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Old June 21, 2016   #27
shule1
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I've compiled a list of tomatoes that I recommend investigating to see if you'd like to sell or grow them. I didn't finish adding descriptions for all of them, though. There are more I could add to the list, too.

Some of those I call early in the following list might be up to 70 days, but I get the feeling most of them are (or can be) less than that. All of the tomatoes in the list below should be 75 days or under. If there's one late tomato I'd recommend looking into, though, it's probably Aussie (mine has set a lot of fruit already, especially a lot for a huge tomato), but you might also consider others, such as Valencia (orange; 8-10oz; 76-78 days). A lot of the information about the tomatoes below take cues from sandhillpreservation.com (an Iowa store that used to be in Idaho, I believe), timeless-tomatoes.com (a Nebraska store), tatianastomatobase.com and such.

• AHLO
• Alaskan Fancy (55 days; 2" wide, 2oz fruits)
• Alaskan Gold (4-6oz; early; productive)
• Alpine (6-8oz; outstanding yields; early; indet)
• Ambrosia Red
• Backfield (10-12oz; early; fruit ripens all at once; does well with direct-seeding; semi-det)
• Basketvee (70 days; 4-9oz; productive; from Canada)
• Beaverlodge Slicer (early)
• Beefsteak (an early one; there are many strains, apparently)
• Big Beef F1 (73 days; 12-16oz; popular)
• Big Sungold Select (a larger, OP Sungold)
• Black Bear (75 days; 4-5", 10-14oz fruit; canner/slicer)
• Black Giant (70 days; 12oz; said to be very productive)
• Black Plum (tastes great when it's cool, I think; heat-tolerant)
• Black Prince (70 days; 5oz)
• Black Sea Man (75 days; 12-16oz)
• Bonner
• Bounty
• Break O'Day (8oz; productive; early)
• Burpee Gloriana (6-8oz; productive; early)
• Burpee Sunnybrook Earliana (6-8oz; fruits ripen around the same time)
• Celebrity F1 (65-70 days; 7-8oz; productive; well-known)
• Chalk's Early Jewel (early; productive; 4oz)
• Cherokee Green Pear (75 days; medium-sized; from Cherokee Green, which is from Cherokee Chocolate, which is from Cherokee Purple)
• Chocolate Pear (70 days; heat/cold-tolerant; this was my first tomato to set fruit, this year, out of about a hundred varieties, notwithstanding I planted many 50-some day tomatoes. Every flower looks like it's setting fruit.)
• Chocolate Stripes (75 days; bi-color; red-brown with green and orange stripes; great taste; 1-2lbs)
• Chuda Rinka (early; productive; 2-4oz)
• Clear Pink (60 days; 4-6oz)
• Coldset (fairly early; reliable; heat/cold-tolerant)
• Cosmonaut Volkov
• Costa Rica (golf ball sized; compact indet; productive)
• Cougar Red (early; 4-6oz; productive)
• Creole (72 days; medium-sized; it's doing fine for me, so far; sounds similar to Celebrity F1)
• Cuostralee (72 days; 4-5" fruit; 24oz)
• Early Cascade (55 days; 2-3oz; extra-abundant fruits)
• Early Girl F1 (52-60-something days; heat/cold/drought-tolerant; acidic when orange before red; productive; medium-sized; 4-6oz; plants can break easily if they don't get extra of certain nutrients, but this doesn't hurt productivity; a VFF version is available, as well as at least a couple open-pollinated versions)
• Early Glee (early; 16oz; above-average yields)
• Early Rouge (early; productive; 6-8oz; said to make a great market tomato)
• Early Wonder (55 days; 5oz; productive)
• Farthest North (very, very productive; early; small; might be parthenocarpic)
• Firesteel (70 days; 6-16oz; productive; tasty)
• Fireworks (60 days; 8-12oz; plum-shaped; productive)
• Frosty F. House (medium-sized; early; productive)
• Galina's (60-75 days; 1" yellow cherries; people like the taste)
• Gem State (early; Idaho tomato; 4oz; was productive in Texas)
• Glacier (early; determinate, but produces all season; small fruits; it's taking it's time to get to production size and flower for me, but it's getting there)
• Gold Nugget (parthenocparic; compact yellow cherry; quite early)
• Golden Bison (early; productive; 2-3oz; yellow)
• Green Pear (70 days; green when ripe; I'm growing this, and it's fruiting fine)
• Grosse Lisse (75 days; 10-12oz; 4"; Australian)
• Gurney Girl's Best F1
• Heatwave II (68 days; 7oz; heat-tolerant; supposed to taste great and produce well; VFASt; said to have a salty taste)
• Husky Cherry Red F1 (it's early, compact, indeterminate, and a cherry, but in my area it splits; the F2s I grew didn't split, and they had more taste than the F1, though; the F1 was about 52 days for me)
• Ida Gold (yellow Idaho cherry)
• Imur Prior Beta (2-4oz; early; productive)
• Jackie (said to be the best-tasting blue, according to doublehelixfarms.com; mine seems to be part plum tomato, but it's still blue like Jackie, and it's early)
• Jet Star F1 (72 days; 8-9oz; VF; productive)
• Juliet F1
• Kara Market (70-day paste; productive; impressive taste)
• Lime Green Salad (60 days; 3-6oz; green-when-ripe)
• Maglia Rosa (it's productive for me, so far, this year, and it's supposed to taste great)
• Manitoba (58 days; 3", 6oz fruits; well-suited for northern gardens)
• Maria (early; 10oz)
