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Wixom MI.

My plant are comming along. Its been a tough year to dial things in right. My garden was all mud till june 20 then the heat hit just when mt first megablooms came in ! I lost about half of them and my megablooms weren't as big as they usually are. But now i have seen a few promicing megablooms comming again and again we are suposed to be around 90 for the next 7 days ??? Ugh....hope i dont loose them.

7/13/2019 1:40:00 PM

Centennial Colorado

I am a grower that has been trying to grow giant tomatoes for 7 years that never had success before this year. I just harvested my first tomato of the season at 0.74 lbs! Unfortunately a squirrel decided the day of harvest to eat a tiny bit of it and was able to get around a metal wiring. This has happened 4 years in a row. I am wondering when is the best time to harvest and how do you know a tomato has a mega bloom vs. ordinary bloom?

7/13/2019 5:36:17 PM

Lebanon, Oregon

There will be a new diary post from me. It's in cyber space and hasn't been uploaded yet. My plants have been doing the best they ever have in 10 years. The weather has been perfect for months and the outlook is more of the same. This is the first year some of my first truss megablooms pollinated. I haven't trimmed my plants at all but will cut growth tips off of plants of the tomatoes growing. Good luck to you east of the Rockies growers. The weather I read. I didn't know you keep going sometimes!

7/13/2019 6:55:05 PM

central Nc

Cut my first yesterday. 2.68# big marley. It was a dmg though, so no official entries yet.

7/13/2019 7:12:54 PM

Eastern Shore of VA

not doing to bad here.
Lost some blossoms to heavy rains and heat the last couple of weeks.
Lost a decent four fused on one of my Big Marley ‘s.
Got a nice looking blossom on the other.
We shall see.
One set on the 5.29 Porkchop.

7/13/2019 9:00:14 PM

Wixom MI.

97 pounder i leared if you have a critter problem that you need to pick a tomato as soon as it shows any color. As a tomato ripens it will give off enough sent for most criters to find it. You may think it will taste better as vine ripened but from experience once a citter finds your garden it will come back every day or night and get everything. As for growing a gaint tomato learning the right pruning techniques will double the size of your tomatoes. As for flower size you have mostly single flowers and often a double on a flower stem truss. Double and triple flowers are just that 2 and 3 tomatoes fused together. A megabloom is usually a flower with at least 4 or more tomatoes fused together and that is what most of us are tring to get but are not easy to get.

7/13/2019 9:23:16 PM

On top of Brush Mountain, Pa.

Nothing of note here.

7/13/2019 9:29:44 PM

Western Massachusetts

Got some fatty big marleys going, 5.95 and 6.23s are a bit lack-luster though

7/13/2019 9:33:16 PM

Eastern Pennsylvania

I can’t get any megas to pollinate and take. I barely have anything but singles. But I keep trying. A few plants are taller than me now. Too much rain and hot too. I have five new plants to put in the dirt maybe more luck on them.

A few years back I grew a huge tomato, my biggest by several pounds I’d say. It blushed and I decided to give it one more night of growth and the next morning a groundhog had eaten the tops off of each of the five fused sections. Just the colored top parts. That was really tough to take.

7/13/2019 9:49:38 PM

Grittyville, WA

No good first trussers yet. One second trusser that could be a personal best. Singles look like they'll be huge... Cant wait to eat them.

7/13/2019 10:30:56 PM

Savage, MN

My plants got off to a pretty late start but I see a mega for on your 6.23 chris. My 8.41 and 4.05 aren't far behind but some other plants got a ways to go.

7/13/2019 10:56:15 PM

Bloomington, IN USA

No world records here.
I just can’t get the large megablooms to get pollinated.
I have some fruit from 2X & 3X blooms that look like they will get to 3 or 4 pounds, but nothing special that will get me a PB.

7/13/2019 11:14:08 PM

Pittsburgh, PA

Lost first two keepers to BER. Still have several plants going. Hit everything with double dose of calcium today. Fingers crossed that something big will pop up but many plants are as tall as me at this point and I’m not sure how I’ll support a big mater even if I get one.

7/13/2019 11:32:22 PM

On a cliff in the desert

This week I am finally getting competition plants into 20 gallon pots so I can douse them with my secret ingredients on them. Secret ingredients working well on other plants. Bnot's 6.32 will be joining when it is big enough to move into a 20 gallon pot.

7/14/2019 1:20:42 AM

Ontario, Canada

Plants in the greenhouse are doing well. Hopefully we'll have a couple decent maters from there.
The outside maters are far behind, but are now starting to bloom. The wet, cool start hasn't helped them at all.

7/14/2019 7:46:35 AM

Oak Grove, Mn

My garden is a tomato catch up patch. There is always more to do than what I have time to get done. I can not complain though, I think I might have better results than what I expected 2 months ago. I should have some sets in a few days.

7/14/2019 10:01:10 AM

Gone With The Win

I alot of rain in june early blight has set in but i got it at bay. but here comes all the rain from the tropical storm. I had some nice first truss megas but pollination was not very propitious. :(

7/14/2019 6:03:40 PM

Gone With The Win

I am going to try licking the stigma next year herd that helps

7/14/2019 6:05:28 PM

Ontario

Plants look great, Not getting much in the way of mega blooms yet.

7/14/2019 6:45:54 PM

Honesdale, Pennsylvania

The gate was left open at my home patch yesterday and momma deer decided to prune some of my competition plants.... looks like a lot of sandbagging going on this year with lots of new lyrics for some country music songs.

7/15/2019 11:35:43 AM

Wisconsin

Got some nice blooms coming, but also a heatwave, might miss this first round

7/15/2019 11:29:26 PM

Levittown Long Island New York USA

Holding my own here on Long Island as a C grower on team #7 (MobyMike & Framac) no beard for me. I should have at least a few Big ones coming flush in the next week or so but I noticed my biggest should be coming from some clones I planted and are flowering real low on some sturdy plants. I put these in the containers to replace a Brandywine and a Omar Lebanese that failed on me. I will get these later but that's fine with me. In the past my biggest have come from the second or third wave late in the season. We are just starting. ng a heat wave here for the next week, let's see what happens. I have the Big Zacs, Wursten and MacCoys.

7/16/2019 6:43:41 AM

Eastern Pennsylvania

Ned I'll try to remember to close the gate the next time I sneak in there.

7/16/2019 9:41:49 AM

Central NY

Lol orangeneck..sabatooosh!...lookin ok here...only one early decent blossom growing now...tough to keep up with things this year...might get an eater or two...good thing Ned and esheel have...well, never mind ...#teamslamMeR

7/16/2019 9:54:00 AM

Eastern Shore of VA

After a week of near 100 degree days my tomatoes can be summed up in one word:
Fried.

7/21/2019 9:00:57 PM

On a cliff in the desert

All plants planted, fertilized, and ready to grow at least a 3.01 pound tomato on one of them.

7/25/2019 1:55:34 PM

On a cliff in the desert

Maybe starting real late is an advantage so I don't have fried plants.

7/25/2019 1:56:56 PM