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open-pollinated
Long Keeper
Also sold as: Burpee Long Keeper, Burpee's Long-Keeper, Long-Keeper
Burpee's 1979 open-pollinated storage tomato: indeterminate, compact-vined, roughly 6 oz fruit that ripen golden-orange-red and can keep for 6–12 weeks or longer.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Slicer
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 170 g (170–198 g)
- Days to maturity
- 78 days (78–85) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- Medium
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- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Moderate
- Growing notes
- Burpee describes 36–40 in indeterminate plants. Fruit are bred to be harvested for storage and can be kept 6–12+ weeks, some growers also lift or hang whole plants late in the season.
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