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Apollo Tomato

No scientific name recorded

A variety of tomato

Apollo is an F1 hybrid and has a round fruit about 5-6cm in diameter with a mild flavour and low acid taste. The plant with usually grow from 2 to 2.5 metres in height, with a firmer fruit which sets at temperatures as low as 10.C. Good general disease tolerance

Plant in full sun, in fertile soil, amended with compost, mulch and provide even moisture. Plant deeper than they were growing in the containers as it makes a stronger roots system. Apply a light compost tea every few weeks. Do not apply excessive nitrogen, which can promote excessive foliage and poor fruit set.

1: planting
0: harvests
0: seed packets

Growstuff is a free, community-run site for people who grow food. Keep track of what you plant and harvest, find seeds to swap, and see what is growing near you. Join to record your own Apollo Tomatoes.

Apollo tomato facts

Lifespan

Annual living and reproducing in a single year or less

Harvest style

Many times per plant each plant keeps giving harvests

What are growing degree days?

A plant grows with warmth, not with days. A growing degree day is one day's worth of useful warmth: how many degrees the day's average temperature is above the lowest temperature the crop grows at. Add them up from planting and you know how far along the crop is, whatever the calendar says.

Say that lowest temperature is 10°C. A day averaging 17°C gives 7 growing degree days. A day averaging 8°C gives none, as it is too cold for the crop to grow. That is why the same lettuce takes about 50 days in a summer and 90 in an autumn: it needs the same total warmth either way.

For Apollo Tomato, the FAO EcoCrop database gives a lowest growing temperature of 7°C and a shortest growing cycle of 70 days at its best temperature, about 1155 growing degree days to a first harvest.

Where you've told us where your garden is, we use this and the weather there to predict when your Apollo Tomato will be ready to harvest. We don't use it for how long a plant lives or when it finishes: we go by what members have logged for that.