Breeding and cultivation techniques of a new strawberry cultivar ‘Jinling Hong’

‘Jinling Hong’, known as “small sugar pill”, is a new strawberry cultivar with high quality, derived from a cross between ‘Zijin Jiuhong’ as a female parent and ‘Kaorino’ as a male parent.
The fruit is conic shape and uniform, with bright red peel, white flesh, high hardness, sweet flavor and high quality.
The average fruit of its first-second grade weight 20.3 g, the maximum 41.5 g.
The soluble solids content is 12.7%, the total sugar content is 127.39 mg g^‑1, the titratable acid content is 13.19 mg g^‑1 and the vitamin C content is 0.78 mg g^‑1 FW, the fruit firmness is 2.2 kg cm^‑2. In Nanjing, the planting time is in early September, and the harvest time is in mid-November, which is suitable for forcing cultivation under protected condition in most areas of China.

X International Strawberry Symposium

M.Z. Zhao, F.H. Pang, L. Guan, Q.L. Wang, X.D. Chen, H.Z. Yuan, L.L. Xu, Y.S. Qiao, E.J. Wu, J. Wang, W.J. Cai, Z.P. Wu

strawberry, new cultivar, ‘Jinling Hong’, high quality

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.2026.1465.22