Description
Product Identification
- Product: Oignon Red Creole (Onion Seeds Tin)
- Crop: Onion
- Variety: Red Creole
- Scientific name: Allium cepa L.
- Brand/Packaging: Griffaton / Metal Canister Tin
- Product category: Vegetable seeds
- Pack size: 100 g
- Additional pack size available: 25 g, 250 g, 500 g
- Seed distributor/brand listing: Agro Hospital / JACO S.A.
The product configuration features a hermetically sealed metal tin with a convenient integrated pull-ring pop-top. This advanced container structure efficiently seals external moisture out to maintain seedling germination parameters under humid tropical storage intervals.
- Main Characteristics
Red Creole is a highly popular, short-day red onion variety worldwide renowned for its outstanding adaptation to warm, tropical, and subtropical growing environments.
- Fruit shape: Flattened globe / Granex profile
- Fruit color: Deep dark red-purple outer skin at full maturity
- Flesh: Very firm, crisp white interior rings with intense crimson margins
- Taste: Pungent, spicy, and aromatic flavor profile (excellent for cooking)
- Texture: Crunchy, solid, and tightly layered
- Yield: High and stable commercial yield potential
- Marketability: Extremely high consumer demand in Sub-Saharan markets due to its rich coloration
- Transport: Excellent transit durability due to superior bulb firmness and thick skins
- Use: Fresh market sales, local salads, and heavy culinary sauce cooking bases
- Crop Performance
- Maturity: Approximately 90–120 days to full maturity following seedling transplantation (medium-early cycle)
- Average fruit weight: 80 to 130 g per bulb (highly dependent on planting density layout)
- Fruit: Uniform shape with a thin neck configuration that allows for rapid field curing
- Flesh: Compactly wrapped internal core tissues
- Sugar: Moderate, well-balanced by high sulfur compounds providing its signature hot flavor
- Rind: Multiple layered protective dry skins resisting handling bruising
- Transport: High storage life retention during local cross-border hauling chains
- Potential resistances/tolerances: High field tolerance to Pink Root Disease (Pink Root Rot) and bolting tendencies
- Packaging Information
100 g Griffaton Tin
- Individual pack: 100 g airtight unit
- Packaging: Hermetically sealed metal tin with a ring-pull lid
- Protection technique: Specialized anti-corrosive internal coating to fully protect seed viability against external humidity
- Carton: Standard wholesale multi-pack configuration for distribution networks and retail storefronts
500 g format
- Larger format option available for intensive commercial growers or large-scale multi-hectare operations.
