Cherry/Small Tomatoes

[AlittleSalt]

I'm starting this thread because of how many cherry tomatoes I am growing this year. Growing over 100 tomato plants is all-new-to-me. I hope that all of you share pictures of your cherry size and small type tomatoes on any thread here at Tomatoville, but feel free to post pictures and thoughts on this thread as well. I will be adding a lot more pictures as the year progresses.

The pic below is of tomatoes that are producing for us now. I'll post this and edit it to add a few comments.

The two oblong tomatoes on the uppermost left side are Juliet F1. The center top is a Riesentraube - this one is valentine heart shaped with a nipple - I wish I could market them around Feb 14. Most of the yellowish-orange ones are Sungolds The mini yellow ones are Russian Mini Yellow. There's Helsing ★★★★★★★★ Blue, an Ambrosia Red, and a Banana Legs walked over because it is a camera hog - it's a paste tomato. All those little red ones are Matt's Wild. I can't wait to try Texas Wild, but I don't have seeds for it yet.

[pauldavid]

Those look good Salt!

[Misfit]

Nice... what are your impressions after tasting?

-Jimmy

[AlittleSalt]

When the varieties first started producing - it was during all the rain we had. All of them basically tasted washed out / not much taste. This is the start of the sixth day of sunshine without rain, and the Sungold are tasting sweet. Matt's Wild Cherry has that old fashioned taste that a lot of larger OP varieties have. My favorite three so far are Riesentraube, Porter, and Medovaya Kaplya. I like tomatoes with a tomatoey taste. I wish I could explain that better.

I'm finding that I like larger cherry types more than the smaller varieties.

As for production, early heavy producers in our garden are Sungold F1 and Matt's Wild Cherry.

[Father'sDaughter]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Matt's Wild Cherry has that old fashioned taste that a lot of larger OP varieties have. My favorite three so far are Riesentraube, Porter, and Medovaya Kaplya. I like tomatoes with a tomatoey taste. I wish I could explain that better.

I wasn't a big fan cherries because most that I've had an opportunity to sample are lacking the "tomatoey" taste I prefer as well, and many are sweet. I'll have to give Matt's Wild a shot someday. I do have one that I grow every year which came from Franchi several years back. It was simply labeled as a cherry with no variety name and is different from their current cherry offering from what I can tell. The plant is a monster that tries to take over my garden, but it always delivers that tomatoey taste I love.

It'll be weeks before I have any ripe tomatoes. Enjoy your harvest!

[wildcat62]

Looks like you have some Indigo Rose in there also??? Love the cherry type but keep it to 3 or 4 plants in our garden. Only 2 of us to feed and they put off a massive amount. This year we have Indigo Rose (1st time growing), Sweet 100 and Juliet (1st time on these also).

[pauldavid]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Matt's Wild Cherry has that old fashioned taste that a lot of larger OP varieties have. My favorite three so far are Riesentraube, Porter, and Medovaya Kaplya. I like tomatoes with a tomatoey taste. I wish I could explain that better.

I'm finding that I like larger cherry types more than the smaller varieties.

As for production, early heavy producers in our garden are Sungold F1 and Matt's Wild Cherry.

That's good to know as I want to try cherries with a more tomatoey taste too. Thanks for the info!

[Tracydr]

Carbon Copy also has a big tomato taste.

[gdaddybill]

This batch includes Galinas, Sungold, Sun Peach, Indigo Kumquat, Orange Zinger, Bumble Sunrise, Sweet Chelsea, Rosella and Matina, etc.

gdaddybill