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High Quality Cherry Tomato Hybrid Seeds of ‘Tainan ASVEG No.19’ and ‘TSS ASVEG No.22’ are available!
Aug. 11, 2015
Tomatoes have rich lycopene, vitamins and many other nutrients. In Taiwan, people are in loved with those red and juicy cherry tomatoes. With wide adaptability, cherry tomatoes could be planted in any corner in Taiwan. The major production areas concentrate in Chiayi, Kaoshiung and Tainan.
However, tomato production still faces many challenges including heat, humidity, virus and other pathogens. These stresses lower the yield and even kill the plants, especially, during a typical hot and humid summer. To overcome these challenges, Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Station (TSIPS) now offers high quality cherry tomato F1 hybrids seeds, ‘Tainan ASVEG No.19’ and ‘TSS ASVEG No.22’.
TSIPS points out that these heat tolerance hybrids produce bright-red fruits and could grow in any season. Plant of ’Tainan ASVEG No.19’ is vigorous, semi-determinate, and have 12-18 flowers per inflorescence. The fruit are oblong-shaped (fig. 1), two locules, and about 13.5 grams. This cherry tomato has sweet taste and thin skin. It resists to tomato yellow leaf curl virus, tomato mosaic virus and fusarium wilt races 1and 2. ‘TSS ASVEG No.22’ is a semi-determinate line with moderate growth, high fruit set rate and has 8-16 flowers per inflorescence. The variety yield copious amounts of pear-shaped and 15.4 grams fruits with lower cracking rate (fig. 2). It also resists to tomato yellow leaf curl virus, tomato mosaic virus and fusarium wilt races 1and 2.
TSIPS guarantees that all products have certified seed purity, water content, germination rate, etc. Growers are able to buy the seeds with confidence. Please refer to the seed and seedling management section of TSIPS for further purchase information. (TEL: 04-25825437/04-25825490).
Fruits of ’Tainan ASVEG No.19’ are oblong-shaped.
'TSS ASVEG No.22' yield copious amounts of fruits.