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Grittyville, WA

My plants are half brown/black. How did you all do? I guess it helps to be in the middle of the northwest's Tomato Triangle with LaRue / Sutherland / Spaziani & Treece all directions around me. Biggest factor was the 8.22... Had one I thought for sure would only reach four (would have been thrilled with low-four-something lbs). It went 5.04. Credit goes to great plant. No way in cold late season it should have grown like that although I did put grow lights near it to keep frost off it.

10/22/2018 5:43:43 AM

Grittyville, WA

...Go Rebel Rousers!

10/22/2018 6:32:45 AM

Central NY

Way to grow glen!!!....dibs on seeds

10/22/2018 8:38:08 AM

Lebanon, Oregon

I am most impressed with you this year Brandon. You are well beyond a C grower. Had me fooled all season. Now, you won a folding chair at Terminator. Next year bring it and sit down so you don't keep wondering off at weigh offs!

10/22/2018 9:04:04 AM

Grittyville, WA

I would have been as happy as that bouncing elf guy! I thought they dont have a schedule for when the small vegetables will be weighed... I didnt know it was that heavy! Yeah no kidding thats the cost of having young kids with me at these events...

10/22/2018 11:06:49 AM

Lebanon, Oregon

If you have to carry your tomato to the weigh off with two hands, it's heavy. There are no small veg weigh off times. They are weighed to fill small gaps of time and keep the pace of the weighoff going. Either way, that 5.04 you grew plus Jack LaRue's 5.62dmg are from the 8.22 Marley seed and are the largest grown from it. My small tomatoes from the 8.22 produced only 4 seeds so I'll be requesting seeds fruit both you guys. My goal is to grow an 8.22 Porkchop look a like someday!

10/22/2018 12:19:55 PM

Grittyville, WA

I missed the weighing of my best tomato of the year. Oh well.

Pc I will let you know the seed count but its green... it will be 2-3 weeks... I assume it has some seeds...

10/22/2018 12:27:30 PM

Grittyville, WA

Well in that case I hope the seeds developed it was growing in cold weather... Will let it ripen.

10/22/2018 12:39:08 PM

Eastern Shore of VA

Couldn’t get a single set on the 8.22.
Didn’t have a whole lot of sets in general.
Rain really screwed me.
Learned a whole lot though.
On to next year !

10/22/2018 8:20:51 PM

Grittyville, WA

I think low humidity helps with getting them set? Yep, on to next year...

10/23/2018 5:17:07 AM

Eastern Shore of VA

Torrential rains don’t help,I can tell you that !
Congrats on the 5.04 !

10/23/2018 6:17:59 AM

Western Massachusetts

Great job Brandon

10/23/2018 10:42:14 AM

East Carbon, Utah

I froze out here as well last week. It has been crazy trying to get everything harvested ahead of the frost and seed saving completed after harvest.

https://delectationoftomatoes.wordpress.com/2018/10/15/homestretch-tomato-seed-processing-2018/

I had great production this year, but for some reason my giant tomato project, with 50 tomato vines, was largely a flop. Was it the hot weather and early ripening?

Only one tomato topped 2 lbs. in 2018, and that just barely; and it was part of a dense cluster of fruits on a vine out in the main tomato patch! Variety was Hercegovac. Needless to say, if I find a variety that outperforms mollycoddled vines of Big Zac, Domingo, Delicious, etc., then I will be growing it again!


I definitely need to do serious work with the soil next years, as well as acidifying the irrigation water.

10/24/2018 11:28:19 PM