Sikitita

General characteristics

This is an easy-to-grow variety with strong disease resistance, compact size and high yields, making it ideal for intensive cultivation.
It is characterised by producing small-to-medium olives, oval in shape and dark green in colour, yielding a sweet-style EVOO with intense fruitiness and low bitterness and pungency. It is a smooth, fluid oil, well balanced on the palate.

Overall assessment

  • Highly productive variety, ideal for high-density plantations.
  • Low vigour and weeping growth habit.
  • Early bearing.
  • Ripens 1 week earlier than Arbequina.
  • Good oil yield and extractability.
  • Performs well under rainfed conditions.
  • Relatively cold-tolerant.
  • High productivity.

Tree and fruit

  • Growth habit: Weeping
  • Vigour: Low
  • Olive weight: 2.7 g
  • Pulp/pit ratio: 5.50
  • Oil yield: 49.65%sms

Oil profile

It is a sweet-style virgin oil with intense fruitiness and low bitterness and pungency. It is a smooth, fluid oil, well balanced on the palate.

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