Saint Valentine
Also known as Valentine
Valentine
Saint Valentine is a sour cherry, bred at University of Saskatchewan Fruit Program. Released in 2004. Bred from Kerr’s Easy Pick and Cacanski Rubin. Its fruit is medium red.
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Origin · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Released 2004
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- high sweetness
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: medium red, soft to medium firmness, low to medium acidity, high sweetness, medium juiciness
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Acidity
- low to medium acidity
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: medium red, soft to medium firmness, low to medium acidity, high sweetness, medium juiciness
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Firmness
- soft to medium firmness
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: medium red, soft to medium firmness, low to medium acidity, high sweetness, medium juiciness
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Juiciness
- medium juiciness
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: medium red, soft to medium firmness, low to medium acidity, high sweetness, medium juiciness
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
How to spot it
- Skin
- medium red
context: CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
- /details/observations/0/value/0/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- Flesh
- Flesh colourmedium red
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT FLESH field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
Original record: medium red, soft to medium firmness, low to medium acidity, high sweetness, medium juiciness
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
- Appearance
- Juice colourmedium red
scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
active.inspection.gc.ca ↗Context & source
Named CFIA variety description, exact FRUIT JUICE field. Descriptor levels belong to this source report; no calibrated intensity, consumer panel or universal growing-condition claim is inferred.
- /details/observations/0/value/2/context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- /interpretation/context
- scope: CFIA variety description; source-specific descriptor levels.
Fruit colourRed fruit.context: USask release overview
research-groups.usask.ca ↗Context & source
USask breeder overview says Valentine has red fruit; the fully-ripe wording in the next sentence describes other Romance-series varieties.
Original record: Red fruit at full ripeness
- /details/observations/0/value/3/context
- USask release overview
Origin & family
Where Saint Valentine began
Recorded origin
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Canada
- Institution
- University of Saskatchewan Fruit Program
- Crossed
- 1992
- Selected
- 1999
- Released
- 2004
Family tree
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Field notes
Original source notes
descriptor observations
- trait
- skin color
- value
- medium red
- context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- source url
- active.inspection.gc.ca ↗
- trait
- flesh description
- value
- medium red, soft to medium firmness, low to medium acidity, high sweetness, medium juiciness
- context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- source url
- active.inspection.gc.ca ↗
- trait
- juice color
- value
- medium red
- context
- CFIA technical variety examination; trial context retained in linked source
- source url
- active.inspection.gc.ca ↗
- trait
- breeder highlight
- value
- Red fruit at full ripeness
- context
- USask release overview
- source url
- research-groups.usask.ca ↗