Best Cherry tomato I ever tasted?

[Mauldintiger]

Stopped by a local roadside stand on the way home from church to buy some onions and saw these,I guess they are the black cherry's I have heard so much about, now I have to find some one local that will let me pinch a couple of suckers. I have and love Cherokee Purple and Black Krim coming along and I'll be sure to baby them in case I can't find the black cherry.

 

[so lucky]

I just ate my first Stupice tomato today. It was neither early nor very good. I won't plant those again.

 

[baymule]

www.rareseeds.com has the black cherry seeds

 

[Mauldintiger]

Thanks, will do that next year, but no time this year.

 

[Smart Red]

I believe it was Isis that my granddaughter declared tasted better than candy.

 

[digitS']

Hhmmm

This will be my first year with Isis Candy. I've had Black Cherry before.

They were terrible about splitting! I guess I wouldn't recommend Black Cherry if you have to run sprinklers on the plants twice a week.

I have not found "better" cherries than the golden hybrids. They are rather"untomatolike" with a flavor of their own.

I like Sweet Chelsea red cherries, also. Partly because I like the larger size. I have learned that they have some of the genetics of the Super Sweet 100's. This year, I will do my best to evaluate the similarities between the two . It will complement my taste trail of Sungold and SunSugar, now in its 9th year, I believe ...

Steve

 

[Hal]

Hhmmm

This will be my first year with Isis Candy. I've had Black Cherry before.

They were terrible about splitting! I guess I wouldn't recommend Black Cherry if you have to run sprinklers on the plants twice a week.

I have not found "better" cherries than the golden hybrids. They are rather"untomatolike" with a flavor of their own.

I like Sweet Chelsea red cherries, also. Partly because I like the larger size. I have learned that they have some of the genetics of the Super Sweet 100's. This year, I will do my best to evaluate the similarities between the two . It will complement my taste trail of Sungold and SunSugar, now in its 9th year, I believe ...

Steve

Yellows are quite different, I'm always a sucker for Yellow Pear as it yields like a champ and tastes lovely.

 

[Pulsegleaner]

I'm not sure about "best" (maybe "oddest") but back when I was a teen, I bought a punnet of mixed heirloom tomatoes that contained a pair of cherries that were notable. They were the palest, most transparent tomatoes I had ever seen (so transparent I could make the individual seeds in the sacs through the sides, along with the whole of the vein structure. As odd as they were in color the taste was even weirder. I'm used to some tomatoes being a little sweet, and can sort of understand why there are recipes that treat them more like dessert fruit than vegetables. These one's however, were super sweet, less like tomatoes than like grapes or lichis. They are to date the only time I have come across a tomato that was so sweet that using it in a salad, ad splashing a little vinegar on it tasted wrong, like dipping grapes in vinegar. Never did find out what kind they were (there is a tomato called transparent, but it is a larger tomato. And I've gone through most of the white cherries and small fruited, none seem to match up) I still have the seeds, somewhere.

 

[annageckos]

I love black cherry tomatoes. I found it a few years ago, no luck this year. Looked everywhere. Next year I am going to start some from seed, to make sure I get what I want. They are probably my favorite cherry tomato. For regular tomatoes I like mortgage lifter. They produced well and tasted great.

 

[Jared77]

For us it was red pear. Was supposed to be black cherry but it produced as a red pear.

Wanting to try black cherry I bought a sweet 100 to hedge my bets in case black cherry didn't do well for whatever reason.

Fruit on the red pear was AMAZING! Had all the intense tomato flavor of any of favorite red tomato but in this tiny little package. Perfect salad tomato, and SUPER prolific. Outpaced the sweet 100 planted
next to it. Easily 2:1 as far as production goes against the sweet 100. Never had a cherry produce like that before. It was insane how many I picked.

I saved seed from it but didn't start any this year was too busy with everything else. Victory Seed Company does carry both red & yellow pear seeds for anybody who's interested.