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United States / Northeast / Open Field Fresh Market / Fresh Market
Saddleback is a 100-day storage onion that offers growers high yield potential due to its strong root system and dependable performance, even on marginal muck soils.
Features
- Produces large, uniform, round bulbs with small necks
- Medium-colored skin
Advantages
- 100-day maturity variety that performs well even on marginal muck soils
- Early maturity and high yield potential
- Strong root system allows growers to have the option of lifting it early for early harvest, or allowing it to continue to size
- It is well adapted for transplants or direct seeding in all onion growing areas in New York, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ontario and Quebec City
- Suitable for medium-term storage up to 5 months
- Saddleback performs well in areas with long growing season
Agronomic Tips
- Should not be grown for long-term storage, although it has demonstrated longer storage potential in some trials
Disease Resistance
Disease Resistance (IR)
Pt/Foc
Characteristics
EXTERNAL COLOR
Brown
MATURITY (DAYS)
100
SHAPE
Globe
SIZE
Medium/Jumbo
STORABILITY
Medium Term