Those “Mortgage Lifter” tomato plants have shown up in limited numbers of 6-packs @ Menards here in the mid-South USA. I almost picked one up — the plants were quite far along for 6-packs, but,
1) I’ve had much better luck with plants that produce fruits in the 8 oz. range. (Less cracking and splitting of the fruits, for one thing.)
2) These said “mild taste”, I like ‘em sweet or maybe sweet and a bit acidic at the same time. (Sweet and a bit of zing?)
3) I already have a lot of tomato plants. I doubt I’ll be short of tomato “meat”, and medium size fruits just usually work out better for me.
That said, I did see a variety I’ve never seen before, named “First Lady”. These 6-packs were fairly well along too. The description says: VFNT (not sure what that means?), Smooth, crack resistant, medium sized fruit. Early F1 hyb. MAT. 66 days. So, not quite as “fast” as an “Early Girl”, but with the plants well along, these might be an interesting comparison. I guess I’ll see how they do in our hot summer. Early Girls usually puke out.
My Thai hot pepper plants are doing well. Wifey will be happy. The Opo did NOT recover from being chewed off. I’ll have to start over - dang!
I have one butterfly weed that I did not prune back and I’ll be darned if the thing has not sprouted vigorously from the top of the seemingly dead plant - now it’s >5 ft. tall! I never heard of such. I’m hitting it with bloom booster, although long bright days is likely what it needs most, to flower.
“VFNT (not sure what that means?)...”
It means that ‘First Lady’ tomato has disease resistance to the four basic diseases that can attack tomatoes:
https://thegardenfather.com/garden-blog/f/v-f-n-t-letters-on-tomato-seed-packets-what-do-they-mean
You’ll need some ‘First Lady’ Marigolds to go with! ;)
https://all-americaselections.org/product/marigold-first-lady/
The mortgage lifter tomato is full of pulp and seeds. We like our tomatoes on the meaty side.