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| I am growing the followings: SILETZ START COUNTING dtm FROM APRIL 20TH. I am not sure which one will be the winner of "Golden Tomato Award". I have never grown any one of those before. I promise to report the winner, second and the third place in this thread. |
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- Posted by jimithing81 7B/WA (My Page) on Thu, Apr 17, 14 at 16:40
| My prediction for "Golden Tomato Award" from your current crop is... Bloody Butcher Just a guess. I'm not familiar with any of your varieties, I just really like the name. This is my daughter and I's first year growing tomatoes from seed. Here's the varieties we chose: Black Plum (planted 3/25) Based on how the seedlings look, I predict the "Golden Tomato Award" in my garden will go to the Black Plum. I'm most excited about the Black Plum and Gold Medal as I've spent a lot of time researching/enjoy learning about heirlooms, although the Super Sweet 100 appears to produce an absurd bounty. Best of luck seysonn; I look forward to reading Cheers! Brady |
This post was edited by jimithing81 on Thu, Apr 17, 14 at 18:59
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| Thanks Brady I am asking the readers to nominate whatever they want, not just those that I have listed. There are many more early tomatoes. We want to set the record straight on the claims made on their DTM. Of course, it will be different in different zones and gardens. So, if anyone is growing any EARLY, please post your plant out time and update when the first ripe fruit is harvested. We can end up having a REAL data. |
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| Surprise ! One of my Bloody Butchers has flowers. They are just about 12" tall and was planted about 10 days ago. Probably the plant will abort them. But I will leave them alone to seed what happens. Will the winner be a BB? |
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| Well, I've tried Stupice and Matina, and wasn't terribly impressed by either. But Stupice was better than Matina for me. |
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| I've grown Stupice, Matina, and Bloody Butcher. Stupice by far was much better. It's my favorite tomato. Debby |
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| Seysonn, I recommended BB to you last year. We won't be planting until end of May if we are lucky. But BB will give you lots of fruit. It's 55-60 days. Let us know how it does. I m hopping my prize tomato will be Azoychka, or Red Penna. Going to be hard to choose cause I'm trying so many new ones. |
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| Thanks Debby, We will see which one will be better. I like to think that they all are good. Maybe some for salad, some for sauce and some for drilling. Thanks Sharon for your recommendation. I Think BB is good choice. In fact I picked most of my tomatoes based on the recommendation of GW friends. I look forward to harvesting from BB . I started counting as of 4/20/ 14. So I should get a ripe fruit by early July, to celebrate The Fourth by a garden salad. Good luck to you all. |
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- Posted by centexan254 8 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 24, 14 at 16:40
| Well I do not have any of the maters you listed planted this year. I hope all do well for you. As for me most of what I planted are earlier producers as our season is more like two very short seasons. What I have planted out so as of now. 2 Creole hybrid (Suggested by a local friend that has had great results from them. Also the fact that they sell out quickly at the start of the season tells me a bit sometimes.) Both are transplants. Both are quite healthy, flowering like crazy, and both have a few fruit already set, and getting fat. 3 Park's Whopper hybrid plants. Two have several fruit already set with tons of blooms opening. 3 Better Bush I have had good luck with them in the past. My wife loves store bought tomatoes so I am hoping she will love these as well. All 3 have several fruit set that are getting fatter by the day. Plant #4 of those is no longer with us. Between the damage from the hail storm, and the late frost it looked near terminal so I pulled it. 2 Husky Cherry Red This one did well for me last year. It was the only plant I got ripe tomatoes off of last year. One is in the garden, one is in one of the basket containers. The one in the container got a hail stone pruning that left it looking like tattered pieces of leaves on green branches. It has made a comeback. More than dozen fruit on it. Three will be perfectly ripe in the next day or so. The one in the garden fared better, though it only has 2 near ripe fruit on it. I will not try to count how many pea pod sized fruit have set on it in the past few days. 1 Arkansas Traveler The plant is quite healthy. It is blooming like crazy I am sure some fruit will set in the next few days to couple of weeks. 