Earliest cherry ?

[nicollas]

I guess this information is available but i'm having hard time finding a widely accepted list of earliest cherry varieties

The goal is to get cherries as soon as possible, so besides day to maturity, cod setting ability is also important.

For now koralik seems very interesting, as is kimberly but i dont know if the last is considered a cherry. Indeterminate habit would be a plus, but i guess the earliest would be determinate

thanks for any input !

[charline]

I just checked my notes from 2015 and my earliest cherries were petit moineau and Amethyst cream cherry, followed a week later by Black Opal.
before them I had already some microdwarfs as Pendulina and Andrina.
but this is just me, may be somewhere else it is different.

I am pushing this year and try to get ripe tomatoes in May! we will see..... I sowed on january 2 and they are already up. It is Pipo, Kimberley, Vetchny Zov, Vdovo Srce , Vnuchenka and Sirjas Love.

[Gardeneer]

My Hahms Gelbe Topftomato was th erarliest. But it is a micro dwarf.

Gardeneer

[nicollas]

Thanks for the input. I think i'll dont try micro dwarf for that eary cherry i'm looking for

Interesting ones from Cornucopia 2 :

Cheerio : 55 days, tolerant of cold conditions
Early cherry : 56d, some parthenocarpy

[Labradors2]

Jagodka is early for me!

Linda

[AlittleSalt]

Sungold

[jmsieglaff]

Sungold has been the earliest tomato in my garden every year. Gold Rush currant last year was in 2nd place, and only a few days after Sungold. It was planted out later, but it wasn't a plant I started, I bought it at the farmer's market as a good sized plant, so hard to say which would have been earlier if all conditions were identical.

[Aerial]

Glacier. Semi-determinate.

[NarnianGarden]

Golden Nugget

[RJGlew]

Earliest Cherries:
2015 - Nectar F1 (of 11 varieties grown)
2014 - Sun Gold F1 (of 14 varieties grown)
2013 - Sun Gold F1 (of 3 varieties grown)

I do not view Kimberley as a cherry - I include it in the group of Bloody Butcher, Cesu Agrais, Glacier, Independence Day (Livingstone), Kotlas, Matina, Stupické Polní Rané, and Yablonka Rossii. I consistently find Glacier the earliest in this group, but it is pretty average tasting, and does not produce deeply into the season. Stupice is the best producer from early to frost, and [for me] it has the best taste. YR is a really nice tomato too, seeds from Tatiana.

[RobinB]

These are my notes from 2014 and 2015, your mileage will probably vary:

blush 56 days
black opal 56 days
amethyst cream 55 days
russian mini yellow 55 days
pink champagne 55 days
sunrise bumblebee 58 days
pink bumblebee 59 days
green zebra cherry 64 days

[kath]

Since 2010 when I started keeping better records:

2015: #1: Sungold F1 (no other cherries grown in the main garden)
#1: Pearly Pink Orange and Ditmarsher tied (beat German Extreme Dwarf, Jagodka and Russian Cherry in an early greenhouse trial of small, early tomatoes)

2014: #1: Sungold F1
#2: Amethyst Cream
#3: Blue Tears
(Only grew 3 cherries that year.)

2013: #1: Sungold F1
#2: Ted's Pink Currant
(beating Austin's Black Cherry, Besser, Black Cherry, Blush, Carbon Copy, Jasper F1, Sunpeach F1, Sweet Linda, Sweetie, and Tomate Cereza)

2012: In the garden, Sungold F1 beat: Blush, Carbon Copy, Flortis Cherry, Honeydrop Cherry, Jan's, Josefina, Matt's Folly, Matt's Wild Cherry, Zima F2

In the early greenhouse-start trial, Maskotka and Sibirskiy Skorospelyi beat Fruhe Liebe, Zolotoe Serdste, Favorite Holiday, and Danko

2011: Sungold F1 beat Mexican Cocktail, Sara Galapagos, Jujube Cherry, Aldi Orange Grape, Amarillo, Cherrio, Green Zebra Cherry, Mom's Big Red Grapes, Rideau Sweet, Wow!, Sugar Plum F1, Mimi Marzano, Val's Red Nibbler and Remy Rouge

2010: Sungold F1 beat Blondkopfchen, Champagne, Chocolate Cherry, Gajo de Melon, Orange Sundrop, Pink Ping Ping, Plum Regal F1, Prize of the Trials, Smarty F1, Snow White, Sugar Lump, Sugary, Super Snow White and Sweet Orange II

[Bipetual]

Koralik is soft but tastes great. We grow it every year. Cherry Buzz from Territorial is fairly early and indeterminate.

[Ricky Shaw]

I've not grown the Sungold F1, but they're going to help me gain garden space for some later varieties. I'm dropping Stupice and Early Girl, and we'll have to make it on the Sungold's until the mid-season tomatoes come in.

[Gardeneer]

The earliness of cherry types are mostly due to small fruit size. For example, it will take an average beefsteak 45 days from flower -to- ripe, for cherry it will be like 32 days. The same is true with most early varieties ; they have small fruits : eg, Bloody Butcher, Stupice ...