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Tomato Celebrity hybrid

1984 AAS Edible – Vegetable Winner

Multiple disease resistance and hybrid vigor for strong, healthy plants and a harvest you can count on. It will produce under a broad range of conditions and is widely adaptable as a bush, cage, or short stake tomato. Celebrity is a mid-early determinate variety that starts producing in about 70 days from transplant. Its large, deep fruits are firm and exceptionally flavorful.

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Categories: 1984, All, Determinate, Edibles/Vegetables, National, Tomato
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AAS WINNER DETAILS

Winner Type: National
Class: Tomato
Variety Name: Celebrity hybrid
Genus: Lycopersicon
Species: esculentum
Year: 1984
Common Name: Tomato
Type: Edible – Vegetable
Breeder: Petoseed/Seminis Vegetable Seeds
Close Market Comparison: Bigset and Floramerica

PLANT NEEDS

Duration Type: Annual
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Normal
Season Type: Warm season
Staking Required: No

PLANT CHARACTERISTICS

Foliage Color: Green
Plant Habit: Bushy
Plant Height: 4 feet
Fruit Color (Harvest): Red
Fruit Shape: Deep globe
Fruit Weight: 8 ounces

IN THE GARDEN

Garden Spacing: 2-3 feet
Days To Harvest (Direct Sowing Seed): Not recommended
Days To Harvest (Transplant): 75
Plant Spread: 2 feet
Disease Resistances or Tolerances: Tobacco mosaic virus, verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt races 1 & 2 and root knot nematodes

HOW TO GROW

It can be grown as a bush, caged, or on a short pole.

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