Description
AAS WINNER DETAILS
Winner Type: National
Class: Tomato, cocktail
Variety Name: Red Racer F1
Genus: Solanum
Species: lycopersicum
Year: 2018
Common Name: Tomato, cocktail
Type: Edible – Vegetable
Breeder: Bred by EarthWork Seeds, Distributed by Garden Trends Wholesale
Close Market Comparison: Mountain Magic F1, Premio F1
PLANT NEEDS
Duration Type: Annual
Light Needs: Full sun
Water Needs: Normal
Season Type: Warm season
Staking Required: No (optional)
PLANT CHARACTERISTICS
Foliage Color: Green
Plant Habit: Compact, determinate
Plant Height: 3 feet
Fruit Color (Harvest): Red
Fruit Shape: Round
Fruit Size: 1.5 inches
Fruit Weight: 2 ounces
Fruit Flavor Description: Classic tomato flavor
Number Of Fruits Per Plant: 68
IN THE GARDEN
Container: Yes
Garden Spacing: 2 feet
Days To Harvest (Sowing Seed): 90
Days To Harvest (Transplant): 57
Plant Spread: 24 inches
Disease Resistances or Tolerances: Verticillium, Fusarium (1,2), Nematode, Tomato mosaic virus, Gray Leaf Spot
JUDGE'S OBSERVATIONS
- “Good for home gardeners.”
- “Nice, small, uniform-shaped fruit with good taste.”
- “Could be quite useful for small space gardening”
- “Entry was vigorous, high yielding, compact plant for container.”
- “Very nice plant habit that matured earlier with good quality fruit”
- “Trial variety was a very heavy producing compact tomato.”
AAS Winners
AAS Display Garden- River Valley Master Gardeners –
Excellent germination and fast grower. Set tomatoes in heat of summer when other varieties didn’t. Full tomato taste from golf ball size tomatoes. Zone 6a
Bonnie –
These were planted as part of my Master Gardener internship, in the Urban Garden Center, Pearl City, HI. Planted 4 seeds, 4 seeds germinated and grew quickly with a very sturdy main stem. Vigorous growth and prolific fruiting. Although late blight is a problem, the plants are otherwise very healthy and there is still a significant harvest. Planted on March 23, 2018, most recent harvest on June 22 yielded approximately 20 lbs of good fruit from the 4 plants. Taste is excellent with nice round shape.