2 Black Prince One has a nice apple shaped fruit set that is getting bigger by the day. The other is starting to flower like crazy mad. 1 Bush Goliath This plant is a real survivor it has taken some lumps. It was in the basket container. My wife set it on the picnic table, the wind knocked it off, and rolled it a good 30 feet. A lot of root ball was lost from that. I deep planted it after that. Next it was beat down by the hail. When uncovered after the frost some leaves had a light yellow tint, I was sure they would brown, and fall off. Well they greened back up nicely. The plant has 10 fruit set, and tons of blooms open. It is quite bushy. Those were the early planters. The ones I planted a little later are: Cherokee Purple it is still small, it went to its final container last weekend. Mr Stripey growing well for the amount of time it has been in the ground. It is just one of those for the heck of it plants. Yellow Pear The transplant was a gift It has been the most sickly plant so far. Though it is starting to do quite a bit better. Black Krim I have several that I started from seed. They were hardened off two weeks ago. Final plant to ground, and containers was this past weekend. German Johnson is the final one. It is small, but spry. It is growing like a weed in the spot I planted it. For one that started so small I am impressed by it fast growth, and lack of transplant shock. |
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| Yes, sure by all means, we are not talking about planting strictly EARLY types. I am also growing some MID and LATE season varieties, like ML, CP, Beef Steak, Pineapple, some bi colors, Green Zebra ... But Until they come to production I want something to bite on and slice. So far I have a feeling that Bloody Butcher will be the winner in my garden. We shall see. |
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- Posted by tomatomike z7NC (My Page) on Fri, Apr 25, 14 at 11:52
| 4th of July and SunSugar are my earlies. Though I use Wall of Water protection for them, which gives me a slightly earlier harvest, they still produce early w/o such devices. My typical last frost date was 10 days ago and I have fruit on both of these now. I expect my first to ripen by mid-may. |
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| My typical last frost date was 10 days ago ..... I expect my first to ripen by mid-may. %%%%%%%%% The race is one. Bring your best ! |
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| Resurrection : As I have previously mentioned, I have started counting as of 4/20/14 when my Bloody butchers flowered. Now if we consider a timeline of 50 days from FLOWER to FRUIT then i should expect my first ripe tomato by around June 20th. That suits me fine. My goal has been to celebrate The Fourth with garden tomato, as the color RED in the flag. What veggies for the BLUE ? I have no clue. hehe. Maybe I'll just get some blueberries. I know some friends down south TX, FL, & CA have already picked their ripe tomatoes. But for big majority of us it is still way too early. As soon as I see a teeny tiny fruit I will take pictures and post them here. So, how things are coming along with you ? any green fruits yet ? |
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| I've grown Stupice, Matina, and Bloody Butcher. Stupice by far was much better. It's my favorite tomato. Debby %%%%%%%%%%% Debby, Those are my top contenders too. Surprisingly "Silvery Fir Tree" is not too far behind. But I am wagering heavily on Bloody Butcher. Any nominees out there ? Hurry up . still accepting applications: D |
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| I have planted 15 varieties, and so far the most vigorous plants --by far-- have been Red Penna. They've started to flower. I didn't plant any specific early varieties, though. I tried starting some Moravski Div, but I must have gotten some bad seed--none sprouted. Will try next year from another source, and will try BB, Kimberly and maybe Eva Purple Ball to see if I can get some earlies. Another one that seems to be coming along like gangbusters is Tommy Toe. |
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| Hi arley, Your zone (7b/8 SC) is very near to N.ATL, GA, where I have gardened for a number of years. It is a good tomato growing climate, except for a period of scorching hot days (over 95F). It could help if you get some shade. Anyway, your nominiees (Red Penna and Tommy Toe) are in. Plse don't forget to report back when you get some RED round things. OK. We need more rivalry to make the competition real tough. So let know WHO your nominee is, growing in your garden. We believe in equal rights and opportunity. :D |
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| To date Biyskaya Roza has started blooming in WOW, not sure yet if any tomatoes to be seen... overall since I could not plant ALL of my earlies at same time in same area it is impossible to say which one would have been winner. But BR is called this way because of the city Biysk, which is South Ural, former USSR. So not question it is one tough plant. Picture is from Russian tomato forum http://www.tomat-pomidor.com/newforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=237.0;attach=3730;image |
