Dwarf Wild Fred
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Dwarf
- Days to maturity
- 75-85 days 1 community collection · basis unstated
- Fruit
- purple-black, beefsteak
- 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
One of the darker Dwarf Tomato Project selections, producing large chocolate-brown fruit with the dense flavor of the black heirloom class on a container-sized plant.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 75-85 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.
later than 71% 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
- open-pollinated
Dwarf Purple Heart
75-85 days · Dwarf
- open-pollinated
Black Beauty
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Carbon
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Cherokee Chocolate
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Cherokee Purple
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Dwarf Kelly Green
75-85 days · Dwarf
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all community collections. No independent reference documents this yet.
- The Dwarf Tomato Project · Dwarf Tomato Project (Craig LeHoullier, Patrina Nuske Small, and volunteer breeders) (2005), Community Collection