Dr. jimz tomato secret really isn't a secret and if you believe the picture I have a bridge to sell you, cheap. Jimz took a 4000 yr old discovery about fertilizing the soil and changed it to fit modern times, minus the human sacrifices, and added a touch of science.

WARNING: the following is dry, boring and long, read at your own risk!

In Jim'z formula the alfalfa and soybean meal and the sugar cane molasses are considered your organic residue biomass. Macroscopic organisms like earthworms and nematodes, and microorganisms such as fungus and bacteria have a feeding frenzy on the biomass producing a population explosion in the soil. In the first few weeks the soil critters break down the biomass and release some of the nutrients for the plants, but also consume a good amount of the nutrients themselves to live, including nitrogen. What is left over for the plants to use is dependent on the "carbon to nitrogen ratio" of the organic biomass used. When the food is gone what is left are worm casings and dead microorganisms which become a microbial biomass source just as the organic residue biomass was, to use again. So what you have is a good slow release fertilizer working for you but the type of organic residue biomass you use and it's "carbon to nitrogen ratio" is the important factor for this to happen.

"carbon to nitrogen ratio" is the percent of carbon to the percent of nitrogen in organic matter. A microbe's balanced diet is about 24 parts carbon to 1 part nitrogen with nothing left over, but if the C:N ratio is to high and has more carbon than nitrogen, say straw/hay with a C:N ratio of 100:1, the microbe population will be very low, and the straw/hay will take a longer time to compost and very little nitrogen will be fed your plants. Only after the microorganisms die (with a C:N ratio of 10:1) and consumed by other microbes will your plants eat, and you would have no microbial biomass.

If the C:N ratio is to low, using for example Chicken or pig manure with a C:N ratio of 6:1, the excess nitrogen would be dumped fast and could burn the plants or leaching would occur, so you want a C:N ratio of around around 13 to 1 and what Dr. jim'z organic residue biomass ingredients have on average . Alfalfa meal's ratio is 13:1. Soybean meal ratio is 7:1 and sugar cane molasses is about 16:1 but depends on the Brix of what Dr. jimz uses. The supply of all nutrients is good along with the amounts and will all be used by the plant or released into the soil. There is nothing wrong with the stuff but you won't get the results in the picture or any thing close to it, and Jimz has no secret steroid for tomato plants, just hyped up old ancient history in a new package.

Tomatoes are perennials and can grow well over a year in the right climate and if the picture isn't fake it could be grown with any good fertilization program. Many including myself have had 12' high tomato plants in cooler zones like 4 and 5 and not hard to do.

Commercial greenhouses in Canada grow tomato plants from Feb/mar to November and lower the vine and coil it on the floor with a total length of 20' to 30' long and they don't use Dr. Jimz.

Every thing I wrote is based on soil biology and organic matter and we know how these things work and why, 4000 years ago they just knew it worked.