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Could someone help ID this cherry?

11 years ago

This showed up as a volunteer and doesn't look like anything I remember planting in the past. Very good flavor so I want to save seed. It is "squatty" rather than round. I've shown two of them next to a sungold for size reference. Thanks in advance!


Comments (5)

  • 11 years ago

    Maybe not a cherry.

    Did you grow Stupice or Bloody Butcher ?


  • 11 years ago

    I really wish it was possible to do - ID a tomato from a picture - because we get so many requests to do it. Unfortunately it isn't. There are simply too many possibilities. In fact with small round red/pinks it is a couple of hundred possibilities according to the average tomato database. Many folks just don't realize the number of tomato varieties there are out there.

    And since it is a volunteer so could be either a hybrid throwback or a cross-pollinated one IDing it nigh on to impossible. Just enjoy it, save seeds if you wish and see what happens next year with those seeds. Then you can name it whatever you wish. :)

    Dave

  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Thanks for the prompt responses! My hope was that the "flatness" of this would distinguish this re. identification. I will do as suggested and save the seed hoping it will come back true. I did find this link on Tatiana. It is shaped similarly and the right size.

  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    "And since it is a volunteer so could be either a hybrid throwback or a cross-pollinated one IDing it nigh on to impossible"

    Hi louky,

    Like digdirt said, there are thousandsXthousands of possibilities. The only way to cut down on them is to retrace your steps and tell us the hybrids and OP groups you've had together and if they are limited enough maybe something will stand out as likely. I agree with Sey too, in that the look you think distinguishes it doesn't look like a cherry to me ... a cocktail/saladette; and also rather the result of a cross whether directly from a selfed hybrid, or the result of a cross of any two plants you had flowering coincidentally. Looks pink in the pic which might come in handy.

    Are you thinking Large German Cherry (not a cherry...a cocktail tomato)? How would you think LGC got there, which is red, or is that just a random variety to make the point on shape? Cherries/grapes don't usually have more than 2 seed cavities in a strict use of the word. That is another trait that could help.

    PC

  • 11 years ago

    Thanks for all the responses. Due to the weakness of my labeling/record keeping, I think this will remain a mystery to me. I sliced one open and it seems to have 3 seed cavities. That was new and interesting info about the cavities.