Bellstar
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 68-75 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- red, plum
- Weight
- -
- 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 Canadian-bred determinate paste variety from Agriculture Canada's Harrow station, developed for short northern seasons where standard romas run out of time.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 68-75 days | Consensus range across the cited sources, which include both independent references and commercial catalogs. |
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.
earlier than 75% 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.
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
- F1 hybrid
Early Resilience
65-70 days · Determinate
- heirloom
Grandma Mary's Paste
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- F1 hybrid
Health Kick
70-75 days · Determinate
- open-pollinated
Heinz 1350
75-78 days · Determinate
- open-pollinated
Martino's Roma
75-80 days · Determinate
- open-pollinated
Roma VF
73-80 days · Determinate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, 1 community collection and 1 seed catalog. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Seed Savers Exchange catalog & variety histories · Seed Savers Exchange, Community Collection
- Territorial Seed catalog · Territorial Seed Company, Seed Catalog