A glossary of commonly used tomato culture abbreviations

[Iochroma]

A -- Alternaria stem canker; an A after a variety name indicates resistance to this
AGG -- 'Aunt Gertie's Gold'
AKA -- also known as
ARJR -- 'Andrew Rahart's Jumbo Red'
ARGG - 'Aunt Ruby's German Green'
ASAP -- as soon as possible
bagged - seed from flowers that were bagged to prevent accidental hybridization
b/c -- because
belly button - an inward depression on the blossom end of a tomato
BB --- 'Bloody Butcher', 'BrandyBoy'
BBH -- 'Brad's Black Heart'
BCW -- 'Box Car Willie'
BER -- blossom end rot
BFT -- 'Black from Tula'
BLT --- RTS (Ruined Tomato Sandwich) Really, it's a bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich.
BP --- 'Black Prince'
BT --- Bacillus thuringiensis, a natural pesticide for caterpillars including hornworms
BTD -- 'Berkeley Tie Dye'
BTW -- by the way
BW --- 'Brandywine'
BWPS - 'Big White Pink Stripes' (seems to be marketed by the acronym alone)
Catfaced - distorted fruit, usually resulting from incomplete pollination of a flower
CC --- 'Cherokee Chocolate'
CEC -- cation exchange capacity - a measure of a soil's potential fertility
ChChoc - 'Cherokee Chocolate'
CG --- 'Cherokee Green'
ChGreen - 'Cherokee Green'
CP --- 'Cherokee Purple'
ChPur - 'Cherokee Purple'
CMV -- cucumber mosaic virus
CRM - concrete reinforcing mesh (same as CRW)
CRW - concrete reinforcing wire (same as CRM)
CSA - community supported agriculture, also known as "subscription farming."
CTV -- Curly Top Virus, also seen as beet leaf curly top virus (BLCTV)
DG -- Dave's Garden® - a garden bulletin board and resource website
Det - determinate
DH --- Dear Husband
DTM -- days to maturity; time (with ideal good conditions) from transplant to mature fruit.
DIY EB = Do-it-yourself Earthbox®. - home-made self-watering plant containers
DW ---Dear Wife
DWS -- 'Dancing With Smurfs'
EB's -- Earthboxes®, a commercial SWC
EF --- 'Earl's Faux'
EPA -- Environmental Protection Agency
EPB -- 'Eva Purple Ball'
F --- Fusarium wilt; an F after a variety name indicates resistance to this
F1 -- a hybrid between two separate varieties or lines; the first generation of a newly made hybrid
F --- Fusarium wilt; an F after a variety name indicates resistance to this wilt
FF -- resistance to races 1 and 2 of Fusarium
FFF - resistance to three races of Fusarium
Florida weave - a trellising method
FWIW - for what it's worth
GA --- 'Gregori's Altai'
GDC -- 'Golden Dwarf Champion'
GE --- genetically engineered
GG --- 'Green Giant'
GH --- greenhouse
GJ --- 'German Johnson'
GMG -- 'Grub's Mystery Green'
GMO -- genetically-modified organism
GRS -- 'German Red Strawberry'
GW --- GardenWeb® - a garden bulletin board website
GWR -- green when ripe
IANAL - I am not a lawyer
IIRC - if I recall correctly
IMHO - in my humble opinion
IMO -- in my opinion
IRL -- in real life
Indet - indeterminate
JBT -- 'Japanese Black Trifele'
JF --- 'Jaune Flammee'
KB --- 'Kellogg's Breakfast'
KBX -- 'Kellogg's Breakfast', potato leaf
KHP -- 'Kalman's Hungarian Pink'
LC --- 'Lucky Cross'
Lucky X - 'Lucky Cross'
LL --- 'Little Lucky'
LGS -- 'Lime Green Salad'
LOL -- laugh(ing) out loud
LPB -- 'Large Pink Bulgarian'
LYH -- 'Lillian's Yellow Heirloom'
MG --- Miracle-Gro ® fertilizer
ML --- 'Mortgage Lifter'
MP --- 'Marianna's Peace'
N --- nematodes; an N after a variety name indicates resistance to this
NAR -- 'Neve's Azorean Red'
NBD -- 'New Big Dwarf'
NCP -- natural cross-pollination
NPK -- Nitrogen: Phosphorus: Potassium - the ratios of the three major nutrients in a fertilizer
NSP -- natural self-pollination
OP -- open-pollinated; a true-breeding variety or line (not an F1 hybrid)
OTOH - on the other hand
OTV - off the vine; also the name of a tomato publication
PL --- potato leaf (not regular leaf)
PM --- private message
PNW -- Pacific North West of the United States
PPM -- part per million - a measurement often seen in soil tests and hydroponic solutions
PPP -- 'Pink Ping Pong', or perhaps, rarely, 'Pale Perfect Purple'
RKN -- root knot nematode
RL --- regular leaf
ROFLMAO - rolling on the floor, laughing my a** off
S --- Septoria; an S after a variety name indicates resistance to this
SAP -- 'Sub-Arctic Plenty'
SASE - self-addressed stamped envelope
SASBE - self-addressed stamped bubble envelope (to prevent seed damage)
SESE - Southern Exposure Seed Exchange
SFG -- Square Foot Gardening; a gardening book and method
SFT -- 'Silvery Fir Tree'
SH --- southern hemisphere
SHP -- Sand Hill Preservation seeds
SO --- significant other
SOW -- 'Stump Of the World'
SSE -- Seed Saver's Exchange; a non-profit organization
St -- Stemphylium - a fungal grey leaf spot; St after a variety name indicates resistance to this
stitching - a long blossom end scar on the bottom of the fruit
SWC -- self-watering container
T --- indicates resistance to Tobacco Mosaic Virus when seen after a variety name
TGRC - Tomato Genetics Research Center at the U. C. Davis
TGS(C) - Tomato Grower's Supply Company ®, a seed and supplies website
TMV -- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
ToMV -- Tomato Mosaic Virus
TmRSV - Tomato Ring Spot Virus
TSWV - Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
TT --- Totally Tomatoes ®, a seed, supplies, and bulletin board website
TT --- Tomato Tone® fertilizer by Espoma
TTC --Texas Tomato Cage
TV --- Tomatoville®, this website
TYLCV - Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus
TYVM - thank you very much
TYW -- 'Tom's Yellow Wonder'
V --- Verticillium wilt; a V after a variety name indicates resistance to this wilt
WOW -- Wall O' Water® - a frost-protection device
YMMV - your mileage may vary ( meaning, your experience may be different)

