1 / 4open-pollinated
Green Zebra
Tom Wagner's iconic 1983 green-when-ripe cultivar, combining emerald flesh and dark striping with a distinctive sweet-tangy flavour, high productivity and relatively crack-resistant fruit.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Saladette
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 100 g (57–142 g)
- Days to maturity
- 76 days (72–80) from transplant
- Sweetness
- High
- Flavour intensity
- Very high
- Productivity
- Very high
- Cracking resistance
- High
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Growing advice
- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Harvest when the green fruit develops a yellow/olive cast and stripes become strongly defined. Because ripe colour remains green-based, visual ripeness is less obvious than in red cultivars.
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4.0/10
Grower rating
1 review
6.0 / 10
Flavour · 1 review
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Would grow again · 1 of 1 answered
Sweetness
Low
1 grower observation
Acidity
Medium
1 grower observation
Flavour intensity
Strong
1 grower observation
Productivity
Low
1 grower observation
Generally low cracking reported by growers— observed by growers, not a breeder resistance rating (1 report)
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KKMiller
4/10 overall · 6/10 flavour
Scotland · Unheated greenhouse · Container / pot · Full sun · 2026
- Sweetness: Low
- Acidity: Medium
- Flavour intensity: Strong
- Productivity: Low
- Cracking: Slight
- Would grow again: Probably not
Late ripening in Scottish weather - September only one or two ripened on vine in greenhouse but ripened off the vine indoors okay
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Problems this grower observed
- Grower observation: Blossom end rot — mild
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