Description
Product Identification
- Product: Tomate Rio Grande (Tomato Seeds Tin)
- Crop: Tomato
- Variety: Rio Grande
- Scientific name: Solanum lycopersicum
- Brand/Packaging: GSN Semences
- Product category: Vegetable seeds
- Pack size: 100 g
- Additional pack size available: 50 g, 250 g
- Seed distributor/brand listing: AGRO HOSPITAL/JACO S.A.
The product configuration is a 100g premium metal canister produced by GSN Semences (France) and distributed through the authorized AGRO HOSPITAL network. The label features verified registration stamps, including batch numbers, expiry dates, and a Thiram fungicide treatment indicator to prevent seedling dampening-off diseases.
- Main Characteristics
This selection of Rio Grande offers European-certified seed purity, bringing enhanced field uniformity and true-to-type growth to the classic determinate Roma tomato line.
- Fruit shape: Uniform egg-shaped / Oblong plum
- Fruit color: Uniform deep scarlet red when ripe
- Flesh: Dense, low-moisture meat partitions with excellent structural thickness
- Taste: Well-rounded, traditional savory acidity
- Texture: Firm, solid, and non-mealy
- Yield: High, concentrated harvest window
- Marketability: High grading uniformity makes it easy to pack into standard commercial crates for top-tier wholesale pricing
- Transport: Excellent; thick outer skin protects against transit vibration and stack pressure
- Use: Multi-purpose cooking tomato, industrial paste production, slicing, and wholesale catering markets
- Crop Performance
European processing standards ensure high germination rates and synchronous, easy-to-manage field development.
- Maturity: Approximately 75–80 days post-transplantation
- Average fruit weight: 90 to 115 g per bulb
- Fruit: Smooth, uniform, medium-sized blocky plum tomatoes hanging in rich fruit sets
- Flesh: Tightly packed carpels with minimal seed fluid
- Sugar: Standard commercial sugar-to-acid balance
- Rind: Robust outer wall structural defense against blossom end rot and mechanical tearing
- Transport: Long-lasting shelf presence; ideal for distant regional transport loops
- Potential resistances/tolerances: High certified resistance to Verticillium Wilt (Vd:0) and Fusarium Wilt races 1 & 2 (Fol:0,1). Treated with Thiram for robust early-stage seedling protection.
- Packaging Information
100 g GSN / JACO Canister
- Individual pack: 100 g hermetic can with an easy-open pop-top
- Packaging: Heavy-gauge metal tin with legal distributed labeling
- Seed Treatment: Chemically coated with Thiram fungicide (indicated on label) for seedling damping-off prevention
- Carton: Systematically packed into wholesale boxes for direct dealer distribution
