COLORSWEET

Overview

COLORSWEET is Long Shelf-Life melon with Syngenta's unique Harvest Indicator Trait. The Harvest Indicator Trait provides growers and pickers with a clear indicator that fruit is mature and ready to pick, ensuring fruit is ideal to eat!
COLORSWEET is a main season variety suited to summer production across southern Australia.

Features, advantages & benefits

For Growers
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Harvest Indicator Trait: fruit colour changes from green to a warm gold as fruit reaches maturity.
Traditional musky aroma
High yield potential.
Robust resistance package

Colour changing rind indicates the IDEAL time to harvest from the field, giving pickers an easily identifiable cue.
Traditional musky aroma appeals to consumers and compliments fruit flavour.
High yield potential to underpin value from harvest and consumer features.
Strong, healthy crops

Ripe fruit can be easily identified by pickers, making harvest more efficient and reducing the risk of immature fruit being harvested - leading to more consistency and improved fruit quality.
Traditional aroma resonates with shoppers and accentuates the consumer experience.
Opportunity to improve value return to yield, efficiency and demand.
Supported by good agronomy, crops can achieve their full potential.

For Value Chain & Consumers
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Attractive golden fruit colour.
Traditional musky aroma.

Golden fruit colour indicates fruit has been harvested at ideal maturity.
Traditional musky aroma compliments the attractive golden colour to appeal to consumers.

Consistent colour helps ensure consistent quality and experience from one fruit to the next, giving shoppers the confidence to purchase again..
Rich aroma helps attract shoppers in-store, as well as complimenting flavour and taste, ensuring a great experience for consumers, leading to repeat purchases.

Traits & characteristics

Average Fruit Weight	3
Average Number Of Days To Maturity	78 - 85
Exterior Appearance	medium - dense
Fruit Characteristics Others	Long shelf life
Fruit Shape	ovate
Interior Appearance	orange
Pack size	> 2000 grams
Plant vigour	strong
Segment	Western shipper
Sutures	absent
Sweetness	14