Indigo Rose
Open-pollinated tomato · Solanum lycopersicum · introduced 2012
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 75-80 days
- Fruit
- purple-black, saladette
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- -
Origin & history
Jim Myers' Oregon State release and the first commercial tomato carrying true anthocyanin-blue pigmentation, developed through conventional breeding from wild species crosses.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 75-80 days | Consensus range across the cited commercial catalogs; no independent source documents it yet. |
Trial results
What this variety did in published university trials. These are observations of a season, not properties of the seed, so they are kept separate from the measurements above and are never merged into them. Letters are each report's own mean-separation groups.
Yield Characteristics of Indigo Purple Tomato Varieties in Kentucky
2015 · Frankfort, Kentucky · full season · published as "Indigo Rose"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Fruit weight | 35.6 g e | Mean fruit weight from plot counts and weights |
| Yield | 3,061 lb/ac d | Per-acre yield extrapolated from small research plots |
Each trial states its own limits, and they are worth reading before acting on any figure here. Yields in these reports are extrapolated from small research plots and run higher than commercial farms achieve; cull rates reflect the disease pressure of one particular season.
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
Black Cherry
64-75 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Black Plum
75-82 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Chocolate Cherry
70-75 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Garden Peach
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Japanese Black Trifele
74-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Jaune Flammé
70-80 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, including 1 independent reference.
- Territorial Seed catalog · Territorial Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- Yield Characteristics of Indigo Purple Tomato Varieties in Kentucky · Kentucky State University, College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Sustainable Systems (2015), University or Government