Lycopersicon, Cherry Tomato 'Black Cherry'

2018 was my first year growing Black Cherry. A friend grew it for the first time in 2017 and saved some seeds for me. All 10 of my open-p...Read Moreollinated hierloom tomato varieties did well this year, but Black Cherry did exceptionally well: vigorous/healthy/very-high-yield plants, and the fruit was very large for a cherry tomato (2cm to 3 cm diameter) ... and very tasty. A+

Very good tasting tomatoes, does well in Texas heat.

Our third year with these. Big plants with big purple cherry tomatoes. Have trialed dozens of OP and a few F1 cherry types, but these are...Read More the favorite out of them all. These are on our "plant every year" list

These have been a delight! I have them growing in planters in front of my west facing windows as a natural awning. I tied them as they ...Read Moregrew and they are now up to the gutters and covered with beautiful fruits. The flavor is great and my friends love getting goodie boxes with them.They make for a beautiful salad when combined with green zebras and golden cherries.

Nights have been in the low 40's and upper 30's and they are thriving. The only problem is that they are so laden with green tomatoes that they'll be all over the house ripening after our Maine frost which will be her

Huge plant, getting close to ten feet tall. Very productive with good tasting tomatoes. Second in our tastes to sweet million for cherry ...Read Moretomatoes.

Black cherry and red Sweet Millions make for a very colorful salad. Will always grow both plants every year.

i must be one of the ones that got the bad batch, the fruit i grew were bland in flavour and have been for several years. i finally decid...Read Moreed to quit growing them.

i believe for 2015 i will purchase new seed from McFayden Seed(part of MacKenzie Seed), i have had good luck with their sungold, so perhaps i will find the same luck with their black cherry.

tried burpees black pearl and they are even blander(if such a word exists).

I grow this tomato every year. It's my favorite: productive, tasty, and generally care free.

Big monster of a plant, with dark, iridescent plumes of tomatoes in late summer. In my garden production seemed to start a little late f...Read Moreor a cherry, but likely that is because of this variety's long germination time-- nearly 2 weeks beyond all of the other tomatoes I sprouted (32 varieties this year, and more last year). I have tried seeds from two different sources and had the same experience both times. I plan to start these earlier than the rest next year.

Once these start, they just keep coming-- in my garden, they are ripening long after my other tomatoes have mostly quit for the season. Be prepared for the size, which required some creative staking. These also resisted the blight that got some of my other tomatoes for a good long while. I see there are mixed reviews on disease resistance here, but they did seem to resist blight a little better than many other varieties.

This one survived my disease riddled NC garden last year and was invited back this year. It wasn't disease proof, mind you! But even wi...Read Moreth having to constantly pick off yellowed and dead leaves and branches, it kept on plugging until frost. That's more than I can say for most of the others.

Also, the size is really nice for a cherry and the flavor is delicious, with a little more "big tomato" taste than you normally get from a cherry.

I grew Black Cherry from seed one year (I moved the next year) in Knoxville, TN. Soil was a slightly raised bed, TN clay tilled with sand...Read More and depleted potting soil, and generously amended every fall with leaf mulch and livestock manure, and treated with lime early in the year to correct pH.

Holy crap! In brief, a single plant grew fairly huge (5ft+x4ft+) in only 5 hours direct sunlight, and during peak season (July-Nov) produced at least a quart+ of fruit daily. Tomatoes were ~3 centimeters diameter with a sweet grapey flavor. Thin skin and fabulous meaty texture. The trick is to pick them before they swell and split... when they start to get olive/eggplant color, roll them in your fingers; if they come off the stem, they're ready, and you can thus judge when to pick.

I've been growing different tomatoes for a decade in TN, and these were far and away the tastiest of ~40 varieties I have tried.

