Celebrity vs Mountain Pride
Two determinate market hybrids that defined home-garden reliability.
| Celebrity | Mountain Pride | |
|---|---|---|
| Breeding | F1 hybrid | F1 hybrid |
| Growth habit | Semi-Determinate | Determinate |
| Days to maturity | 70-72 | 74-77 |
| Fruit color | red | red |
| Fruit size class | large | large |
| Typical weight | 7-10 oz | 8-10 oz |
| Primary uses | slicing | slicing |
| Introduced | 1984 | 1984 |
| Documented resistances | 4 | 2 |
| 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
Mountain Pride
Traits
Both: F1 Hybrid, Red, Medium Slicer, Mid Season, Slicing, Crack-Resistant
Only Celebrity
- Semi-Determinate
Only Mountain Pride
- Determinate
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'.
Mountain Pride
The first of Randy Gardner's Mountain series at NC State, released in 1984 and the variety that established the line's reputation for crack-free, uniformly ripening fruit on determinate plants.
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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, Community Collection
- Vegetable MD Online · Cornell University, Plant Pathology, University or Government
- NC State Fresh-Market Tomato Breeding Program (Mountain series) · North Carolina State University, University or Government