Cherry tomato growing plant of the genus Solanum, Cherry tomato annual to short perennial evergreen plant, perennial tomatoes suffers or die due to the cold of the winter, in less cold area, there are varieties that can survive the winter, vegetative reproduction can maintain high quality seedlings in the greenhouse to next season, Cherry tomato grows as vine, shrub or subshrub, can grow in tropic, subtropical, mediterranean, temperate or desert climate and growing in hardiness zone 10b+ as perennial 2+ as annual.
Flower color yellow the flowers grow in clusters.
Cherry tomato flower
Fruit color can be: red, green, purple, yellow, pink, white, orange or colorful – can appear without form in the colors, can be striped in different colors and can appear different colored dots, shape can be round, elliptic, pear, the fruits are small.
Cherry tomato for sale – Seeds or Plants to Buy
How to grow Cherry tomato growing and care:
Warm weather, ground full of nutrients, Trellising, for determinate should trellising like cage, if u want to help the Cherry tomato survive more time you should cover the base of the plant with ground
What is the best way to start growing?
Plant / Seedling / Seed / Vegetative Reproduction
Is it necessary to graft or use vegetative reproduction?
No, but it’s possible to use in vegetative reproduction
Difficulties or problems when growing:
If you grow normal Cherry tomato cost more to grow then to buy, a lot of pests
Planting season:
End on the winter beginning of the spring, in cold area in late spring
Pests and diseases:
Aphids, Frost, leaf miners, slugs
Pruning season:
All the season
How to prune:
Rotten stems and leaves, week stems
Size of the plant?
0.5-3 m 20-120 inches
Growth speed in optimal condition:
Fast growing / Medium growing
Water requirement:
Average amount of water / Big amount of water
Light conditions in optimal condition for growing:
Full Sun
Is it possible to grow indoor as houseplant?
No
Growing is also possible in a planter /flowerpot / containers:
Yes
Blooming information
Bloom season:
Start in 15-80 days
General information about the flower
Little yellow flower
Thinning the bloom:
If thinning happening should check the root, watering and try to hand polinate
Pollination is done by:
Bees and other pollinator, pollinate by hand, some of the species self-pollinator
Edible Fruits
When does Cherry tomato yield?
55-160 days from sowing
Fruits pests or diseases:
Slugs, worms, birds
What can be done with big quantities of Cherry tomato fruits?
Eat fresh, cooked, sauce, juice and much more
Work requirements on the fruit:
Clean the rotten leaves
How long does it take for a bear fruit?
1-2.5 month from planting
Ripening of fruit:
If there is massive attack on the fruit should pick them before they ready and let them be ripening at home
Subspecies
Blue tomato:
Cherry blue – small blue cherry tomato
Black cherry – black with little bit red
Colored tomato:
Oval-Striped Super Cherry – red with green stripes oval
Green tomato:
Green cherry – green
Orange tomato:
Sun sugar cherry – orange
Purple tomato:
Cherry purple – purple sometime with a little bit of red
Red tomato:
Bonsai Tomato – red subshrub small cherry fruits
Red cherry – red tomatoes mostly grow as vine
Heart-Shapped Cherry – red heart shape
Red Pear Cherry – red in a pear shape
Chocolate cherry – red brown
Piccolo cherry – red sweet
White tomato:
Snow white cherry – white sweet
White cherry – white
Yellow tomato:
Coyote Cherry Tomato – yellow sweet
Golden cherry – sweet yellow cherry grow as vine
Yellow Bonsai Tomato – yellow subshrub small cherry fruits
Yellow Cherry Tomato – oval yellow cherry size
Yellow palm cherry – yellow in the shape of palm
Yellow Pear Cherry – yellow in a pear shape
Grow from seeds
Sowing requirement:
Easy to sow, brown-yellowish seeds
Saving seeds until sowing:
Cold and dry place
Sowing season:
End of the winter, start of the spring
Planting spacing:
20-40 cm
Depth of Sowing:
5-10 mm
Conditions for seeds germinate:
Full sun, 20-25 C can be more or less but this is the best temperature
Watering requires for Seeds:
Average amount of water, the soil should be moist
Germination time:
1-16 days
Condition of seedling:
Full sun, more than 20C, the sprout is very delightful to bug need protection in the beginning
Vegetative Reproduction
Vegetative Reproduction Method:
Cutting, Stems
Preferred time for vegetative reproduction:
Spring – beginning of the summer
Time to grow roots in vegetative reproduction:
1-2 weeks
Treatment for vegetative reproduction:
Warm, Moist, and should put the cuttings in glass of water and change the water every 2 days
Scientific name:
Solanum lycopersicum