Jay
When I grew it here in the PNW it Caspian Pink never looked that nice but it had always been my favorite tasting Tomato,until last year when NAR pushed it into 2nd place. Having seen your photos it caused me to add it to my list,in lieu of Big Zac. Was going to grow Big Zac for size alone as taste has not often been attributed to it. As a rule I've never grown the same tomato a second time. Now that I'm 70 maybe I need to grow up and stick with my favorites adding only two or three new ones like the Omars Lebanese,Giant Belgium and Nepal which are on my list for this year.

Jim

I'm so jealous. I don't think I can read anymore threads you start. I'm starting to fall into a depression.

The Caspian Pink is lovely. Do you ship to Massachusetts???

:)

Thanks...

Question Jay: When did you start seeds for that plant? How has the winter weather affected its growth?

Hello Everyone,

Hi Jim, with so many varieties to try it really is hard to grow some of the same ones year after year isn't it? Especially for folks who do not have the room for growing a bunch of plants. I'm growing NAR for the first time this year and looking forward to the results.

Hey Tom, hang tough....you will be picking tomatoes before you know it.

doof, I can't recall the specific date I started seed for the fall garden (need to check my records for the fall garden) but I did the initial planting in the garden on September 9th. As far as plant growth, the fall and winter seasons had no negative affect at all. Fruit production was at or above the average for those varieties as well. The one thing that is greatly affected though is the number of days it takes to get ripe fruit. I would say it took at least an extra 30 days to get the first ripe fruit on some varieties.

Jay

Interesting.

I tried Caspian Pink the first year it was offered via Petoseed and found it to be a nice tomato, nothing special, and not deserving of another growout for me based on taste alone. And I had about 200 other varieties growing that summer that were fine, so it wasn't a weather or other problem at all.

Carolyn