Chocolate Cherry Tomato Seeds

Chocolate Cherry Heirloom Tomato Seeds – Sweet, Rich, Deep Burgundy Fruit
Solanum lycopersicum
Listing is for 1 packet of 15 seeds

The Chocolate Cherry tomato is a must-grow for any gardener who loves flavor-packed, bite-sized heirlooms. These stunning tomatoes ripen to a deep mahogany-red color with a hint of brown and purple— beautiful in the garden and irresistible in the kitchen. Each fruit bursts with sweet, rich, and slightly smoky flavor, often compared to a perfect balance between classic cherry tomatoes and full-sized heirlooms. The flavor deepens as the weather warms, making them one of the best-tasting cherry varieties you can grow. This variety produces vigorous, indeterminate vines that yield clusters of 1-inch fruits all season long. They thrive in both containers and garden beds with plenty of sun and consistent watering.

TOMATO CHARACTERISTICS

Indeterminate

Color: Dark brown/purple, with red blush

Flavor profile: savory & sweet

Average fruit size: 1 inch cherry sized fruits

Height/Fertilizing: height can vary as it depends on your growing conditions and care. I have a fertilizing regimen which definitely helps achieve this kind of growth but is not necessary. Adding small doses of an organic fertilizer every week has really helped me take my tomato growing to another level. Synthetic fertilizers can burn or damage plants if used too often. Therefore, I recommend organic fertilizers because they wont damage plants when used often. However, do what suits your garden and the products you like to use. 

This is my current fertilizing regimen: I start by fertilizing weekly with 1/8 cup of Espoma Tomato tone sprinkled at the base of each plant. Once the plants start to bloom, I start alternating the weeks. One week with the Espoma Tomato Tone and then the next week with this recipe: mix 1 cup of Azomite dust and 1/4 cup of Fox Farms Tiger Bloom liquid into a 5 gallon bucket of water and pour some at the base of each plant. 

PLANTING
Germination: 7-14 days. To speed up germination I recommend using a heat mat. 

Seed Sowing Depth: 1/8” deep 

Sowing: I highly recommend to start in pots in doors with a heat mat 6-8 weeks before your last frost date. If you gardening in Florida, we kind of have two opportunities to grow tomatoes per year. You can start them in doors around July 1st and transplant into the garden end of September for fall/winter harvest. Or you can start from seed in doors 6-8 weeks from your last frost date for spring harvest. 

Days to maturity: 70 days from transplanting into the garden