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| Tomato Variery Trials - 2003 | |||||||
| The yields and quality characteristics of 10 tomato varieties grown at Verstuyft farms in the spring of 2003. | |||||||
Variety |
Seed source |
Yieldz (lbs per plant) |
Fruit size |
Fruit diameter (inches) | Flavory |
Ratingx |
Virusratingw |
 Heatwave |
Seminis | 9.3 | Very large | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6.1 |
 BHN 444 |
BHN | 7.8 | Very large | 3.5 | 8 | 2 | 3.2 |
 Sunpride |
Seminis | 7.8 | Large | 2.5 | 4 | 3 | 5.8 |
 Sunchaser |
Seminis | 7.7 | Large | 2.5 | 6 | 4 | 3 |
 BHN 640 |
BHN | 10.2 | Large | 2.5 | 7 | 5 | 4.2 |
 Amelia |
Harris Moran | 7.4 | Very large | 3.5 | 5 | 6 | 5.8 |
 Toro |
Harris Moran | 7.3 | Medium (roma) | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6.8 |
 Sanibel |
Seminis | 6.1 | Large | 2.5 | 5 | 8 | 4.1 |
 Sunbeam |
Seminis | 5.2 | Large | 2.8 | 4 | 9 | 6.6 |
 Blazer |
Harris Moran | 3.2 | Large | 2.5 | 8 | 10 | 10.2 |
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z Once over harvest performed on 6/20/03; 5 plants taken at random from each variety y Rating of 1 to 10 by 10 testers; 1 = worst, 10 = best x Overall rating of each variety in numerical order in this trial; 1 = best w Virus rating = The percent of plants in the trial which died or looked sick from what appeared to be virus; some tomato spotted wilt was identified, but the main problem was beet curly top virus | |||||||