Description

Tomato Canabec Super
Solanum lycopersicum

Dark pink, round tomato. 7 cm diameter. Very good flavor. Compact plant, 1.20 m tall, productive and early. Developed by agronomist Roger Doucet in 1975 at the Station de recherche agricole de Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec). Determinate. 65 days to maturity.

Full sun, well drained and rich soil. Sow indoors 6-8 weeks before last frost.
5 mm deep. 60 cm between plants.

Germination: 92% in November 2025
Ecological seeds produced at Catherine’s Ornamental Garden.

Note
Coup de cœur 2008. This variety was the first tomato I grew for seed collection. It’s good and productive. It almost looks like a little beefsteak! Seedlings are easier to sow than other varieties, and the young plants are fairly compact and strong, with no tendency to wilt. This tomato is harvested mainly in August. There are rarely any green tomatoes left in September, unless you grow them in the shade, which slows ripening. You can also do two sowings, an early one and a later one. I tested direct sowing on June 1, for a September harvest, and it worked very well. You can do the same with Taxi tomatoes .

Sometimes described as an indeterminate or semi-determinate variety. In our opinion, it is indeed a determinate, but it produces large plants of 1 meter or more, as wide as they are tall.

Protecting plants from rain can help delay fungal diseases. But as this is a determinate variety, the plants die early anyway, so don’t expect to have beautiful, green, vigorous plants right up to the end of the season. As the tomatoes begin to ripen, the plants start to die.

We’re not 100% certain of its identification, since there’s also a Canabec Rose and a Canabec Rouge. Canabec Super is somewhere in between, a dark reddish pink, but it’s hard to say…