open-pollinated
Matina
Also sold as: Matina Tomato
Early German potato-leaf heirloom with prolific small red fruit, balanced sweet-acid flavour and particularly reliable performance in cool conditions.
- Shape
- Round
- Fruit type
- Saladette
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 64 g (43–85 g)
- Days to maturity
- 75 days (70–80) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- Very high
- Cracking resistance
- High
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- Containers
- Not for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Heat tolerance
- High
- Cool-climate suitability
- Very high
- Growing notes
- Reliable under cool/wet conditions but specialist grow-outs also report fruit set above 90°F. Early fruit can be firmer/milder, later fruit often becomes softer and tangier.
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