The chase is a listing of Lycopersicon esculentum terms I assembled to provide you useful entropy while you shop for the most suitable form of tomatoes for your garden .
Beefsteak – A type of tomato rather than a variety show ( although there really is a particular mixed bag named ‘ Beefsteak . ’ ) Usually considered a magnanimous , irregular molded tomato with firm anatomy . seed leaf – The first leave forge from the seed .
break up Resistant – A tomato that inherently resistant to crack , a problem normally caused where rainwater fall sporadically , or where there is unreasonable rain .
Cultivar – The miscellanea of a industrial plant . However , technically there is a difference between cultivar and variety . Cultivar is considered to be a product of intentional breeding whereas Variety is the product of accidental crossing . The terms are commonly used interchangeably .
Determinate – When terminal bud set yield plant growth stops . Plant needs little or no staking . harvest home is only about a week to ten day .
Globe – A one shot work Lycopersicon esculentum .
Heirloom – An heirloom is generally considered to be a mixed bag that has been pass down , through several generations of a folk because of it ’s valued characteristic . Since ‘ heirloom ’ variety have become popular in the preceding few years there have been shore leave taken with the use of this full term for commercial-grade purposes . Heirloom tomato experts , Craig LeHoullier and Carolyn Male , Ph.D. have classified down heirloom into four family : commercial-grade Heirlooms : Open - cross-pollinate varieties introduced before 1940.Family Heirlooms : Seeds that have been pass down for several generations through a home .
Created heirloom : Crossing two known parent ( either two heirlooms or an heirloom and a hybrid ) and dehybridizing the resulting seeds for how ever many years / coevals it takes to eliminate the undesirable characteristics and brace the hope gadget characteristic , perhaps as many as 8 years or more .
whodunit heirloom : Varieties that are a product of natural hybrid - pollenation of other heirloom variety show .
observe : All heirloom varieties are open - pollinated but not all open - pollinated varieties are heirloom varieties . )
crossbreed pollination – Cross pollenation accomplished by removing anther of parent x before the freeing of pollen . Y parent ’s anther tube is opened and pollen removed to deposit on stigma of parent x.
undetermined – plant that will keep growing and producing new blossoms even after yield set . Harvest may last for several calendar month .
locule – Chambers within the love apple ’s fruit that hold the seeded player within a jelly - like substance . Most fruits have 2 or more chamber and large fruited varieties have as many as 10 .
Lycopersicon esculentum – The genus and species name for Tomato . All plants have a genus and species name , which are indicated in italics .
Maturity – The number of mean solar day from transplant seedling to the first mature fruit . Early - Season varieties in the main age between 55 to 68 mean solar day ; Midseason varieties- 69 to 79 days ; former time of year assortment from 80 Clarence Shepard Day Jr. and beyond .
pumpkin-shaped – A slightly flattened orotund Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe of a love apple .
Open - pollinate – cum from open - pollinated varieties make plant and yield that are identical to their parent . ( Note : All heirloom varieties are open - pollinated but not all open - pollinated miscellanea are heirloom varieties . )
Personal favorite – A diverseness that has been a favorite through years of growing .
Pollination – Pollen metric grain released by anther and diminish to the stigma , usually of the same flower .
white potato - leaf – Foliage without indentations on leaf margins . see exchangeable to leaves of potato plant .
Regular - leaf – Foliage with indentation on the foliage margins .
Semi - Determinate – tomato plant are larger than determinate ( bush character ) but modest than Indeterminate plant . These plants usually require bet on .
wide adapted – A variety adapt to growing well in several growing zones .
