Celebrity vs Better Boy
The two best-selling garden hybrids, compared on habit, maturity, and resistance.
| Celebrity | Better Boy | |
|---|---|---|
| Breeding | F1 hybrid | F1 hybrid |
| Growth habit | Semi-Determinate | Indeterminate |
| Days to maturity | 70-72 | 70-75 |
| Fruit color | red | red |
| Fruit size class | large | large |
| Typical weight | 7-10 oz | 10-16 oz |
| Primary uses | slicing | slicing |
| Introduced | 1984 | - |
| Documented resistances | 4 | 3 |
| Saves true from seed | No (F1) | No (F1) |
Disease resistance
Celebrity
Verticillium WiltV · resistant
Fusarium Wilt of TomatoFF · resistant
Root-Knot NematodeN · resistant
Tobacco Mosaic VirusT · resistant
Better Boy
Verticillium WiltV · resistant
Fusarium Wilt of TomatoF · resistant
Root-Knot NematodeN · resistant
Traits
Both: F1 Hybrid, Red, Medium Slicer, Mid Season, Slicing
Only Celebrity
- Semi-Determinate
- Crack-Resistant
Only Better Boy
- Indeterminate
Origins
Celebrity
Colen Wyatt's masterpiece at Petoseed and the 1984 All-America Selections winner: the definitive dependable garden tomato, stacking V, F1-2, N, and T resistance under crack-free red fruit. Named an AAS 'Perennial Favorite'.
Better Boy
The best-selling garden tomato in America for decades: the successor to Big Boy with a full VFN resistance package, from the Petoseed breeding lineage. A Guinness record for single-plant yield was set with it.
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Sources & References
Evidence: 4 sources, including 2 independent references.
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog
- Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners · Cornell University Cooperative Extension, University or Government
- Vegetable MD Online · Cornell University, Plant Pathology, University or Government
- Burpee catalog · W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed Catalog