Tomato 'Pineapple'

Grew this one for years, but stopped once I discovered "Hawaiian Pineapple", which yields larger, sweeter fruit.

A good pr...Read Moreoducer, "Pineapple" rewards the gardener with an abundance of attractive, lower-acid fruit. Though the size of each tomato is on the modest end of the spectrum, the plants in my experience here in the Northeastern US are not stingy with their yields. The one negative I can state after growing this variety many, many times appears to be its disease resistance - this one routinely seems to be the first to show signs of illness; the proverbial "canary in the coalmine". That said, even with illness the fruit itself doesn't appear to suffer for taste in my experience, so there's some resilience in the flavor at least - I've pulled tomatoes off a plant that was more brown than green and the fruit was still tasty.

Pineapple used to be a "must grow" variety for me until I discovered Mary Robinson, which was equally tasty and produced twice as many fr...Read Moreuit - and retained its great flavor even very late in the season. Most other varieties, including Pineapple, tend to lose sweetness late.

One reason why some folks may not care too much for the bi-colors is that these varieties turn color way before they attain their full delicious flavor. If you give them another week before picking, as I once did by accident, it's a whole different flavor ballgame.

This is the first year we have grown this tomato. Someone gave us several varieties of seeds from Bakers Creek. We ended up mainly wit...Read Moreh Black Krim and Pineapple Tomato plants. The Black Krim came on very early and made tomatoes all summer. They were strange looking with knarly shoulders but nice tomato flavor with a little citrus tang. The Pineapples were very prolific but slow to ripen until mid August. However now, mid Oct, they are outproducing all of our tomatoes. I embraced the "Food not Lawns" program this year and converted part of the front parkway to Okra, potatoes, and tomatoes. I did not realize the Pineapple were ripening until I saw neighborhood walkers pausing in the street by our garden. I walked out to see what the attraction was and discovered the first ripened "Pineapple". Big as a small plate and growing around the wire of the support fence. Picking the tomato actually sliced it and we had it in BLT's for supper. Krim and Pineapple are both large but Pineapple are also pretty and easier to slice with a sweet, nice tomato flavor. They are meaty, not watery and many are ranging between 1-2 pounds. I'm waiting to see if I have any Krim/Pineapple cross volunteers next year. Will definitely plant both of these tomatoes next year.

The first time I grew this tomato, the production was very low. It was a different story this past summer. It produced lots of large, lo...Read Morew-acid, delicious tomatoes. It's by far the best low-acid tomato I've ever eaten. For that reason, it was very popular with my wife and daughter. I'm growing it again this summer.