K's Tomato Trails 2026
This landing page keeps the project story intact while turning the tomato view into a Phase 1 comparison board. We are still in the seedling stage: every pot card leads with the last day of Phase 1, and a flip reveals the day-one frame so the change is easy to read at a glance.
Tomato Trails is a citizen-science backyard trial asking which varieties can really hold up in Sausalito's cool, humid fog belt. The page below is intentionally narrow: it is the locked seedling story, not the whole season.
The strongest Phase 1 use cases are survival checks, reference-pot selection, and deciding which seedlings need closer human follow-up before the next stage.
These are the clearest Phase 1 examples to reuse in future reporting and segmentation work. They combine strong establishment with at least usable CV framing.
The watchlist is where the trial gets decision-useful: modest growers, the single stalled pot, and any seedling that needs a tighter future capture or in-person check.
These cards preserve the varietal read alongside the Phase 1 signal. The outlook is intentionally directional until later phases tell us who can really set and ripen.
Each card starts on the last-day frame so the current seedling state is the primary visual. Flip the card to see where that pot started.
The manual Phase 1 triage is the canonical growth read for this page. It is strong enough for establishment buckets, watchlist selection, visible mold-risk cues, and picking reference pots for future modeling work.
Because the camera angle and distance drift between the anchor captures, the next quantitative pass should align the pair first and only then measure plant material inside the target pot.
A vision-language model is useful here, but as a secondary layer. It should comment on legginess, empty pots, possible mold, or multi-stem competition after the numeric CV pipeline has done the measurement work.