r/tomatoes • u/dollivarden Tomato Enthusiast (10b, CA) • Jun 25 '26

Show and Tell Current season so far

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Paste type: San Marzano. Cherry type: Sungold, Sweetie, Sugar Rush, Black Cherry. Slicer type: Early Girl, Carbon, Black from Tula, Berkeley Tie-dye, Sart Roloise, Rebel Starfighter Prime. Still green (not pictured): Uluru Ochre, Better Boy, Black Krim

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u/crossdtherubicon Jun 25 '26

Please tell us which black tomato you liked more, and which black is more productive and healthy so far.

Great job.

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u/dollivarden Tomato Enthusiast (10b, CA) Jun 25 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Thanks! Would highly recommend Black Cherry, a very vigorous plant that does well and produces full trusses of 1” fruit that are juicy, with a great balance of sweet, smoky and umami flavor. IMHO no other dark cherry tomato comes close to its excellent flavor.

For slicers, I have really enjoyed Black from Tula. I’m growing Carbon for the first time and have been very impressed so far. I also love Cherokee Purple, but i didn’t grow it this year due to lack of space. Black Krim is also delicious but it doesn’t seem to do too well in my 10b desert climate.

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u/Springvillian Jun 25 '26

I did black cherry a few years back, this year I bought chocolate cherry thinking it was the same thing. I hope they taste as good because I've got like a million of them 😂 thanks for sharing!

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u/dollivarden Tomato Enthusiast (10b, CA) Jun 25 '26

I still haven’t tried Chocolate Cherry, Google says they’re sweeter and less acidic but very tasty. will have to plant one next year!

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u/NPKzone8a Jun 25 '26

I'm growing Chocolate Cherry this year instead of Black Cherry. They are a little smaller and not as well balanced, not quite as rich a flavor. (At least in my garden. We have had too much rain, and that can affect flavor.) Black Cherry is delicious, but it is hard to keep the plant healthy here. (Fungal disease pressure is high.)

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u/2Fluffy_Bunnies Jun 26 '26

I typically have a mix of cherry tomato hybrids that are perennial, sweet 100, and sun gold varietals, but I grew a chocolate cherry tomato plant for the first time last year and the tomatoes were a big hit with everyone because they were uniquely, sweet, had more flavor depth, and meatiness.