Yellow Cherry varieties ..

[NarnianGarden]

In addition to the famous SunGold and SunSugar, there are also many other yellow cherries that claim to be sweet.
Has anyone experience varieties like Gold Nugget, SunDrop and the like?
Also there is a Window Box Yellow for containers...
All these cherry varieties make me go 'why do there need to be so many of them'?

[Labradors2]

I tried the yellow cherry called Blondkopfchen at a taste-testing event this summer and thought it was excellent. I plan to grow it next year.

Linda

[kath]

I've tried LOTS of them because I'm hoping to find an open pollinated replacement for Sungold- so far no luck.

kath

[NarnianGarden]

I know Ildi is known as a prolific and sweet tasting yellow, so that might be a good alternative for those who love SunGold.
Meanwhile, I cannot see why all these yellow cherries abound - they must have some good reasons to exist, right? Even if compared to the superstar SG, they must serve some higher purpose

Five thousand red beefsteak varieties, that makes perfect sense to me - but all these cherry varieties cause me to wonder. Is the only purpose to taunt us newbie gardeners who are still trying to learn the ropes?

[KarenO]

I really enjoyed super Snow White this year. A large pale yellow /Ivory cherry that was new for me and along with brandy wine cherry the best small tomatoes in my garden this year. I liked it better than sungold
Karen so

[Labradors2]

Narnian wrote: "Five thousand red beefsteak varieties, that makes perfect sense to me - but all these cherry varieties cause me to wonder. Is the only purpose to taunt us newbie gardeners who are still trying to learn the ropes? "



Don't you beefsteak lovers ever want to make a pretty salad with assorted cherry tomatoes?

How about taking a packed lunch with lots of lovely bite-sized cherry tomatoes?

When working in the garden, we cherry tomato lovers enjoy plucking them off the vine and eating them as we work - hard to do with a beefsteak!

Finally, one of my dogs LOVES cherry tomatoes, and it's a big game when I throw (the split ones) for her to catch in mid-air.

Linda
(who LOVES cherry tomatoes)

[NarnianGarden]

Yeeeeees, I appreciate cherries and am hoping to grow a few varieties next year - both the indet. and the smaller patio varieties. What baffles me is, how are consumers able to differentiate between, let's say, ten yellow varieties that ALL claim to be sweet and have loads of fruits on trusses? hmmmm... they all look the same to me.

And no, I do not think thousands of same-looking red beefsteaks are necessary, either A few tasty ones would suffice!
But then, I am not a true connosseur yet... I'm happy to have a couple of reds, one black, one green, and some yellow in my limited space.

[NarnianGarden]

Originally Posted by KarenO

I really enjoyed super Snow White this year. A large pale yellow /Ivory cherry that was new for me and along with brandy wine cherry the best small tomatoes in my garden this year. I liked it better than sungold
Karen so

Good to know, I have some Snow White seeds I hope to sow next year. Did the vine grow very large?

[Salsacharley]

This year I grew Super Snow White, Gold Nugget, Lollipop, and Blondkopfchen. Super Snow White was the strongest and best producer with a more "standard" tomato flavor than the other cherries. Gold Nugget wasn't a prolific as any of the others, but tasted nice and sweet. Lollipop and Blondkopfchen both were heavy producers of sweet fruit much smaller than Super Snow White. Blondkopfchen was multiflora. I'm growing them all again next year plus many more because I am obsessed.

[KarenO]

Not ridiculously big, I would say standard indeterminate cherry big...about 6-7 feet tall. Lots of nice large meaty cherries that didn't split and held well off the vine too. There are two varieties from what I understand, snow white and super snow white and the difference lies in the size of the fruit apparently. I have only grown the super snow white but they are likely similar in other respects. Everyone who tasted it agreed it was a delicious cherry that tastes like a tomato. Sweet but also has a balance of tang and a real tomato flavor
The large ivory ones in this photo are super snow white. The darker yellow small ones are called tumbling Tom yellow, a nice tumbling determinate for baskets.
I agree, there is a bewildering number of varieties and one could never grow them all in a lifetime of gardening but its fun to try new ones.
KarenO

[Tom A To]

I've mentioned this before but it's worth repeating. I tried a brand new red cherry this year on a whim. It's not yellow but what the hey. It's called Nature's Bites. I was totally surprised, here's why:

It's very sweet for a red cherry, almost as sweet as Sungold.

It's robust, grows large and produced more tomatoes than any of my Sungolds this year.

It is the only tomato plant left in my garden right now (Oct. 28) and the fruit is just as sweet as it was earlier in the year. I pulled out the last Sungolds two days ago and tasted the fruit, it didn't taste anything like it does in the heat of Summer. Sungold's flavor goes downhill when Summer nears the end. These do not.

Nature's Bites don't split easily, yet the skins are not that tough.

They were new last year and I suspect they will find their way into more and more gardens as time goes on.

[RobinB]

I like Super Snow White also along with Ambrosia Gold and Galina's Yellow. Both are early-ish. I'm also working on gold/yellow cherries for the Dwarf Tomato Project (Galina's Yellow x Golden Dwarf Champion) but they are several years from stability, only F4. So far, so good. They are sweet, cold tolerant, early, and crazy prolific.

[bower]

Galinas yellow is absolutely delicious, grow it to know it!

I think a lot of yellows are popular just for the looks - a different colour is pretty on the plate. But Galinas is really good tasting, as good as Black Cherry.

I've heard that Medovaya Kaplya is as good, and pear shaped. I want to try it!

This year I had seed from a swap, supposed to be Glacier but turned out to be "Yellow Perfection". It was a nice tasting tomato, tasted just like a good red. Galinas... way better.

[pdxwindjammer]

I enjoy having a couple of different colors of cherry tomatoes for a salad or for just tossing in a hot pan with olive oil and sprinkling with kosher salt but I am done trialing so many new varietals!

I grew 11 cherry tomato plants this year, several being new to me yellows. I tried Blondkopfchen, Lollipop, Champagne and Hartman's Yellow Gooseberry. I won't grow any of them again. As a matter of fact, I am thinking I will ONLY grow 2 cherries next year and they will be the hybrid Sun Gold. I grow 95% heirloom tomatoes but next year I am going to grow a few hybrids.

I just don't eat that many cherry tomatoes and don't have time to pick them to give them away. My friends are too lazy to come to my house and pick them so they end up rotting on the vines.

Sun Gold is the ONE tomato plant out of over 55 that is still in my garden and I just ate a couple off the plant today.

Tom A To, I may have to try that one next year so I can have one red and one gold cherry! Sounds like a winner!

[RobinB]

Bower,
I grew Medovaya Kaplya this year and it is sweet, prolific, and wonderful. The MK plant is still alive in my garden, too. We had an early frost in mid-September and since then it's been as low as 26°F but has been mostly just above freezing at night, and last night, we got our first snow. MK is still green and had blooms as of yesterday afternoon. It's in a raised bed, not really protected at all. It grew up an 8' tall arc made from wire mesh and came back down the other side. The part that is still alive is at the top... the bottom of the plant is mostly bare now. Kinda strange. Send me a PM and I'll send you some seed if you want. (This is just an offer for Bower right now.)