Pruden's Purple
Heirloom tomato
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 72-80 days 3 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- pink, beefsteak
- Weight
- 12-16 oz 3 sources, none independent
- 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
A potato-leaf pink beefsteak often described as an earlier Brandywine, which is precisely its appeal: comparable flavor and size a couple of weeks sooner.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 72-80 days | Consensus range across the cited sources, which include both independent references and commercial catalogs. |
| Fruit weight | 12-16 oz | Typical range for the cultivar, as a consensus across the cited sources. Not a measured mean from any single crop: fruit weight varies with season, spacing and where on the plant the fruit set. |
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 51% 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.
heavier than 60% of the 72 tomatoes we hold a figure for.
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
Anna Russian
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
German Johnson
76-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Aunt Ginny's Purple
78-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Black Krim
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Brandywine
80-100 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Brandywine, Sudduth's Strain
85-95 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 3 sources, 2 seed catalogs and 1 community collection. No independent reference documents this yet.
- 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, Community Collection