Hawaiian Pineapple is a solid-hue of sherbet orange, Pineapple is a gold/red bicolor. Hawaiian Pineapple is certainly in my top ten of best tasting tomatoes--it's not a heavy cropper and makes only a few fabulous beefsteaks per plant, but they are worth it.

Big Zac is not a bicolor (big red)...haven't grown it.

Bicolors often have a mild fruity taste and watery texture here so I have been dissapointed with many of the "favorite" varieties like Lucky Cross. Last year I grew Grandma Viney's Yellow and Pink (along with a handfull of others including Pineapple) and it tasted like a pink/red tomato, so I was pleased with it. I also grew Beauty King which had the most striking/pretty skin striping I have seen. The flavor was not my favorite but not bland or bad.

Two years ago I grew Burraker's Favorite, and the two plants resisted late blight for quite a while after the rest of the tomatoes were killed off.

Not a huge fan of bicolors - I never seem to know when they're ripe... but could identify this one as ripe, and it was quite good.
Cherokee Golden (or is it Golden Cherokee)

Red and Black Boar

Ripe Ananas Noire:

Sliced:

Berkeley Tie Dye:

Indian Stripe - not really multi-colored - but certainly pretty:
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A little GWR globe that was wonderful tasting:
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sliced:

These are some of my favorite 'multicolored'.

I second the Berkeley Tie Dye. It produced beautiful tomatoes early and often for me last year. Taste was good, but like another poster said, they were a bit watery. They were good on a BLT, but Cherokee Purple was much better. Probably better suited as a salad slicer than a sandwich tomato.

I've always liked Big Rainbow and Chocolate Stripes was quite tasty (but I still prefer the dark Cherokee Chocolate). This year I'm trying Virginia Sweets. It was a freebie from TomatoGrowers.com and they told me it was their 2nd best seller after Black Cherry.

Thanks for the great pix! I love it when people post pix on this site. Can't taste them from the pix, but I almost feel like I can...LOL.

Isis Candy Cherry.

I'm growing many bicolors and many others with more than one surface color because in marketing an heirloom I feel the tomato needs to look different than a red hybrid or I can't sell it for a premium. I repeat plantings of Pineapple, Big Rainbow, Virginia Sweets, Copia, Lucky Cross, Beauty King & Beauty Queen, Williams, Old German, Gold Medal, Hillbilly, Natures Riddle and even Isis Candy (although not too impressed with the poor yield of this large cherry). To be honest I can't pick any one of the larger bicolors as exceptional. This past year the Virginia Sweets stood out as a little better in yield, the year before that Pineapple was a good performer.

I also growover 20 so called "Black" varieties for the same reason and for flavor and yield my vote goes to the smaller fruited types like Pol Robeson Angolan(from Sandhill), Nyagous, Cherokee Chocolate and Black Prince.
Everyone needs to try the beautiful striped types like Green Zebra, Black and Red Zebra, Chocolate Stripes and White Zebra. These just stand out as unique. You just need to try them all and then give them another chance when they dissapoint you once.

tom8olvr of those pictured which was your favorite? Compare it to pork chop which you mentioned in another thread please. I couldn't tell when Ananas Noir was ripe partly because I didn't look it up. I thought it would be black with that name.

Helen - I couldn't chose which one I liked the best...

Golden Cherokee - an excellent bi color. I've grown pineapple and big rainbow - a few others including Isis Candy - I liked this one MUCH better.

Red & black Boar - I was not going to grow, but I really liked it. beside it being so pretty it really tasted wonderful.

Ananas was not one of my favorites :( I WANTED to like it, but it was not really tasty.

Berkeley Tie Dye was not one of my favorites either - I still grow it though... It's a beauty - and for the wow factor it's worth it. I didn't however find it watery.

Indian Stripe - a definite grow - add to your list don't pass it up... it's a keeper!

The green and brick red globe grew out of an Ananas Noire seed - a friend split a pack with me and I THOUGHT this was the real thing. I prefer this over the big giant monstrocity that was above. I'm attempting to grow out seed that I saved to try and get that one going because it was far superior IMHO.

I would highly recommend R&B Boar, Indian Stripe, and Pork Chop. They are in my permanent growing list.

If you need seed for any of these, I believe I have them.

I have two of those three and probably all the seed I need for this year. Thanks though. I will probably plant several Indian Sripe because I like the way Cherokee Purple grows and they are similar.

BUMP

This is a 2011 thread but interesting to me, as I am a fan of Multi-colored tomatoes. This year I am growing the followings :

=== ANANAS NOIRE

=== BIG RAINBOW

=== MR STRIPY

One on my grow list is OLD GERMAN. .

I have also seeds for a bi-color GWR type called:

Green Copia

I am still waiting for my Big Rainbow to ripen. But I have grown Ananas Noire before and liked it a lot, both color and taste wise.

Indian Strip is not considered a bi-colored but the stripes make it interesting. Also I have read a lot of good reviews on its productivity and taste.

OK. What multi-colored varieties are you growing now ? And how do you describe them?

Sey
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tom8olvr, remember me (I think I sent you a few seeds of Cherokee Green some years back) ? Anyway on the "multi-colored" tom varieties, Pineapple Black has probably been my favorite heretofore. However, it may be supplanted by one or more of the following... all new to me for 2015 season:

• Captain Lucky
• First Mate
• Muddy Mamba

At their current respective generations, these may not all be stable. Also these 3 have a common ancestor (Lucky Cross) in their lineages. All 3 should have pot-leaf growth habits. No ripes from CL yet but a few from each of the other 2. So far, taste does not disappoint (very sweet and "fruity"). Production potential is not known (by me, anyway) at this time.

I grew some copia last year I absolutely did not like their taste even though they were huge beefsteaks and very pretty. Also grew red and green zebra small and not very good flavor. The Berkley tie dye was good. Didn't grow it this year. Have Paul Robeson this year they are good. Of course taste is subject to many growing conditions as well as the taster. I notice when we have a lot of heavy rains a lot of fruits will be watery or the flavors will be diluted.

"Of course taste is subject to many growing conditions as well as the
taster. I notice when we have a lot of heavy rains a lot of fruits will
be watery or the flavors will be diluted."

I really agree with this chigarden. For the standard red on yellow bi-color, this has really been the rule for me. I've attributed it to lack of continuous Sun or over-heating, but couldn't provide a reference for that. These are a tricky bunch and you need to grow ~3 seasons to be fairly sure. My favorite is Ruby Gold.

Cheers

PC

I have had great yields and great flavor with Virginia Sweets, the red-yellow bicolor. They're big tasty beefsteaks and the plants are not fussy. I have also noticed that lack of sun/heat will adversely affect the taste and overall ripening of tomatoes. Last year it turned very cool in the height of summer and my yields were low. From midsummer on the fruits never really ripened properly. This year is so much better as we had a lot of rain in June and early July and then it turned hot and sunny so I am having a great tasting yield of fruits!

On the subject of taste : It is true that it can be "subjective" but there are also some standards to go by. For example two important taste characteristics are ACIDITY and SWEETNESS, both can be identified easily and even measured.

Then there is the texture that is hard to classify. But nevertheless they are :

JUICY , CREAMY, MEATY, SEEDY, ...

But in my case, color ( visual ) is also important. Once an Italian chef said :" We eat with our eyes before we eat with our mouth".

Here is my favorite multi-color : Ananas Noire ,( 2014 )

Sey

I didn't have any luck with Ananas Noire unfortunately but I'm a zone 5b-er. It may be that it likes the warmer and longer season southern regions.