Legend
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 68-70 days 2 sources, 1 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
Another Baggett/OSU release, notable as one of the few open-pollinated tomatoes carrying the Ph-2 late blight resistance gene, bred for the blight-soaked Pacific Northwest.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 68-70 days | Consensus range across the cited sources, which include both independent references and commercial catalogs. |
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.
earlier than 79% 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.
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.
Across every trial
What each measurement rests on. A figure from one plot in one season and a figure seen repeatedly across sites and years are different kinds of evidence, so the weight is printed beside the number rather than left for the reader to count.
| Measurement | Observed | Evidence behind it | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Late Blight severity | 18.9-42.8 % | 2 observations from 2 trials, 2012-2013 | |
| Late Blight: disease progress (AUDPC) | 728.3 index | 1 observation from 1 trial, 2013 |
Ranges span what was observed; no average is taken across trials. Where the trials measured differently or grew at different populations the figures are a spread across conditions, not one population, and the row says so.
Evaluation of Late Blight Resistant Tomato Varieties, 2013
2013 · New York · full season · published as "Legend OP"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Late Blight severity * | 42.5 % | Visual severity rating under natural infection |
| Late Blight: disease progress (AUDPC) | 728.3 index | Area under the disease progress curve |
Evaluation of Late Blight Resistant Tomato Varieties, 2012
2012 · New York · full season · published as "Legend OP"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Late Blight severity * | 18.9-42.8 % | Visual severity rating under natural infection |
* Measured differently in different trials. disease severity varied between the trials above. AMSeed shows both figures rather than averaging them, because the difference between them is the finding: performance depends on the site, the season and the protocol, and a single blended number would hide exactly that.
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.
Production systems
Described as suited to
No source we cite says which production system this variety suits.
Grown in trials under
Grown in open field in 2 trials we hold. That records where the plants stood, not where the variety belongs; no other system has been tested here.
Traits
Disease resistance
| Code | Disease | Level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph-2 | Late Blight (Phytophthora infestans) | intermediate | Independently observed |
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Sources & References
Evidence: 4 sources, including 3 independent references.
- Territorial Seed catalog · Territorial Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- 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
- Evaluation of Late Blight Resistant Tomato Varieties, 2013 · Cornell Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center (2013), University or Government