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Hawaii is a small blue field pea with very good standing ability, popular with growers and processers.

HAWAII is a potentially high yielding, small blue field pea with very good standing ability and good resistance to downy mildew. It has a pleasing dark blue colour, unique resistance to bleaching and has shown excellent suitabilty for the canning market.

Breeder’s Code: ADV 5270
Pedigree: Tornado x Croma
Breeder: Limagrain Europe; Agent: Limagrain UK
Status: PGRO Recommended List

YIELD POTENTIAL (% control)
HAWAII 80
Prophet 100

In Recommended List trials, Hawaii has shown a high yield potential for a small blue pea.
AGRONOMIC CHARACTERS
  HAWAII Prophet
Earliness of ripening 6 5
Shortness of straw 5 4
Standing ability 6 7
DISEASE RESISTANCE
  HAWAII Prophet
Pea wilt * R R
Downy mildew 7 8
GRAIN QUALITY
Thousand seed weight (g) 190 258

R = Resistant

Hawaii is slightly earlier to mature than Prophet with moderately short straw and good standing ability.

Hawaii has good resistance to downy mildew and is resistant to pea wilt.

Hawaii is a true small blue with a lower thousand seed weight than Prophet.

 


All data is from the PGRO Recomended List of field peas, available at www.pgro.org

A high figure indicates that the variety shows the character to a high degree

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