Squash and Zucchini
CROP GUIDE
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from the field to the table
We are committed to helping growers get the most from their
crops, both now and for generations to come. Partnering
with our customers every step of the way, we offer advanced,
innovative solutions that provide growers with the tools they
need in the field to ultimately put the food on the table. After
all, our job is about helping customers deliver high-quality,
nutritious vegetables to the market. We leverage our rich history
in the industry, strong presence in the market and significant
investment in the future of agriculture to help you do just that.
Innovating for the Future
Backed by global resources and a daily investment of more than $3 million in research and development, we bring to market
innovative, integrated solutions that help ensure your high-value vegetable crops reach their full genetic potential. Our state-of-theart research facilities located across the U.S. are incubators for innovation in the field and in the marketplace, helping to ensure that
we’re providing growers with the tools they need to put food on the table.
Pasco Seed Processing Facility
Nampa Research Station
This 40-acre, 200,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility
processes both large-seeded and small-seeded vegetables.
It houses a unique, two-pass drying system that most
closely resembles natural drying in the field. Seed is stored
within optimal parameters of temperature and humidity,
ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality seed.
This facility is the Center of
Excellence for breeding of
large-seeded vegetables
including sweet corn, snap
peas and garden beans.
Its Product Quality Control
laboratory manages quality
control of all Syngenta
vegetable seeds for North
America and facilitates
approximately 50,000
samples annually.
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Our roots in the vegetable industry run deep, tracing
back to 1876 with the establishment of ROGERS®
brand seed. For more than 130 years, we have
worked boot-to-boot with our vegetable customers
to provide a truly cutting edge, individualized
approach to solution building.
Syngenta Research
Stations
Syngenta Seed
Processing Facilities
Naples Research Station
Woodland Research Station
Undergoing a major expansion to enhance R&D
and seed production capabilities, this station
serves as a hub for cereal, corn, cucurbit and
fruiting vegetable research in the California
Central Valley.
Addressing Whole-farm Challenges
We believe that, to be successful, sustainable agriculture metrics must be integrated into dayto-day operations and decision-making, and that the value of doing this must exceed the cost.
Through our AgriEdge Excelsior® program, we’re providing growers with data-rich, whole-farm
management tools that help them make agronomically sound decisions, operate more efficiently
and meet sustainable sourcing demands.
This station lies just south of the frost line in Florida,
allowing two generations per year of most crops. It
includes more than 100 open-field acres and contains
more than 60,000 square feet of greenhouse space, as
well as controlled growth environments and laboratories.
Supporting the Industry
Our commitment to customer satisfaction extends beyond solutions,
service, and support – it’s an investment in the future success of the
industry as well. We are proud to partner closely with industry organizations,
such as the American Seed Trade Association (ASTA), California Association
of Pest Control Advisers (CAPCA), Produce for Better Health, Produce
Marketing Association and United Fresh Produce Association, as an
advocate for sustainable vegetable production and consumption.
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Paycheck
Envy
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
•Glossy zucchini with cylindrical,
uniform shape
•Medium-green color slightly darker
than Paycheck
•Open plant with reduced spines
•Medium vigor growth habit
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
•Performs well under spring and
summer conditions
•Widely adapted
•Excellent fruit quality
•Upright plant
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
•Good for Fall season when CMV can
be an issue
•Very good adaptability
•High yield potential
•Excellent fruit quality
Envy features a glossy, cylindrical fruit with wide adaptability for several eastern
growing areas as well as California. Envy produces upright, open, nearly spineless
plants with high yield potential and a solid disease resistance package.
Spineless Beauty
Spineless Perfection
Cashflow
•Industry standard
•Glossy, high-quality fruit
•Truly spineless plant
•High yield potential
•Adapted to all eastern growing areas
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
•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
•IR: ZYMV
•Consistent high yields
•Very good adaptability
•Excellent fruit quality
•Vigorous plant
Envy
Payroll
Light
Medium
•Good disease resistance package
including intermediate resistance
to zucchini yellow mosaic virus and
powdery mildew
Pascola
•Attractive, glossy fruit with uniform,
medium-dark coloring
•More vigorous plant than comparable
varieties
•Open, upright plant structure offers easier
harvest and minimized fruit damage
Spineless Beauty
Payload
Squash
Flecking
Guide
Heavy
Medium-dark green zucchini
None
Medium green zucchini
Squash
Color
Guide
Spineless Beauty,
Cashflow, Payroll,
Spineless Perfection,
Paycheck, Payload
Golden zucchini
Medium Green
Dark green zucchini
Pascola
Jacobo
Golden Glory
Pascola packages disease resistance with high yields in early harvests of attractive,
marketable fruit.
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
•Improved disease resistance
•Good early yields
•Glossy, attractive fruit
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.
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
•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
•Uniform, dark green, glossy fruit,
medium to long in length
•Open, upright, nearly spineless plant
for improved fruit quality during
harvest
Equinox
Noche
Raven
Golden Dawn III
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
•Proven performance
•Outstanding fruit quality
•Ease of harvest
•IR: ZYMV / WMV
•Nearly spineless plant
•Excellent fruit quality
•Proven yield performance
•Industry standard
•Outstanding yield potential
•Proven performance
•Open plant habit
Golden Dawn III is a cylindrical dark yellow, upright and vigorous plant with reduced
spines and outstanding yield potential.
