Outstanding Qualities

• High yield potential
• Excellent flavour
• Firm flesh
• Early maturity

Thunder is an early maturing diploid Crimson Sweet type watermelon with very high yield potential. It has very dark green skin, with lighter green stripes. Thunder produces very uniform, round shaped fruit weighing 10 – 15 kg. The internal quality is excellent, with very firm flesh and excellent flavour. Thunder has intermediate resistance to Anthracnose race 1 (Co: 1) & Fusarium race 1 (Fon: 1).

CHARACTERISTIC* THUNDER
KIND F1 hybrid watermelon (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum. et Nakai)
TYPE Diploid Crimson Sweet
MATURITY Early
GROWTH HABIT Trailing
PLANT VIGOUR Strong
SEASON Spring to summer production
FRUIT WEIGHT 10 - 15 kg
FRUIT SHAPE Round
INTERNAL FLESH COLOUR Red
RIND QUALITIES Very dark green background with lighter green stripes
BRIX Very high, 11 - 12 %
FLAVOUR Excellent
UNIFORMITY Very good
LEAF COVER Good
DISEASE REACTION (SCIENTIFIC) Intermediate resistance: Colletotrichum orbiculare race 1 (Co: 1) and Fusarium oxysporum f. Sp.
niveum (Fon: 1)
AVERAGE SEED COUNT 20 - 25 seeds per gram
MARKETS / END USE Fresh market and processing
POPULATION GUIDE 6 000 final stand per ha
(60 - 100 cm in row, 1.6 - 2 meter between rows)
SPECIAL FEATURES Very high yielding