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| NEWS BREAK: Today I saw a cherry size fruit on one of my SILETZ plants. Woohoo. I will take a picture and post it here. I am excited to pick some ripe fruits in time to celebrate The Fourth, maybe sooner. Our weather is still cool. Forecast is calling for lows down to 46,47/48F and high around 63/64/65F for the next 3 days.But my plants have seen much cooler temps before. |
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| OK. Follow up on the latest in MY garden. I have a picture to share. So my garden nominees seem to be SILETZ and BLOODY BUTCHER. Nothing in the envelope yet :D |
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| Seysonn, congrats! Two green tomatoes on my Biyskaya Roza! Yay! Lots of plants are blooming too. Unfortunately did not start all of them at same time so not sure which one is close second. |
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| Thanks Linda . Should we put the name " Biyskaya Roza"in the envelope or you have other contenders too ? |
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- Posted by jonathanpassey Utah z5 (My Page) on Wed, May 28, 14 at 14:24
| I have 8 tomato varieties this year. I planted them out under a low tunnel 4 weeks ago. (My last frost date is May 10th. I was lucky to have the tunnels because we had hard freezes the 11th -13th. I even put a space heater out there those nights because I was so worried.) Italian Heirloom And, although none of these are "early" i expect that i will have a few red ones by the 4th of July which isn't too bad in my town. All have a few baby tomatoes except Marianna's Peace and Opalka. Park's Whopper was first and Italian second but they are growing much bigger tomatoes than the cherry roma... The attached pic is from about a week ago. JP |
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- Posted by centexan254 8 (My Page) on Wed, May 28, 14 at 15:54
| Well I was going to take a couple of pics of some Black Prince that were perfectly ripe. I had some errands to run so I was going to take the pic when I got home. My wife said they were very tasty. It started to pour rain, and some of the others have splits now. Looks like it will only be cosmetic though thankfully. Bush Goliath, and Better Bush have given quite a few nice tasting tomatoes, I have eaten a few Yellow Pear as well. Husky Cherry Red continues to put off fruit. Branches die off, and another pops out, and then sets a cluster of more tomatoes. Not many make it to the house. My wife eats them before she makes it into the house. Creole hybrid has some large fruit starting to blush. Park's Whopper does as well. Mr Stripey has fruit set on one plant. The other will have some soon, as it is blooming like mad. I am letting this one sprawl. The other has outgrown the cheapo store bought cage, and I am staking the branches. (No complaints from me on that. It is a problem I like to have.) Cherokee Purple has set fruit, and my Sweet 100 is starting to set fruit despite being only 2 feet tall. I added a large container for a few more plants, as I had more back ups than space would have allowed for, and I ran out of pots. So I built a large box planter for them, and filled it with my own 5-1-1. (18"deep by 24" across by 6 feet long.) Everything in that one seems to be doing well, as is the common sage I interplanted between the maters. I will try to post a pic when my computer will jive right with my phone again. |
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| Centexan, So already have a winner. Husky or Black cherry? JP, congrats. for zone 5 with May 10 LFD you are doing great. I am sure you'll have ripe tomatoes on or before The Fourth. Definitely low tunnel is the best season extender. I have smaller, shorter hoops. I used them to shelter my plants while I was hardening off. My Bloody Butcher has tiny fruits beside the Siletz. First harvest for The Fourth is realistic. It is warming up a bit around here. Some of my plants are growing like half of an inch a day. Alright. Ye'all have a good season and keep posted. |
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| For us I have green tomatoes on Biyskaya Roza, Kermit, Indian Stripe which are all larger tomatoes. Also green tomatoes on Moravsky Div and Sugar Drop. I think I get small fruited first so it will be either Moravsky Div or Sugar Drop. Both are early varieties. Getting to be exciting here. I just switched today to Amaze NPK fert for extra boost of Ca and Phosphorus and will start next week Texas Tomato Food. |
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| Good for you Linda, we have then waith to open the envelope. Would it be Sugar Drop or Morovsky Div ? What is "Amaze NPK" fertilizer ? What kind of analysis it has? Is it synth or org. ? Price and availability ? I like to experiment different ways of doing/growing. My plants, almost every single one of them, has flowers now, besides the one with tiny green matoes. Alright. How is your weather? We are slowly but surely warming up here. High mid to upper 70s and lows around 50F. That is GREAT for PNW. |
