Scarlet Red is a fresh market shipper tomato with great flavor. Here we offer a fresh market shipper with the firmness and fruit quality of Florida 47R, but with a much improved flavor. Scarlet Red is a high yielding tomato produced on a vigorous determinate plant. Its extra-large fruit have a deep red color, a scarlet red interior, and excellent firmness and shelf life. Scarlet Red works well for either mature green or vine ripe harvest, and your customers are delighted with its improved eating quality over others in this class. Resistant to Verticillium wilt (race 1), Fusarium wilt (races 1,2), Gray leaf spot and Alterneria stem canker.
Skip sowing seed, order plants from our Exclusive 51 Strip Vegetable Plant Program!
Save space, time, and cost with pre-started plants custom grown for you! These large plugs can be transplanted directly into the field after hardening off (approx. 1 week). Prices are per tray (51 plants per tray; cell size: 1.5” deep x 1.1875” diameter, tray equals half width of standard tray). Custom grown Tomatoes need to be ordered at least 8 weeks in advance.
Available Ship Weeks for 51 Strip Tomato Plants: Products ship Monday – Thursday for delivery by the weekend, order ships at earliest available ship week below, order at least 8 weeks in advance, for later ship dates call us to place your order. Feb 17 (order by December 23), March 2 (order by January 7), March 16 (order by January 20), March 30 (order by February 3), April 13 (order by February 17), April 27 (order by March 2), May 11 (order by March 16), May 25 (order by March 30) and June 8 (order by April 13).
SHIPPING
Seed Treated 5,000 Seeds: We have under 5 packages of this size but we have more in the warehouse. If you order today we will package up the necessary product and the estimated ship date is 02/06/23
PACKAGING
Approximately 173,900 seeds per pound
CULTURE
Soil temperature: 75 - 80 degrees fahrenheit
Seeding depth: 0.25 - 0.5 inches
Germination days: 6 - 14 days
Grow on temperature day: 60 - 65 degrees fahrenheit