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Squash and Zucchini Crop Guide
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Medium green zucchini Medium-dark green zucchini Squash
Flecking
Guide
Spineless Beauty
Heavy
Payload Payroll Paycheck Emerald Desire
• IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px • IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px • IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px This improved Envy-type zucchini offers higher yields, excellent produce quality and
• Glossy zucchini with cylindrical, • Performs well under spring and • Good for Fall season when CMV can an industry-leading disease resistance package.
uniform shape summer conditions be an issue
• Medium-green color slightly darker • Widely adapted • Very good adaptability • Improved, Envy-type zucchini with • Higher yield potentials of excellent
than Paycheck broad-based disease resistance produce quality
• Excellent fruit quality • High yield potential
package
• Open plant with reduced spines • Upright plant • Excellent fruit quality
• Attractive uniform, cylindrical shape and
• Medium vigor growth habit
medium-dark green, glossy exterior
Medium
Payroll
Light
Envy
Spineless Beauty Spineless Perfection Cashflow Envy
• Industry standard • IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px • IR: ZYMV Envy features a glossy, cylindrical fruit with wide adaptability for several eastern
• Glossy, high-quality fruit • Spineless petioles minimize fruit • Consistent high yields growing areas as well as California. Envy produces upright, open, nearly spineless
damage during harvest plants with high yield potential and a solid disease resistance package.
• Truly spineless plant • Very good adaptability
• Classic Spineless Beauty-type fruit
Pascola
• High yield potential • Excellent fruit quality
None
with high gloss • Attractive, glossy fruit with uniform, • Good disease resistance package
• Adapted to all eastern growing areas • Vigorous plant medium-dark coloring including intermediate resistance
• Open, upright plant habit for ease of to zucchini yellow mosaic virus and
picking • More vigorous plant than comparable
varieties powdery mildew
• Refined flecking produces a rich
green color • Open, upright plant structure offers easier
harvest and minimized fruit damage
• Similar yields to Spineless Beauty
Dark green zucchini Golden zucchini Squash
Color
Guide
Spineless Perfection,
Paycheck, Payload
Medium Green
Cashflow, Payroll,
Spineless Beauty,
Pascola Jacobo Golden Glory
Pascola packages disease resistance with high yields in early harvests of attractive, • IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px Similar to Golden Delight, Golden Glory offers the added benefit of intermediate resistance
marketable fruit. • Improved disease resistance to powdery mildew. It produces high yields of quality, smooth, uniform, golden yellow fruit.
• Good early yields
• IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px • High yield potential in early harvests • IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px • Upright plant
• Glossy, attractive fruit
• Outstanding disease resistance • Uniform, dark green, glossy fruit, • Improved disease resistance • High yield potential
• Slender-type fruit medium to long in length
• Nearly spineless plant • Open, upright, nearly spineless plant
for improved fruit quality during
• Good for mid- to late-season
Medium Dark Green
harvest
plantings as CMV pressure increases
Envy, Emerald Desire
Raven, Noche, Jacobo,
Equinox Noche Raven Golden Delight Golden Dawn III
• IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px • IR: ZYMV / WMV • Industry standard • IR: ZYMV / WMV • Industry standard
Dark Green
• Proven performance • Nearly spineless plant • Outstanding yield potential • Established variety • Open plant habit
• Outstanding fruit quality • Excellent fruit quality • Proven performance • Attractive yellow color • Reduced spines
Pascola
• Ease of harvest • Proven yield performance • Open plant habit • Uniform fruit shape • Outstanding yield potentialYellow squash Specialty
Goldprize Enterprise Cuarzo Sunburst
Goldprize delivers a very productive, high-quality yield with the advantage of • Proven performance A distinctive grey zucchini variety, Cuarzo includes a strong disease resistance • High-demand variety for both full-size
improved yellow color in smaller fruit that consumers demand. • Outstanding yield potential package and offers an extended harvest window for excellent yield potential. The and baby vegetable markets