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| Weather has been near perfect since May18 here. Dry, hot days, cool nights. Couple of nights were a bit cooler but overall great. With Amaze we go into territory of foliar sprays, negative and positive charges, Ca mobility and rest of the stuff that I am just learning. Pretty fascinating. It is produced by International Ag Labs. I got mine from Smiling gardener store. Gotta say effects I am seeing well worth the investigation. |
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| Well, the Black Krim won here, (Southern Calif). It had 3 blushed maters on it, and I picked them May 31st, 2014~~~that's the earliest I have had tomatoes. They were bought as plants from Laurels Heirloom Tomatoes~~~~~all the maters are beefsteaks. Gary |
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| Gary, that is great. My BK last season was probably the last one. I guess it likes your climate. Linda, Same here. Relatively speaking we are having very nice weather lately and forecast calls for more of the same (sunny, warm, no rain). I am betting on Siletz and Bloody butcher in my garden. Good Luck to you all ! |
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| The "Awards Committee" is still accepting nominees. Please enter your EARLY nominee before it is too LATE and red. hehe |
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| My early nominees are: Sungold I think Sungold will probably win because one of the fruit is turning from green to orange....... The other two are growing in containers and Jagodka is loaded with fruit. Linda |
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- Posted by Hopeful4ky zone 6 (heirregular@yahoo.com) on Fri, Jun 6, 14 at 19:56
| My early nominee is sun sugar. I've already picked and enjoyed my first sun sugar tomato :) It also has a few others starting to color up. Black cherry isn't too far behind, and cherokee purple won't be too far off after that. |
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| Congrats, Hopeful. The envelope please ! And the winner (In Hopeful's Garden) is : Sun Sugar (Hurray). Question: When did you plant out your Sun Sugar ? I want to get a ball park figure on its DTM. Thanks. |
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- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Sat, Jun 7, 14 at 3:40
| I am trying Fourth of July and Champion this year for early tomatoes. Unfortunately because we were reconstructing vegetable beds they got in the ground late. Fourth of July has a couple of small tomatoes on it now. Congratulations on Sun Sugar! I grew that last year and stuck with Sun Gold this year again, our perennial favorite cherry. Would love to hear when and how you planted that SunSugar and if you did anything special to get a ripe tomato so early? |
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| Welcome, prairimoon. I can bet that your 4th of July will have ripe fruits to celebrate the name that it carries. Good luck with that. We accept your nominee. Yeah, lets share some of the things we do as well. |
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- Posted by prairiemoon2 zone 6a/MA (My Page) on Sat, Jun 7, 14 at 17:49
| Thanks Seysonn, I appreciate a friendly welcome! :-) That 4th of July has just a few small green tomatoes on it, so I will be pretty surprised if I get a ripe one by July 4th! I actually just got the last of the tomatoes in the ground this morning. I've never gotten them in the ground so late. I've tried using Wall of Waters once or twice when I can get myself organized enough and that worked well. Bubble wrap cages, very interesting. Very creative! I hope to build some cold frame tops for my beds in the fall, but that's not a sure thing. I don't know if I could take all those extra steps you do, but we do love tomatoes, lol. I should try a little harder next year! |
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| Latah! Latah is the first tomato plant that has little green tomatoes on it. |
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- Posted by Hopeful4ky zone 6 (heirregular@yahoo.com) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 0:40
| Sun sugar was one of only two I didn't start for myself. I bought it when it was only a few inches tall the first Saturday in May, and planted it that day. So it had right at a month in my garden before harvesting the first tomato. Black cherry was the other I bought that weekend. Everything else (including the cherokee purple) was started in March indoors and transplanted into the ground the same weekend that I bought the two cherry varieties. |
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| Hopeful4ky, So then you already have a winner , Sun Sugar ? Congrats. My Sun Gold is WAAY too slow. My best hops are Bloody Butcher and Siletz (99%). Unless some others come from behind and win. @ Green _go and @Hopeful4ky |
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- Posted by Hopeful4ky zone 6 (heirregular@yahoo.com) on Sun, Jun 8, 14 at 20:50
| Yes :) Sun sugar is already producing. I'm hoping by the 4th the others with green tomatoes will have something ready to pick. I noticed today a japanese black trifele and matts wild cherry also have green fruit. My Sungold is about like yours. It is growing slower than the sun sugar. So far it has no fruit. |
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