Tomato advice

Looking for a short season red tomato under 55 days? Seeds n Such had a nice looking one, 49 days, but not available until Fall. Mid size for home use and farmers market.
Thanks

Early girl. A few different cherries ripen quick too

But are they under 55 days. Once upon a time a new neighbor ask me how long the growing season was up here. My answer was July 4th and 5th.

Early Girl, start them indoors.

Early Girl Hybrid = 57 Days
42 Days = 42 Days (they spent a lot of time on the name)

Both available at Jung Seed & Plants

Another vote for E G.

WI-55

early girl

definitely have established plants by last frost date in a whoop house or something

wall O water canbe used to get earlier crop also

some sweet 100 a grape/cherry tomato is it an indetuminit and it makes more like thousands of tomatoes usualy 6-8 to a stem in an offset branch structure

the WI-55 are a determinate and you get a few a few a ton then done

WI-55 is listed at a 75 day... that seems oxymoronic to me?

Early girls are good, theres one called Alaska something or other, I think was 45-50 days

The best early cherry I've grown is Matt's Wild Cherry.

55 days, vigorous grower. Starts out as the tiniest seedling but is 8'x8' at first frost and pumping out tresses of tiny full flavored cherry tomatoes like there's no tomorrow. Fruit is soft and the skin tears easily but has the flavor of the best full size beefsteak. Very hardy and disease resistant as it's always the last man standing in my hot and humid climate that kills off anything that doesn't deal with blights, fungi and mildews.

It has the added benefit of only needing to be planted but once as it readily reseeds itself year after year.

You should have green houses in your area that sell started plants when the time is right. A couple dozen well cared for plants, plenty of water and staked up good when they grow out of the cage, will produce gobs.

Appreciate the comments but want to start in my own greenhouse getting built in early Spring.

My Ferry Morse package of Early Girl seeds, says it is 52 days to harvest.



My Early Girls today, under the light.

Manitoba and Mountain Merit have good, early sets for me

I have done "Cold Set" tomatoes. Supposed to be born to Alaska. They will tolerate a frost and are great producers with good flavor. They won't get bigger than a tennis ball. I, believe, they were the fastest tomato to maturity when I tried them back in 1998 or so.

I just got my Jung order
Celebrity is all I get, a lot of others have more problems

Terenzo 55 days

Getting the Fever

Thanks Larry^^^

Do they send out a paper catalog?

I believe they do.

Fair warning. If you get that catalog you run the risk of ending up with a few dozen or so of many many different types of tomatoes. Ask me how I know, lol.

Here is a list of cultivars with general days to maturity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tomato_cultivars

Getting your tomatoes as far along as you can possibly get them without them going woody gives you the ability to shorten the days on many short term varieties.

Tall order you're asking but it can be done.

Good luck.

I quit trying from home ...mine were always tall and stringy

I buy 18 started short and fat stems

Bright full spectrum light as close to the sprouts as you can get them. Don't move higher until touching. Tall spindly is a sign of reaching for inadequate light. You can toughen them up with a breeze as well. A small fan suffices.