Homestead 24
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Semi-Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 78-82 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- red, 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.
Origin & history
Bred in 1950s Florida for hot-climate fruit set and named for the farming town south of Miami; still a standard recommendation across the Gulf South and in tropical seed trade.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 78-82 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.
Traits
Disease resistance
| Code | Disease | Level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| F | Fusarium Wilt of Tomato (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) | resistant | Breeder declared |
F 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.
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.
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
- heirloom
Marmande
70-78 days · Semi-Determinate
- open-pollinated
Rutgers
74-80 days · Semi-Determinate
- heirloom
Abraham Lincoln
77-87 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Ace 55
75-80 days · Determinate
- heirloom
Ailsa Craig
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Bonny Best
70-75 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog