Squash and Zucchini CROP GUIDE Medium green zucchini

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Payout (GN0113) Payload An attractive medium-green glossy fruit with an open, spineless plant ideal for the • Glossy zucchini with cylindrical, Eastern USA growing region. Featuring PRSV resistance resulting in healthier plants uniform shape and higher yield and profit potentials. • Medium-green color slightly darker than Paycheck • Ideal variety for the Eastern USA • Open plant and spineless petioles • Open plant with reduced spines growing region minimize fruit damage during harvest • Medium vigor growth habit • Resistance package helps keep and save time and labor plant healthy throughout season to • Easy picking peduncle maximize yield potential

Spineless Perfection Spineless Beauty Offering a superior disease resistance package, Spineless Perfection produces • Industry standard abundant yields of medium green zucchini with high consumer appeal. • Glossy, high-quality fruit • Truly spineless plant • Spineless petioles minimize fruit • Open, upright plant habit for ease • High yield potential damage during harvest of picking • Adapted to all eastern U.S. • Classic Spineless Beauty-type fruit • Refined flecking produces a rich growing areas with high gloss green color • Similar yields to Spineless Beauty Payroll Paycheck Cashflow • Performs well under spring • Good for fall season when • Consistent high yield potential and summer conditions CMV can be an issue • Very good adaptability • Widely adapted • Very good adaptability • Excellent fruit quality • Excellent fruit quality • High yield potential • Vigorous plant • Upright plant • Excellent fruit quality Medium-dark green zucchini Squash Flecking Guide

Everglade

Everglade is a medium-dark green zucchini for the eastern U.S. market with robust Heavy Spineless Beauty virus and disease resistance and strong yield capability. It features an open, upright plant and offers improved fruit quality with desirable color and flecking.

• Dark, glossy, cylindrical fruit • High yield potential • Open plant and reduced spines • Robust disease and virus resistance package Medium Payroll Light Everglade

Spineless Supreme Envy • Glossy, club-shaped fruit • Attractive, glossy fruit with uniform, • Refined flecking produces a rich green medium-dark coloring fruit color • More vigorous plant than • Attractive, high gloss fruit appeals comparable varieties to buyers • Open, upright plant structure offers • Open plant habit saves time and labor easier harvest and minimized fruit damage None Pascola • Resistance package helps keep plant healthy throughout season to maximize yield potential Dark green zucchini

Ebano Pascola Equinox • Produces cylindrical, dark green, • Outstanding disease resistance • Produces cylindrical, dark green, glossy attractive fruits • Slender-type fruit fruits • Medium plant vigor and open, erect • Nearly spineless plant • Upright, vigorous plant with good cover plant • Good for mid- to late-season plantings • Excellent fruit quality • Suitable for early season due to good as CMV pressure increases • Great yield potential over an extended heat setting • High yield potential in early harvests harvest period in California and • Produces high-quality fruits that are northwestern Mexico • Uniform, dark green, glossy fruit, ideal for export market medium to long in length • Open, upright, nearly spineless plant for improved fruit quality during harvest

Noche Raven Jacobo • Nearly spineless plant • Industry standard • Improved disease resistance • Excellent fruit quality • Outstanding yield potential • Good early yield potential • Proven yield performance • Proven performance • Glossy, attractive fruit • Open plant habit Golden zucchini Squash Color Guide

Golden Glory Medium Green Spineless Beauty, Payroll, Cashflow, Spineless Perfection, Paycheck, Payload, Payout Similar to Golden Delight, Golden Glory offers the added benefit of intermediate resistance to powdery mildew. It produces high yields of quality, smooth, uniform, golden yellow fruit.

• Improved disease resistance • High yield potential • Upright plant Medium Dark Green Spineless Everglade, Envy, Supreme Dark Green Raven, Noche, Jacobo, Pascola, Equinox, Ebano Yellow squash

Grandprize Goldprize Grandprize is a straightneck squash variety that produces high quality fruit with a • Improved disease resistance glossy, deep yellow appearance and green peduncle. It boasts an enhanced disease • Glossy, smooth fruit package and vigorous plant that helps deliver solid yield performance over other • Attractive yellow color yellow straightneck varieties. • Excellent quality fruit with uniform • Glossy, deep-yellow fruit with strong • Strong outer texture to withstand shape for a high-quality pack outer walls harvest, packing, and transport • Longer harvest and improved fruit • Erect, semi-open plant with • Plants reach maturity quickly and quality thanks to excellent reduced spines deliver solid yield potential disease protection • Higher yield potential for better profitability

Enterprise Fortune Gentry Gold Star • Proven performance • Excellent fruit smoothness • Industry standard • Improved disease resistance • Outstanding yield potential and uniformity • Broad adaptability • Reduced spines • Vigorous plant • Early-maturing plant with • Small blossom scar • Vigorous plant medium vigor and continuous • Broad adaptability • Smooth, high-quality fruit setting ability • High-quality fruit with good yield capabilities • Sturdy plant neck offers minimized chance of breakage Gray Zucchini

