Illustration of Black Cherry tomato
Illustration based on known variety traits. Appearance varies by growing conditions.

No. 012 · open-pollinated

Black Cherry

Black Cherry is an indeterminate open-pollinated cherry tomato with dusky purple-brown to mahogany fruit. It ripens in about 70 days.

Typecherry tomato
Habitindeterminate
Days to maturity70
Fruit size0.5 to 1 oz
Colordusky purple-brown to mahogany
Difficultyeasy

Flavor

Described as a sweetly complex taste with the dusky color and rich, smoky character typical of the best black tomatoes. Flavor is subjective, so treat this as the recurring catalog and grower description rather than a measured claim for your garden.

Origin

A dark cherry tomato developed by Vince Sapp of Tomato Growers Supply and released in 2003.

What it does well

  • Rich complex flavor
  • Heavy clusters of fruit
  • Vigorous indeterminate vines

Where it frustrates

  • Tall vines need strong staking or caging
  • Can crack from inconsistent moisture
  • Best flavor needs full vine ripening to dark color

Like Black Cherry, but...

Sold out, or after a change? The closest alternatives, and how they differ.

Cherokee Purplebut a small cherry rather than a large slicerSungoldbut dusky and complex instead of bright and sweet

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