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) |
Measured against each other
These two have never been grown in the same trial AMSeed holds. Every difference in the table above is a difference between what each variety's own sources say about it, which is not the same as a difference between the varieties. Two catalogs counting days from different starting points, or reporting fruit weight from different seasons and soils, can differ by more than the seed does.
Where head-to-head measurements do exist: the trial record · what else we do not know
Disease resistance
Celebrity
Better Boy
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 1 independent reference.
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog
- Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners · Cornell University Cooperative Extension, Community Collection
- Vegetable MD Online · Cornell University, Plant Pathology, University or Government
- Burpee catalog · W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed Catalog