Indeterminate varieties of tomatoes usually have a harvest period of 5 to 6 weeks, slightly longer than determinant varieties of tomatoes. Fantastic and Jet Star are usually planted for the early crop of creole tomatoes. They tend to produce earlier than Celebrity. Other varieties, such as Pole King and Supersonic, tend to produce a later crop. Solar Set and Heat Wave are heat tolerant varieties that are grown in the summer and the fall.
Tomatoes are relatively easy to transplant.
One ounce of tomato seed will contain about 4,000 seeds. Growers use plastic cell packs with 72 to 96 cells per flat for growing transplants. Wood flats, fiber trays, clay or plastic pots, peat pots or compressed peat pellets are also used. F. It takes 5 to 7 weeks to grow tomato transplants. Local growers in Southeast Louisiana tend to use lower temperatures to raise transplants for their spring crop.