AMSEED American Seed Intelligence Platform
Tomato variety

Bush Early Girl

F1 hybrid tomato

Breeding
F1 hybrid
Growth habit
Determinate
Days to maturity
54-63 days
1 seed catalog · basis unstated
Fruit
red, medium
Weight
-
Bred by
W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
Burpee catalog

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.

The breeder attribution here is supported by Burpee catalog. These claims name their own evidence rather than resting on the record's source list as a whole, because a species that distinguishes a variety, or an attribution to a breeding programme, is worth being able to check on its own.

Commonly confused with

These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.

Origin & history

A determinate reworking of Early Girl for containers and small beds, trading the season-long harvest for a compact plant and the same early ripening.

Measurements

MeasurementValueContext
Days to maturity 54-63 days Consensus range across the cited commercial catalogs; no independent source documents it yet.

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.

Days to maturity 54-63 days · ranked at its midpoint, 58.5
47.5 median 75 90

earlier than 96% 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.

Production systems

Described as suited to

Container inherits the record’s sources

A claim about the seed, from the sources this record cites. A system not listed here has not been ruled out; no source addressed it.

Grown in trials under

Not recorded in any trial we hold.

Traits

Disease resistance

CodeDiseaseLevelBasis
V Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium dahliae) resistant Breeder declared
FF Fusarium Wilt of Tomato (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) resistant Breeder declared
N Root-Knot Nematode (Meloidogyne spp.) resistant Breeder declared

V records that this variety has some resistance to this disease without naming which gene. The pathogen has 3 named races that different genes answer differently, so how much of it this covers is not established by the source.

FF records that this variety has some resistance to this disease without naming which gene. The pathogen has 3 named races that different genes answer differently, so how much of it this covers is not established by the source.

Verticillium Wilt: Recorded at disease level. This pathogen has 3 named races that varieties meet differently, and the source we cite does not distinguish them.

Fusarium Wilt of Tomato: Recorded at disease level. This pathogen has 3 named races that varieties meet differently, and the source we cite does not distinguish them.

Every resistance claim here cites a publisher's whole output rather than one publication, and does not say where inside it the statement appears, so it cannot be looked up as cited. That is a gap in our records rather than a judgement on the claim, and it is counted and being worked down.

Breeder declared means the resistance was stated by whoever breeds or sells the seed. That is not a reason to disbelieve it, and for most resistance genes it is the only evidence that exists: the breeder screens the line and publishes the result in their catalog, and no independent party re-tests it. We label it rather than quietly presenting it as though someone had checked.

Related varieties

Sources & References

Evidence: 1 source, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.

  1. Burpee catalog · W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed Catalog