Dwarf Champion
Heirloom tomato
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- Dwarf
- Days to maturity
- 70-80 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- pink, medium
- 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.
Commonly confused with
These are different varieties. A name shared between them does not make them the same seed.
- different variety
Champion
Dwarf Champion is an 1889 heirloom; Champion is a modern VFNT hybrid.
Origin & history
Introduced in 1889 as the first commercially successful dwarf tomato, with stiff rugose foliage on a self-supporting plant. Its genetics underpin the modern Dwarf Tomato Project a century later.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 70-80 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.
earlier than 60% 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
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
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
Eva Purple Ball
70-78 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Rose de Berne
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Abraham Lincoln
77-87 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Ailsa Craig
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Anna Russian
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Arkansas Traveler
80-85 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, 1 seed catalog and 1 community collection. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- The Dwarf Tomato Project · Dwarf Tomato Project (Craig LeHoullier, Patrina Nuske Small, and volunteer breeders) (2005), Community Collection