How are everyones Toms doing?

I think that variety makes the biggest difference.

For the last three years, blooming Butcher have consistently cropped 2-3 weeks earlier than other varieties.

This year, I found that Maskotka and Nikolayev Yellow Cherry were also earlier (though last year they were some of the latest cherry tomatoes to ripen).

Early heat and light helps get the plants established but my experience is that using heat and light only increases the crop and doesn't make much difference to the time of cropping.

No toms until mid August seems pretty typical.
I've been searching the web for advice on how to bring this forward next year.  Does anyone out there have any good advice?  Would a little early season heat help....  or maybe growlights?

What varieties are better?  I got 'Strilo' (a F1 hybrid) to ripen early August.

I find Sungold is really quick to ripen, certainly beats the other varieties I've tried such as red alert, shirley.

I noticed with mine that the smallest ones (100&1000s) ripened first through to the beef ones (pomodoro Marmande) which were last, and all sown around the same time.