Giant Crimson Tomato

SKU: VSS16
Giant Crimson Tomato

Plant Attributes

Days to Maturity: 85-90
Full Sun
Approximate Seed Count: 5
Annual

Giant Crimson Tomato

SKU: VSS16
Regular price $2.00
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LIMIT 2 PACKETS PER CUSTOMER. IF PURCHASED MORE THAN 1 ORDER, YOUR EXTRA ORDERS WILL BE REFUNDED. We are trying to provide these seeds for everyone. Thank you

5 seeds per packet

Indeterminate - Plants produce decent amounts of tomatoes with a pink/red hue when fully ripe, weighing around 8-10 ounces, sometimes close to a pound. The fruit is a bit of beefsteak with meatiness but also the juiciness of a slicer. Seeds are medium size but few.

If you haven’t heard of this tomato, don’t feel bad. Most haven’t for over 45 years. It was extinct until we sprouted seeds that came from 85-year-old packets.

Two germinated, and 1 survived; we produced cuttings, saved seeds, and continued the process. It isn’t about the money as much as the story behind this variety, the journey it took to get here, and the mission to preserve genetic diversity in seeds!

You all will get to try it for the first time before anyone else and be a part of the history of bringing this back to the home garden where it was intended to be 85 years ago!

 

*Photo credit to H.Willens*

 

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Amy Z
Very delicious

I’ve been growing giant crimsons for two years now and they are great producers with tomatoes that could be golf ball size to almost a one pounder. Perfect making a soup with!

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A C
It’s a Survivor!

I’ve been following this story since the start, and from watching my little guys, I can tell that this variety is just a beast! Two years in a row we’ve had trouble growing out our seedlings, and twice in a row, this variety has outcompeted all of our other varieties! (Including several hybrids!!)

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J.M.I.
Delicious!

Finally harvested some of first Giant Crimson Tomatoes last week. The taste of them took me back to my childhood and the tomatoes that my grandmother used to grow. Juicy and very meaty tomatoes that had an amazing taste. 5/5.

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Helen

This tomato surprised me. We are having a crazy summer here in VA zone 7b, but these tomatoes thrived! No leaf curl, no flower drops, some blight on lower leaves but they didn’t balk at the serious pruning. Some fruit did crack, but considering the weeks of upper 90’s drought followed days of back to back deluge it’s not that bad. And of course buying from MIgardener is always a pleasure. Fast shipping, great communication and 100% germination.

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Crystal Castillo
Great all around!

All seeds germinated and plants grew nicely in central Texas, just waiting for harvests.

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