Article: 'Pajaro' Strawberry

'Pajaro' Strawberry was released in 1979 by Royce Bringhurst and Victor Voth of the University of California (1). There was a need at the time of its release for an improved summer-cropping cultivar for the Central Coast (Watsonville) production region of California, and 'Pajaro' quickly filled this need. It went from occupying 5% of the California strawberry acreage in 1981 to 19% in 1986 (2), and was a commercially important cultivar in California for over a decade (3).

Named for the Pajaro valley,' Pajaro', a short-day cultivar, was selected at the University of California's South Coast Field Station, Santa Ana in 1973 from a group of CA63.7-101 x 'Sequoia' seedlings (1). It was trialed ...