On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 07:04:10 -0400, Jim Elbrecht
wrote:

General Schvantzkoph wrote:

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Several different varieties, Early Girls, Big Boys, and a couple of others.

I'm near Albany, NY. We had the same weird spring with a *very*
hot/wet May, and a super-soaker of a June. Though in New England you
probably got even more rain than we did- we got 9-10 inches. Not good
blossom setting weather.

I gave up on Early Girl this year. [never seemed that early-- and the
fruits were always real small with little flavor] For my early
tomato I planted Scotia. My 6 Scotia plants have a few dozen
tomatoes- several slightly larger than golf balls.

Beefmaster has a couple tiny tomatoes, nothing on the Roma or San
Marzaan -- and oddly, I think, nothing showing on the Sweet 100s.

I'm in the San Joaquin Valley, CA and my Sweet 100s have been very
prolific. I have two plants and have been getting bowls of tomatoes
for about two weeks. I planted on April 22. Delicious!

Celebrity and Brandywine have blossoms but no fruit yet.

I'm starting to harvest from my 3 Celebrities. I also have 3 of some
Beef Steak variety that are looking really good. There must be at
least 100 green tomatoes in various stages on these 6 plants. The
last couple of years I had horrible luck with the tomatoes - blossom
drop just like the OP. This year I moved my garden about 8 blocks
away to my gentleman friend's nice raised bed. We had an excellent
spring into early summer with not the usual high heat which I'm
thinking probably was a significant factor in the blossom drop
business in the past.
I'm itching to get enough tomatoes all at once to start canning.
Hopefully I'll have enough bell peppers of my own to use in the stewed
tomatoes.
Sue


The season is young.

Jim