Quailhunter,
Sungold would be the most common that you would find in most areas and considered by most to be one of the best. If you have a place that sells op plants you might find Black Cherry. Sweet Quartz Hybrid is another good one. I'm going to try Sweet Treats this year. Another hybrid from Sakata the breeder of Sweet Quartz. The rest I grow are op and you would have to probably grow them from seed. Jay

I'll just start out by saying that the ones I personally recommend based on best flavor and production are not necessarily the ones you'll see in many stores. So, I'll group them separately.

MY FAVORITES: Black Cherry, Sungold, Sweet Million, Ildi, Rose Quartz, Riesentraube, Grape. Coyote and Tess's Land Race Currant

THE TYPES YOU'RE LIKELY TO FIND AT A STORE THAT CARRIES BONNIE PLANTS: Sweet 100 VF, Husky Cherry Red, Juliet, Yellow Pear, Grape, Porter's Dark Cherry VF and maybe Large Red Cherry and Yellow Cherry. I think sometimes I see Riesentraube at stores that have Bonnie Plants' line.

OTHER TYPES OFTEN FOUND IN STORES: Supersweet 100, Jelly Bean (yellow version and a red version too), Jolly, Sprite, Sugary, Sweet Chelsea, Totem, Tiny Tim, Tumbling Tom, Florida Basket (for hanging basket containers), Matt's Wild Cherry and, if your store carries Heirlooms, you might even find Lime Green Salad (slightly larger than a cherry) or Green Grape.

AT THE TOMATO MAN AND DAUGHTER: If you visit Lisa Merrell's place in Jenks, you're likely to find some unique and tasty heirloom cherry types like Brandywine Cherry, Yellow Sweet 100 (a Darrell Merrell selection), Randy's Yellow Sweet 100, Tommy Toe, Lime Green Salad, Sweetie and Black Cherry.

You'll likely find an even wider selection if you shop at a local nursery that raises their own.

For what it is worth, I think most bite-sized tomatos are pretty good, but some of the hybrids introduced since the late 1990s seem to me that they have really firm, almost tough, texture and skin and I find them less appealing than older hybrids and OPs.

Dawn

Can't remember if I've been planting sweet million or supersweet 100, but whichever it is is an indeterminate that I simply cannot keep up with. I'd rather have fewer cherry tomatoes and maybe a little bigger ones.

I like cherry tomatoes and I plan to have Black Cherry, Sungold, Ildi, Tess's Land Race, and Lime Green Salad of the ones Dawn mentioned above, and probably others.

I planted Sprite one year and thought it was awful. It didn't make very good for me and every one of them that I ate had a tough skin. So tough that couldn't eat it. I wouldn't waste my time on that one again.

If I order any more seed of any kind, from anyone that sells Tumbling Tom, I will likely buy some seed and plant a few in baskets. I didn't think about this earlier when I was ordering seed and it isn't important enough to rate a seed order alone.

I have a huge amount of seed to choose from this year, but I have to admit that I am being tempted by a few things I see on Johnny's website. I ordered the catalog so I suspect when I have time to really thumb through the pages there will be things I just have to have. My husband thinks this is funny, because I hate shopping. Most people are tempted by advertising, but mostly it is just wasted on me......unless it is for gardening goodies. LOL

When I say I have a huge amount of seed.....that doesn't mean that I have 400 types of tomatoes, like Jay does. I do have more types than I have room to plant however. Isn't that what they make containers for?????

If you don't mind something a little bigger you might like Jaune Flammee'. My favorite smaller type. Not a cherry but very good and produces well but not crazy like some cherries. I will list all the cherries I'm growing this year later. One new one I'm looking forward to is Aunt Ruby's German Green cherry. Supposedly a very good green when ripe cherry. I will probably have extra plants of most of the plants I'm growing. If I make it too the spring fling I'll probably bring some. Jay

Jay, I have seen others comment on Jaune Flamme as well, so it must be a good one.

It seems that I am getting ready to inherit some more large containers. Specificly like the big white square garbage cans you see at the fast food places. The kind where you toss your own trash after you eat. They are probably 14 inches square at the top, but very deep. A bonus is the fact that they are white. I don't know how many I will get, but there are several. I might get to plant another half dozen tomato plants. LOL I know my garden is going to be full, but I have a sunny spot toward the back (west) of my lot, and almost on the lot line to the south. I planted several things in containers there last year, but the neighbors dog came snarling and growling at me on two different occasions while I was tending them. Actually, more times than that, but they were close enough to grab him the other times. I think they have moved, (at least I'm hoping) since I haven't seen anyone over there for several weeks. They could be on a long vacation, but I am guessing not. WooHoo

Jay beat me to the Jaune Flammee' recommendation. I've grown it both in the ground and in a molasses tub container and it produced well in both cases.

Another tomato that produces red fruit which is about the same size as Jaunne Flamme' is Bloody Butcher, and it is very tasty. Fourth of July is about the same size as Bloody Butcher and pumps out lots of those larger-than-cherry but still small tomatoes, but I don't think Fourth of July is quite as tasty as Bloody Butcher, although it isn't bad at all. The tomatoes are an average of about 2" across, are produced in great profusion and are pretty early---about 55 days. Other tomatoes in the same size range would include Porter, Livingston's Gold Ball, Sophie's Choice and Pink Ping Pong. I sometimes see Porter, Jaunne Flamme', Bloody Butcher and Fourth of July at random stores in the spring.

Both Riesentraube and Large Red Cherry produce larger fruit than Sweet 100, Supersweet 100 and Sweet Million, so any of them would require less time spent picking. Black Plum and Black Prince produce toms that are larger than cherries, but not full-sized so those might work for you.

Dawn

Are they egg size or smaller?

I am glad some of you like Jaunne Flamme because I plan to order it. I keep debating whether or not to order Bloody Butcher because I liked Glacier last year and I don't need both. It would be good to try something new if BB tastes good.

Carol,

Are which ones egg sized or smaller? The ones that I listed as being bigger than a cherry (not the ones that are large cherries like Riesentraube and Large Red Cherry)? Well, it all depends on the size of the egg! Most of them are smaller than a large or extra large egg, but maybe not smaller than a medium-sized egg and probably all of them are bigger than a banty egg.

I've seen these types produce slightly larger tomatoes some years depending on rainfall and fertility of the mix they're growing in and also it depends on if they're in the ground or in large containers. Also, sometimes Livingston's Gold Ball is somewhat larger than a ping pong ball, but not by a whole lot.

I've never tried to compare tomato sizes to egg sizes before so all the preceding is just a guess.

Dawn