•Upright plant
•High yield potential
•Reduced spines
•Outstanding yield potential
Dark Green
•Industry standard
•Open plant habit
Raven, Noche, Jacobo,
Pascola
Envy
Medium Dark Green
•IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
•Improved disease resistance
Yellow squash
Specialty
Goldprize
Enterprise
San Isidro
Sunburst
Goldprize delivers a very productive, high-quality yield with the advantage of
improved yellow color in smaller fruit that consumers demand.
•Proven performance
•Outstanding yield potential
•Vigorous plant
•Broad adaptability
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-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
•IR: ZYMV / WMV
•Improved disease resistance
•Glossy, smooth fruit
•Attractive yellow color
•Excellent quality fruit with uniform
shape for a high-quality pack
•Longer harvest and improved fruit
quality thanks to excellent disease
protection
•Higher yields for better profitability
Fortune
Gold Star
Gentry
Cuarzo
•Excellent fruit smoothness and
uniformity
•Early-maturing plant with medium vigor
and continuous setting ability
•High-quality fruit with good yield
capabilities
•Sturdy plant neck offers minimized
chance of breakage
•IR: CMV / Px
•Improved disease resistance
•Reduced spines
•Vigorous plant
•Industry standard
•Broad adaptability
•Small blossom scar
•Smooth, high-quality fruit
A distinctive grey zucchini variety, Cuarzo includes a strong disease resistance
package and offers an extended harvest window for excellent yield potential. The
upright, semi-open plant allows for ease of harvest of its high-quality fruit, which has
uniformity and an attractive appearance.
•High-quality fruit with excellent yield
potential
•Uniform shape and appearance
•High-quality fruit with excellent yield
potential
•Uniform shape and appearance
•Nearly spineless open plant with no
silvering
•Extended harvest window due to
disease resistance package
•Upright, semi-open plant for easier
harvest and minimized fruit damage
•Extended harvest window due to
improved disease resistance package
Technical data: squash
Variety
Approximate
days to maturity
Technical data: squash
Fruit shape
Average
diameter (in)
Average
length (in)
Plant characteristics
Disease resistance
ZUCCHINI: MEDIUM GREEN
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
petioles
None reported
Spineless
Perfection
44
Cylindrical
1.5 - 2
7-8
Strong open, upright plant;
spineless leaves and petioles
IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
Payroll
47
Cylindrical
1.75
7
Open, upright plant with reduced spines
Cashflow
47
Cylindrical
1.75
7.5 - 8.5
Open, vigorous plant
Fruit shape
Average
diameter (in)
Average
length (in)
Plant characteristics
Disease resistance
Golden Dawn III
47
Cylindrical
1.5 - 1.75
7-8
Upright, vigorous plant with
reduced spines
None reported
Golden Glory
50
Cylindrical
1.75
7-8
Open, upright, semi-spineless plant with
dark green foliage
IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
Fortune
39
Bottle-shaped
1.75
6-7
Early-maturing plant with medium vigor
None reported
IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
Enterprise
41
Straightneck
1.75
7-8
Productive, vigorous plant with
broad adaptability
None reported
IR: ZYMV
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
Gentry
43
Semicrookneck
1.5 - 1.75
5.5 - 6
Vigorous plant with reduced spines
None reported
ZUCCHINI: MEDIUM DARK GREEN
45
Approximate
days to maturity
ZUCCHINI: GOLDEN
Paycheck
Envy
Variety
Cylindrical
1.75
7
Upright, open plant with reduced spines
YELLOW SQUASH
IR: ZYMV / Px
ZUCCHINI: DARK GREEN
Jacobo
42
Cylindrical
1.75 - 2
7 - 8+
Upright, open plant, reduced spines for ease
of harvest
IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px
Pascola
42
Cylindrical
2 - 2.5
7-8
Upright, open plant, reduced spines for ease
of harvest
IR: ZYMV / WMV / CMV / Px
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
Noche
45
Cylindrical
2 - 2.5
7-8
Open, reduced spines
IR: ZYMV / WMV
SPECIALTY SQUASH
Cuarzo
45
Club-shaped
1.5 - 2
5-6
Semi-open plant with slight genetic silvering,
dark foliage, upright stem
IR: ZYMV / WMV / Px / LCV
San Isidro
45
Club-shaped
1.5 - 2
6-7
Open, erect plant with no silvering and
reduced spines
IR: Px / ZYMV
Sunburst
50
Disc-shaped
3
2.5
Compact; open
None reported
Disease abbreviation key
ZYMV WMV Zucchini yellows (Zucchini yellow
mosaic virus)
CMV Watermelon mosaic (Watermelon
mosaic virus)
Px Cucumber mosaic (Cucumber
mosaic virus)
SLCV
Squash leaf curl (Squash leaf curl virus)
Powdery mildew (Podosphaera xanthii
(ex Sphaerotheca fuliginea))
HR
High resistance
IR
Intermediate resistance
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.
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or contact your local Syngenta reseller or representative.
Product performance assumes disease presence.
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GS 405.63000 SLC 1760E 10-2015