Data specific to Tomatoes (Edit)
Heredity: Open Pollinated
Skin Color: Red
Fruit Shape: Round
Flattened Globe
Fruit Size: Medium
Leaf Type: Regular-Leaf
Best Uses: Slicing
Canning
Cooking
Growth Mode: Indeterminate
Earliness: Mid-season
Days to Maturity: 85
Disease Resistance: Fusarium Wilt
Verticillium Wilt
History: Breeder and released by the Asgrow Seed Company in 1964.
Country: USA

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 11 +4.4 °C (40 °F) to +7.2 °C (50 °F)
Plant Height: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Plant Spread: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Leaves: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Resistances: Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Other info: Direct sowing into the garden not recommended. Sow seeds into sterile seed starting mix, 1/8"-1/4" deep, indoors, 6-8 weeks prior to last expected frost date. Optimal germination occurs in 7-14 days with constant moisture and soil temperatures of 75-90F.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Self
Various insects
Containers: Preferred depth: Some tomato varieties, primarily dwarf and determinate varieties, are suitable for container gardening. Large, vining, indeterminate types can be grown in 5 gallon or larger containers but may require extra attention.

Victory Seed Company sells seeds of 'Ace 55'.

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Common names
  • Tomato
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Solanum lycopersicum
  • Synonym: Lycopersicon lycopersicum
Also sold as:
  • Ace 55 VF
  • XP623

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Location: Oregon
Date: Sep 12, 2010 
Ace 55 VF
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2023-07-31
Unripe fruit.
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2023-07-31
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2023-07-31
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2023-07-31
Unripe fruit.
Location: Victory Seed Company - Liberal, OR
Image used with permission of the Victory Seed Company

Courtesy Sustainable Seed Company
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Comments:
  • Posted by farmerdill (Augusta Georgia - Zone 8a) on Mar 2, 2014 3:06 PM concerning plant:
    I grew Ace 55 in the New River Valley of Virginia during the 70's. Very productive round red tomato on large (4ft) determinate vines. The fruit is similar to a large Rutgers in appearance and taste. More productive than Rutgers under those conditions.
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