Aunt Ruby's German Green
Heirloom tomato
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 80-85 days 1 community collection · basis unstated
- Fruit
- green, beefsteak
- Weight
- 12-16 oz 1 community collection
- Bred by
- -
Grey captions say what stands behind that particular figure. Breeding, growth habit and fruit characters carry no caption because they rest on the record's sources as a whole rather than citing their own; closing that gap is ordinary outstanding work, not a finished job.
Origin & history
A Tennessee family heirloom from Ruby Arnold of Greeneville, released through Seed Savers Exchange. The definitive green-when-ripe beefsteak: sweet, spicy, and ripe when the shoulders blush amber.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 80-85 days | Consensus range across the cited independent references. |
| Fruit weight | 12-16 oz | Typical range for the cultivar, as a consensus across the cited sources. Not a measured mean from any single crop: fruit weight varies with season, spacing and where on the plant the fruit set. |
Against the rest of the tomato database
Where this variety sits among every tomato we hold a comparable figure for. Position is not merit: earlier is not better than later, and hotter is not better than milder. Only cultivar-level figures are compared, never trial results, and maturity is only ranked against figures counted the same way.
later than 79% of the 258 tomatoes we hold a figure for. None of these figures state whether they are counted from sowing or from transplant, so they are ranked against each other on the assumption that suppliers use one convention, which is not something any of them says.
heavier than 60% of the 72 tomatoes we hold a figure for.
Traits
Disease resistance
No documented disease resistance, typical of heirlooms and older open-pollinated varieties. See tomato diseases for the cultural playbook that fills the gap.
Related varieties
- heirloom
Green Giant
80-90 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Aker's West Virginia
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Aunt Gertie's Gold
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Aunt Ginny's Purple
78-85 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Beefsteak
85-90 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Big Rainbow
85-95 days · Indeterminate
Head to head
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all community collections. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Seed Savers Exchange catalog & variety histories · Seed Savers Exchange, Community Collection