With a long maturate season , with frosts occurring infrequently in January or February , gardener in Central Florida have two periods annually to raise homegrown love apple . harmonize to the University of Florida Extension Service , industrial plant tomatoes across this region in February / March and again in September . Avoid tomato rise across the oppressively red-hot and humid summertime , since because gamy heat impedes flower ; daily mellow temperatures in the low to center 80s F is ideal .

Better Boy

The best Boy love apple variety show is an indeterminate plant , think of its stems grow like vines , reach long , indefinite lengths . These vine are often staked to prevent the canes and fruits from coming in middleman with soil . This variety produces large , red fruits and is specially well suitable to the rich sandy soils in Central Florida as it has a resistivity to base - international nautical mile nematodes . It also tends to resist fusarium and verticillium wilt disease fungal disease .

Sweet 100

Perfect for salads , the red 3/4- to 1 - inch sized fruits of Sweet 100 grow upon an indeterminate tomato plant plant . venture the vining stems of this cherry love apple variety . As many as 100 little fruits grow in a " hand " or architectural branching cluster on the end of stems .

Flora-dade

If you’re able to larn seed of the Flora - dade love apple , it certainly is recommended harmonise to the University of Florida Extension Service . This form is definitive – meaning it is a " bush type " plant that matures to 3 to 4 feet tall and wide . Bred by university horticulturists in Homestead , Flora - dade tolerates the heat and humidity better than other tomatoes in Central Florida from May to October . The red fruit are firm and saporous , about the size of lawn tennis ball .

Mortgage Lifter

The massive yield of the Mortgage Lifter tomato plant each weigh between 2 and 6 lbs . This heirloom ( previous - fashioned ) variety hails from a home nurseryman in West Virginia who bred beefsteak tomato plant in the mid-20th century . Mortgage Lifter seeds were officially sold to the public in the 1980s . The Lycopersicon esculentum become slenderly flattened spheres with a thick , sweet pulp vivid pink - bolshy in colour with few seeds . Plants are undetermined and are insubordinate to root - knot nematodes and fusarium and verticillium wilts . They also withstand the brutal summertime passion of Central Florida nicely .

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