10 Tomato Varieties You Need To Know
For this Variety Specs feature with a focus on tomatoes, we’ve gathered information on the latest varieties with high yields, good resistance packages, and more — all in a very reader friendly format.
Key information including days to maturity, yield potential, weight, etc., will be right at your fingertips.
Stay tuned–next month we’ll be featuring sweet corn.
Chef’s Choice Orange
- Company: Seeds By Design
- Type: Beefsteak
- Weight: 9 to 12 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease resistance/tolerance: Tomato mosaic virus, Anthracnose, Fusarium wilt
- Days to maturity: 75 from transplant
- Other attributes: Bright orange with almost neon internal color, excellent firmness, cracking resistant
Clementine
- Company: Johnny’s Selected Seeds
- Type: Cocktail-sized tomato
- Weight: 2 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Days to maturity: 68
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: Widely adapted for North America
- Brix level: High
- Other attributes: Organic variety, bred by Johnny’s Selected Seeds
Raceway
- Company: Sakata Seed America
- Type: Determinate red-salad/round
- Weight: 8 to 9.5 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease resistance/tolerance: High resistance: Fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, Fusarium crown and root rot, Verticillium wilt race 1. Intermediate resistance: gray leaf spot
- Days to maturity: Mid-season
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: Adaptable for Southeastern U.S. Performs well in hot and cool seasons
- Other attributes: Great color, firmness, and shelf life
Rally
- Company: Rupp Seeds
- Type: Determinate round
- Weight: 9 to 10 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease resistance/tolerance: Alternaria stem canker, Fusarium crown rot, tomato mosaic virus, tomato yellow leaf curl
- Days to maturity: 72
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: Midwest, Northeast
- Brix level: Medium-high
- Other attributes: Great eating quality, excellent interior color and firmness
Dixie Red
- Company: Siegers Seed Company
- Type: Hybrid round-red tomato
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease resistance/tolerance: High resistance: Alternaria, Fusarium wilt races 1-3, gray leaf spot, tomato spotted wilt virus. Intermediate resistance: root knot nematodes (Meloidogyne arenaria, M. incognita, and M. javanica)
- Days to maturity: 85
- Yield potential: Excellent
- Other attributes: Dixie Red is a deep-oblate, determinate tomato. It produces large fruit with the potential to perform well in the hot-set slot, and it’s ideal for the vine ripe market
Jolly Girl
- Company: Stokes Seeds
- Type: Determinate grape
- Weight: .35 to .45 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Days to maturity: 90 from seed
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: North America
- Brix level: High
- Other attributes: Crack resistant, sweet flavor and good acid content
Mountain Merit
- Company: Seedway
- Type: Determinate beefsteak
- Weight: 8 to 11 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease Resistance: Fusarium races 1-3, nematode, Verticillium, late blight, early blight, tomato spotted wilt virus
- Days to maturity: 77
- Yield potential: Good
- Region(s) best suited for production: Northeast, Mid-South, Midwest
- Other attributes: Offers high performance, good flavor, strong plant for extended picks
Red Mountain
- Company: Harris Seeds
- Type: Large red-round
- Weight: 10 to 12 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease resistance/tolerance: Fusarium wilt races 1-3, Verticillium wilt, root knot nematode, tomato spotted
- wilt virus
- Days to maturity: 73
- Yield potential: Excellent
- Region(s) best suited for production: Eastern U.S.
- Other attributes: Very uniform fruit with smooth shoulders, works well for protected culture
Rendidor F1 Hybrid
- Company: Golden Valley Seed
- Type: Determinate saladette
- Weight: 4 to 4.5 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Both
- Disease resistance/tolerance: Tobacco mosaic virus, Verticilium wilt, Fusarium races 1,2, tomato yellow leaf curl virus, nematodes, Alternaria
- Days to maturity: 110 from transplant
- Yield potential: High to very high
- Region(s) best suited for production: All of U.S.
- Brix level: Medium to high
- Other attributes: Suitable for hand and machine harvesting, excellent for high yields, good variety for long distance shipping
SummerPick
- Company: Syngenta
- Type: Vine ripe
- Weight: 11 ounces
- Fresh market or processing: Fresh market
- Disease resistance/tolerance: Tomato spotted wilt virus, Fusarium wilt races 0-2, gray leaf spot, Verticillium
- Days to maturity: Early
- Yield potential: High
- Region(s) best suited for production: Ideal for Eastern growers
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10 Tomato Varieties You Need To Know