Japanese Black Trifele
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 74-80 days 1 seed catalog · basis unstated
- Fruit
- purple-black, saladette
- 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
Despite the name, a Russian variety ('trifele' = truffle, for the pear shape). Mahogany, crack-free fruit with beefsteak-class flavor on tidy potato-leaf vines.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 74-80 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 54% 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
Black Krim
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Black Prince
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Box Car Willie
78-82 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Chocolate Stripes
75-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Druzba
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Green Zebra
75-78 days · Indeterminate
Explore all tomato varieties · compare any two · when to plant it where you are
Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog