I harvested a couple Scary Larry tomatoes, today, saved the seeds, and ate them.

Upon harvest, my first impression was that the bigger one was very light for its size (they're large paste-shaped tomatoes with irregular, cool shapes). When I cut it open, I found out why—it's secretly a stuffing tomato. There are hollow pockets inside with just air. Of course, it still has walls throughout, though, but there's not juice and gel all over the place. It's mostly just walls.

I discovered that this tomato has a unique texture. The texture is not like Pink Stuffer or Zapotec (although the flesh looks similar, but with fewer seeds and less gel on the inside; it would probably be much easier to stuff than either of those). The texture was soft, but not at all mealy or creamy (it's soft kind of like soft dried fruit or a tender steak is soft, except more tender than that sounds).

Upon tasting the tomato, I was immediately impressed with its flavor. It has a lot of flavor, and it's a unique flavor I haven't tasted in any other tomato, but I will say that it's actually surprisingly sweet, but it has more to it than sweetness (although it's hard to describe what it is that it does have—but there's definitely something).

The plant has decent production (not my most or least prolific plant). It does have large fruit (except the BER fruits are maybe cherry-sized). I've been exposing it to drought since earlier on this season, and it's suffered some blossom end rot (probably as a result of the drought), but not as much BER as Green Pear or Yellow Trifele in the same conditions, this year (except Scary Larry has a bit more western light in its location). It has maybe about as much BER as Oroma, this year, give or take (Oroma is somewhat more shaded than Scary Larry on the western side).

Anyway, I was surprised to find that this was a stuffing tomato. I've never seen a tomato of this shape like that.

I noticed some concentric cracking on some of the tomatoes. Unlike many tomatoes, the cracking didn't form upon ripening, but rather long before. I didn't get the impression that these cracks would lessen the shelf life by the look of a ripe fruit with cracks (but I could be wrong). They've had a long time to heal while unripe, it seems.

I saved the seeds from two tomatoes, today, but there were only a few seeds in each (I think they were mostly bunched together in one spot).

By irregular shapes, I mean, some of the fruits are fatter than others. Some are longer than others. Some are pointier. The larger ones seem to be about 4 inches long and about two inches wide.

It is heat-tolerant (by that, I mean it sets fruit on days when we have 90+° F. temperatures here in southwestern Idaho). Most of the summer is like that here; so, it's a good trait.

Anyway, I want to grow this again next year. I really like it. It probably could have been in more fertile soil for much better results. (Plants often have trouble in areas by the fence where I had it, and they often have undersized fruit there, although it's doing reasonably well, and 4-inch by 2-inch fruits are pretty big.)

Anyway, this is definitely a fun tomato. I'm curious how it compares with Opalka, Polish Linguisa and Gilbertie. I haven't tried any of those yet. I definitely prefer the taste of Scary Larry to the following paste/plum/pear/stuffing tomatoes I have tried, though: Roma, Oroma, Kara Market, Martino's Roma, Yellow Pear, Red Pear, Medovaya Kaplya, Yellow Trifele, Zapotec, Cherokee Green Pear (except one that had BER that tasted really super awesome), Black Plum, Aladdin's Lamp, Beduin, a tomato that was supposed to be Pink Trifele Russian, and a tomato that was supposed to be Pink Accordian. Pears that are more difficult to say I prefer it to include Green Pear, Chocolate Pear, Ovita, and Pink Stuffer (although I probably do prefer it to them); I like all these, but the tastes are too different to compare them to Scary Larry at this point; Scary Larry probably has the most unique flavor among those (although Ovita is pretty unique; actually, I'd probably say I like Ovita as much as Scary Larry for flavor, but Scary Larry is definitely a lot bigger). Anyway, even among non-paste tomatoes, I'd say it's one of my favorites for flavor, so far.

It's not an early tomato, though. Mine sprouted in my mini unheated greenhouse on 18 Apr 2017; I transplanted them before 1 June 2017 (although I'm not sure when, but probably not a long time before); it set fruit by 11 July 2017; I harvested two ripe fruits, today (23 Aug 2017), although I did harvest one BER fruit a good while before this point (although it was tiny and overripe when I found it). So, I guess that makes it 85+ days for me, this year. We'll see how it does next year. It could probably be earlier in other people's gardens.