Quick Summary of Jaguar F1
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial F1 hybrid originally produced by the Dutch seed company Seminis (which later became part of Monsanto/Bayer). It is now largely discontinued or very hard to find in retail seed catalogs.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Grows to about 1.6 m (5.2 ft). It is a strongly “vegetative” type of plant, meaning it requires strict pruning (usually to 2 stems). If left unpruned, it will turn into a massive jungle of foliage with very little fruit. Shows mild resistance to Cladosporium (tomato leaf mold).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, beautiful, oblate beefsteaks. Officially red (though one grower reported a pink variant). Typically weigh 200–300 g (7–10.5 oz), with maximums reaching 400–650 g (14–23 oz / 1.4 lbs). Trusses hold 3 to 6 fruits. Unlike many beefsteaks, it reliably produces large fruits all the way up to the top clusters.
- 👅 Flavor: Surprisingly good and juicy for a commercial hybrid. It lacks the hard white core often found in supermarket tomatoes. However, it still falls slightly short of the rich flavor of traditional heirlooms like Oxheart.
- ⏳ Maturity: Early to mid-early season. Exceptional yield and reliability.
The Jaguar F1 hybrid from the Dutch company Seminis. Early ripening, though in my conditions it turned out to be mid-early. One of the most productive and large-fruited hybrids. Perfect at the seedling stage, doesn’t stretch and get leggy. Quite tasty, for a hybrid.
The largest fruit was about 400 g (14 oz), oblate, beautiful, 5-6 fruits per cluster. It’s better to form it into 2 stems and prune the suckers; it will be more productive. It grew to a height of 1.6 m (5.2 ft). It is affected by Cladosporium (leaf mold), but only in a mild form.
A few more photos:
Those are some nice-looking Jaguars. 👍 👍 👍
Yes, from the Seminis company, and I’m sure it says Monsanto vertically on the packet. This is a GMO product, therefore I give this variety the absolute worst rating.
Rodebielesumer wrote:
Yes, from the Seminis company, and I’m sure it says Monsanto vertically on the packet. This is a GMO product, therefore I give this variety the absolute worst rating.
Are all Dutch hybrids from Monsanto GMO? Or just “Jaguar” and “Big Beef”????
No, not all of them. But the Seminis company was sold to Monsanto for a billion and change. This company isn’t thriving here; they are afraid to mention the name ‘M’.. Any varieties, i.e., hybrids, where it says Monsanto Holland vertically, are not sold here. They showed a documentary on your Ren TV channel about seeds; apparently, even labs can’t test them for GMOs because the company won’t release the data on what they inserted into them. They said that in the second and third generation, there is a sharp drop in seed germination. I read on the forum here from Olga about the germination of saved hybrid seeds. Here is what she writes: Marissa 1 out of 9, President 1 out of 9, Pink Unicum 4 out of 9. Is this a coincidence? And if not? Just think, you are eating 100% GMOs. One brave woman took all her seedlings from Monsanto and threw them in the trash in April after that broadcast. Good for her.
Rodebielesumer wrote:
Just think, you are eating 100% GMOs. One brave woman took all her seedlings from Monsanto and threw them in the trash…
Help!!!! What a nightmare! Should I carry my Big Beef to the dumpster then? 😕
Rodebielesumer wrote:
…This is a GMO product, therefore I give this variety the absolute worst rating.
Well, this is just unfortunate, I really liked the look of those tomatoes!
Please keep ANTI-GMO propaganda to a separate thread. If you have actual information that this specific hybrid is GM, then state where this information comes from. But as I understand it, these are just assumptions on an intuitive level.
Pomidoroved wrote everything correctly, labs in any country, be it Germany or Russia, simply cannot crack the DNA, especially with inserted genes… I give a plus to Germany for its intuition in not allowing 46 hybrids from ‘M’ to be sold here.
My Jaguar turned out pink, large, and early. In 2009, I sowed it on March 18, and started harvesting fruits on July 14. At first, they were small, about 100 grams (3.5 oz), and then the large ones started ripening. The largest fruit was 650 grams (23 oz / 1.4 lbs) and bright pink in color. And I didn’t even prune the clusters, there were 3-6 fruits per cluster, which surprised me. Even on the fifth cluster, the fruits were just as large, 200-300 grams (7-10.5 oz), as they were on the first one — which is a rarity for beefsteak tomatoes.
The fruit itself has no white core inside, has a pleasant taste, and is soft and juicy. It is a vegetative type of plant — where I missed pruning a sucker, the bushes just went completely into foliage; there were barely one or two fruits and a massive jungle of leaves. They don’t sell its seeds in the store anymore, I haven’t seen it since.
I gave it a 4 out of 5 rating, because in terms of taste and aroma, it is still inferior to local pink heirlooms like Bull’s Heart (Oxheart) and similar varieties.
