Growers looking to enter the specialty Industrial tomato market should consider the “Salmon” varlety. This early maturing hybrid offers several key advantages:
Here are its key features:
- Good Fruit Setting
- Wide Adaptability
- High Yield Potential
- Excellent Size and Shape fruit suitable for machine harvesting, ideal for processors
- High Bris Content
- Early Maturity
- Excellent internal and external color
These attributes make “Salmon” a strong candidate for growers aiming to supply high-quality tomatoes to processors.
Agronomic Tips
Plant density: Depending on latitude, maturity and crop cycle are different. The appropriate plant density is up to 26,000 plants per hectare (with a row distance of 150 cm and a distance between two plants of 25 cm on the row.
Characteristics
| Variety | Salmon |
| Plant type | determinate Tswc, Verticillium wilt, Fusarium wilt. |
| Resistances | bacterial speck, bacterial canker, |
| Relative Maturity Market use | bacterial spot |
| Weight-Gr | early (80-100 days) |
| Shape | Fresh and process market |
| firmness | 80-100 g |
| External color | Blocky-oval |
| Harvest uniformity | excellent deep red |
| jointless | good |
| Extended Field Storage | yes |
| Harvest method | yes machine harvesting |
| Brix potential | High (5-6) |