Cherokee Carbon tomato

VirginiaClay · May 26, 2024

I've grown it three years and love it. Healthy plants, very productive, delicious, almost no cracking or catfacing, no complaints at all.

I've saved seeds from it but haven't ever grown them out to see what they produce. If Cherokee Carbon truly is an F1 (which is how it's sold), saved seeds won't produce the same thing as the F1 seeds. But the way I look at it, both Carbon and Cherokee Purple are excellent tomatoes, and they're fairly similar, so how much different could the F2 and beyond be?

May 26, 2024	#3
VirginiaClay Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2019 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 137	I've grown it three years and love it. Healthy plants, very productive, delicious, almost no cracking or catfacing, no complaints at all. I've saved seeds from it but haven't ever grown them out to see what they produce. If Cherokee Carbon truly is an F1 (which is how it's sold), saved seeds won't produce the same thing as the F1 seeds. But the way I look at it, both Carbon and Cherokee Purple are excellent tomatoes, and they're fairly similar, so how much different could the F2 and beyond be?