Thai Red Turtle Egg Medium Tomato: Growing Tips

Key facts

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Overview

Thai Red Turtle Egg is a Southeast Asian heirloom with small red fruit about the size of an egg, somewhere between a cherry and a plum. It ripens in the main season. Grow with support and use for snacking or cooking in dishes where small tomatoes are wanted whole.

Thai Red Turtle Egg traits

• Southeast Asian heirloom
• Small red egg-sized fruit
• Cherry or plum type
• Main-season maturity

Good for

• Snacking
• Cooking whole

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Thai Red Turtle Egg FAQ

Sowing, care and common problems

Sowing times, care and common problems are the same for every medium tomato variety, so they are covered once in the growing guide.

• Medium Tomato growing guide
• Starting Medium Tomatoes: Choosing a Transplant and Getting It Rooted
• Pruning Medium Tomatoes: Suckers, Stem Count and Thinning the Truss
• Watering and Feeding Medium Tomatoes for Even, Full-Sized Fruit
• Medium Tomato Growing Calendar: What to Do at Each Stage
• Medium Tomato Problems: Blossom End Rot, Splitting, Blight and Pests
• When to Pick Medium Tomatoes and How to Ripen and Store Them
• All 58 medium tomato varieties

Source

Source: Cornell University (CALS Garden-Based Learning)

The text on this page is our own summary written from the published variety record, not a copy of it.

Written byYasuGrowing vegetables and fruit in Chiba, Japan, and building Gadenin. Corrections are welcome. 15 years of growing.