Thanks for that info bigpinks. I'm very interested in any tomatoes that do well in the heat. I want to establish a tomato database and settle on some that I can grow here. I tried the Phoenix tomato last year and was unimpressed but may try it again. Can't really write anything off with only one try!!

Here's some info on the Mexico Tomato plant

Here is a link that might be useful: Mexico Tomato at TomatoFest

Below is a link to Tania's T-base about Mexico. I'm the Carolyn Male referred to and was the first to list it in the SSE YEarbooks, as you can see, and also sent it to certain other seed sites for trialall those many years ago.

I now longer live in Latham, and with 3,000 pages I doubt that Tania has had time to update all new sources for 2012.

Off the Vine, mentioned in the link, is an international newsletter that Craig LeHoullier and I used to publish.

And we used the same to name OTV Brandywine, an excellent variety that's sets fruits much better in the south than do most "brandywines".

Compared with many other large pink beefsteak varieties I've grown, Mexico is just not up there when it comes to taste. Having been grown in the Midwest for many years I didn't expect any heat tolerance, and didn't see any for it produced as well as most of the other varieties I've grown over the years.

Hope that helps.

Carolyn

Here is a link that might be useful: Mexico

@bigpinks Where did you get your particular seeds? What general area do you live in? Did your tomatoes experience drought, too?

@MaryMcP Did you ever grow and try it? If so, how did it do for you?

@carolyn137 Was it a mid-season tomato for you like it's supposed to be (about 80 days), or was it late?

I am growing Mexico tomato this year. To be exact it was called Mexican Pink from Sand hill preservation center. But the description fits Mexico. I also grow another similar tomato, Caspian Pink. So we can compare results this summer.

Isn't Mexico supposed to be a canner/slicer and Caspian Pink for fresh eating, kind of like Brandywine? I wouldn't think they'd be similar by the descriptions I've read. I grew Caspian Pink last year, but I planted it later and I only got green tomatoes that ripened inside. Needless to say, they probably didn't taste at their best, but I replenished my seed stock, green though they were. :) I've heard (even from someone else local) that Caspian Pink is supposed to taste really, really good. The storage tomatoes were a bit bitter (but not acidic), I thought. It wasn't a good year for storage tomato flavor. 2014 was much better in that regard.

I have not grown any of them before. Caspian pink is highly rated for the taste. In Tatiana database Mexico is also said to have an excellent taste. Both of them are supposed to produce pink tomatoes of about the same size. It is interesting to compare two similar varieties but with so different origin. I would expect Caspian Pink to be more cold tolerant and Mexico to be more heat tolerant. They are sown at the same time and right now they show their first true leaves.