Squash and Zucchini

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Medium green zucchini
Payload
• Glossy zucchini with cylindrical,
uniform shape
• Medium-green color slightly darker
than Paycheck
• Open plant with reduced spines
• Medium vigor growth habit
Spineless Beauty
• Industry standard
• Glossy, high-quality fruit
• Truly spineless plant
• High yield potential
• Adapted to all eastern growing areas
Payroll
• Performs well under spring
and summer conditions
• Widely adapted
• Excellent fruit quality
• Upright plant
Spineless Perfection
• Spineless petioles minimize fruit
damage during harvest
• Classic Spineless Beauty-type fruit
with high gloss
• Open, upright plant habit for ease
of picking
• Refined flecking produces a rich
green color
• Similar yields to Spineless Beauty
Paycheck
• Good for Fall season when
CMV can be an issue
• Very good adaptability
• High yield potential
• Excellent fruit quality
Cashflow
• Consistent high yields
• Very good adaptability
• Excellent fruit quality
• Vigorous plant
Medium-dark green zucchini Squash
Flecking
NEW VARIET Y Guide

Spineless Beauty
Heavy
Everglade
Everglade is a medium-dark green zucchini for the eastern U.S. market with robust
virus and disease resistance and strong yield capability. It features an open, upright
plant and offers improved fruit quality with desirable color and flecking.

• Dark, glossy, cylindrical fruit • High yield potential

• Open plant and reduced spines • Robust disease and virus
resistance package

Medium
Payroll
NEW VARIET Y

Everglade
Light

Spineless Supreme Envy

• Glossy, club-shaped fruit • Attractive, glossy fruit with uniform,
• Refined flecking produces a rich green medium-dark coloring
fruit color • More vigorous plant than
• Attractive, high gloss fruit appeals comparable varieties
Pascola
None

to buyers • Open, upright plant structure offers

• Open plant habit saves time and labor easier harvest and minimized fruit
damage
• Resistance package helps keep plant
healthy throughout season to
maximize yield
Dark green zucchini

Pascola
Pascola packages disease resistance with high yields in early harvests of attractive,
marketable fruit.
• Outstanding disease resistance
• Slender-type fruit
• Nearly spineless plant
• Good for mid- to late-season
plantings as CMV pressure increases
• High yield potential in early harvests
Jacobo
• Improved disease resistance
• Good early yields
• Glossy, attractive fruit
• Uniform, dark green, glossy fruit,
medium to long in length
• Open, upright, nearly spineless
plant for improved fruit quality
during harvest

Noche Raven
• Nearly spineless plant • Industry standard
• Excellent fruit quality • Outstanding yield potential
• Proven yield performance • Proven performance
• Open plant habit
Golden zucchini Squash
Color
Guide

Spineless Perfection,
Paycheck, Payload
Medium Green

Cashflow, Payroll,
Spineless Beauty,
Golden Glory
Similar to Golden Delight, Golden Glory offers the added benefit of intermediate resistance
to powdery mildew. It produces high yields of quality, smooth, uniform, golden yellow fruit.

• Improved disease resistance • High yield potential

• Upright plant

Medium Dark Green

Envy
Raven, Noche, Jacobo,
Dark Green

Pascola
Yellow squash

NEW VARIET Y

Grandprize Goldprize
Grandprize is a straightneck squash variety that produces high quality fruit with a • Improved disease resistance
glossy, deep yellow appearance and green peduncle. It boasts an enhanced disease • Glossy, smooth fruit
package and vigorous plant that delivers solid yield performance over other yellow
• Attractive yellow color
straightneck varieties.
• Excellent quality fruit with uniform
• Glossy, deep-yellow fruit with strong • Plants reach maturity quickly and shape for a high-quality pack
outer walls deliver solid yield capability • Longer harvest and improved fruit
• Erect, semi-open plant with quality thanks to excellent
reduced spines disease protection
• Strong outer texture to withstand • Higher yields for better profitability
harvest, packing, and transport

Enterprise Fortune Gentry Gold Star

• Proven performance
• Outstanding yield potential
• Vigorous plant
• Broad adaptability
• Excellent fruit smoothness • Industry standard • Improved disease resistance
and uniformity • Broad adaptability • Reduced spines
• Early-maturing plant with • Small blossom scar • Vigorous plant
medium vigor and continuous
• Smooth, high-quality fruit
setting ability
• High-quality fruit with good
yield capabilities
• Sturdy plant neck offers
minimized chance of breakage
Specialty

San Isidro
A darker gray zucchini variety, San Isidro includes an intermediate disease
resistance package with an extended harvest window for excellent yield potential.
The open, nearly spineless plant has uniformity and an attractive appearance.

