Which of your tomatoes sprouted first, this year?

[Shule]

Which of your tomatoes have sprouted the fastest, this year?

My first (of ~104 kinds) was surprisingly my Galapagos Island (from fruits that survived several good freezes). Usually, if I remember, maybe over half the tomatoes sprout before Galapagos Island does. I hope this faster sprouting turns out to be a genetic change. Not only was it first, but lots of seeds sprouted in the cell too!

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The Galapagos Island tomatoes from the 5-chamber fruits (which were harvested before any freezes happened, I believe) have not sprouted, yet. (They sprouted later in the same day, actually!)

Anyway, next came Juliet F2, followed by Blue Berries, and Esterina F1. I checked again, today, and more had sprouted, including Napoli, and some others.

Well, the order on those could be off, as I saw the first of them all at once (the order is based on how sprouted they were).

Lots of kinds sprouted today, apparently. I went and wrote them down. So, here's what's sprouted so, far on my first day finding sprouted tomatoes:
B.S.X.
Blue Berries
Brad's Aromic Grape
Cherokee Yellow Red Pear
Chocolate Chestnut
Cosmic Eclipse
Esterina F1
Eva
Galapagos Island (5-chamber)
Galapagos Island (antifreeze; this seems to be the first one to have sprouted)
Green Gables
Homestead
Isis Candy
Juliet F2
Kellogg's Beefsteak
Kellogg's Breakfast
Malinovoe Chudo
Mexican Yellow cross F3
Napoli
Near-multiflora Brandyboy cross F3
Ovita (from saved seeds)
Porter
Sausage
Wild Tiger

[EdieJ]

Estler's Mortgage Lifters were the first up. I purposely started them early, though, so I could let those who wanted seeds know about germination %. (100%!) Of the ones I started next only KBX & Big Zebra sprouted and survived. Started a 3rd round. Chocolate Cherry was first up this time.

[pepperhead212]

The yellow pear popped up before any of the others, and have grown the fastest, so far. Now, all but one variety of 20 is up, in 6 days.

[pondgardener]

Ciliegino Cherry was the first to pop up after about 3 days...but [mention]EdieJ[/mention] Estler's Mortgage Lifter was breaking the surface a few days later, showing excellent germination. Big Beef Hybrid were early and vigorous seedlings as well.

[cdgtxs]

sungold followed by Cherokee Purple and then Boxcar Willie

[Dee]

Work Release Paste, Hungarian Heart, and Black Krim (even though I haven't grown it since 2013) were the first to germinate.

Ironically, the "new to me" varieties that I am most keen to grow this summer (Bellestar, Hungarian Italian Paste, and Jewish) have still barely begun to germinate!

[Shule]

[mention]Dee[/mention]
I usually get faster and better germination on my own saved seeds. This year, though, I don't see that pattern in mine. I wonder if it's because I froze all my (dry) tomato seeds for a few days before planting them, including the new-to-me ones. That's the main thing I've done differently, this year, anyhow. Well, one exception is Brad's Atomic Grape; I didn't freeze those, and they sprouted fast, too.

I froze them as an experiment, since volunteer seeds usually freeze over the winter, and they tend to have advantages over direct-seeded plants. Plus, some (also dry) pepper seeds we had frozen before were more vigorous than the ones I didn't freeze that year. Those pepper seeds (the dry-frozen ones) didn't sprout faster; but they did grow faster and produce well.

[AZGardener]

Brandywine Cherry and Aunt Lillian's Heirloom. For the dwarf tomatoes it was Desert Star and Round Robin.

[Clkeiper]

the ones I planted in January.... they are now starting to flower.

[edweather]

My Stupice are always first. Usually 3 days with warmish soil.