First ripe fruit

[Suze]

Or close enough. This 'Kimberly' fruit should be ready to eat tomorrow evening, or maybe I'll have it with lunch on Wednesday.

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That's ~100 days from sowing the seed.

Also noticed a couple of 'Taxi' fruit have lightened up and look like they are ready to start turning in the next few days.

[Andrey_BY]

100 days after germination it's rather average result for such a well-known early tomato. Especcially in Zone 8 conditions. It will be classificated as mid-early here in CIS (Zone 4-5). I've got my first Kimberly fruit after 94 days last year in open ground here.

[Jonesey1]

looks like pretty good results to me, considering i just put my plants in the ground over the weekend. Where are you in zone 8? i am in Kaufman and we had a a frost about 2 1/2 weeks ago. The one row i had out were all "burned" to the ground. They are coming back but are not very big. You must have put a lot of work in to get a tomato this quick.

[SelfSufficient1]

It looks so good! I have flowers but no tomatoes yet .

[Deer Park]

I began harvesting last Friday.

Earliest small fruit harvested was Pendulina,10 yellow cherrys. I've been getting a couple more each day. Also, harvested Tumbler, Datmarsher, Azure, Budai, and Polish Dwarf and Macrocarpum Lutea.

Larger fruit harvested Canadian Dwarf two (largest 3" x 2.5"), Silvery Fir Tree 4 (all about the same 3.5 x 2), Kornesevsije and Novikou's Giant both 3.5 x 2.5.

All the other 200+ varieties are turning color this week so will begin harvest in ernest this weekend.

Good luck to all,
Michael

[Rena]

Very NICE!! My first was a Silvery Fir tree but that was in the greenhouse so it does not count! Let us know how the taste was......Rena

[JerryL]

Good looking fruit Suze.

It’s this time of the year that I’m jealous of those living in the South.

I’m still 5 weeks from plant out.

[ACEHearts]

My mouth is watering... and as of last night, still no seedlings even up yet!

Enjoy!

Cindy

[Suze]

Andrey, that's 100 days from sowing, not from germination. I don't record exact results in my spreadsheet day by day for germ rates, but I do keep a 7, 14, and 21 day breakdown. Kimberly was still on the list as non-germ as of the 8th day of sowing, but not on the 14 day list. But no, I don't think even that is particularly unusual for Kimberly. The reason I mentioned the ~100 day from seed is I thought someone else might find the information useful.

Jonesey, I'm in the metroplex and know I actually had a frost about three or so weeks ago, even though I completely forgot to look at the max/min thermometer. Enough of a frost to nip the emerging growth on one of my silver maples, a vitex, cannas, peruvian daffs, black and blue salvia, and too many other things too numerous to list. Not that anyone would ever know it to look at the yard now...

As for the tomato plants, about 50 or so containers went in the garage for a couple of days, and the 20 or so remaining plants in the garden were tented with those blue moving blankets with many jugs of hot water set inside.

Michael, is that the same Pendulina Orange that's listed in the yearbook, or something else? What did you think of the taste? And thanks again for all the seeds you shared with me last year -- many are growing in my garden right now.

Cindy, Jerry, John -- Us southerners will be jealous in August.

Rena and Self, hopefully we can all get some seriously good fruit set before too much heat kicks in -- it's already regularly in the 80's here. What's it like there?

[Plantersville]

I have 6 maters almost the size of golf balls on my 2 Early Girls. about a dozen pea size on my Silvery Fir and nothing but blooms on my Jet Setter which I thought would zoom. Those are in 5 gallon buckets. In the garden I have blooms on my Caspien Pink, yellow pear and Old Brooks. Go figure.
Cheers