A couple of the tomatoes I'm growing this year are rated early (about 60 days from transplant to first ripening) and while impatiently waiting to taste them, I couldn't help thinking it would be nice to have tomatoes a week earlier than that. People have told me that there are no really tasty very-early tomatoes but rarely having grown any of those, I wonder if that is true.
Below is a list of some varieties I found rated by their sellers to start ripening at 55 days or less. (There were some wide disagreements among the sources, so I often had to average the numbers or rely on a majority vote. Those that are suspicious or rated by one source only are marked with a ?)
Here is where I would like to ask for your help. If you have ever grown any of these, could you recommend the better ones? They don't have to be great, just better than the average grocery store tomato. I have no preferences for color, fruit size, shape or flavor. I would even try the many micro-dwarfs (marked M) in the list which are 2ft high or smaller, but I would prefer a taller variety that might have a larger harvest. Thanks in advance for your help. I'm sure there might be plenty of others who might be interested in the results.
TOMATOES RATED AS RIPENING VERY-EARLY
Alaskan Fancy 54-55days
Ambrosia Gold 55-60
Beaverlodge Slicer 55
Bloody Butcher 54-60
Buckabee's New Fifty Day 50-55
Bush Early Girl 54-63
Candyland Red 55-60
Early Pick 55-62
Early Wonder 54-69
Extreme Bush 50 M
Fantastico 50?-60
First Lady 54?-66
Floragold Basket 55 M
Glacier 55-63
Indigo Pear Drops 65
Jagodka 50 M
Jochalos 55 M
Kimberley 54?-68
Mingold 55
Mischka 55?
Orange Pixie 52 M
Patio Choice Yellow 45-60 M
Red Alert 50-55 M
Red Robin 55? M
Rosy Finch 55 M
Shchelkovskiy Ranniy 50? M?
Siberia 50
Sophie's Choice 54-65 M?
Sub Arctic Plenty 55-65
Sub-Arctic Maxi 48-64
Sugar Baby 54-65 days,
Sun Belle 56?
Toronjina 55?
Tumbler 45-50 m
Yellow Balcony 55? M
Yellow Canary 55 M
Yellow Pygmy 50-55? M
