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Post by wheelgarden1 on Apr 5, 2015 15:54:57 GMT -5
I'm looking for a high-production sweet-flavored cherry tomato variety. Your suggestions, please?
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Post by lisaann on Apr 5, 2015 18:37:36 GMT -5
Hi Wheel, Do you need heirloom, open pollinated, or hybrid? Sun Sugar (hybrid) and Sun Gold (hybrid) seem to be all the rage lately. www.superseeds.com/catalogsearch/result/?cat=0&q=sun+gold+tomatosAll cherry tomatos seem to have a HIGH production. You can't shut them up! hahhahaha I like black cherry, because it has tang. Open pollinated. But for sweetness the above hybrids seem to be high on the brix scale. I haven't heard much chatter about tomatos and the brix scale lately. That must be an old fad? Don't know. I'm not doing a cherry this year. They wear me out! That's like an every couple years thing with me. Is it time to set out your tomatos down there now? Mine go in around May 10th. Always smile when I see you post! Glad to chat with you!
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Post by desertwoman on Apr 5, 2015 20:06:26 GMT -5
My all time favorite is sun gold.It's the only cherry I grow these days. This will be my 5th year.
Great high production. In fact I often times can't keep up with them for our personal eating so bring small bowls to friends.
Sweet sweet sweet.
The color is orangey gold.
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Post by OregonRed on Apr 5, 2015 20:48:14 GMT -5
I don't like cherry tomatoes, because of the skin is so thick to my pallet.
I have tolerated yellow pear...
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Post by mrsk on Apr 5, 2015 21:33:07 GMT -5
they always remind me of a horror movie in the 80's? I have gone to the garden with a butcher knife to wack that plant back to it's own space only to be twice as big the next day. This might be a slight exaggeration, but they do grow very aggressively. Mrs k
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Post by Latitude33 on Apr 5, 2015 23:22:18 GMT -5
Hey Wheel, I kinda have a love/hate relationship with grape and cheery tomatoes. Much like the previous posts my experience has been monstrous production beyond what I can consume and the skin I find thick so I give away more than I use. That being said I am trying a new variety to me, Aunt Ruby's Green Cheery plus my standby Yellow Pear.
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Post by gardendmpls on Apr 5, 2015 23:33:09 GMT -5
Love Sungold, but last year tried Blueberries, which was great once I learned how they look when ripe (bottom turns red- the tomatoes, not mine ;)).
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Post by davidjp on Apr 6, 2015 19:21:41 GMT -5
Can't go wrong with sungold but good to go with some others as well for variety. Black cherry is nice as well although not as productive. The one I really don't like is yellow pear. Others I've tried that I think are worthwhile; Isis candy, Piccolo, Sakura (v disease resistant), Sweet treats, Yellow riesentraube, Aiko, . This year I'm trying a green cherry, same as Lat above Aunt rubys green cherry, probably bought at the same Fullerton plant sale I suspect and I've also got a blue boars which is new to me. From Left to right: Sungold/ Sweet Treats/ Piccolo/ Black cherry/Indigo Rose
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Post by johng44 on Apr 7, 2015 16:57:35 GMT -5
Can try Choc. cherry, choc. cherry pear and cherry husky. Indigo rose is nice for sure.
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Post by johng44 on Apr 7, 2015 17:00:04 GMT -5
Really different and nice flavour is husk ground cherry. Ready when they fall to the ground..you don't pick. Will last awhile in husk outside of refridge. ;)
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Post by Mumsey on Apr 7, 2015 18:25:33 GMT -5
One I especially enjoy is Sprite. Very sweet, got seed originally from Tomato Growers Supply (I think they are on that dastardly Monsanto list so haven't ordered from them again).
Ground cherries are something that you plant once, they will come back with a vengance year after year. Even after several years of pulling out volunteers, you will still get them. They are very good as jam and mixed in with rhubarb pie or crisp. They also freeze well. They can get tiny bugs/mites that get through that husk.
It was a favorite for us kids growing up. When we couldn't find my brother, he would be sitting under the ground cherries eating them! He didn't like to pick them up for harvest, only enjoyed hiding and eating his fill. They can get 3 feet high or so, very good for a child to hide in!
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Apr 8, 2015 8:08:22 GMT -5
I have planted supersonic 100 I think they were called. That's what was in the nurseries around here. But now that I am growing my own, I tried Fox Cherry which I got as a bonus packet from Baker's Creek in 2010. They were sweet, some split, probably left on the plant too long. This year I am trying Matts wild cherry which on the packet says intense flavor and heavy yields from Pinetree. I am excited to try these. Seeds are on the heat mat. Will let you know how they do. Anyone else trying these? or have tried them?
hahaha, Mumsey...your brother!
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Post by pepperhead212 on Apr 8, 2015 23:16:53 GMT -5
I have grown many varieties of cherry tomatoes through the years, and Sunsugar remains a favorite for eating off the vine when in the garden! Sungold was also good, but not as productive, and more prone to disease, the only few years I grew them. Black cherry is also a favorite, for a not very sweet variety, but very flavorful and productive. Isis candy was well flavored, but it was one of those varieties that I couldn't tell when it was ripe, and some were over-ripe, while not looking ripe, or unripe, while looking ripe. I tried it again a couple years ago, to see if this was a fluke, but the same thing happened again, so never again for me. Many varieties split with the least bit of rain, or even none! The blue tears and Black hole sun last season were like this, and I only got a couple good ones from both varieties, the rest split. Green zebra cherries were also this way, the year I grew them. Matt's wild cherry was very good, but disease prone (while others were fairly clean) both times I grew them, many years apart. Grape tomatoes have not been favorites; I think they are bred more for commercial growers, and are longer storing, with very thick skins. And, while some taste OK, every variety seems to have a random tomato that looks OK, but tastes disgusting!
Last season I found a new favorite cherry group - the bumblebees. The pink was good, but my favorite was the purple, with a more rounded flavor, and both of them produce great numbers, and store well at room temp after ripening. And I may have gotten one or two split tomatoes, but even after storms, they were in perfect shape. I am trying Sunrise, Pink tiger and Green tiger this season, which are in that same group.
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Post by lilolpeapicker on Apr 9, 2015 8:27:36 GMT -5
That was Superset 100. NOT Supersonics
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Post by wheelgarden1 on May 19, 2015 21:44:30 GMT -5
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions! We wound up with Black Cherry, Sungold, and Tumbling Tom, they're a month in, and they are thriving.
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