• Maskabec (4-6oz; early; productive)
• Matina (4-6oz; 58 days; for me, it's productive, and was the second of about a hundred varieties to set fruit)
• Matt's Wild Cherry (said to be very sweet; 65 days; very productive; sprawling plants)
• Medovaja Kapiyia (sounds like a regular leaf version of Medovaya Kaplya that may or may not be earlier)
• Medovaya Kaplya (potato leaf; looks like Yellow Pear; supposed to taste awesome; it's setting fruit well for me; the plant is a nice color of green to my eyes)
• Menehune (said to be the wild tomato, Lycopersicon succentrianum; small beefsteaks with 7-8+ locules; 70 days; productive)
• Moravski Div (very, very early; said to be similar to Stupice, and have great taste)
• Mountain Princess (55 days; 4-6oz)
• New Big Dwarf (60 days; 8-16oz; does well in containers or the ground; I'm growing it and it's doing fine so far)
• Nodak Early (related to Sub-Arctic Plenty)
• North Dakota Earliana (60 days; 6-9oz; productive; heat/cold-tolerant)
• Olomovic (4-6oz; early; productive)
• Orange Minsk (6-32oz; early or midseason; productive; great taste; orange)
• Orange Peach (75 days; fuzzy, orange tomato)
• Oroma (70 days; parthenocarpic; cross between Santiam and Roma; productive; paste; said to taste great; related to Saucy)
• Ovita (small, ribbed, pink pear; looks productive and has fruits, but I don't know how early it is, yet)
• Parkenham Pear (70 days; 4-6oz; red pear; discovered from Australia)
• Payette (dwarf; 68 days; large salad to 3" fruits; slicer; I'm growing it; it's a very small, stiff plant, as the leafs and fruit don't want to move if you try to bend them)
• Pink Berkeley Tie Dye (this is said to taste phenomenal; 8-12oz; 65-75 days)
• Pink Bumble Bee
• Polar Beauty
• Pruden's Purple (75 days; easy to grow; large tomatoes; best-tasting tomato for hamburger's I've tried, yet; easy to eat lots of this tomato)
• Punta Banda (67 days; I only really recommend looking into this if your area is arid to semi-arid, but it's supposed to be heat/cold-tolerant)
• Purple Bumble Bee
• Purple Dragon
• Red Star (1"; heavily ribbed; semi-det)
• Reisetomate (funky-looking, but the size to earliness ratio is good; probably tastes better in hotter areas, though)
• Riesentraube
• Rocket (productive; early; cherry)
• Ron's Carbon Copy
• Rosabec (6-8oz; pink; early; productive; tart)
• Rousich (2-4oz; early; productive)
• Saladmaster (4-6oz; early; productive)
• Santiam (parthenocarpic)
• Scotia (early; 3-11oz; 2.5"x2" fruit)
• Sheyenne
• Shoshone (early; 2-4oz; productive)
• Siberian (early; fruit ripens all at once)
• Siletz (early; sizeable; parthenocarpic; I'm growing it, and it has at least a fruit that has set)
• Snow Fairy (early; large yield for plant size)
• Soldacki (75 days; 10-16oz)
• Sophie's Choice (early; compact; about 8oz; I'm growing it, and it's doing well)
• Stupice (early; heat/cold-tolerant; people like it; smaller than Matina)
• Sub-Arctic Maxi (similar to Sub-Arctic Plenty)
• Sub-Arctic Plenty (very early; productive)
• Sunsugar F1
• Superbec (early; 8oz)
• Sutton's Best of All
• Sweet Orange Cherry (similar to Sungold; it may be from it, but I don't know if anyone knows that for sure; it sounds great; I'm growing this, this year; I got mine from dianeseeds and they took a very long time to germinate, although the germination rate was excellent—so, I might recommend trying another place for potentially faster germination; because it took so long to germinate, the plant is behind the others, but it's growing fast)
• Sweetie (50 days; cherry; some fruits potentially over 14% brix, according to timeless-tomatoes.com)
• Sweetie (early; 1lb version at sandhillpreservation.com)
• Talbot Russian (75 days; 10-16oz)
• Tangerine
• Taos (65 days; heat/cold/drought-tolerant; 6-8oz; canner/slicer/salad; if you can actually get seeds; I ordered them, this year, from tomatofest.com, but got a couple substitutions instead; this is a different variety than Taos Trail)
• Tatura (68 days; Australian)
• Taxi (65 days; 4-6oz; yellow; productive)
• Thessaloniki (I'm not sure how this does in cooler areas)
• Tiffen Mennonite (75 days; 4" fruits; incredible taste; slicer/canner/juicer)
• Ultrabec (early; 8-10oz; productive)
• Urbikany (early; det; 6-8oz; productive)
• Variegated (early; 3-4oz; ornamental in cooler temperatures)
• Victor (early; det; 4-5oz; productive)
• Walter
• Wilford (det; small; very, very productive; ripens all at once?)
• Yellow Riesentraube
• Yorkbec (50 days; 4-6oz)

Out of what I'm growing this year, I would recommend Matina, Chocolate Pear, Maglia Rosa, Aussie, Sophie's Choice, Medovaya Kaplya, Purple Bumble Bee, Big Sungold Select, and maybe some others the most, so far. Keep in mind, I haven't tasted them, yet (the fruits are still green). If your area gets hot, I would recommend looking into more tomatoes than I've listed above, such as Super Sioux (but some don't do so well when it's cool, I've read).

You might experiment with Azoychka. It's early for some people (but it's considered late on a lot of sites).

Last edited by shule1; June 22, 2016 at 12:00 AM.
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