Tomato 'Indian Stripe'

I have grown this variety along with the Cherokee Purple and consider the productivity of the Indian Stripe to be superior. IMO the taste...Read More is quite similar.

Indian Stripe is very similar to Cherokee Purple. Mine didn't have any discernable striping. Like CP, it has excellent rich flavor, good ...Read Moreyield, and good disease resistance. Nothing wrong with it that I can see. The plant is fairly compact and produces mid-season. I've always liked CP, so I would definitely grow Indian Stripe again.

This tomato was grown for many years and up to 2006 by Clyde Burson, Sr. of Strong, Arkansas, about 15 miles or so north of the Louisiana...Read More border on U.S. Rte 82. When Mrs. Burson passed away May 20, 2007, Clyde stopped gardening and now lives in retirement in Eldorado, Arkansas. God bless and watch over Clyde Burson, Sr.

Clyde grew several other varieties of tomato in his south Arkansas garden including Better Boy, Creole and Bradley, along with other vegetables he enjoyed growing and canning. But this particular variety was his favorite tomato and he called it Indian Zebra.

Clyde Burson, Sr. now is 85 years old and cannot remember exactly where he got the seeds for Indian Zebra ... just that he grew it for many many years and saved the seeds in carefully marked packets with his other seeds in Bazooka bubble gum boxes in a freezer out back in his "playhouse" near the garden at his home place.

I have found the tomato, Indian Stripe as it was called on the seed packet I got from Victory Seeds in 2005, to be the best all around tomato for me here in Southwest Indiana. It stands up to heat, humidity, bugs, diseases, wilt, poor soil, lack of irrigation, abuse and inattentiveness, and still pumps out large, dense, sweet, tomatoey fruit with a meaty core and small seed cells pinwheeled way out at the very edge of the flesh.

In 2008, I grew two plants, one each in 10-gallon black nursery tubs, and found this tomato will thrive in containers as well as in flat beds. Great tomato. Superior in every way to Cherokee Purple or J.D.'s Special C-Tex. Starts yielding earlier. Yields longer. Yields more. Grow it!

Dusky pink fruits w/purple tinge, sometimes can have faint striping (I don't get the striping in my garden), very similar to Cherokee Pur...Read Moreple, slightly smaller fruits and more to a cluster -- it is felt by many that this is a strain of CP that developed separately from the strain originally obtained from JD Green of TN.

Shared by Donna Nelson with Carolyn Male, Donna found this growing in the garden of a neighbor in S. Cent AR (Clyde Burson).

Outstanding flavor, and seems to be more productive for me than CP, time will tell. I need to grow both of the two in the same season to be sure.