Napa Grape, Black Cherry, Chocolate Cherry or SunGold Cherry Tomatoes?
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Comments (7)Susan, You're welcome. Black Cherry does make pretty large fruit with adequate water. In my garden, the fruit are somewhat smaller in a bad drought year when there's not much rain. Chocolate Cherry gets to be about the same size. I am not especially fond of Chocolate Cherry but love Black Cherry, so this will be not only my first year to grow Chocolate Cherry, but my last year as well. I've noticed CC does not turn exactly the same way BC does, although once they're mature, they look pretty similar. It does sound like a good crop for container-grown plants, and if you keep having nice weather, they should set additional fruit. I suspect your winter squash might have several things going on at once. It is probable that it is root bound in a 10-gallon grow bag. It is possible the heavy rainfall or watering that are necessary to keep it happy also are leaching nutrients out of the bag. The yellow mottling on the leaves bothers me, but I don't have enough experience with mosaic virus diseases to know if that is what is causing that. I wish I could be more helpful, but I just don't know what it is. I am sort of a ruthless gardener. When a plant gets sick, I have very low tolerance for whatever it is and tend to yank out the plant and toss it on the compost pile. Based on my experience with growing squash plants in the ground, once they start going downhill here, if it is anything other than a watering or nutritional issue, I'm not going to be able to save them, so I don't try. That's easy for me to do because I always have younger plants coming along elsewhere in the garden since I seed new ones monthly in a beat-the-SVBs strategy. I realize that when your space is limited and also includes container grower, it is harder to yank and toss a sickly plant because you don't have multiple generations of younger plants coming along to replace it. If you haven't fed it lately, you might try feeding it and see how it responds. Container-grown plants are often underfed and very rarely overfed because of the leaching. Dawn...See MoreCherry Tomato List
Comments (24)I have about 30 healthy cherry tomato seedlings in my kitchen window facing south, Although it is minus 20 at night outside we have had gloriously sunny weather recently. The important thing for getting plants that are not thin, weak, long and straggly is that they get enough light. I sow as soon as the long winter darkness is over. That is also why I move them around so they are always where it is sunniest. When it is dark I put them under the stove lamp which I have lit as long as I am up. Just before I go to bed I put them back in the window so they will get all the light that is possible from dawn onwards.The day before yesterday I sowed some more to test a new method to ensure strong plants. Instead of sowing the seeds in a full pot you put a little soil in the pot and sow the seeds near the bottom of the pot. As the seedlings grow up you add a little soil around the stem successively until the seedling reaches the top of the pot. I placed the seeds over the radiatior but so far they have not come up. It is too early for that yet. I collected these seeds from last year's bumper harvest. The name of the tomato is unknown to me. The plants I was given last year come from a tomato which dropped on the floor in a supermarket which my Kurdish friend was given when she asked if she could have it. The tomato plant grows tall and very wide. You do not need to take away suckers from it. The tomatoes form in clusters like grapes but have the shape of a plum and are much bigger than grapes. They are red when fully ripe, sweet and prolific. Cherry tomatoes are more nutritious than medium and large tomatoes and easier to cultivate. I have therefore stopped bothering about other sizes. Also I prefer the taste. Since I got much better results last year than when I used commercial fertilizer I am using urine diluted 1-10 water this season too. No-one but myself need eat the tomatoes as I tell everyone how I have fertilized them. I have never had such delicious tomatoes before. Consequently I am using urine diluted 1-20 for most houseplants and 1-30 for orchids and nopoxalchia cactus and houseplants that should only be given weak fertilizer solutions. I am very pleased with the results....See MoreMy To Try Cherry Tomato List
Comments (2)I grew Sun Gold in the fall and liked it. I am growing it again now to see how it will do setting in the heat. Will add Gardener's Delight. How about Sweet Million?...See MoreChocolate Cherry info?
Comments (21)I agree with Doof ... although the Black Cherry tomatoes next to the Tom's Yellow Wonder in my picture look very dark purple, they only looked like that the last two weeks in July through mid August ... during a period of high heat and clear skies. The Black Cherries left ripening on the vine right now look identical to the ones in Noinwi's photo. Additionally, Noinwi's tomatoes appear to have a clear epidermis ... therefore having no attributes that warrant the name "chocolate" which connotes "brown" in my mind....See More
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