upright, semi-open plant allows for ease of harvest of its high-quality fruit, which has • Unique, glossy, deep yellow fruit that
• Vigorous plant
• IR: ZYMV / WMV • Longer harvest and improved fruit uniformity and an attractive appearance. consumers prefer with dark green
quality thanks to excellent disease • Broad adaptability
• Improved disease resistance blossom end
protection • High-quality fruit with excellent yield • Upright, semi-open plant for easier
• Glossy, smooth fruit potential harvest and minimized fruit damage • Tender, buttery flavor sustained in larger,
• Higher yields for better profitability mature squash
• Attractive yellow color • Uniform shape and appearance • Extended harvest window due to
• Excellent quality fruit with uniform improved disease resistance package • Compact, bushy plant
shape for a high-quality pack • Adapted to all major production areas
Setting a New Standard in Early-Season
Disease and Pest Protection
Now offered as a standard treatment on all Syngenta squash
varieties, FarMore® FI400 Cucurbits technology offers convenient,
on-seed protection from early-season diseases and pests in the
first comprehensive combination of separately registered seed
Fortune Gold Star Gentry protection products, proprietary application technologies, and
• Excellent fruit smoothness and • IR: CMV / Px • Industry standard dedicated seed treatment services. This advanced technology
uniformity • Improved disease resistance • Broad adaptability
• Early-maturing plant with medium vigor enhances seedling emergence, maximizes plant stand
• Reduced spines • Small blossom scar
and continuous setting ability
• Vigorous plant • Smooth, high-quality fruit establishment, and stimulates early-season vigor and plant health,
• High-quality fruit with good yield
capabilities helping ensure high-value squash and zucchini crops reach their
• Sturdy plant neck offers minimized
chance of breakage full genetic potential.Cucurbit crop protection options Technical data: squash
Variety Approximate Fruit shape Average Average Plant characteristics Disease resistance
days to maturity diameter (in) length (in)
Insecticides Herbicides
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
Actara® is a foliar-applied insecticide that provides excellent control Gramoxone brand herbicides are non-selective contact herbicides
®
Spineless Beauty 43 Cylindrical 1.5 7.5 - 8.5 Open, medium vigor; spineless leaves and None reported
of many sucking and chewing pests. available for control of grass and broadleaf weeds, and are effective under petioles
a variety of conditions. Nothing is faster among non-selective herbicides.
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
Agri-Mek SC miticide/insecticide is based on novel chemistry with a
®
Cashflow 47 Cylindrical 1.75 7.5 - 8.5 Open, vigorous plant IR: ZYMV
unique mode of action that delivers long-lasting control of mites and Touchdown HiTech® is a non-selective herbicide that delivers excellent
leafminers. Rotate with Trigard® for leafminer control. Do not make broad-spectrum weed control.
zucChini: medium dark green
more than two sequential applications of Agri-Mek SC.
Emerald Desire 45 Cylindrical 1.5 - 1.75 7-8 Strong open, erect plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
Fungicides Envy 45 Cylindrical 1.75 7 Upright, open plant with reduced spines IR: ZYMV / Px
zucChini: dark green
Durivo® insecticide is the only soil-applied via drip chemigation, fast-
acting, long-lasting insecticide for control of lepidoptera and sucking Jacobo 42 Cylindrical 1.75 - 2 7 - 8+ Upright, open plant, reduced spines for ease IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
of harvest
and chewing pests.
Bravo Weather Stik® fungicide provides superior preventive control of Pascola 42 Cylindrical 2 - 2.5 7-8 Upright, open plant, reduced spines for ease IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
foliar diseases in a wide range of crops. of harvest
Raven 43 Cylindrical 2.5 - 3.5 7-8 Open, reduced spines None reported
Equinox 45 Cylindrical 2 7-8 Open and upright, reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
Fulfill® insecticide has a unique mode of action that provides excellent
aphid control. Inspire Super® fungicide is a top of the class fungicide for use on squash.
Inspire Super utilizes the unique active ingredient difenoconazole as part of its Noche 45 Cylindrical 2 - 2.5 7-8 Open, reduced spines IR: ZYMV / WMV
triazole mixture to deliver long-lasting control of damaging diseases.