I grew this in 2012. I only had 1 vine at start of year, grew another by rooting a sucker from the first. Both produced lots and lots of...Read More tomatoes. The vines got huge, too. The first one was close to the railing on the front porch steps, and once it grew out the top of the tomato cage I had it in, it continued growing. I tied it off gently to the porch steps railing and the porch railing and columns. It almost reached the roof of the porch. It was easily 12 feet high, and across more than 8 feet of stair railing and porch railing, with tomatoes growing everywhere. Awesome tomatoes. Great flavor. The were great fresh in salads and I even used them in some other recipes (in with pasta dishes with other veggies they were very good). I'll be growing 3 vines of this variety in 2013. They also preserved OK by drying, although other varieties did better.

Ive grown these a number of years. Buying plants from a local nursery. This year they were unable to get them. My garden isnt complete wi...Read Morethout it. I love them. Off another site i bought plants and they tasted like yuck.

I planted these from seed, and after giving away some plants and (accidentally) killing others... I had one plant to plant.

...Read More I have picked and picked and picked tomatoes, and they keep coming! I can't believe how large the plant got, and how many tomatoes it produces!

One of my favorite large cherry tomatoes and also a favorite of our market customers. Produces year round in south TX.

I thought the flavor was great, not terribly productive, until I noticed all the green on my Golden Retrievers face. He confirmed it, pic...Read Moreks this one over 4 other varieties. Very sweet, good balance of juice and meaty flesh. Don't expect it to get red, more brown/greenish...still very tasty!

This is quite simply one of the best tasting tomatoes I have ever eaten. It grows large so be sure to cage it well. It also sets an incre...Read Moredible amount of fruit. For me, it blows Sungold and just about every other cherry tomato out of the water in terms of flavor. The taste is rich and earthy without any bitter or acidic undertones. Even through this difficult summer of drought and 100+ temps, it has produced extremely well.

A wonderful tomato, rich and deep flavor. Did better outdoor than in the greenhouse, best tasting cherry tomato, (rivals the snow white),...Read More not quite as sweet as the snow white but richer, thiner skin.
You can't go wrong with this one.

The plant was not as monstrous as other cherry types, but the flavor was excellent. Along with the icicle types, it was the family favor...Read Moreite.

I am growing again in 2012.

First year growing this Tomato: transplanted Memorial Day weekend, harvested half a dozen last week and more than a dozen today. The pla...Read Morent is almost 6 ft. tall with lots of fruit that taste great. Not sure if this is candy or fruit. Will definitely plan or it again next year. Fruits average an ounce are larger than my SunGolds, and about 10days slower to harvest, less prolific and , I think, tastier.

Either there is a bad batch of Black Cherry seeds being distributed or the genes have mutated because a lot of posters on the gardenweb t...Read Moreomato forum, including myself, are reporting disappointment with Black Cherry. Last year for sure I had some bad seeds as the tomatoes produced weren't even round and tasted terrible. I ordered seeds from different supplier and this time the tomatoes were round, but not as sweet as some other cherry tomatoes. However if one lets the fruit get really ripe the flavor improves as the season progresses. The plant itself is large and vigorous. The tomatoes also take a long time to ripen compared to other cherry tomatoes.

Extremely Productive and frankly the Best tasting tomato I've ever eaten.

This is my new favorite tomato. My one plant is EXTREMELY productive, though the fruit are a little slower to ripen than my Sungolds and ...Read MoreSuperSweet 100s. The flavor is outstanding -- very sweet, a little tangy, with a tender skin.

This one will definitely be coming back next year.

Plants are strong and large and the fruits are beautiful and out-of-this-world delicious. Production was quite low, but that might be the...Read More fault of a somewhat late start combined with the 4th hottest (and early) Tucson summer on record. The tomatoes, though, were so tasty I'm willing to try again next spring.

I got my seeds from tomatofest and as always had good germination. The plant was strong and vigorous. Like most cherry tomatoes very pr...Read Moreolific. I found the skins thick but when you bit into the fruit the flavor exploded in your mouth. I gave plants to 2 friends and we all agree that this is a keeper. All of us will grow these again.

