Hi, Sey, we have stupice. They are nice salad tomatoes. All of these look good!

Gs, I bought a pint of stupice. They were different in size , as you can see in the picture but the taste is very good. Two years ago I had one plant that gave all small cherry size tomatoes. I am going save seeds from these.

Sey

I, for one, am a huge fan of Stupice. Produced darn near a month earlier than any other tomato I've ever grown and they're quite tasty. Golf ball to slightly larger in size. An excellent very early tomato.

Stupice, those look an awful lot like the volunteer tomatoes growing next to my community garden bed. It seems like it was just a couple weeks ago that my sister said, "hey, that's a tomato plant", about one of the weeds. Now it's a huge sprawling plant that has dozens of tomatoes. I'm going to save seeds and grow it in addition to the Juliets for my "prolific small tomato" slot. :) It would be good if the volunteer tomato was OP.

I dug up this thread because I stole your idea, and thought I'd add to this thread rather than make a new one. There's a local small family farmer who sets up every year at the farmer's market. She's been growing tomatoes (and lots of other stuff) for many years. She told me she only grows the best tasting tomatoes and the ones that grow well here. I picked up 2 to try, and figured that if I liked them, I'd grow them next year.

She didn't have the correct name for the darker one. She called it Cherokee Stripe. I'm pretty sure it's Chocolate Stripe. The other is Orange Russian.

The Orange Russian is beautiful, and sweet, but the Chocolate Stripe had the best flavor.

This year (and previous years), I've just grown whatever looked good from the bonnie plants selection at walmart. But next year, I'm gonna have fun with it.

Good finds, Riley .

I agree and think that the dark one is "Chocolate Stripe " . I have not heard of "Cherokee Stripe".

About Juliet : I like it a lot. I think it was in mid June that I picked one at clearance sale at Fred Meyer. It was in a 2' pot. I planted it in a 4 gallon pot . It took it a while to start growing. So far I have picked one ripe tomato and has lots of green one. It keeps flowering and setting. I have grown it in the past and I know ho prolific it is.

Sey

She seemed frazzled and English isn't her first language, I think she just got it mixed up because they were next to the Cherokee Purples

Riley, that tomato looks just like my Chocolate Stripe that I get from Tomatofest. Sometimes they are even brighter and more cantrasty than yours. My wife and daughter like them a lot, and they are fun to give away to friends who ohhh and ahhh over the colors.

Yeah, this one was prettier on the underside :). Very distinct red and green stripes. There was some yellow too (on the other side of the top), but I think it was sun damage. I really liked the flavor.

Another possibility for the dark tomato is Indian Stripe, a close match to Cherokee Purple from Cherokee Indians of Arkansas.

At one time I placed i,dividual labels on my market heirloom tomatoes but it just takes too much time and I probably grow 5 times the varieties as your market vendor. I still have pages of printed labels which I placed on tomatoes as I picked. I offer to save specific varieties for customers and sometimes I amaze myself that I can recall picking specific tomatoes ( out of bushels). Even of the smaller round black tomatoes I mostly admit that it is likely one of four similar varieties and I name them. My customers, for the most part, buy to eat. One customer told me that he had a bet with a friend in another state that I had the best tasting tomatoes. The saddest part is running out if certain varieties that people repeatedly shop for.

Barrie, "Indian Stripe" is NOT really striped when ripe. Plus, it wont have any green on it either. Mine are ripening now . No stripe , no color other than pale green and hint of pink so far.

Sey

Yea, not striped but looks similar to tomato pictured.

Everyone, please stop saving seed from fruit that has not been very carefully bagged. That is why there is such a mess of cultivars that are not true.

While we are at it, please don't guess at a variety and distribute seeds from it. I find it very irritating to get seed from a swap and find that it doesn't grow true. All that investment in time and garden space just isn't worth the effort.

Linda

"Everyone, please stop saving seed from fruit that has not been very
carefully bagged. That is why there is such a mess of cultivars that
are not true."

Respectfully tarolli, do you mean, as Labradors details, distributing those seeds?

Because, and nothing personal, here in my garden, I like crosses and surprises. I have one now that I'll be making the attempt to stabilize. Best flavored tomato I've ever eaten and it volunteered on its own. It is COMPLETELY different than any tomato I've ever grown or bought.

So, while I won't be distributing seeds - except to my friends that visit the garden (I don't really use the swap system) - I will continue to save seeds without necessarily bagging them.

And since I too dislike when I receive impure seeds when given or sold as pure, mine are always given with a disclaimer.

Yes, I think that you should not give it a known variety name. But you can share seeds as "unknown" or look alike of something.

On the crossing : I never bag my OP varieties and save seeds from them. I think most people practice the same. I personally have not gotten any crosses.

Sey

I'm just saving the seeds to grow for myself next year.

I got a pineapple today, it was very tasty.