USA
August 31, 2020
Eastern growers, the following varieties are a Seminis staple. Take a closer look, you might find them fit to help your operation run smoothly all season long.
WATERMELON
Browse through our watermelon portfolio and redisccover the sweet taste of summer.
Shoreline
Shoreline is a 45 count mottle stripe that has shown to perform for both the cut and traditional watermelon market making this a great dual purpose watermelon.
Tailgate
Excellent internal quality, high average Degrees Brix, a dark mottled stripe and demonstration of low instances of hollow heart, in an overwhelming amount of trials, over 5 years, make Tailgate an attractive choice for discerning growers.
Joy Ride
This vigorous 36-count watermelon also has demonstrated low instances of hollow heart, in an overwhelming amount of trials, over 5 years.
SWEET CORN
Discover why you can eat our sweet corn varieties fresh from the field.
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Great for shipping, which may give their buyers added assurance the quality of the crop will not degrade in transit.
Obsession
Industry leading bicolor sweet corn with good tip cover, attractive husk and flag.
TOMATO
Grow glossy red colored tomatoes that change the game!
Longboat
Longboat is a fresh market round tomato with high yield potential and a robust disease package allowing growers to produce high quality fruit.
Myrtle
Myrtle is a main season variety with good fruit quality and extra-large fruit size perfect for the vine-ripe market. The disease resistance package helps provide a long harvest window.
Big Beef
Everyone will appreciate the old-time tomato flavor and colossal fruit size. Cut this up into your favorite salad and enjoy!
Better Boy
There’s a reason that Better Boy is our best-selling Home Garden tomato. And it’s not just that it held a Guinness Book of World Records for yield. This bright red hybrid is also unbelievably juicy and packs an unbeatable flavor.
Celebrity
A widely adaptable hybrid for fresh market and home garden, Celebrity produces large, smooth fruit with outstanding flavor.
SWEET PEPPER
Find out why our peppers lead the industry in terms of quality, disease resistance and yield potential.
Play Maker
Developed specifically for the northeast and notable for its high yield potential, Playmaker (with X10R®) is the first commercial variety with intermediate resistance to bacterial leaf spot races 0-10 and phytophthora blight.
Antebellum
For growers in the Southeastern US, Antebellum (with X10R®) features a great disease package and will be highly valued for its extended harvest and ability to maintain fruit shape even in cooler conditions.
Tarpon
Meet our Newest Pepper for the Eastern US!
Tarpon (SVPB7140) is a main-season hybrid with X10R® technology and Intermediate Resistance to Phytophthora blight in the Northeast and Midwest United States and Eastern Canada. Tarpon (SVPB7140) has a compact plant and produces dark green, smooth blocky fruit.
Read more about how varieties like Tarpon feature genetics that keep vegetable crops healthy: https://www.growingproduce.com/vegetables/how-to-work-with-genetics-to-keep-vegetable-crops-healthy/
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