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open-pollinated
Solar Flare
Also sold as: Solar Flare Tomato
Brad Gates open-pollinated red-and-gold striped beefsteak with meaty 6–10 oz fruit, full sweet tomato flavour, good production and breeder-selected scab resistance.
- Shape
- Oblate / flattened
- Fruit type
- Beefsteak
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate / cordon
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 227 g (170–284 g)
- Days to maturity
- 75 days (70–80) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium-high
- Flavour intensity
- High
- Productivity
- High
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- Containers
- Not for containers
- Support needed
- Substantial
- Growing notes
- Indeterminate plants commonly reach roughly 1.5–1.8 m and need a cage, stake or trellis. This is a relatively early striped beefsteak selected as a dependable production variety.
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