Black Cherry questions

instar8 · January 7, 2010

I was really looking forward to growing Black Cherry last year, but was very disappointed. It took forever to ripen, granted it was a weird cool summer, but i was picking beefsteaks long before the first ones blushed.

The taste was bland, my 4-year-old grand-daughter wouldn't even eat them, and she LOVES cherry tomatoes...then about the time they really started to ripen, it rained, and pretty much every one split and spoiled, and the vines melted down.

But i'm wondering if i got bad seed? They came from Tradewinds, and in the same order i got Berkeley Tie-dye Heart from a pack marked Pink BTD,
and a tomato they id'd as L.skorospelka, a different species, i've since learned is nothing of the kind, in fact it's almost identical to Stupice, except that it has green shoulders. Still a good tomato BTW, and earlier than Stupice! Yet another variety they called "Black Bear" which was supposed to be a medium-sized round black, turned out to be a large plum with green streaks....

Plus the descriptions i'm reading of Black Cherry say it's 1" diameter, these were the biggest cherries i've ever seen, close to half again that big, too big to comfortably put in your mouth in one bite...and i have a big mouth!!! ;~)

What do you think? Does this sound like bad seed?

January 7, 2010	#1
instar8 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: N. Indiana Posts: 48	Black Cherry questions I was really looking forward to growing Black Cherry last year, but was very disappointed. It took forever to ripen, granted it was a weird cool summer, but i was picking beefsteaks long before the first ones blushed. The taste was bland, my 4-year-old grand-daughter wouldn't even eat them, and she LOVES cherry tomatoes...then about the time they really started to ripen, it rained, and pretty much every one split and spoiled, and the vines melted down. But i'm wondering if i got bad seed? They came from Tradewinds, and in the same order i got Berkeley Tie-dye Heart from a pack marked Pink BTD, and a tomato they id'd as L.skorospelka, a different species, i've since learned is nothing of the kind, in fact it's almost identical to Stupice, except that it has green shoulders. Still a good tomato BTW, and earlier than Stupice! Yet another variety they called "Black Bear" which was supposed to be a medium-sized round black, turned out to be a large plum with green streaks.... Plus the descriptions i'm reading of Black Cherry say it's 1" diameter, these were the biggest cherries i've ever seen, close to half again that big, too big to comfortably put in your mouth in one bite...and i have a big mouth!!! ;~) What do you think? Does this sound like bad seed?