📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Donald F1
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial F1 hybrid variety.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate, staying very compact. Outdoors in open ground, it tops out at around 20 inches (0.5 m).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright red, perfectly round, and incredibly firm. It has a highly uniform, “commercial” appearance.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: Standard tomato flavor, lacking complex sweetness. Best suited for canning, processing, or market sales where firmness and visual uniformity are prized over gourmet taste.
- ⚠️ Grower Notes: Yields can be below average, and it has a relatively short, concentrated fruiting window. Because it is an F1 hybrid, seeds should not be saved for next year.
External plant description: Mid-season, standard, medium vigor.
Fruit set: No skipped trusses, but it has completely finished its flush (done fruiting).
Height: Outdoors in open ground by August 6th, it was about 20 inches (0.5 m) tall.
Trusses: 5-7 fruits per cluster, the fruits are rock hard with a highly marketable/commercial appearance.
Overall yield: Below average.
Fruit: Perfectly round, bright red, highly marketable.
Density of ripe fruit: High (very firm).
Flavor: Standard tomato flavor. I give the sweetness a 3.5 out of 5.
First impression: A highly marketable, commercial tomato best used for canning.
The main downsides – a very small bush and a low overall yield. I am not saving seeds from this one – it’s an F1 hybrid! My ratings: seedlings – 4-, bush – 3, fruit – 4, overall variety rating – 4-.
Edited September 18, 2015 by Alena
