Alister

Alister is an early maturity and well balanced variety. The short internodes favour a semi-erect habit is ideal for conditions of protected cultivation and gives an easy plant management.

Its high tolerance to heat makes it ideal for earlier autumn transplants to protected environments, even in the first days of September. The partial "parthenocarpy" allows good setting even during the coldest autumn months. It has a high yield of marketable products. This variety is a cylindrical, even-shaped fruit, with a shiny medium-dark green colour, slightly multifaceted with small freckles.

It is also easy to harvest due to the habit of the plant and length of the fruit stem. The high quality of the fruit is maintained even when the temperature drops.

Advantages

• Quality of the fruit and parthenocarpy
• Standard variety for early plantings
• Very uniform, high Class 1
• Good vigour, open plant long habit that aids harvest
• Suitable for tunnel production