Outstanding Qualities
- Pollenizer for triploid watermelon
- Excellent pollen quality for maximum yield
- Small fruit allow easy triploid harvest
- Tiger-striped rind pattern
Wild Card Plus* is a non-edible diploid watermelon used as a pollenizer for triploid watermelons. It has an early and extended flowering period to ensure early pollen availability when the triploid starts flowering. The extended flowering period also ensures that pollen is available well beyond the flowering period of the triploid. Wild Card Plus* has intermediate resistance to Anthracnose race 1 (Co: 1) & Fusarium race 1 (Fon: 1).
CHARACTERISTIC* WILD CARD PLUS*
KIND F1 hybrid watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. et Nakai)
TYPE Pollenizer / Non-edible
FLOWERING HABIT Early and extended
SEASON Spring to summer production
FRUIT SIZE Very small
FRUIT SHAPE Round oval
INTERNAL FLESH COLOUR Yellow
RIND QUALITIES Light green background with medium green veins
LEAF COVER Good
DISEASE REACTION (SCIENTIFIC) Intermediate resistance: Colletotrichum orbiculare race 1 (Co: 1) and Fusarium oxysporum
f. Sp. niveum (Fon: 1)
SPECIAL FEATURES Very early flowers to ensure pollen availability when triploid starts flowering