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open-pollinated
Early Red Chief
Early open-pollinated bush tomato producing heavy crops of roughly 10 oz red slicers over an unusually long picking season for a determinate plant.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Slicer
- Growth habit
- Determinate / bush
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 283 g
- Days to maturity
- 68 days (65–70) from transplant
- Flavour intensity
- Medium-high
- Productivity
- Very high
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Moderate
- Growing notes
- Although classed as determinate, current commercial sources specifically describe a long picking season. Caging is sensible under the reported heavy fruit load.
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