[MrBig46]

I read almost all and I thank you for this dictionary. Most interesting for me is b´c. It is beautifull.
Vladimír

[PammyH]

Thank you so much!

I'm a newbie here from Oregon and tomatoes are my favorite. I like to grow Sungolds and Cucumbers and that gives me a delicious salad to eat all summer long. Mix in a little feta cheese, sunflower seeds and italian dressing and I'm in heaven!

[Liberanos5]

Originally Posted by tomatoguy

After reading Thawley's post about PL and RL, I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a glossary for the folks who are new to our abbreviated language. I will get the ball rolling. Feel free to add some tomato and gardening terms that appear here on the forum.

DTM - days to maturity - This is the number that you see on seed packs indicating how long (on average) it takes from the time you transplant into the garden until you have ripe fruit. I suppose it is one way of comparing the earliness or lateness of varieties but I have found it pretty much meaningless. I have had tomatoes with a DTM of 85 days come in at 50 and vice versa.


mater

Excellent idea.....I've only just gotten here and I'm mostly lost. IMNSHO there should be a variety picture index also in the event I visit a garden and the gardener has no idea what varieties they have and I'd be inclined to take a cutting or 2.....I intend to mostly lurk here and thanks to all the experts way in advance......

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by Liberanos5

Excellent idea.....I've only just gotten here and I'm mostly lost. IMNSHO there should be a variety picture index also in the event I visit a garden and the gardener has no idea what varieties they have and I'd be inclined to take a cutting or 2.....I intend to mostly lurk here and thanks to all the experts way in advance......

Welcome!

Once a variety no longer has a name attached to it there is absolutely no way of IDing it, with very few exceptions.

There are perhaps betgween 15 and 20,000 known named varieties.

Take large fruited pink varieties, for example. There are hundreds of them. Take long red paste types, several hundred, take gold/red bicolors, many look the same, but differ with respect to production, taste, etc., and there are several hundreds of them as well.

If someone wants to know more about a named variety, that's usually not a problem, with of course some exceptions there as well.

So, a great idea but just not workable.

Carolyn

[SharonRossy]

Ok, what tomato is DDR? thx, Sharon

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by SharonRossy

Ok, what tomato is DDR? thx, Sharon

Dana's Dusky Rose.

