Marglobe
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 73-77 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- red, medium
- Weight
- -
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.
The breeder attribution here is supported by Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners. These claims name their own evidence rather than resting on the record's source list as a whole, because a species that distinguishes a variety, or an attribution to a breeding programme, is worth being able to check on its own.
Origin & history
Fred J. Pritchard's USDA cross of Marvel and Globe, released in 1925 as one of the first disease-tolerant American tomatoes. Marglobe's genetics run through a large share of 20th-century varieties, Rutgers included.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 73-77 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 60% 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
- open-pollinated
Ace 55
75-80 days · Determinate
- heirloom
Bonny Best
70-75 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Box Car Willie
78-82 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Floradade
75-80 days · Determinate
- open-pollinated
Heinz 1350
75-78 days · Determinate
- heirloom
Paragon
75-80 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, 1 seed catalog and 1 community collection. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Victory Seeds variety histories · Victory Seed Company, Seed Catalog
- Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners · Cornell University Cooperative Extension, Community Collection