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Number of Reviews: 8
KEY: O=Overall Rating, T=Taste, Y=Yield, E=Ease
Reviewed on 01/27/2021 by
Creed
- An experienced gardener
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Pierce, Washington, United States
Frost Free Season: 183 - 203 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| This is an incredible tomato in multiple ways. First planted it in 2019 when I purchased a plant on a whim. It turned into a monster! Sprawled all over (I didn\'t cage or trellis it) and was loaded down with approx golf ball sized tomatoes.It just wouldn\'t quit producing! Started another from packaged seed for 2020. Taste is perfect for me, sweet and not to acidic. Took a lot of them to work and they all disappeared quickly with my coworkers asking me to bring in more. In 2020 Chocolate cherry produced ripe tomatoes before my yellow pear, the seeds for both varieties were planted on the same day. It has the same indeterminate growth habit as the yellow pear. I let mine vine ripen. Originally I got them to put in my salads, however, I eat just as many straight out of the garden as I do in my salads. I did have a problem in 2020 with splitting, but it was unusually cool and rainy and ALL of my tomatoes split, I had eight varieties, so cant blame the chocolate cherry... it did just as well as the rest. Just got done seed shopping for 2021. Chocolate Cherry is my first pick for small tomatoes due to it\\\'s taste, early production, and prolific-ness, 2021 Planting Season-nothing to add. Unfortunately the seed packet I purchased grew yellow pear tomatoes instead of chocolate cherry.--this has been a big lesson to me to save my own seed!\\\\\\\\r\\\\\\\\nEdited in 2023: I grew this in both 2022 and 2023, not liking the taste nearly as much as I did the first couple of years and the tomatoes seem a bit smaller. I used 2 different seed sources. Regardless, I am downgrading my taste rating from 5 stars to 3 and I will not be growing this in the future. Life\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'s too full of great tasting tomatoes to spend time/space on something that isn\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\'t outstanding! |
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Reviewed on 11/27/2017 by
A. W. Davidson
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Marion, Indiana, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| One of the mainstays for my market mixed baskets. Customers love the flavor of these. A beautiful color and does not split as bad as Black Cherry. This is my second year with this as my black cherry for market. Usually produces till near the end of the season. Have disease issues by then with blight so next year I plan on starting some late to see if that will help. |
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Reviewed on 02/21/2015 by
spedoodle
- A novice gardener
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Kent, Michigan, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Small - Less than 400 square feet (20' x 20')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Blight hit early this year so I the plants died before I had many tomatoes. The ones that I did get were really good. They also lasted a long time after being picked green. I will try these again in a new location this year.
Year 2
I planted my tomatoes in a new location and still had blight but these lasted longer than my roma and heirloom varieties. I still got plenty of tomatoes from my one plant and had some to give away, I did have some splitting after a heavy rainstorm, but I will make them a regular in my garden from now on. |
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Reviewed on 07/05/2011 by
Redneck Garden
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Richmond City, Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| Mind boggling production rates.Tastes better if picked early and allowed to complete ripening indoors..Dropped fruit seed will overwinter to self seed the following spring.[True oddity for here]IThis happens consistently.i might add, not just in mild winters. |
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Reviewed on 02/28/2011 by
Joseph L
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Cache, Utah, United States
Frost Free Season: Fewer than 103 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| This tomato was not happy at all in my garden. |
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Reviewed on 03/12/2010 by
cathyts
- An intermediate gardener
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Orange, North Carolina, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Clay
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| I found cracking to be a problem so had to pick this when it was still a bit green. It is a good performer so there was enough for my family of 4, the birds and squirrels. The squirrels were the biggest eaters. I grew 4 plants from seed. The plants did succumb to disease by the end of the season. |
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Reviewed on 02/28/2010 by
gardenguy56
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Salem, Virginia, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Large - More than 1,600 square feet (40' x 40')
Sun Exposure: 6 to 8 hours per day
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| excellent taste and yield everyone I shared them with raved |
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Reviewed on 11/01/2009 by
TheFluffyOne
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Kane, Illinois, United States
Frost Free Season: 163 - 183 days
Soil Texture: Loam
Garden Size: Medium - 400 square feet to 1,600 square feet
Sun Exposure: More than 8 hours per day
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| Wow, what a tomato, and in year that was bad for tomatoes (wet and cold). This is a large cherry type, significantly larger than SuperSweet 100 for example. You really need to cut this one into halves, thirds, or fourths for a salad. Taste wise every one who tried this one raved about it. It had a more classic tomato taste along the lines of a beefsteak with added sweetness when compared to most cherry types. I would rate its flavor a notch below both BrandyWine and Cherokee Purple for flavor, but it is an excellent tasting tomato none the less. I dry tomatoes for preservation and this was a interesting tomato to dry. It is very seedy and as the season wore I notice the seed were rather easy to scoop out leaving behind the meat for very nice drying. But even with the seeds it performs well as a drying tomato. Very seedy and rather juicy. I have grown many cherry tomatoes over the years and this just pushed SuperSweet 100 out of my line up. This is the most vigorous cherry I have ever grown with the indeterminate vines easily hitting 10 feet and the most productive cherry I have seen. I am going to try and localize this strain for my area and I predict it will be in my garden for years to come. I am rather anxious to match it against Black Cherry however. My seed source was Livingston Seed Co. +++++++++++ 2010 update...this was stellar performer once again in another tough tomato year. I have one important comment to add about this tomato. Frosts came early this year so we backed in literally 100sand 100s of green tomatoes to ripen off vine. Chocolate Cherry was the stand out winner for retaining flavor when ripened from the green stage off vine. Like all tomatoes it suffered a flavor loss but it was still very, very good. \\\\\\\\r\\\\\\\\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\\\\\\\\r\\\\\\\\n2011, 2012 update...this tomato continue to impress. 2012 was a tough year, high temps and drought...and these produces the entire season long, delicious fruits, attractive, - these are now a permanent part of my yearly grow outs. These tomatoes are sweet but not obnoxious and the retain a complex, rich tomato flavor. An awesome tomato. ------------------------------------------------- Grew again in 2013, 2014, 2015 ...I remain impressed. A few other tomatoes edge this one out for flavor, but it is tops in terms of a cherry tomato. It has real tomato flavor, is prolific as heck, a reliable producer, it is very sweet but has enough tomato flavor that is works out very well. Great in salads and for eating out of hand. This one is on my permanent must grow list.\r\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r\n2019 update - I have now been growing this tomato for 10 years and will continue to do so. If you forced me to choose only one tomato, this would be it. Though, flavor wise it is not among my absolute favorite, it is very good indeed. But when you consider that it is fairly disease resistant, is very early, produces like crazy, can be harvested at different times, laughs at the heat, laughs at the cold and can ripen to something that still tastes good even when picked very green...well there just isn\'t much in its class. Overall this is a great tomato. One more thing, I live in cold climate (zone 5a) and if you just smash a few of these in the dirt in the fall they will come up by themselves the next year about 2 weeks after the last frost. What is interesting, not matter how early I start them indoors and set them out, the difference in time to first fruit is only about 2 weeks. |
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