Stupice vs Early Girl
The cold-tolerant Czech heirloom against the American early hybrid.
| Stupice | Early Girl | |
|---|---|---|
| Breeding | Heirloom | F1 hybrid |
| Growth habit | Indeterminate | Indeterminate |
| Days to maturity | 55-65 | 57-60 |
| Fruit color | red | red |
| Fruit size class | saladette | medium |
| Typical weight | 2-3 oz | 4-6 oz |
| Primary uses | slicing, snacking | slicing |
| Introduced | - | - |
| Documented resistances | 0 | 2 |
| Saves true from seed | Yes | 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
Stupice
No documented resistance, typical of older open-pollinated varieties.
Early Girl
Traits
Both: Indeterminate, Red, Early Season, Slicing
Only Stupice
- Heirloom
- Open-Pollinated
- Saladette
Only Early Girl
- F1 Hybrid
- Medium Slicer
Origins
Stupice
A Czech-bred, potato-leaf early tomato that reached American growers in the 1970s seed exchanges. Cold-tolerant and absurdly early for real tomato flavor; a Pacific Northwest staple.
Early Girl
The early-season standard since the 1970s, introduced to America through Burpee. Famous twice over: as the first ripe tomato in millions of gardens, and as the dry-farmed signature crop of Northern California market farms.
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Sources & References
Evidence: 5 sources, 4 seed catalogs and 1 community collection. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Territorial Seed catalog · Territorial Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners · Cornell University Cooperative Extension, Community Collection
- Burpee catalog · W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed Catalog
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog