Desert Pearl
Diploid variety — early white seedless with aromatic highlight. The best eating among early/mid white.
- Trade Name: Desert Pearl
- Varietal Denomination: VARO 228
- Harvest date: ~7 days after Prime*
- Fertility: Very high; can be pruned to spurs
- Labor: Low; no thinning
- Shape: Conical
- Bunch size: 500–800 g
- Berry size: 18–22 mm (natural)
- Big berry shape: Elongated (Thompson shape)
- Berry color: Milky green
- Attachment: Strong
- Firmness: Firm and crispy
- Seed rudiment: Not visible
- Taste: Sweet aromatic, crunchy, elegant
- Irrigation water: ~30% less than Superior
- *Optimum sugar level 17° Brix + (min 16%)