Table 1.

Head surface curvature diameter (cm) at harvest of three different developmental stages 1 (mini head), 2 (fully developed), and 3 (over-mature) of cultivars of five Brassica oleracea varieties.

Cultivars	Developmental stage
	1	2	3
Broccoli
Iron Man	13.30 ± 2.18	20.71 ± 2.06	26.94 ± 5.88
Marathon		20.75 ± 2.35
Sirtaki		21.20 ± 2.14
Cauliflower
Abeni	17.61 ± 2.49	27.70 ± 2.57	45.61 ± 9.50
Baltimore		21.98 ± 6.14
Graffiti		23.72 ± 2.61
Momentum		25.25 ± 4.49
White cabbage
Marcello	41.90 ± 3.01	50.99 ± 4.13	53.94 ± 5.40
Perfecta		54.88 ± 2.65
Tolsma		51.37 ± 2.28
Red cabbage
Integro		47.12 ± 3.87
Redma	40.40 ± 2.41	49.98 ± 5.85	48.40 ± 3.83
Roodkop 2		53.40 ± 5.68
Savoy cabbage
Capriccio		51.99 ± 4.04
Daphne		55.29 ± 8.15
Emerald	39.86 ± 7.10	49.46 ± 4.40	51.04 ± 4.69

Values represent the mean of two experiments (2014 and 2015) with 25 replicates each. Presented are means ± standard deviations (SD).