Watermelon Chieftain

Early maturing . The period from full germination to first harvest 68 - 88 days . Average power plant, average climbing . Home whip medium length . The leaves are medium sized, gray-green . The fruit is round-elliptical, smooth weighing 2.9 - 3.6 kg . The background light green to whitish . Figure - filamentary light green stripes . bark thin, foldaway, the cut -white . The flesh is red, granular, gentle, sweet, juicy . dry matter content of 9.1%, sugar 7.4% . Taste good and excellent quality. Seeds are small, brown with mottled, rough, peel available . Weight of 1000 seeds 45 g . seed yield of 0.6% . Trading rainfed yields 92 - 131 kg / ha, for the first two collection 64 - 104 kg / ha, in standard 35 - 77 c / ha . Yields of marketable products under irrigation 247 - 249 kg / ha, for the first two collection - 129 - 174 kg / ha . Transportable retains commodity and palatability within 30 days after removal . According to the originator, Fusarium and anthracnose is affected to a lesser degree . Value classes: high yield of early production and united his return, hightransportability and keeping quality of fruits, drought .