Cherry Falls

[akgardengirl]

Last year I grew "Cherry Falls" cherry tomato which had a cascading type of growth instead of growing straight up. This year, I grew the saved seeds and didn't get that cascading growth but instead a tall cherry tomato plant which I didn't finish growing out as they were much taller than the other cherry starts. Are these seeds F1's? When I google them, some sites say F1 and some don't mention it.
Sue

[Whwoz]

What you had last year was most likely F1, this year F2

[slugworth]

Last year I let the plants sprawl on the ground instead of using a container.
The tomatoes were pink and never turned red.
This year from saved seed they look like regular plants.
At the blossom stage so I have to wait to check on the color.
The original seeds weren't cheap and there were only 10 in the packet.
With shipping it was like 50 cents per seed.
I have them in a big container to check on the tumbling effect.

[Labradors]

The high price for the seeds definitely sounds like an F1 Slugworth, so F2's will probably not come true.

Linda

[akgardengirl]

Thanks to all. I did have saved seeds for Cherry Falls for this year. Those saved those seeds gave me a wild tall seedling when I started them this year. I didn't keep those seedlings since it wasn't at all like the seedling in 2019. Some sites call it an F1 and others don't.

[wykvlvr]

I am growing Rosy Falls this year which is a stabilized pink version of Cherry Falls from Bunny Hop Seeds... her experience was similar to what Slugworth had a lovely sprawling hanging basket type tomato with pink instead of red cherries. Since it did so well for her she saved seed and has grown it out a few generations and considers it stable enough to sale the seeds. My plants are not as "droopy" as the Pearly Pink Orange next to it and for a while I was wondering about it being a hanging basket tomato but then it started to droop and grow more like I had expected. Neither variety are ripe yet but Pearly Pink Orange set fruit earlier, and has nearly twice as many as my Rosy Fall plants. Today I noticed some tomatoes on the Pearly Pink Orange are starting to turn from nearly white to orange like the description said they do before they ripen and turn pink. So hopefully I will be able to do a taste test between the two in a few weeks...

[habitat-gardener]

My seed source (AP Whaley) says Cherry Falls is OP.
I guess I will find out if I save seeds this year and grow them out next year!

I’m wondering about the origin of Cherry Falls. Who bred it? It doesn’t sound like it could be an heirloom if growers were getting mixed results from saved seeds.

[AKgardener]

I grew those 2 years ago I absolutely loved them going to grow them this year for sure mine were pink as well and cascading just using the same seed pack as last time

[MissS]

Cherry Falls was developed by Jim Meyers at Oregon State University. It is an OP cascading, red determinate. Pink is an off-type or a cross and should not carry the name that was given to the red tomato by it's breeder.

[habitat-gardener]

Cherry Falls was developed by Jim Meyers at Oregon State University….

Thanks! I couldn’t find this information anywhere! What is your source?

[MissS]

Cherry Falls was developed by Jim Meyers at Oregon State University….

Thanks! I couldn’t find this information anywhere! What is your source?

OSU

[habitat-gardener]

Cherry Falls was developed by Jim Meyers at Oregon State University….

I asked Dr Myers and he said it’s not one of his, and that he hasn’t grown it.

[MissS]

I don't know how to answer this. That was the info given. He ought to know though.

[Seven Bends]

I don't know anything about this tomato, but this source says the breeder was Floranova/Vegetalis:
http://trialgardens.raker.com/trial-dat ... /2011/3191

And it's in this 2013-2014 Vegetalis/Floranova catalog of varieties, along with other familiar names like Tumbling Tom, Tumbling Tiger and Totem:
https://issuu.com/rcockburn/docs/vegeta ... ue_2013-14

And this newspaper article describes Vegetalis as a breeder of trailing and patio tomatoes and other vegetables:
https://www.thecolumbiastar.com/article ... g-tom-red/

[MissS]

Cherry Falls was developed by Jim Meyers at Oregon State University….

I asked Dr Myers and he said it’s not one of his, and that he hasn’t grown it.

Oh dear, this is my bad. I went and reviewed my search history and somehow while searching it switched over to Oregon Cherry instead of Cherry Falls. So very sorry for the misinformation.