2024 mater list

[AKgardener]

Still starting more as well exstreme bush..

[Yak54]

Still starting more as well exstreme bush..

IF A LITTLE IS GOOD THAN MORE IS BETTER !

[AKgardener]

I went to my local greenhouse..picked up 4 plants..I got to talk to the owner about how he does his plants..so I will implement what he is doing since I have new seeds started for indoors..and see if I can really do it right.. tomatoes seem to be my one thing I can’t get right but here is to new days

[CrazyAboutOrchids]

Potted up my starts from 9 oz red cups to 3.5" square pots. Plants range from 1" to 6" from soil level of the new pots to their tops - with the shortest the late starters. Probably should have waited to pot those up, but now they're all the same size pots and easier to trek in and out without tipping over; as weather permits. I grow in my basement so while I started seed in March, potted up and put under lights, they grow in my uber cool basement. Growth is a bit slower on the top side, but roots jam packed in the cups. They develop nice thick stems in the cool temps, and then start to get tall once I set them outside to harden off.

My overachievers are Cherokee Carbon, Sunsugar, Start F1, Pomodoro Cuore Antico di Acqui Terme (man that's a mouthful!), GGWT, and Start F1 who are all budding.

Goes to show you how resilient tomatoes are... Rosovye Krupnye got tipped over and I did not notice. She received far too much water, being on her side, since I bottom water. Yet she persevered, grew around the tipped over cup and up to the light. Was a bit of a challenge to pot her up, but I did it! Have her marked so I am careful with her when she goes into the ground.

[AKgardener]

I have 2 Cherokee purple both plants have 2 fused blooms so excited

[o0sunsi0o]

Hello to you all!

Hoping this years better than last year, here's the ones I'm growing. Couldn't remember if Brandywine Pink are the next best Brandywine after the Sudduth strain. Difference from last year will be these will be grown in the ground rather than bags. I might be wrong, but I think ground grown tomatoes have something more than pot grown. Hanging onto my pots just in case, though.

Brandywine Pink (couldn't find Sudduth strain starts)
Marianna's Peace (a favorite)
Goose Creek (a favorite)
Black From Tula (a favorite)
Moskvich (bought from a local Mennonite family)
Black Pineapple (first time trying these)
Boxcar Willie (First time trying these)
Purple Cherry
Sungold

Almost forgot 2 very important ones :O

Hungarian Heart
Gold Metal

Smacks forehead* Forgot to add, Jet Star, the workhorse of the tomato garden!

[MissS]

@o0sunsi0o That's a great list. The top three are on my favorite list but haven't been grown in some time. I keep growing new to me trying to save the rare ones with great qualities. One year, I will have to grow just my favorites and see how they compare against each other.

I am one that prefers Brandywine from my saved seed over Sudduth's or Cowlick's or any of the other's in the big family.