Small Tomatoes

[digitS']

Bloody Butcher .

I didn't enter the first ripe tomato contest. This would have probably been cheating since I think contestants were not supposed to leave fruit on transplants. This was in my earliest seed sown and also early in this large pot. The plant also sits in just about the best place I have for plants, just a couple of steps from my backdoor.

Early maturity and small size fruit seem to go together. This one weighed 2 1⁄2 ounces and it's now sitting in my kitchen . Bloody Butcher is an indeterminate and keeps on, keeping on all season . It also has "big tomato flavor."

Do you have an early variety??

Steve

 

[journey11]

Ava grew Tumbling Tom, both red and yellow hybrid varieties this year. On most seed websites I am finding them listed as 70 DTM, although on another I found listed them as 50 days. Well, we have the first yellow one ripening when I looked today. These were seeded in flats back in mid-March and were never stressed or root-bound before transplanting into their hanging baskets, so yeah, right around 50 then. I'm glad she took a notion to plant them. At the rate I am going, they may be the only tomatoes I get this year.

What I did get planted on time never got staked/tied due to constant rain for June. Clay mud is no fun to tromp around in. Still have a few more to plant of the big tomatoes and those that I finally got planted last week are still small enough to be trained to a stake.

 

[seedcorn]

You were not to buy transplants with fruit on them

 

[digitS']

Well.

These plants came from my saved seed.

Never have I had ripe tomatoes in June.

Steve

 

[Lavender2]

Congrats, @digitS' ! Hey, it's red and you grew it, I would declare that a winner! Enjoy that luscious thing!

Last year was my first June ripe tomato, an Early Girl, that I had potted up to a gallon pot in April and then transplanted to the garden. It was about that size, but probably not as tasty as a Bloody Butcher. The few tomatoes I have grown out in pots never seem to get fruit as large as garden grown plants, could have been a soil or water issue for me though.

I am a long way from anything red here this year, but plants are taking off great.

 

[ninnymary]

I just had a Black Krim a couple days ago and I LOVED it. This is the first time I've grown it. My Juliet has tons and tons of tomatoes! Have picked a few over the last week. Still waiting for others.

Mary

 

[digitS']

The open garden has nothing ripe, not even in the Early Girls.

I removed flowers and fruit when the plants went out but missed a few, just like here at home. Still, the plants don't have much protection.

The backyard plants in containers won't produce as well unless the garden plants are blown to smithereens by wind or bug attacks (& neglect). I'm not sure how large the containers would need to be for them to stay with the ones in the garden. Every time I have increased the pot size, they do better.

The garden plants had flea beetle damage early but then I showed up with spinosad a time or two.

Black Krim sure gets good press .

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

Grew them one year. No one would eat them. I have to admit, I don't get the fascination. Black reminds me too much of nightshade.

 

[journey11]

Black Krim is my all-time favorite tomato, and I've tried quite a few! Second runner-up would be Persimmon.