yes! They are orange and they are sweet and YUMMY!!!
I wonder if the bitter ones werent ripe yet?

Im not sure how you tell if orange toms are ripe yet.

They are my absolute favorite! Pick them when they are golden yellow with a hint of peach on them, then they are the sweetest. If you pick them when they are yellow with some green, they will be less sweet, and maybe you would call them bitter.

Thanks, I put a few that were turning orange from the vine into a brown bag over a week ago - I didn't realize that they would never turn red. I thought "Hmmm, this is really taking a long time" - then I googled the information and realized that they will never turn red.

I think that I imagined them tasting different, but overall I think they are good - the bitter must still have been a bit green :0/ ... Anyway, the plants were free, they are tremendous and I have tons of cherries - so no complaints here!

Carrie

If it was bitter it wasn't ripe. These are very sweet tomatoes. Pretty golden-orange fruits, and usually just under an inch across.

Thanks, trudi - - so helpful to know - Carrie

My faves! And the plant that everyone on my "share" list covets! Great (but thirsty) container plant-loads of fruit & reliable. I try to let them on the plant until their color is uniformly orange with no "veining" in the color. When ripe, they slide off the plant easily. To tell you how popular they are around here, I gave my 90-ish neighbor a bowlful a couple of years ago & when I spoke to her husband later that day, he had NO idea that they were given 'maters-between my place & hers (not very far at all!) she had popped them into her mouth one by one & there was not a single one left when she got home! Now I split their supply into 2 bags!!

LOL, cute story, Jesse.

I love Sungolds and grow them every year now.

The only problem with them is that they don't usually make it into the house! Kind of a snacking plant, lol - it's addictive to just pop them in your mouth while you are out working in the garden. Even my kids do that! (well, they are only *watching* ME work, but they still pop the tomatoes into their mouths!)

:)
Dee

I have seeds ordered for next year.
Anyone know how they do in the south/southwest?

I have the same problem as Dee, its hard to get them from the garden to the house. I can pick a whole bowl but when I get in there are only a few. They are very sweet and so pretty in a salad or just by themselves.

Hope you enjoy them. Carol

SunGold is the best, sweetest cherry-size tomato--hands down. They have almost a candy-like sweetness. My garden will never be without at least one SunGold plant, and if I am stranded on an island that is one tomato plant I won't be without. :)

Cheers,
Norabelle

Okay - but here's my problem: I picked some this morning that were really orange and popped a few in my mouth - yes they were sweet and delicious - but...

I have found that the ones I picked that still had a bit of green veining I put in a brown paper bag and that was weeks ago and still they have the green veins (although they are large) and are horrible tasting.

As Trudi mentioned, they are bitter if there are greenish veins, but why aren't they turning orange in the bag? I've had 15 of them in the bag for over a month.

For now, though, I am seeing plenty on the vine turning a great orange so I know now to wait until there is no green veins at all and they are very tasty when ripe.

carrie

I've picked a few large Sun Golds before that I swear couldn't get any bigger, therefore they must be ripe, right? Nope.

I've found that at good ripeness, they should pop off the vine with barely a tug. Sure you might get one or two that aren't ready; the plant might've been dropping those anyways. But it helps me get the most good ones.

Lol, Carrie. Of course they were horrible tasting! After a month in the bag they were rotten!