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No. 018 · hybrid

Celebrity

Celebrity is a determinate hybrid slicer with red fruit. It ripens in about 70 days.

Typeslicer
Habitdeterminate
Days to maturity70
Fruit size7 to 10 oz
Colorred
Difficultyeasy

Flavor

Described as exceptionally flavorful and all-purpose, a dependable balanced red-tomato taste that pairs with its heavy yields. This is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

An F1 hybrid slicer bred by Colen Wyatt and commercially distributed in the late 1980s, recognized as a 1984 All-America Selections winner.

What it does well

  • All-America Selections winner in 1984
  • Resistant to verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, root knot nematodes, and tobacco mosaic virus
  • Crack resistant and heavy yielding
  • Produces under a broad range of conditions

Where it frustrates

  • An F1 hybrid, so saved seed will not grow true

Like Celebrity, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Mountain Magicbut a smaller campari type rather than a full-size slicerBig Beefbut larger beefsteak fruit on indeterminate vines

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