Early Girl

Tomatobox
headercolor = pink
name = Early Girl


image_width = 66px
image_caption = a ripe Early Girl fruit
type = Hybrid
maturity = 50 days
height = 9 feet
weight = 8 oz
vine = Indeterminate
leaf = regular leaf
resist =
color = Red
shape = Globe The Early Girl tomato is a medium globe type F1 hybrid popular with home gardeners because of its early fruit ripening. Early Girl is an indeterminate variety, tall growing and needs support as the plant grows. Fruit maturity claims range from 50 to 62 days from transplanting, which appeals to growers in climates with shorter frost-free seasons. (However, the plants of this variety are not particularly cold-tolerant.) Plants are reliable and prolific.

The ripe fruit is about the size and shape of a tennis ball -- very much a standard tomato -- and weighs 4 to 8 ounces (~130g). It has a bright color and good flavor, but is usually replaced at the table by later-producing varieties which are considered better tasting. Better varieties taking roughly the same amount of time as Early Girl include Sasha's Altai and Stupice.

The Early Girl VF hybrid is verticillium and fusarium wilt (strain I) resistant. The VFF hybrid is resistant to fusarium wilt strains I & II. The patent holder of the Early Girl variety is Monsanto Corporation. An OP version has also been bred, although it is not widely available.

See also:
List of tomato cultivars