Juliet
F1 hybrid tomato · Solanum lycopersicum · introduced 1999
- Breeding
- F1 hybrid
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 60-62 days
- Fruit
- red, grape
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- -
Origin & history
The 1999 AAS winner that mainstreamed the grape-tomato form in home gardens: glossy red mini-Romas in clusters, crack-proof, with useful field tolerance to blights.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 60-62 days | Consensus range across the cited sources, which include both independent references and commercial catalogs. |
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.
Evaluation of Late Blight Resistant Tomato Varieties, 2012
2012 · New York · full season · published as "Juliet"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Late Blight severity | 37.8-70 % | Visual severity rating under natural infection |
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
| Code | Disease | Level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| - | Early Blight (Alternaria linariae (A. solani)) | tolerant | Breeder declared |
| - | Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans) | tolerant | Breeder declared |
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
- F1 hybrid
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- F1 hybrid
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65-70 days · Indeterminate
- F1 hybrid
Jasper
60-65 days · Indeterminate
- F1 hybrid
Mountain Magic
66-70 days · Indeterminate
- F1 hybrid
Sweet Chelsea
65-70 days · Indeterminate
- F1 hybrid
Sweet Million
60-65 days · Indeterminate
Head to head
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Sources & References
Evidence: 5 sources, including 3 independent references.
- Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog · Johnny's Selected Seeds, Seed Catalog
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog
- Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners · Cornell University Cooperative Extension, University or Government
- Vegetable MD Online · Cornell University, Plant Pathology, University or Government
- Evaluation of Late Blight Resistant Tomato Varieties, 2012 · Cornell Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center (2012), University or Government