zucChini: golden
Golden Dawn III 47 Cylindrical 1.5 - 1.75 7-8 Upright, vigorous plant with None reported
reduced spines
Platinum® 75SG insecticide is a highly concentrated formulation
of thiamethoxam, which has consistently provided excellent Golden Delight 47 Cylindrical 1.5 - 1.75 7-8 Semi-spineless, upright, open plant IR: ZYMV / WMV
Quadris® fungicide provides outstanding broad-spectrum systemic disease control
residual control of many economically damaging pests. and enhanced Plant Performance™ against yield-robbing fungi. Applications can be Golden Glory 50 Cylindrical 1.75 7-8 Open, upright, semi-spineless plant with IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
made in-furrow and as a foliar spray. dark green foliage
Yellow squash
Fortune 39 Bottle-shaped 1.75 6-7 Early-maturing plant with medium vigor None reported
Trigard insecticide is an insect growth regulator that delivers long-
Enterprise 41 Straightneck 1.75 7-8 Productive, vigorous plant with None reported
lasting leafminer control without impacting beneficial insects. Rotate Quadris TopTM fungicide is the strobilurin of choice and offers growers a high
broad adaptability
with Agri-Mek SC. level of activity and reliability. With two active ingredients for control of many
important plant diseases, its low use rates and application flexibility also make it a Goldprize 42 Straightneck 1.75 6-7 Open, semiprostrate plant IR: ZYMV / WMV
great addition to many Integrated Pest Management programs.
Gold Star 42 Semicrookneck 1.5 - 1.75 5.5 - 6 Vigorous plant with reduced spines IR: CMV / Px
Gentry 43 Semicrookneck 1.5 - 1.75 5.5 - 6 Vigorous plant with reduced spines None reported
Voliam Xpress® is a foliar insecticide that provides fast knockdown
and control of a wide range of insects with the added benefit of Revus® fungicide with LOK + FLO™ action locks into the outer surface of leaves specialty squash
long-lasting control. and gradually filters in to deliver consistent performance, rain or shine. Cuarzo 45 Club-shaped 1.5 - 2 5-6 Semi-open plant with slight genetic silvering, IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px /
dark foliage, upright stem SqLCV
Sunburst 50 Disc-shaped 3 2.5 Compact; open None reported
Warrior II with Zeon Technology® insecticide delivers the combination of
Ridomil Gold® Bravo® SC is a highly active fungicide that controls several Disease abbreviation key
diseases in cucurbits.
consistently reliable performance, modern formulation technology, and
long residual insect protection for cucurbits. ZYMV Zucchini yellow mosaic virus Px Powdery mildew caused by specific HR High resistance
races of Sphaerotheca fuliginea
WMV Watermelon mosaic virus IR Intermediate resistance
SqLCV Squash leaf curl virus caused by
CMV Cucumber mosaic virus
squash leaf curl virus
Ridomil Gold® SL is a highly active, soil-applied fungicide that controls
soilborne diseases caused by Pythium. 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.vegetables.syngenta-us.com.For more information on Syngenta vegetable offerings, visit www.vegetables.syngenta-us.com or contact your local Syngenta reseller or representative. Product performance assumes disease presence. All photos are the property of Syngenta unless otherwise noted. ©2013 Syngenta. Important: Always read and follow label instructions. Some crop protection products may not be registered for sale or use in all states or counties. Please check with your local extension service to ensure registration status. Agri-Mek SC, Gramoxone Inteon, Gramoxone SL, Gramoxone SL 2.0, Voliam Xpress and Warrior II with Zeon Technology are Restricted Use Pesticides. Actara, Agri-Mek SC, Durivo, Platinum, Voliam Xpress and Warrior II with Zeon Technology are highly toxic to bees exposed to direct treatment on blooming crops and weeds. Do not apply these products or allow them to drift onto blooming plants while bees are foraging adjacent to the treatment area. Product performance assumes disease presence. FarMore Technology is an on-seed application of separately registered seed protection products and proprietary application technologies. FarMore FI400 Cucurbits contains Cruiser 5FS insecticide and three fungicides: Apron XL, Maxim 4FS and Dynasty. Actara®, AgriEdge Excelsior®, Agri-Mek®, Apron XL®, Bravo®, Bravo WeatherStik®, Cruiser®, Durivo®, Dynasty®, FarMore®, Fulfill®, Gramoxone®, Inspire Super®, LOK + FLOTM, Maxim®, Platinum®, Plant PerformanceTM, Quadris®, Quadris Top®, Revus®, Ridomil Gold®, ROGERS®, Touchdown HiTech®, Trigard®, Voliam Xpress®, Warrior II with Zeon Technology®, the Alliance Frame, the Purpose Icon and the Syngenta logo are trademarks of a Syngenta Group Company. Field to Market® is a trademark of The Keystone Center. GS 403.61014 SLC 1760D 10-2013
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