplant. The general guidelines call for applications of 2.2 kg N/Ha/day for the first six weeks following transplant and 1.12 kg N/ha/day thereafter for the duration of the season.
The variety prefers cool weather during the establishment period.
Disease Resistance:
The Fortuna™ strawberry brand is susceptible to most root organisms. Growers should employ a comprehensive integrated pest management program. It is also susceptible to Botritis and Xanthamonas fruit and foliar diseases but moderately tolerant to Anthracnose fruit rot.
fuente:
Fortuna™ (FL 01 116 cv.) – EMCO CAL
Producer's Note:
Characteristics may vary depending on weather conditions, day length, soil type and location.
Main features:
MONTERREY fruit is very sweet, that is, it has low levels of acidity.
MONTERREY is similar to SAN ANDREAS in terms of production characteristics. The main differences lie in the flavor of the fruit and the vigor of the plant.
Its plants are more vigorous than those of Albion.
Main features:
- Exceptionally high yields of marketable fruit;
- Consistently produces large visually appealing fruit over a long growing season;
- Produces fewer runners in berry production, resulting in lower production costs;
- Long shelf life fruit with good flavor and sugar-acid balance.
Developed at the University of California, Davis, this dayneutral cultivar was named in honor of Royce S. Bringhurst, a pioneering plant geneticist and strawberry breeder at UCD. This cultivar was selected for production in coastal California and diverse Mediterranean climates. UCD Royal Royce
produces exceptionally high yields of marketable fruit and significantly fewer runners than most day-neutral cultivars, which translates into lower costs of production and increased profits for fruit growers. This cultivar consistently delivers large fruit throughout the growing season with especially high yields late in the growing season. The fruits are sweet with a good sugar-acid balance, resistant to harvest and handling damage, and have a long shelf life.
Exceptionally High Yields of Marketable Fruit
UCD Royal Royce is an asexually propagated hybrid suitable for production anywhere dayneutral cultivars are grown. This cultivar has excelled in diverse long-day environments and produced blockbuster yields in coastal California and other mild Mediterranean climates where day-neutral cultivars typically thrive.
M.A.A.E. - Empresa Agrícola Alfredo Mota, Lda is a non-exclusive sub-licensee of Global Plants Genetics for UCDavis varieties (UCD Moxie, UCD Royal Royce and UCD Warrior and UCD Valliant) and has the right to make their asexual propagation of these licensed varieties and respective sale. Main features:
- An outstanding day-neutral cultivar for organic and conventional production systems;
- Consistently produces high yields early in the growing season;
- Highly productive in warmer environments where day-neutral cultivars thrive;
- Very large, flavorful, visually appealing fruit.
Developed at the University of California, Davis for long season production in typical day-neutral growing regions. UCD Valiant has been a standout
in both organic and conventional production systems, typically delivers high early yields of marketable fruit, and has excelled in warmer dayneutral
environments. This cultivar produces very large, firm, visually appealing fruit with a long shelf life.
High Yields of Marketable Fruit in Organic and Conventional Production Systems UCD Valiant is an asexually propagated hybrid suitable for a wide range of dayneutral environments and production systems. UCD Valiant has been one of the most reliable and productive cultivars in organic and low-input production systems and commonly produces high yields of marketable fruit early in the growing season.
M.A.A.E. - Empresa Agrícola Alfredo Mota, Lda is a non-exclusive sub-licensee of Global Plants Genetics for UCDavis varieties (UCD Moxie, UCD Royal Royce and UCD Warrior and UCD Valliant) and has the right to make their asexual propagation of these licensed varieties and respective sale.
Main features:
- High adaptability to any soil;
- Produces in any season;
- Very strong erecting;
- Good behavior between October and December.
Description:
Portola is a vigorous plant, requiring less planting density than Albion. The fruit is similar in size to Albion, but lighter in color and a little brighter. The fruit's flavor is excellent and especially consistent throughout the fruiting season. The post-harvest characteristics are similar to those of Albion, although they are slightly less tolerant to rain
Resistance to diseases and pests:
Portola has a good disease resistance profile, without requiring great care.
Source:
https://research.ucdavis.edu/industry/ia/industry/strawberry/cultivars/#portola
Producer's Note:
This variety on the West Coast is sensitive to powdery mildew.
Main features:
- Precocious;
- Medium-large fruit;
- Easy to harvest;
- Plant with little vigor;
- Very regular production trough out the season.
Description:
The fruit of this variety is slightly dark, both internally and externally. Good variety to produce on motte.
Resistance to diseases and pests:
Frontera is moderate or highly resistant to Verticillium, Fusarium and Phytophthora cactorum. Preliminary tests indicate that Fronteras has substantial resistance to Macrophomina. It has good resistance to powdery mildew and tolerance to dust mites.
Source:
Source: https://research.ucdavis.edu/industry/ia/industry/strawberry/cultivars/#fronteras
Producer's Note:
It has good behavior along the Atlantic coast, such as the West Zone.
Given its color characteristics, the harvesting has to be more frequent.
Main features:
- Reassembling variety.
- Plant with less vegetation than the CAMAROSA variety, with few leaves, making it easy to pick the fruit.
- Exceptional organoleptic quality of the fruit;
- Yields similar to Diamond but lower than Camarosa;
- High resistance to adverse weather conditions and diseases;
- Demanding variety in water and fertilization;
- Ideal for plantations in November and December.
Description:
The added value of this variety is the exceptional quality of the fruit, both for its size (greater than that of Diamond) - in the order of 32 grams per fruit - or for its flavor and firmness. Harvesting is very easy, having more post-harvest resistance than the varieties mentioned, maintaining better flavor and appearance.
Resistance to diseases and pests:
ALBION is very resistant to Anthracnosis, Verticilium and Phytophthora.
Source:
https://research.ucdavis.edu/industry/ia/industry/strawberry/cultivars/#albion
Main features:
-Good adaptation to any climate;
-It's a very early variety. Planted at the beginning of October, it can start producing in December;
-It is very productive and the fruit has great quality in terms of color, size, flavor and firmness.
Description:
It is the most cultivated strawberry plant variety in recent years, about 60% of world production, with an incredible ability to adapt to climate change. The plants are vigorous and produce fruit for 6 or 7 months a year.
Its fruit is large (28-30cm), firm, sweet, dark red and conical in shape.
Resistance to diseases and pests:
This variety adapts extraordinarily well to changing weather conditions.
Source:
Eurosemillas technical department, master license for these varieties.
Main features:
- Semi-reassembling variety.
- Compact and small plants, making it easy to pick the fruit.
- Firm fruit, attractive appearance and excellent flavor;
- Yields higher than Albion;
- High resistance to adverse weather conditions and diseases.
- Ideal for both winter and summer plantations.
Description:
The fruit is brighter and firmer than Albion and has a similar taste. when properly treated, productivity is maintained regardless of the hours of light. The fruit maintains its excellent quality in summer plantations. It is a variety with good resistance to diseases without requiring great specific care.
Resistance to diseases and pests:
SAN ANDREAS is very resistant to Mildew, Anthracnosis, Verticilium and Phytophthora.
Source:
https://research.ucdavis.edu/industry/ia/industry/strawberry/cultivars/#sanadreas
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