Don't know what part of the country you live in but after 40 years of growing tomatoes, we have the holy grail showcased at the 2012 San Antonio Rodeo, a selection chosen out of 4,500 varieties - "Rodeo" aka BHN 602. Second place for me is "Big Beef", 3rd is "Celebrity". "Juliet" is a fine big tomato taste, grape tomato. I don't like heirlooms for what I consider a lack of quality, disease resistance, culture (they crack, catface) or taste.
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I live in hot and humid Florida. Last year I grew the Ferris Morris Co. heirloom Brandy Wine tomatoes (5 plants), and a few of the Ferris Morris heirloom Cherry tomato kind, all out side. And Uncle Ben, let me tell you it was a hot mess! The sun beat down on them all day and one buy one I plucked scald tomatoes off stretchy, saggy, pitiful plants. I got pretty good and pitching them into a scrap pile, into the strike zone. Being thrown like baseballs (that was actually pretty fun though, ha)
I ended up, no kidding with two measly cherry tomatoes to eat. That's all. Bon appetit ? I was totally in the dark growing with no knowledge or understanding. I used General Hydroponic Flora Grow, Flora Micro and Flora bloom series, mixing the water with the recommendations on the back per its chart ratios. The soil was amended about 3 feet down with overpriced Fox Farm's Ocean Forest(wow newb).
Next to that crop line I had 4 Northern Light Feminized Auto Flowering mutts. They got about 6 inches high and yielded a few grams. Totally pitiful. I know now that a myraid of problems caused such a weak plant; chiefly my newb mindset. The heat, the humidity the poor soil amended in a sandy Florida ground. etc...
2012 San Antonio Rodeo, a selection chosen out of 4,500 varieties - "Rodeo" aka BHN 602. Second place for me is "Big Beef", 3rd is "Celebrity". "Juliet" is a fine big tomato taste, grape tomato.
I did a quick search and the San Antonio Rodeo seems like an amazing time and place to reveal your work. Wow, Juliet seems tasty as no other. I absolutely love the pungent smell of tomato on the vine. It's amazing. The top 3 out of 45 hundred...I could imagine. Send me a few seeds brah!
I am moving from the outdoors to inside. I have a 40 sf room (with another 20 if need be) perfect for my 1000 watt and hood. With two windows, one for a window a/c to help control the factors. I plan on growing my tests inside, as the elements outside kicked my butt up and down last spring/summer. Armed with a little knowledge or understanding and after reading for hours/days your posts across the interwebs I am confident more than ever that not only will I have relative success, but I will have so much fun at the same time. (ordering Mel Frank's book once I can swing it).
The tomato plant will be mixed in the MJ crop and i will be paying close attention.
I'm considering using Jack's 20-20-20 classic or MG genearl 9-3-6 feed. Maybe use both to see what works to my pot mix. Good stuff.
peace