First to Ripen 2019

[AlittleSalt]

I got my first ripe tomato today - a Cupid F1. I planted out April 15, and today is May 31... so 46 days. Here's a description https://parkseed.com/cupid-hybrid-to...p/05404-PK-P1/

What's your first to ripen?

[DonDuck]

I picked red ripe Big Beef and Heatmaster tomatoes today. The tomatoes taste good, but the first ripe tomatoes are never as good as those harvested in the summer heat.


With the excessive rain, cool, humid weather of this spring, my tomato plants have been hit hard by fungal diseases. Some plants are loaded with large green tomatoes and have very few leaves left on the plants. I'm afraid the beautiful tomatoes will be destroyed by sun scald before they ripen. I may start picking some green and let them ripen in the shop.


I don't normally get hit hard by fungus, but some years the stars align and the conditions are perfect for growing different fungus.

[AlittleSalt]

Don, I'm sorry to hear of the fungal diseases and very few leaves on some plants. I live around 80 miles due south of you. I do know what you are saying about the weather. We got 1.5 inches of rain this morning.

Matt’s Wild Cherry, about 90 days from seed planted. About 45 days from planting out.

Followed very closely by Clear Lake Heirloom, a much larger tomato. After that by KARMA Pink.

[brooksville]

Apricosa>MagiQo>NAR

[DonDuck]

Most of my tomato plants are almost leafless due to leaf fungus. They are loaded with very nice tomatoes looking like over decorated Christmas trees. I've only lost one plant too disease. With the late spring cool, moist weather gone; the summer heat is slowly arriving. My tomato plants are putting on new foliage and should look pretty normal within a couple of weeks.The Big Beef plants will continue to grow and produce into fall as indeterminates.The Heatmaster plants may die after production is complete as determinates. I believe I want them to die so I can replace them with new seedlings for my late summer into first frost production. They performed so well in the summer heat last year, I want to see if they will do it again.


I've been harvesting a lot of cherry tomatoes for two or three weeks. The only variety that didn't lose it's leaves to fungus was Husky Cherry Red. I have two of those in containers and they are beautiful and loaded with tomatoes.