Striped German
Heirloom tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
- Breeding
- Heirloom
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 78-85 days
- Fruit
- bicolor, beefsteak
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- -
Origin & history
A Virginia Mennonite bicolor beefsteak, flat-shouldered and marbled yellow-and-red through the flesh, the market grower's favorite of the bicolor class.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 78-85 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.
Yield Characteristics of Indigo Purple Tomato Varieties in Kentucky
2015 · Frankfort, Kentucky · full season · published as "Striped German"
| Measurement | Result | Method |
|---|---|---|
| Fruit weight | 300.2 g a | Mean fruit weight from plot counts and weights |
| Yield | 4,515 lb/ac cd | Per-acre yield extrapolated from small research plots |
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
No documented disease resistance, typical of heirlooms and older open-pollinated varieties. See tomato diseases for the cultural playbook that fills the gap.
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85-95 days · Indeterminate
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Black Krim
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Chocolate Stripes
75-85 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
German Johnson
76-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Gold Medal
75-90 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 3 sources, including 1 independent reference.
- Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog · Johnny's Selected Seeds, Seed Catalog
- Seed Savers Exchange catalog & variety histories · Seed Savers Exchange, Community Collection
- Yield Characteristics of Indigo Purple Tomato Varieties in Kentucky · Kentucky State University, College of Agriculture, Food Science, and Sustainable Systems (2015), University or Government