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Grape tomato or large sized cherry

6 years ago

Don`t like picking all those little cherry tomatoes, and want something a little larger. We like Juliet but would like to try something else similar. Also, want it to be early. Any suggestions?

Comments (16)

  • 6 years ago

    How about these Atomic Grape?

    My mom grew then this year. They were elongated and larger grape tomatoes. All of them turned out more purple, and not the array shown on the package.


    The taste was unexpected. Very citrus-y. We joked that we should make a pie from them.


    https://www.rareseeds.com/store/vegetables/tomatoes/wild-boar-farms/atomic-grape

  • 6 years ago

    Brad, your results with the Atomic Grapes is way different than mine. I grew them last year and was very disappointed. The plants has terrific production but no one wanted to eat the tomatoes; they weren't very tasty.

    Sorry Pat, Maybe a Husky cherry tomato? I grew them one year and they weren't bad. They are fairly large for being a cherry.

  • 6 years ago
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    Pat, since you grow Juliet, do you like acidic-tasting tomatoes? If so, you might enjoy Lemon Drop which is a cherry.

    Super Snow White is a large, sweet, yellow/white cherry.

    If you like sweet with complex overtones, you might like Maglia Rosa, which is a beautiful pink striped, bullet-shaped, early, compact plant that can grow in a 3-gallon container.


    Linda

  • 6 years ago
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    Maybe try SunOrange F1. I don't know about earliness, for the following, but you might appreciate Yellow Plum, Eva, Blush, Chocolate Chestnut, Green Tiger, Maglia Rosa, and Monroe. Juliet F1 is probably more prolific than all of them, but you might appreciate the sweet flavors similarly.

  • 6 years ago
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    labradogs, Juliet wasn't acidic when I tasted it! :) It was remarkably sweet, and not simply so, though. Really, it was a fantastic tomato. Someone gave me fruits from her garden, and fruits from another person's. One of the sources was sweeter than the other, but they otherwise tasted the same.

  • 6 years ago
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    If you just want a big, prolific, early-ish cherry, without regard to flavor, try Isis Candy. Apparently, it's sweet for some people, but for me, it's not particularly (it does have a decent tomato flavor, though). Apparently, it's also not as big for everyone as mine is. Also, maybe try Bloody Butcher or Matina, for prolific, small (but bigger than cherry), early tomatoes; they're not particularly sweet, however.

  • 6 years ago

    Pink Ping Pong is my favorite salad tomato. Not much acid and very sweet. as the name insinuates it is pink and most are around the size of a ping pong ball.

    Interestingly I have some PPP seeds that crossed with another apparently orange tomato and now there is an Orange Ping Pong.

  • 6 years ago

    I have been looking through the Tomato Growers catalog. I don`t particularly like the taste of Juliet. It isn`t sweet enough for me. But I want something that will be ready in 55 to 60 days that is larger than your typical cherry. I am growing Matina and Bloody Butcher now, and am happy with them. Anyway, I found a tomato called Grape Tomato, that is ripe in 60 days and is sweet, but the description doesn`t say how big they are, in the Tomato Growers catalog. I thought of Maglia Rosa too, but again, the catalog doesn`t say how big the tomatoes are. I looked up Isis Candy but the tomatoes are too small, and I don`t like picking them. Pink Ping Pong takes 75 days to mature, which is longer than I want to wait. I have later tomatoes growing too, but wanted something earlier, as I get impatient! Thanks!

  • 6 years ago

    Maglia Rosa is about 2" long or two bites worth of deliciousness :).


    Stupice is early at 50 days from transplant. It's a red saladette, with decent taste, weighing 1-2 oz. (All this from Tatiana's Tomatobase).


    Linda

  • 6 years ago

    Thanks, Linda, I think I`ll try Maglia Rosa. I have grown Stupice before and liked it, but decided to try something different this year, which I why I got Bloody Butcher and Matina.

  • 6 years ago

    I tried Pink Ping Pong this year, but mine turned out to be a cross, since it's red. and not round. It did taste as described above, though. It wasn't early for me, though.

  • 6 years ago
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    Here's the approximate size of my Isis Candy tomatoes. Some are a little bigger, and a few are the size of regular cherries. I might have given them some potassium sulfate (which might be why they're so big).



  • 6 years ago
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    I just ate those pictured fruits, and apparently, Isis Candy is getting sweeter than it was earlier this year. Great news. Still not super sweet, but those fruits weren't as ripe as they could have been.

  • 6 years ago
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    Blush is one I'd consider, same size as Juliet, also early, but sweeter. Also almost as productive. Candy sweet icicle is a nice one too

  • 6 years ago
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    I love Blush too, and I grew Taste Patio (also from Artisan Seeds) this year. It's very similar to Maglia Rosa in both colour and taste, but a little bigger and rounder. It can also be grown in a 3-gallon container.