Carolyn

[SharonRossy]

Thx Carolyn! Still learning all the language of gardening!

[Tom A To]

While searching for a glossary here I came across this thread which is indeed helpful deciphering acronyms (initial-isms, if a word isn't being spelled out with the abbreviation) but is it really a glossary in the strict definition? Aww.... who cares? It's fun to read anyway.

I'm ashamed of myself for writing this...

Add one: DAMHIKT - don't ask me how I know this.

[Gardeneer]

I think some of the variety name abbreviations can be confusing than convenience.
Take BB, as an example :

Better Boy, Bloody Butcher, Brandy Boy, Big Beef, Big Boy.

On DTM = Days To Maturity. What is "maturity" . To me it is whem plant is grown to size that can flower, etc.
I have seen "DTH" = Days To Harvest. Now that make more sense to me than DTM.
YMMV :-)

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by Gardeneer

I think some of the variety name abbreviations can be confusing than convenience.
Take BB, as an example :

Better Boy, Bloody Butcher, Brandy Boy, Big Beef, Big Boy.

On DTM = Days To Maturity. What is "maturity" . To me it is whem plant is grown to size that can flower, etc.
I have seen "DTH" = Days To Harvest. Now that make more sense to me than DTM.
YMMV :-)

I think DTM and DTH came from demand of people wanting an answer for how long it would take.
I like the way Tomato Growers Supply does it.
You can look up early season mid season and late season color and sizes.
I stay away from all late season plants and concentrate on early and a few mid season plants.
This really helps sorting out what I want.

Worth

[feldon30]

would love to see all the negative posts from years ago stricken from this thread and the various glossary posts kinda merged into a master list, cleaned up, and easy to read.

[squirrel789]

A couple of abbreviations I've learned in my short time here:

TTF - Texas Tomato Food: My new favorite water-soluble, low-nitrogen fertilizer from hydroponics specialists Urban Farms. Typically used in the later flowering and fruiting stages of growth, as I understand it.

PWT - Perched Water Table: Water that may live in the bottom of your regular container garden - depending on the particle size of your growing medium mix and regardless of drainage holes - that likes to either water your roots or rot them, haven't found out for sure yet. (read in relation to Tabla's seemingly famous 5-1-1 container mix articles on GW, but that abbreviation has already been explained elsewhere in this thread).

[korney19]

Most below are variety abbreviations, not all are standardized.

AGP = Aunt Ginny's Purple
OG/OLD = Old German (OG also = the tomato gene "Old Gold.")
OLEY = Oleyar's German
CGG = Cherokee Green Grape
SG = SunGold/Sungold
KBAWV = Kellogg's Breakfast x Aker's West Virginia
MK = Marizol Korney = Mark Korney!
SM = San Marzano
MPP = Marge's Polish Pride
SC = Sophie's Choice
RHFS = Red House Free Standing
RGP = Roughwood Golden Plum
ML-E = Mortgage Lifter Estler's
TAM/TAMU = Texas A & M University
HY = Herman's Yellow
AKW/AWV = Aker's West Virginia
BK = Black Krim
STU = Stupice
KIM = Kimberley/Kimberly
CGX = Cherokee Bi-Color
YB/YB-P = Yellow Brandywine/Yellow Brandywine-Platfoot strain
JEF/JD = Jefferson Davis
DEL = Delicious
CHR = Chris Ukrainian
CUO = Cuostralee
DLGG = Djena Lee's Golden Girl
DRU = Druzba
DrC = Dr. Carolyn
DrL = Dr. Lyle
DrN = Dr. Neal
DrW = Dr. Wyche's Yellow
MPLA = Missouri Pink Love Apple
MOS = Moskvich
MAS = Matchless (Austin Strain---have Carolyn elaborate! lol)
MEX = Mexico
WA/Wins = Winsall
NAP = Napoli
NEC = Nectarine
NEP = Nepal
LUT = Lutescent
PB = Principe Borghese
PBS = Peach Blow Sutton
RR = Red Robin
RIE/RIES = Riesentraube
RUT = Rutgers
StP = St. Pierre
SOL = Soldacki
YORI = Yellow Out Red In
-----------------------------------
HOPE THIS HELPS!

[Zenbaas]

Good thread. It's helps a lot for commonly used terms. But as said before asking would probably be the easiest way when unsure.