The Junction's 2023 Giant Tomato Contest

[karstopography]

My top extra big tomato contenders this season are Big Zac and Domingo. My garden gets a little more direct light than last year and I’m giving each plant a little more space. I’ll see if that translates to bigger fruit.

[AKgardener]

I just saw the Domingo tomato holy moly !! Well I could not resist and got a pack of seeds but I won’t be growing those yet !!

[Mark_Thompson]

Domingo was my biggest last year. It’s a crazy plant, throws suckers out from the middle of leaves, big thick stems and fused flowers

[karstopography]

My Domingo seeds came in this year’s MMMM swap. I gave away a couple of Domingo plants to friends and kept one for myself. I gave away my Portuguese Monster plants from the swap also. Domingo got seeded about two weeks behind the others I’m growing, but has almost caught up.

[MissS]

I still have seeds that are wanting to grow. Anyone else wanting to play?

[Lemonboy]

My Big Zac seed finally arrived and all my "Giants" are in seed starting trays now.

I'm taking a shotgun approach and just growing everything that someone has called a "giant" tomato. I have 18 varieties that range from a three pound heart to some big uglies. I have a few like Giant Syrian that aren't typically over a pound from what I can tell. I don't know if tomatoes are smaller in Syria, but I'm going to pretend it grows 12 pounders too and see what happens. My best bets are from MissS, some Domingo crosses, Domingo from the MMMM, the Big Zac and Shackelford's Giant Pink. I'm also going to grow my big Kiwi again and give it some TLC.

[MissS]

18 Giants! You will have your hands full! I am looking forward to watching your grow outs progress.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Big Zach, Domingo, & King Kong are in the ON DECK CIRCLE...with plenty of company.

Tomorrow's P-Day!

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The Gotch

[AKgardener]

well Im out of the compition.... my big zac just didnt like the indoors and its to cold to put it outside and it just gave up.. I dont have time to resstart since they do take longer.. good luck everyone

[MissS]

well Im out of the compition.... my big zac just didnt like the indoors and its to cold to put it outside and it just gave up.. I dont have time to resstart since they do take longer.. good luck everyone

Some of these are not that late. If you would still like to try just PM me and I will get the seeds you to you that day if I can.

[AKgardener]

@MissS thank you I’ve got plenty seeds I’m just concerned I don’t have enough days to make it work !! I’ve got a couple of big ones I do want to try I’ll hem and haw today haha

@Cornelius_Gotchberg looks like we got our seeds from the same place haha

Well I deliberated I’m gonna start big zac again ,Domingo, Goldie,polish giant my husband said get back in there and get over it haha

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

It's only fair that @AKgardener...um...redistributes some of her Fast-Approaching 20 Hour Per Day Sunshine.

Or perhaps an asterisk......

Good luck to everyone...Giant Tomato Contest Contestants...Start Yer Engines!

The Gotch

[AKgardener]

Sending lots of sunshine your way !! Haha seeds have been started today good luck everyone again haha

[Lemonboy]

I was going to just put a list of what didn't germinate yet because it's shorter. Domingo(MMMM no year) and Giant Syrian (unknown year or source)

But that's not interesting so....
King Kong, Westerlund I-26, Donskoi(MMMM), Donskoi (MissS)
Brutus, Magnus, Kiwi, Mega Marv, Portuguese Monster,
Domingo X Libanaise des Montagnes, Big Zac, Ispolin,
Ukrainian Giant, Rozovyi Gigant, Bull's Forehead, TexWine,
and Shackelford Giant Pink are all showing true leaves now.

[Lemonboy]

The Domingo and the Giant Syrian are up now. Hopefully they'll catch up before it's time to plant them out.

[AKgardener]

the polish giant and goldie are now up. still waiting for the other 2 not holding my breath its still snowing out maybe I'll get lucky and have a longer summer

[MissS]

Here is a link to a great source of information on growing competition tomatoes http://tomatoville.com/showthread.php?t=38899

@AKgardener One of our members @AKMark grew a world record tomato in Alaska!

[AKgardener]

@MissS ya I have seen his tomato's I go to his greenhouse every summer and never want to leave haha.. he has huge plants that he does not sell for looks only and Im just like how do you do it haha..drives me bonkers because all I think is well if he can do I can.. right??? Im trying at least thanks for the link I can learn from it for shure.. very exciting.. now that I read throught the posts what is a K boost?? gonna have to try it..

[MissS]

@AKgardener K is potassium.

N = nitrogen, P = phosphorous, K = potassium. Fertilizer numbers on the packages always go in this order. The numbers are referred to as the NPK ratio.

[AKgardener]

@MissS aww palm meets forehead haha should of known better