Not really thrilled with Matt's Wild Cherry......

[starsevol]

I tried it for the first time this year. It is small and just not very sweet at all, we like them sweet sweet sweet at my house.
I know it is very popular and alot of people love it, I'm just not feeling it.
I want to try something different next year.
Can you suggest something a little bit bigger and a whole lot sweeter for me?
Thanks in advance!
Beth

[Sun City Linda]

Me too Beth! I have some Husky Cherry Hybrids I seeded for Fall as many people have said they are sweet. I have Sweet Chelsea growing but started late so havent tasted it yet. It is supposed to be a large cherry. Will post here when I taste it. It is also a hybrid. Linda

[starsevol]

Hi Linda,

I always did grow the hybrids, and they are sweet. But I am seeking heirloom cherries that are really sweet now. Something that is op and grows true to form from saved seed. Thank you, though.

[feldon30]

I consider Matt's Wild Cherry a novelty. Not very sweet, and so small as to not even register on the palate. And once you grow them, you'll never be able to get rid of them.

Also, I grew Husky Cherry Red and found the flavor completely lacking, but I am rarely impressed by reds. Frankly, I had given up on red/pink cherries having the kind of tomato flavor I expect until I landed upon Sweet Quartz F1. Productive as heck and the flavor rises above most cherries except Sungold, Black Cherry, Purple Haze, etc. I will never have a tomato garden without Sweet Quartz F1.

[tomakers]

I thought MWC tasted ok, but NOT sweet. They ARE tiny and a pain to keep picked.
I prefer Gardener's Delight. Much larger, but still a cherry, and a LOT sweeter. Although probably not as sweet as Sweet Quartz or Super Sweet 100(my hybrid choice).
JMO,
Tom

[ddsack]

If it doesn't have to be red, Snow White cherry has a nice burst of flavor and was one of my favorites until I discovered Sungold hybrid.

[kath]

Originally Posted by ddsack

If it doesn't have to be red, Snow White cherry has a nice burst of flavor and was one of my favorites until I discovered Sungold hybrid.

I'm on the same quest as Beth and tried Snow White after having tried Sungold. For me, it wasn't nearly good enough.

And Matt's Wild Cherry was a standard for me until I found Sungold. From then on the volunteers that persisted for a couple years were "weeds".

[gtnate]

Has anyone grown green grape? I'm growing it this year for the first time; however, my plant just isn't that productive.

[cgs]

I agree on MWC - a lot of work to keep it picked and not the greatest reward. Persistent little plant came up in a driveway crack the next year.

So far my best cherries have been Sungold and Black Cherry in productivity and flavor. I do have to wait a little extra till they really are ripe for the best flavor.

I grew Green Grape and found it not terribly productive either. I put Snow White about the same productivity. If I closed my eyes and ate a Green Grape, fooling myself in to thinking it was red, I enjoyed them and thought they had excellent tomato flavor - not necessarily sweet cherry like some of the others.

[roper2008]

Well, I'll be the oddball here and say Matt's Wild Cherry taste
really good. Do I plant it anymore, no, because like feldon
said it hard to get rid of.
Feldon, who sells the Sweet Quartz F1?

[feldon30]

Originally Posted by roper2008

Well, I'll be the oddball here and say Matt's Wild Cherry taste
really good. Do I plant it anymore, no, because like feldon
said it hard to get rid of.
Feldon, who sells the Sweet Quartz F1?

http://www.tomatogrowers.com/small.htm

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by gtnate

Has anyone grown green grape? I'm growing it this year for the first time; however, my plant just isn't that productive.

Yes, I've grown it many times in the past but when the variety Green Doctors appeared I think many of us switched to that one.

Green Doctors and its clear epidermis mutant called Green Doctors Frosted, both cherry tomatoes, are now offered at many seed sites, see Tania's website for that, and the past few years I've been offering both in my annual free SASE seed offer here at Tville and fingers crossed if seed production goes OK I expect to offer another GWRipe cherry, albeit oval in shape.

[dice]

I heard that people grew MWC for chicken feed. Has anyone done
this? Grown them along the fence around a chicken coop and just let
them trail inside? (The chickens can pick them off at their leisure,
and any volunteers are just next year's free chicken feed.)

[roper2008]

Thanks feldon for the link.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by dice

I heard that people grew MWC for chicken feed. Has anyone done
this? Grown them along the fence around a chicken coop and just let
them trail inside? (The chickens can pick them off at their leisure,
and any volunteers are just next year's free chicken feed.)

First I've heard of that.

Look, some like it, some don't so if someone doesn't like it they just move on to other cherries that taste better to them and in this case Beth wants a sweeter cherry.

I myself prefer a cherry that isn't all about sweetness but I do like Sungold F1 if truth be told.

And since taste is personal and perceptual what's one person's sweet assess ment doesn't resonate with some others and all b'c of al the variables involved.

I can only share with you what seem sweeter than others, for me.

Green Zebra Cherry, which is NOT derived from Green Z, which I don't like

Green Doctors or Green Doctors Frosted

Gardener's Delight, aka Sugar Lump at some places

Dr. Carolyn, ahem

Camp Joy, aka Chadwick's Cherry

I could list a lot of cherries that don't taste sweet to me but that wouldn't really be helpful, I know.
Well, there's a few, but each person has to make up their own mind about taste based on ALL the variables, which are many, b'c it's not unusual to have the fruits of a variety taste a bit differently in any any particular different seasons.

And if I wanted a wee fruited one I'd grow Sara's Galapagos which I do like much better than Matt's Wild.