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Originally Posted by b54red
I hate to tell you this because it sounds like I am bragging but the main head you are showing looks like the first two side shoots from Coronado Crown when grown in the spring. Some of my main heads would barely squeeze into a five gallon bucket they were so big. The biggest drawback to CC was that it was about two weeks later than some others but well worth the wait. It also held up better in the heat and held longer in the field so missing cutting it by a day or so didn't matter.
I fear we will not see it again. It probably wasn't as commercially viable because of the large heads. I think commercial growers and grocers like very cookie cutter fruits of all kinds and I think CC got cut because of that bias.
Bill
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As I was purging old seeds yesterday, I found a 2015 package of Coronado Crown broccoli! Lucky me for ordering 2 packs.
If anyone would like to grow these out to seed, since they're a hybrid, you may never know what you'll get the next year. You'd have to have a much longer growing season than I have. The stipulation for my sending a few seeds would be to share them with everyone, especially me!
It might be a winner, might not.