Seems like we’re repeating the weather pattern of the past couple of years: skip the 80’s and go straight to the 90’s. Skip Spring, go straight from Winter to Summer. Predicted high of 93° today. I hope this one takes!
MegaMarv (2.678 DT 2012)(5.51 Meisner 2011)
Looks like a couple of triples! Plants are too small to support a big tomato, but after the disaster last year with trying to get blossoms to set in the heat, I may have to take what I can get now.
Seed was planted on 3-25-2014, emerged on 5-30 (5 days – the earliest of all 24 pots of giant tomato seeds; most took 14 days, give or take a few), transplanted on 5-21 (64 days from seed). If all goes well, this tomato will be ripe on about 7-12.
Three other varieties are all blooming now as well: Russian, Domingo, Rebecca Sebastian’s Bull Bag. Planting seeds directly into 1-gallon pots makes a HUGE difference as far as seedling growth and early maturity. If space, time and $ were not such huge considerations, I would use only these larger pots. None of the seedlings raised in smaller pots are anywhere close to blooming, except the super early ones like Stupice and Forest Fire.
Delectation of Tomatoes, etc. 