Pinto y Gajardo, S.A.

Cabbage: Production is concentrated in the Central Valley, but PIGA is also developing a production area at latitude 46° S, in order to produce seeds with difficult bolting lines.

Broccoli: High usable seed rate and germinations over 92characterizes our broccoli seed production. Male sterile hybrids and self-incompatible lines are produced as part of our global commitment towards 100customer satisfaction.

Cauliflower: Tropical, Roscoff, Autumn and Summer varieties are grown for hybrid seed production. To adjust male-female flower nicking, PIGA continually performs flowering trials with several sowing dates for each parent line. Productions are located in coastal areas with cool summer temperatures,...

Squash y Cucumber: These species are grown in the Central Valley with techniques such as hand castration with or without ethrel for squash seed production and the use of silver thiosulfate for cucumbers. Hand pollinated cucumbers are also grown under nets.

Squash y Cucumber: These species are grown in the Central Valley with techniques such as hand castration with or without ethrel for squash seed production and the use of silver thiosulfate for cucumbers. Hand pollinated cucumbers are also grown under nets.

Pepper: All kind of hybrids seeds, including those from male sterile plants, as well as chilies, are obtained through hand pollination. PIGA has developed unique quality control procedures throughout all stages of production, which makes our pepper seed the best available.

Melon: Cantaloupe, piel de sapo, charentais, galia, and other melon types are varieties grown by PIGA, giving us unsurpassed skills in achieving the highest germ and vigor. In some special cases melons are also produced under plastic greenhouses.

Watermelon: Years of experience and production research in the watermelon seed growing process has given us the knowledge needed for gaining maximum yield of triploid and diploid hybrid watermelon varieties.

Tomate: Fresh market, processing, cherry, saladette and other hybrid tomato seeds are produced in a highly controlled environment, which provides the possibility to manage plants according to their growing habits, and achieve the best genetic purity and seed yields.