Chicory Mont Blanc
Mont Blanc is suitable for early forcing. Mont Blanc produces a mountain of high-quality chicory in the early forcing season until the end of January: specialists even succeed in forcing until the end of March.
Unparalleled short pith
Mont Blanc is ideally suited to consumer packaging, and produces high-quality pointed, tight heads. In addition, Mont Blanc has an unparalleled short pith, and an excellent shelf life. Self-evidently, this Hoquet hybrid produces high yields.
Mont Blanc, a CMS hybrid, is extremely uniform. This is of great benefit to the cultivation of extremely uniform roots. Moreover, since Mont Blanc is not sensitive to Safari herbicide, this offers major benefits for weed control.
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Key figures for Mont Blanc chicory * |
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| November | December | jan/Feb/Mar | |
| Sowing period | beginning of May | May | 25 May - 15 June |
| Quantity of seed/ha ** | 260-300,000 | 280-320,000 | 300-320,000 |
| Optimum number of plants/ha** | 220,000 | 220-250,000 | 240,000-250,000 |
| Lifting | 20 September - 20 October | after 15 October | after 1 November |
| Storage of roots | 0.0 °C. | 0.0 °C. | -1 °C. |
(*) -Key figures on the basis of forcing period: harvesting months for the chicons (**) 1 ha = 2,47 ac
-Cultivation of the roots is based on dutch climate conditions
