Solar Fire
F1 hybrid tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
- Breeding
- F1 hybrid
- Growth habit
- Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 70-75 days
- Fruit
- red, large
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- -
Origin & history
UF's hot-set successor generation: bred by Jay Scott's program to set full-size fruit under Florida heat, with resistance to all three fusarium races.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 70-75 days | Consensus range across the cited independent references. |
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.
Fresh-Market Tomato Variety Performance in 2009
2009 · Lexington, Kentucky · spring · published as "Solar Fire"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Marketable yield * | 9,945 lb/ac fg | USDA U.S. No. 1 grade and size classification, Per-acre yield extrapolated from small research plots |
| Total harvested | 39,861 lb/ac bcde | Per-acre yield extrapolated from small research plots |
| Cull rate * | 75 % ab | USDA U.S. No. 1 grade and size classification |
| Fruit weight * | 8.8 oz hij | Mean fruit weight from the marketable lot |
Yield and Income of Fall Staked Tomato Cultivars in Eastern Kentucky
2009 · Quicksand, Kentucky · fall · published as "Solar Fire"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Marketable yield * | 21,243 lb/ac a | Diameter-class grading of breaker-stage fruit, Per-acre yield extrapolated from small research plots |
| Cull rate * | 2.6 % def | Diameter-class grading of breaker-stage fruit |
| Fruit weight * | 8.6 oz bcd | Mean fruit weight from plot counts and weights |
* Measured differently in different trials. marketable yield, cull rate, and fruit weight 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.
Traits
Disease resistance
| Code | Disease | Level | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| FFF | Fusarium Wilt of Tomato (Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici) | resistant | Independently observed |
| V | Verticillium Wilt (Verticillium dahliae) | resistant | Independently observed |
| St | Gray Leaf Spot (Stemphylium spp.) | resistant | Independently observed |
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Sources & References
Evidence: 3 sources, all independent references.
- Tomato Production and Cultivar Guides · University of Florida IFAS Extension, University or Government
- Fresh-Market Tomato Variety Performance in 2009 · University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture (2009), University or Government
- Yield and Income of Fall Staked Tomato Cultivars in Eastern Kentucky · University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Department of Horticulture (2009), University or Government