A protected Spanish cultivar of the Genesis Exotic group, distributed under licence. The fruit is not astringent at any stage, not even unripe, so no deastringency chamber is needed, the tree resembles Jiro and ripening falls in mid-September.
Three botanical races, and the Mexican one supplies frost tolerance while the West Indian one supplies tolerance of lime and salt: Greece asks for both at once. With Greek data from ELGO Chania: across ten orchards over six years Fuerte met the dry matter threshold in only two seasons and Zutano in none. In detail: synchronous dichogamy and the cultivars one by one, the temperature limits, soils at pH up to 8.3 and calcium carbonate up to 20.7 per cent, eleven rootstocks, planting distances and training.
