Federle
Heirloom tomato
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 80-85 days 1 community collection · 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 German-American paste heirloom bearing seven-inch banana-shaped fruit, nearly solid flesh and almost seedless, kept alive through the Seed Savers network.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 80-85 days | Consensus range across the cited independent references. |
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.
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
Amish Paste
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Opalka
83-87 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Polish Linguisa
80-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
San Marzano Redorta
78-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Ten Fingers of Naples
75-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Grandma Mary's Paste
70-80 days · Indeterminate
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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