Lucid Gem Tomato

Favorite tomato last year. Each fruit is something to admire and swoon over. This production is sparse though. I got 7 tomatoes per plant. Yeah. Fortunately, the plants themselves don't get very big, so try to plant them closer together than you normally would. I let all my gem plants bush out, but they hardly bush. Might be worth white to prune all suckers and allow all resources to fuel the main stem instead. Fruit is ripe when squishy.

The few tomatoes I got from these were amazing. I start the seed indoors in peat pots and then plant when the seedlings are about 6-8 inches tall. I used organic soil in raised beds and Tomatotone food. It's hot here from April thru November or beyond, so that may have affected the amount of fruit produced. I'm planting them again this year. These are worth a try. They really are quite extraordinary.

I just loved these. I wound up with four plants and they were excellent producers, no disease, and bore for a very long time. Fruits were on large clusters of 3-6 tomatoes each. They were a lovely color when ripe, and made the most beautiful slicers. In an heirloom salad with other tomatoes, so colorful, and made a gorgeous salsa. I loved the flavor. The "gem" in the center didn't show up very large on all of the fruits, but the larger the fruit, the more obvious the gem was. Growing them again this year for sure.

This tomatoe is a must have in any garden!

I always grow 3-4 different kinds of tomatoes. My daughter-in-law picked several Lucid Gems when they were still green because it is difficult to tell what color my tomatoes are supposed to be because I've planted so many different kinds. I just love these for so many reasons. They were beautiful, they tasted better than ALL of the tomatoes I've grown. Instead of getting a bunch of different tomatoes for 2018, I will be growing only these and a cherry tomato this year.