Tomato 'Brad's Black Heart'

Brad's Black Heart is a great tasting oxheart tomato. It has a sweet, earthy flavor and a dense, meaty texture. There was a lot of variat...Read Moreion in size and shape. Sizes ranged from small to large and shapes were: blob-shaped, blunt heart, and some very pointy heart. The only downside is that the tomatoes crack very easily. It is a good producer starting mid season. The plant is medium tall, and the the foilage is wispy and droopy. Mine was so droopy at times that it looked downright sickly, but it kept producing plenty of tomatoes. I would grow BBH again.

Thought to be a mutation or cross arising from Black Krim. No one is exactly sure. Seems to be stable (or mostly stable) when grown fro...Read Morem saved seeds. Wispy foliaged indeterminate plants typical of many OP heart shaped varieties. Dense flesh, great flavor. Mostly flattened swirly hearts, both pointy and blunt -- with some being a bit more elongated.

Brad Gates says he "found it in a patch of several thousand Black Krim plants at a farm close to me. I also found a pink heart shape in the same section which was also from Black Krim. Both the pink and the black heart shapes where as dense of a tomato I have seen."