A Good All-Around Cherry

[friedgreen51]

For the last few years I have grown Black Cherry as my main cherry tomato. I love the taste, but it usually succumbs to Grey mold by early August and that is the end of the cherry tomatoes. I have also tried Tommy Toes, Carbon Copy, and Helsing Junction Blue. All of these went down by August too, to various tomato diseases. I do have a couple of Maglia Rosas which is the first time I have grown it. Not sure if it is classified as a cherry or a small salad tomato. They are both loaded up with tomatoes, but are showing a little disease also.

I would appreciate any suggestions. I am looking for good taste first and then disease resistance. A cherry that can take our hot humid summers and one that will last until the frost takes it down. Open to hybrids or open pollinated.

Planning ahead for next year. I usually grow my cherries in containers or straw bales.

Thanks,
Deb

[arnorrian]

My favorite is Snow White.

[Ginger2778]

Friedgreen, try KARMA Pink, and Rosella. Both lasted all of our long season in humid South Florida, very little disease.

[kath]

My favorite is Sungold, but Rosella is #2. It's plenty hot some years here and ALWAYS humid next to the river but these last the season for me with no spraying.

[EdieJ]

Sweet Aperitif. Even in Alabama heat & humidity it never stopped until we got that un-anticipated deep freeze in October. They are a little smaller tomato but tasty ; sweet. I called them my "tomato flavored sugar bombs" and my Granddaughter adored them too. I used the last of my seeds this spring but they never came up. I cried.

[friedgreen51]

Thanks everyone. Making notes on my grow list 2021 of these varieties.

[Cole_Robbie]

I like ambrosia red. They are small, but very sweet. Some of my other favorites are white cherry, sun chocola f1, and terrenzo f1.

[Nan6b]

Post Office Spoonful is a tough plant that might get diseased but will still grow and produce like nothing's wrong. I have seeds. Taste is good; more like a Tommy Toe than a Sungold. Stops when the frost hits. A tough large plant with small cherries. Grows well in PA and SC.

[JohnJones]

My favorite is Snow White.

Growing Super Snow White this year and they have been delicious. I also love Black Cherry.

In the summer swamp like weather of central Mississippi, it's the rare spring tomato plant that makes it into August with any vigor. The hornworms have been terrible the last few weeks, but tomatoes are still coming.

I've done succession planting, but it's hard to get much going in 90 degree weather with high humidity.

[arnorrian]

My favorite is Snow White.

Growing Super Snow White this year and they have been delicious. I also love Black Cherry.

In the summer swamp like weather of central Mississippi, it's the rare spring tomato plant that makes it into August with any vigor.

It's been the last variety to die for me last year. I picked a couple of cups of unripe fruits off it in mid November, after a few frosts.

[worth1]

Run of the mill sweet 100 and one million or whatever the devil it is called.
I have had them produce up until frost or freeze and have grown them all over the state of Texas from the coast to the desert out west and everything in between.
In containers and in the ground from sugar sand to black gumbo soil.
Seriously.

[QAGUY]

I like Super Sweet 100. Been growing it for a few years now. I've picked almost 400 of them so far this year.
This picture shows the one I got this year and a volunteer right next to it. Prolific grower. Last year it outgrew
my 6 foot cage and came back down almost to the ground.

Jun 19 - Super Sweet 100.jpg