Black Cherry has an excellent, sweet flavor typical of a black tomato. Unlike other cherry tomatoes, Black Cherry was not very high yield...Read Moreing for me. The plant gets very tall and sprawling and starts producing early. I would grow it again simply for flavor, but I wish it had better production.

I grew black cherry for the first time this year. WONDERFUL flavor. I will definitely grow this one again next year. Very prolific with l...Read Moreots of tomatoes. It is still setting fruit in early June. The drawbacks are that the plant does not seem to be all that disease resistant and attracts white flies and aphids more than the other types I am growing this year and the plant has some sort of black disease that slowly creeps up the stems and causes the leaves to turn dark brown and die. So far removing the dying leaves has kept the plant going. It is possible this is a combo of the early Florida rains (2 weeks straight, not good for disease) and the fact that I only had one plant...it could have just been weaker. I still have to give a positive though for absolute excellent flavor and its prolific nature.

i am in love with this tomato! this the 3rd year in a row i have tried to grow it, the first two attempts being failures (no fault of th...Read Moree tomato). i can't tell you how glad i am that i didn't give up. i've never tasted a tomato like this one. it is now my favorite all time cherry beating sungold hands down. it's also one of the most vigorous plants in my garden and the tallest. it's easily 10 feet tall and still growing. i will grow this tomato every year but from now on i will grow at least five times as many of these amazing plants.

I tasted this tomato for the first time last year (07), and I loved them. I grew them for the first time this year (08) and they are per...Read Moreforming 2nd best in my garden as far as earliness, production and vigor. They are second only to 'Sungold'

I love the flavor, and will make sure that I have these in my garden every year.

Not as prolific as the hybrid cherry tomatoes. It was much harder for me to identify when fully ripe. As a result, the flavor was not e...Read Morexceptional. I probably won't grow this one again, but will try something else.

I planted Black Cherry last year for the first time. We were totally impressed with it. We had tons of tiny, tasty tomatoes to munch on a...Read Mores we did our daily gardening. My 3 year old grandaughter can't wait for them to ripen so she can start picking and eating them again this year.
I can't imagine my vegetable garden without a Black Cherry plant

I grew this for the first time this year. I was disappointed with the flavor as I found it to be a kind of bland. There wasn't much acidi...Read Morety at all. It also didn't seem as productive as other cherry types I've grown. I might have to see if the next batch from this plant tastes any better.

Always willing to try an odd variety of tomato, I came acrossed this variety at a nursery my area. I loved the taste, it was one of the ...Read Moresweetest tomatoes I have ever tasted. Being dark, mine were about the color of a Washington or Bing Cherry, friends were a little leary about giving it a taste. They also loved the flavor. This variety will be in my garden this year and years to come.

2007 was first time to grow; very productive and good taste

Lovely color and very crack-resistant fruit, but I've found the flavor to be blander than I expected.

Very prolific cherry tomatoe that our customers swear has a hint of cherry flavor.

I really enjoyed this variety in '05 and am growing again. Yummy (great depth of flavor) and nice coloration both whole and cut in half.

Fine flavor, not as prone to splitting as some other cherries. Very very prolific. Several people have asked me for seeds or seedlings of...Read More this particular cultivar. And boy does it look lovely in a bowl of red and golden cherries.

I tried Black Cherry for the first time this year and my wife fell in love with the taste. Very good production, although we did experien...Read Morece an unexplained lull in late August when the ripening simply halted. It has since resumed and continues to make everyone happy.

Fabulous liittle tomato. Gorgeous, juicy, and very sweet!

An early maturing variety. Very prolific. I picked them when they were red, green and purple. The inside of it is predominantly purple...Read More. They look great and have been thoroughly enjoyed by all who have tried them. Slightly larger than cherry tomotoes.

Very pretty black cherries. Medium size. Super flavor.