Black Cherry
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Indeterminate
- Days to maturity
- 64-75 days 1 seed catalog · basis unstated
- Fruit
- purple-black, cherry
- Weight
- -
Grey captions say what stands behind that particular figure. Breeding, growth habit and fruit characters carry no caption because they rest on the record's sources as a whole rather than citing their own; closing that gap is ordinary outstanding work, not a finished job.
The breeder attribution here is supported by Tomato Growers Supply catalog. These claims name their own evidence rather than resting on the record's source list as a whole, because a species that distinguishes a variety, or an attribution to a breeding programme, is worth being able to check on its own.
Origin & history
Developed by Vince Sapp of Tomato Growers Supply and released in 2003, the first true cherry with the dusky color and rich flavor of the black beefsteaks. Now a standard in market-grower cherry mixes.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 64-75 days | Consensus range across the cited commercial catalogs; no independent source documents it yet. |
Against the rest of the tomato database
Where this variety sits among every tomato we hold a comparable figure for. Position is not merit: earlier is not better than later, and hotter is not better than milder. Only cultivar-level figures are compared, never trial results, and maturity is only ranked against figures counted the same way.
earlier than 79% of the 258 tomatoes we hold a figure for. None of these figures state whether they are counted from sowing or from transplant, so they are ranked against each other on the assumption that suppliers use one convention, which is not something any of them says.
Traits
Disease resistance
No documented disease resistance, typical of heirlooms and older open-pollinated varieties. See tomato diseases for the cultural playbook that fills the gap.
Related varieties
- open-pollinated
Chocolate Cherry
70-75 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Black Plum
75-82 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Blondköpfchen
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Camp Joy
75-80 days · Indeterminate
- open-pollinated
Dr. Carolyn
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- heirloom
Galina
70-75 days · Indeterminate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 1 source, all seed catalogs. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Tomato Growers Supply catalog · Tomato Growers Supply Company, Seed Catalog