The tag shows it is from Walters in Michigan. They just got MM into mass production last year for sale this year. These were put into small paper "Elle" plugs last year, then transferred into the larger plugs and put into dormancy. They were shipped as the bigger plugs this spring. BTW - If you take it out of the pot, there's a good chance you can actually identify one or both of the paper plugs. Walters has gotten pretty good on the plugs... better all the time... I got Dancing Queen and Satisfaction and June that were all large single eyes with good root structure. But the twenty MM I got like this one were dormant when shipped this spring. As they came out of dormancy, I'd say 50% of them turned into nice MM with 6 or more leaves. A couple of mine have taken about 7 weeks to come out of dormancy and have just sent up one odd eye. And a number of them are oddly colored... streaky or almost entirely yellow - or at least the yellow that turns lighter that makes up the margin of a regular MM. so... this year's batch has a bunch of oddballs. I'm betting Carol will still get some leaves this year, though I'm not willing to guess they will look true to type. I'll be keeping the oddest ones for myself - except one almost all yellow one a forum member just picked up on his lunch hour. It had just a couple of thin bluish streaks. I made him promise to give me the first division if he ends up with Golden Mouse Ears or some spectacular oddity. To be honest - the streaked ones are really attractive, so I'm not complaining too much... but I'll take a financial bath on the poorly emerging ones - unless Carol wants to buy some companions for hers! I haven't spoken to Walters about this yet, so I don't know what kind of reports they are getting from bigger operations...

Yeah I'm in Canada so it's not late in the growing season for us. ;) This might actually be a blessing in diguise since when I went to get more seedlings I decided to branch out, variety-wise. So now I've added another tomato growing location and am experimenting with Sweet 100, Sweet Million, Ultra Girl and Better Boy. I know they may seem like a bunch of boring old hybrids to you tomato veterans but it's plenty of adventure for a novice like me. Thanks for the help folks and I'll be sure to keep you posted on my progress (threat or promise??). Love this forum.

Thanks Amy, yes we saw those. I just wondered if anyone here had used it and had some input. Have you seen it in real life?

Solanaceous planthopper. They're sucking pests. When I gardened in SoCal, they tended to be a late season pest on tomatoes and peppers or, if during the season, on stressed plants. The youngsters are dark-colored and spiny looking, often in groups on the stems. These are relatively easy to squish. But are so numerous that I typically protected fingers with a facial tissue or paper toweling. And direct hits of insecticidal soap work. But you'll need to repeat every several days for a while. As for what's eating your green tomatoes, consider snails, caterpillars or roof rats. (Although I must say that the roof rats usually waited until mine were ready to pick!) A photo of the damage would help.