Plant Description Key
From The Populuxe Seed Bank
Below is a list of the descriptions used in this database to describe the plants grown out by the seed bank and our yearly growers.
Contents
Tomatoes
Plant Growth
- Vine Growth Type
- Determinate (reaches set height/maturity & sets all fruit at once)
- Indeterminate (keeps producing until frost)
- Semi-Determinate (sets one large bunch of fruit, with a few after until frost)
- Vine Growth Habit
- Sprawling (many vines growing out towards the side)
- Intermediate (Sprawling/Erect pattern)
- Erect (one main stem that primarily grows straight)
- Plant Size
- Dwarf (1.5ft and under)
- Small (1.6ft - 2.5ft)
- Medium (2.6ft - 4ft)
- Large (4ft+)
- Leaf Type
- Regular
- Potato
- Rugose
- Other
- Leaf Coverage
- Poor
- Fair
- Good
- Heavy
- Maturity (follow by day in brackets)
- Early (65 days or less)
- Mid (66-85 days)
- Late (86+ days)
Fruit Descriptions
- Skin Colour
- Red
- Yellow
- Orange
- White
- Green
- Purple
- Black/Brown
- Bi-coloured
- Multi-coloured
- Flesh Colour
- Yellow
- Red
- Orange
- Green
- Black/Brown
- Purple
- Marbled
- Fruit Shape
- Oblate (squat fruit, as though it's been flattened from the top)
- Globular (spherical, like a ball)
- Pear
- Pleated (heavily ribbed, accordion shaped)
- Plum (oval in shape)
- Beefstake
- Oxheart
- Elongated
- Cherry
- Fruit Fasciation (refers to how lobed or pleated the fruit is)
- Smooth
- Slight Fasciation
- Medium Fasciation
- Extreme Fasciation
- Fruit Firmness (at optimum ripeness)
- Firm
- Medium
- Soft
- Fruit Set
- Poor
- Fair
- Good
- Excellent
- Average Fruit Diameter
- Average Fruit Length
- Average Fruit Weight
Affliction Observations
Refers to disease or growth issues noticed in the plant. Some examples are:
- Blight
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- Fruit cracking
- Blossom End Rot
- Blossom Drop
Beans
- Growth Type
- Pole
- Bush
- Bean Use
- Fresh (Snap)
- Dried
- Mixed use
- Maturity
- Fresh use maturity
- Dried use maturity
- Stringless
- Yes or No
Squash
- Growth Type
- Vining
- Bush
- Squash Use
- Summer
- Winter
- Mixed (summer and winter keeping)
- Skin Colour
- Flesh Colour
- Maturity (days)
