🍅 Quick take: Sweet Tooth is an indeterminate, mid-season novelty saladette bred by Brad Gates (Wild Boar Farms). It puts out pointed, elongated plum fruits colored in dusty pink with metallic green and gold striping, weighing up to 3.5 oz (100 g). Gardeners in warmer microclimates praise its rich, sweet-tart balance, while growers in colder, short-summer zones saw poor yields and found the flavor washed out when ripened indoors. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 2-5 Experience)
Sweet Tooth is a mid-season variety bred by Brad Gates. Tall vine, stretched to about 6.5 ft (2 m) in the greenhouse, and set a heavy crop. The fruit is medium-sized, plum-shaped, raspberry pink with striping. Really delicious, sweet with a pleasant tangy finish.
I really liked this variety. Produced huge, packed trusses 👋, wild coloration, and pretty tasty fruit topping out around 3.5 oz (100 g).
Sweet Tooth
Here is what mine looked like. But honestly, it did not leave any impression on me whatsoever. It definitely was not a bumper cropper in my setup. Flavor was decent, nothing more.
Here is what mine looked like. But honestly, it did not leave any impression on me whatsoever. It definitely was not a bumper cropper in my setup. Flavor was decent, nothing more.
It hated my place, too. Barely set any fruit. I ended up pulling almost everything green on September 1st when I was cleaning out the greenhouse beds before sowing cover crops. They kept for a long time on the counter, slowly turning color. Pretty lookers, sure 🙂 But flavor-wise? What sweetness, barely any at all.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, mid-season grower bred by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms (Napa, California). Reached about 6.5 ft (2 m) tall in greenhouse beds. Fruits are pointy, elongated plum saladettes, weighing up to 3.5 oz (100 g), striped with metallic shades over a raspberry-pink base.
- 📈 Yield: Mixed results heavily tied to climate. Experienced growers in the Moscow area (Zone 4) logged high yields with full, tightly loaded clusters. In harsher or damper short-season climates (Zone 2/3 Siberia and Zone 5 Northwest), productivity dropped off drastically.
- 👅 Taste: Requires steady heat to shine. With adequate warmth and sun, growers report a tasty profile with noticeable sweetness and a lively acid kick. When pulled early and forced to ripen off the vine, it turns bland and loses its sugar content entirely.
- 📦 Storage: Long shelf life. Fruit harvested fully green on September 1st held firm and slowly ripened on the counter well into the fall without rotting quickly.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Four experienced growers across USDA Zones 2 through 5, comparing performance between the humid continental climate of Central Russia and the severe continental short season of Western Siberia.
🍅 Grown Sweet Tooth? Drop your zone and performance notes in the comments below, and share your photos!
