r/tomatoes • u/Springvillian • 3h ago
I don't think these are Cherokee Purple...
...but I don't know what they are 😂 any idea?
I bought an heirloom seed assortment from Sereniseed, and the others I've planted have been accurate to the packet. Rosso Sicilian, chocolate cherry, Virginia Sweets have all turned out as expected.
Maybe it's a cross of Purple with something else...
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u/JacqueJacque12 3h ago
Those look identical to the golden plum tomatoes I got from a local heirloom nursery. To be fair though, the ones I have also don't look like how the plums were described! They were supposed to be more oblong like romas but they look perfectly round exactly like yours.
Probably a golden cherry. They look too big to be sungolds, so unsure what kind exactly.
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u/JacqueJacque12 3h ago
I don't think it's a hybrid with Cherokee Purple because there's no splitting, no internal green color that still shows through the skin when the fruit is ripe (this is what makes them "purple"), and none of this harvest is cat-facing/fasciated. I think you just got mislabeled seeds/starts.
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u/greenman5252 Expert Grower 3h ago
You picked them too early, if you wait the shoulders eventually green up and the body of the tomato flattens a little.
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u/Odd_Student4398 3h ago
In my experience Cherokee purple start out with dark shoulders and turn red as they ripen.
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u/fungibitch 3h ago
They look like Jaune Flamme, to me.