San Isidro San Martin A darker gray zucchini variety, San Isidro includes an intermediate disease • Produces attractive gray colored resistance package with an extended harvest window for excellent yield potential. fruit with skin that has good tolerance The open, nearly spineless plant has uniformity and an attractive appearance. to bruising • Medium plant vigor • High-quality fruit with excellent • Nearly spineless open plant with • Open, erect plant yield potential no silvering • Good disease resistance package • Uniform shape and appearance • Extended harvest window due to including intermediate resistance to disease resistance package Papaya ringspot virus (PRSV) Specialty

Sunburst Brice • High-demand variety for both full-size and baby • High yield potential vegetable markets • Uniform, round zucchini with a light green color • Unique, glossy, deep yellow fruit that consumers prefer • Easy picking peduncle and an easy access plant with dark green blossom end with reduced spines • Tender, buttery flavor sustained in larger, mature squash • Suitable for open field cultivation due to strong • Compact, bushy plant disease package • Adapted to all major production areas Technical data: squash

Approximate Average Average Variety Fruit shape Plant characteristics Disease resistance days to maturity diameter (in) length (in)

ZUCCHINI: MEDIUM GREEN IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Paycheck 42 Cylindrical 2 7 - 8 Open, upright plant with reduced spines Px IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Payload 43 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 7 - 8 Open, upright, reduced spines Px / PRSV Open, medium vigor; spineless leaves and Spineless Beauty 43 Cylindrical 1.5 7.5 - 8.5 - petioles Strong open, upright plant; Spineless Perfection 44 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 7 - 8 IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px spineless leaves and petioles NEW IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / 45 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 6 - 7 Open plant, spineless Payout (GN0113) PRSV / Px

Cashflow 47 Cylindrical 1.75 7.5 - 8.5 Open, vigorous plant IR: ZYMV

Payroll 47 Cylindrical 1.75 7 Open, upright plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px

ZUCCHINI: MEDIUM DARK GREEN IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Everglade 43 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 6 - 7 Open erect plant with high yield potential Px / PRSV IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Spineless Supreme 44 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 6 - 7 Open erect plant with no spines Px / PRSV

Envy 45 Cylindrical 1.75 7 Upright, open plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / Px

ZUCCHINI: DARK GREEN IR: CMV / Px / SqLCV / Ebano 42 Cylindrical 7 - 8 1.5 Medium plant vigor; open, erect plant-type WMV / ZYMV Upright, open plant, reduced spines for Jacobo 42 Cylindrical 1.75 - 2 7 - 8+ IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px ease of harvest Upright, open plant, reduced spines for IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Pascola 42 Cylindrical 2 - 2.5 7 - 8 ease of harvest Px

Raven 43 Cylindrical 2.5 - 3.5 7 - 8 Open, reduced spines -

Upright vigorous plant; great yield potential Equinox 45 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 7 - 8 IR: Px / WMV / ZYMV over a long harvest period

Noche 45 Cylindrical 2 - 2.5 7 - 8 Open, reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV Technical data: squash

Approximate Average Average Variety Fruit shape Plant characteristics Disease resistance days to maturity diameter (in) length (in)

ZUCCHINI: GOLDEN Open, upright, semi-spineless plant with Golden Glory 50 Cylindrical 1.75 7 - 8 IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px dark green foliage YELLOW SQUASH

Fortune 39 Bottle-shaped 1.75 6 - 7 Early-maturing plant with medium vigor -

Productive, vigorous plant with Enterprise 41 Straightneck 1.75 7 - 8 - broad adaptability

Gold Star 42 Semicrookneck 1.5 - 1.75 5.5 - 6 Vigorous plant with reduced spines IR: CMV / Px

Goldprize 42 Straightneck 1.75 6 - 7 Open, semiprostrate plant IR: ZYMV / WMV

Grandprize 42 Straightneck 2 6 - 7 Erect, semi-open plant IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px / PRSV

Gentry 43 Semicrookneck 1.5 - 1.75 5.5 - 6 Vigorous plant with reduced spines -

ZUCCHINI: GRAY Open, erect plant with no silvering and San Isidro 45 Club-shaped 1.5 - 2 6 - 7 IR: Px / ZYMV reduced spines Top: 1 - 1.5 IR: CMV / Px / SLCV / WMV San Martin 45 Club-shaped 5 - 6 Medium plant vigor; open, erect plant Bottom: 2 - 3 / ZYMV / PRSV SPECIALTY SQUASH IR: Gc / Px / CMV / WMV / Brice 45 Globular 2 - 3 2 - 3 Compact, erect plant with reduced spines ZYMV

Sunburst 50 Disc-shaped 3 2.5 Compact; open -

Disease abbreviation key

CMV Cucumber mosaic (Cucumber mosaic IR Intermediate resistance SLCV Squash leaf curl (Squash leaf curl virus) virus) PRSV Papaya ringspot virus WMV Watermelon mosaic (Watermelon mosaic virus) Gc Golovinomyces cichoracearum Px Powdery mildew caused by specific (ex Erysiphe cichoracearum) ZYMV Zucchini yellows (Zucchini yellow races of Sphaerotheca fuliginea mosaic virus) HR High resistance

In cases where specific races or strains are not noted, the variety is resistant to some, but not necessarily all known races or strains of the pathogen. For complete disease resistance information, please visit www.SyngentaUS.com/vegetables. For more information on Syngenta vegetable offerings, visit www.SyngentaUS.com/vegetables or contact your local Syngenta reseller or representative.

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