Dave - I'm growing Black Cherry for the first time this year as well but I grew one called Black Opal last year which is very similar. The key for best sweetness is to wait until they are very dark and uniformed in color. It takes some practice but you'll get the hang of it quickly.

I brought a sandwich bag full of Black Cherry and Sungold to work today to share with my co-workers. I just ate a couple of each. BC are really good but I still like SG better.

Most of the time, they will not have that pithy core like your picture shows. Your next few should taste better.

I grow them from time to time, but I tend to like my Cherry tomatoes to be smaller. Sun Gold is my favorite and then Sweet 100s.

I grew them this year. I thought they were a bit sweeter than Sweet100s. I agree about ripeness. Leave them on the vine until there is NO green visible. Productivity not as good as the reds. Sweet 100s make large clusters of fruit. These do mostly one-sies or few-sies.

They certainly are prolific...I haven't grown them in a while. The first time I grew them, I was blown away by the taste...but subsequent years I felt like the flavour had diminished and the skins were quite tough.

I'm not saying the flavour wasn't good. Was just expecting something else. What I do is cut them in half or quarters... Easier to eat like that.

I'm not crazy about the taste of Black Cherry. I've grown it several times because so many people seem to love it. Sungold beats it hands down!

Linda

I only grew them once, maybe twice, but I do remember that I wasn't especially impressed. Especially when compared to several other cherry varieties. Sun Gold I can devour by the handfuls and good old Gardener's Delight is another favorite.

A new one for me this year is Braveheart as I wanted a smaller plant for container growing. So far I find them quite tasty and production numbers are very high. While they are thin skinned I've had minimal cracking.

Dave

Braveheart sounds interesting. How big a container does it need and how tall does it get? I tried Googling and couldn't find this info. Two Park Seed reviews say they get 10' tall. (I think they are fake reviews).

Linda

I've never grown Black Cherry, but it looks really interesting. Like others, I like the SunGold and the SunSugar. They were my first ripe tomatoes this year along with a Black Krim. I tend to have trouble determining when those black tomatoes are ripe, but I picked this Black Krim because we're supposed to get some badly needed rain and I didn't want my first ripe tomato of the year to crack from the sudden moisture...

Annie

Agree with Dave and others on this. They look nice cut up on the plate, alongside, say, a yellow and a green, but taste is pretty bland.

Linda - my Braveheart is in a 7 gallon fabric pot and just a shade over 4" tall. I got my seeds from Linda at tomatogrowers.com. Sorry i can't post a photo of it but I'm out of town all this week.

Dave

Thanks Dave :).

Linda

Linda we recommend planting Braveheart in 20" or larger pot. Make sure that you have a tomato pen since this plant will need support. Braveheart is an indeterminate tomato, meaning it grows and fruits all summer! It is possible for it to get tall but with pruning it definitely can be kept at a manageable size. Hope this helps! - Park Seed

Many thanks for the info :).

Linda