• High-quality fruit with excellent • Nearly spineless open plant with

yield potential no silvering
• Uniform shape and appearance • Extended harvest window due to
disease resistance package

Sunburst
• High-demand variety for both full-size
and baby vegetable markets
• Unique, glossy, deep yellow fruit that
consumers prefer with dark green
blossom end
• Tender, buttery flavor sustained in
larger, mature squash
• Compact, bushy plant
• Adapted to all major production areas
Technical data: squash
Variety Approximate Fruit shape Average Average Plant characteristics Disease resistance
days to maturity diameter (in) length (in)

ZUCCHINI: MEDIUM GREEN

Paycheck 42 Cylindrical 2 7-8 Open, upright plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px

Payload 43 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 7-8 Open, upright, reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px

Spineless Beauty 43 Cylindrical 1.5 7.5 - 8.5 Open, medium vigor; spineless leaves and None reported
petioles
Spineless 44 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 7-8 Strong open, upright plant; IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
Perfection spineless leaves and petioles
Payroll 47 Cylindrical 1.75 7 Open, upright plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px

Cashflow 47 Cylindrical 1.75 7.5 - 8.5 Open, vigorous plant IR: ZYMV

ZUCCHINI: MEDIUM DARK GREEN

NEW
NEW Everglade 43 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 6-7 Open erect plant with high yield IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV /PX

NEW 44 Cylindrical 1.5 - 2 6-7 Open erect plant with no spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV /PX
Spineless
Supreme
Envy 45 Cylindrical 1.75 7 Upright, open plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / Px

ZUCCHINI: DARK GREEN

Jacobo 42 Cylindrical 1.75 - 2 7 - 8+ Upright, open plant, reduced spines for ease IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
of harvest
Pascola 42 Cylindrical 2 - 2.5 7-8 Upright, open plant, reduced spines for ease IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
of harvest
Raven 43 Cylindrical 2.5 - 3.5 7-8 Open, reduced spines None reported

Noche 45 Cylindrical 2 - 2.5 7-8 Open, reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV
Technical data: squash
Variety Approximate Fruit shape Average Average Plant characteristics Disease resistance
days to maturity diameter (in) length (in)

ZUCCHINI: GOLDEN
Golden Glory 50 Cylindrical 1.75 7-8 Open, upright, semi-spineless plant with IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
dark green foliage
YELLOW SQUASH
Fortune 39 Bottle-shaped 1.75 6-7 Early-maturing plant with medium vigor None reported

Enterprise 41 Straightneck 1.75 7-8 Productive, vigorous plant with None reported
broad adaptability
Goldprize 42 Straightneck 1.75 6-7 Open, semiprostrate plant IR: ZYMV / WMV

Gold Star 42 Semicrookneck 1.5 - 1.75 5.5 - 6 Vigorous plant with reduced spines IR: CMV / Px

NEW Grandprize 42 Straightneck 2 6-7 Erect, semi-open plant IR: ZYMV / WMV / PX

Gentry 43 Semicrookneck 1.5 - 1.75 5.5 - 6 Vigorous plant with reduced spines None reported

SPECIALTY SQUASH
San Isidro 45 Club-shaped 1.5 - 2 6-7 Open, erect plant with no silvering and IR: Px / ZYMV
reduced spines
Sunburst 50 Disc-shaped 3 2.5 Compact; open None reported

Disease abbreviation key

ZYMV Zucchini yellows (Zucchini yellow CMV Cucumber mosaic (Cucumber SLCV Squash leaf curl (Squash leaf curl virus)
mosaic virus) mosaic virus)
HR High resistance
WMV Watermelon mosaic (Watermelon Px Powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii
IR Intermediate resistance
mosaic virus) (ex Sphaerotheca fuliginea))

In cases where specific races or strains are not noted, the variety is resistant to some, but not necessarily all known races or strains of the pathogen. For complete disease
resistance information, please visit www.SyngentaUS.com/vegetables.
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Product performance assumes disease presence.

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