Description
Product Identification
- Product: Poireau Gros Long d’Été (Leek Seeds Tin)
- Crop: Leek
- Variety: Gros Long d’Été
- Scientific name: Allium porrum
- Brand/Packaging: Griffaton / Metal Canister Tin
- Product category: Vegetable seeds
- Pack size: 100 g (typical format)
- Additional pack size available: 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 container structure efficiently seals external moisture out to maintain seedling germination parameters over long storage intervals.
- Main Characteristics
Poireau Gros Long d’Été is a highly productive, classical European summer leek strain prized for its high uniformity, rapid development, and culinary value.
- Fruit shape: Elongated, uniform cylindrical shank
- Fruit color: Deep emerald green foliage transitioning down to a pure white stalk
- Flesh: Thick, tender layered leaf layers
- Taste: Mild, sweet, and aromatic flavor profile
- Texture: Tender, crisp, and low-fiber bite
- Yield: High commercial yield potential
- Marketability: Excellent due to attractive white-to-green contrast and long shanks
- Transport: Robust structures suitable for standard agricultural transit loops
- Use: Fresh market sales, bunching, soups, and diverse processing applications
The variety forms a very long, thick white body that resists bending and splitting under variable mid-season field conditions.
- Crop Performance
- Maturity: Approximately 75–85 days to full maturity following seedling transplantation
- Average fruit weight: Highly dependent on planting density and soil nutrition profiles
- Fruit: Elongated stalk with upright, erect leaf habit
- Flesh: Compactly wrapped inner cores
- Sugar: Moderate, providing a characteristic mild sweet profile
- Rind: Layered outer protective sheaths
- Transport: Solid shelf-life retention during local hauling chains
- Potential resistances/tolerances: Shows notable field tolerance to early-season cool spells and common soft rots
