AMSEED American Seed Intelligence Platform
Tomato variety

Fire Fly

F1 hybrid tomato

Breeding
F1 hybrid
Growth habit
Indeterminate
Days to maturity
60-65 days
1 trial programme · basis unstated
Fruit
white, cherry
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 2022 All-America Selections winner bearing pale ivory cherry fruit with a high sugar reading, one of the few white-fruited hybrids in commercial distribution.

Measurements

MeasurementValueContext
Days to maturity 60-65 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.

Days to maturity 60-65 days · ranked at its midpoint, 62.5
47.5 median 75 90

earlier than 93% 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

Sources & References

Evidence: 1 source, all trial programmes. No independent reference documents this yet.

  1. All-America Selections winners database · All-America Selections, Trial Program