I haven't grow Coyote but I know some folks like it and others don't. it's never been clear to me from the entries in the SSE Yearbooks whether Coyote is or is not a true currant altho many folks assume so. Only recently has it been moved from the regular yellow/orange listings to the other species listings in the Yearbook. Original seeds were sent to Craig LeHoullier by Dominga ( Maye) Clement from Vera Cruz, Mexico.

There's been a lot of DNA sequencing going on with presumed true currants and the results on many have shown that not all are true currants, but all have wee fruits. My feeling is that if you want those wee fruits, no sense in worrying about whether it's a true currant or not.

I have grown several different currant tomatoes and they aren't all the same as to taste.

My current currant fave is Sara's Galapagos, seeds available at Sandhill Preservation, which has a huge burst of flavor. It's probably a stable interspecies cross, according to Dr. Chatelet at the TGRC whom I consulted about it and probably isn't a true currant, but the fruits are the same wee size as true currants and the taste is huge.

Some currant varieties have exherted stigmas which means they have to be insect pollinated which means there could be a greater chance of X pollination with other varieties you're growing, if you do save seeds and don't bag blossoms or isolate geographically.

But I know one person who says he's more worried about his other tomato varieties X pollinating with his currants.

I'm conservative, and since I don't know apriori which currants have exherted stigma's and which don't, I grow my currants far away from my other varieties.

There are red, yellow and white currants and there used to be some pink ones as well, but no more.

Carolyn

I've grown a few currant toms. This year we were very pleased that our currant toms were in the top ten at MAGTAG. They're one of Hubs faves. I think they're as good as most cherries but obviously they're much smaller fruited. Currant toms also have daintier leaves, but the plants can be sprawling and humongous. When they sprawl the stems can root where they touch the ground. Currant toms are heavily fruited and because they make large sprawling plants it is unlikely that you'll be able to ever pick all the ripe fruits, many will fall to the ground and it is almost certain that they will reseed. In my garden Currant toms reseed like weeds but their dainty foliage is recognizable and I yank the extras out. I think you will enjoy any that you try in your garden but be vigilant the next spring to remove unwanted seedlings.

I was curious about the flavor of coyote myself and started a thread a while back ago - it's attached.

It seems it's a toss up - and I decided to stay with Dr. Carolyn.

Here is a link that might be useful: thread coyote

I dunno about Cayote, but when I grew current tomatoes I was impressed with their vigor and disease-resistance. They were thriving while their neighbors were collapsing of systemic diseases.

The bad news is that it got awfully tedious to harvest those wee tomatoes, which were SOUR. I think a lot of them never did get harvested, because it was so slow to pick them one by one. Mine were no bigger than peas. My kids thought they were cute.