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Organic Chiapas Tomato HEIRLOOM Vigor, production, flavor, disease resistance, frost tolerance: Chiapas is not your average cherry tomato! Chiapas is always one of our first to enjoy each season. And she does not trickle in. With your first fruit comes a handful and then you have cascades of ripening trusses full of delicious baby cherries. A more wild relative of tomato than your typical, Chiapas is resistant to many diseases including Late Blight, Early Blight and Septoria. In both 2014 and 2015 we were still eating them at frost when most other varieties had been dead for weeks if not months. In an era of increasing disease pressure, seeds with innate disease resistance (and high quality soil) are your keys to success in an organic garden. This is why we grow Chiapas.
Indeterminate.
55 days to maturity
Lycopersicon pimpinellifolium
How to Identify 3 Tomato Diseases
Organic Chiapas Tomato
Transplant Only: Don’t start too early! Sow indoors 2 seeds/cell & thin to 1, 1/8” deep 6-8 weeks before last frost on a heat mat at 80°F to emergence, 75°F after. Pot up to 3-4” pots when first true leaves, planting 3/4 of the stem. Harden off & transplant outdoors after frost 2.5’ apart, again burying stem. Prune lowest stem ‘suckers.’ Water soil, not leaves.
Sowing Date: Indoors early Spring
Seed Depth: 1/4 inch
Days to Germination: 7-10 days at 80°F
Days to Maturity: 55 days to fruit
Plant spacing after thinning: 2.5 feet
Height: Indeterminate
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