Illustration of Lemon Boy tomato
Illustration based on known variety traits. Appearance varies by growing conditions.

No. 055 · hybrid

Lemon Boy

Lemon Boy is an indeterminate hybrid slicer with bright lemon-yellow, deepening to golden with a slight blush at the blossom end fruit. It ripens in about 72 days.

Typeslicer
Habitindeterminate
Days to maturity72
Fruit size7 to 8 oz
Colorbright lemon-yellow, deepening to golden with a slight blush at the blossom end
Difficultyeasy

Flavor

Described as a mild, sweet-tangy taste that is sharper and more balanced than most yellow tomatoes, picking earlier for more acidity. As with every flavor note here, this is the recurring catalog and grower description, not a measured claim.

Origin

A modern F1 hybrid lemon-yellow slicing tomato bred for sweet-tangy flavor and VFN disease resistance; the updated Lemon Boy Plus adds broader disease resistance.

What it does well

  • Strong VFN disease resistance for clean, healthy vines
  • Vigorous, high-yielding hybrid that is widely adaptable

Where it frustrates

  • Tall indeterminate vines need staking and pruning
  • As an F1 hybrid the seed does not come true

Like Lemon Boy, but...

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

Better Boybut lemon-yellow rather than red

Where to buy seed

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