🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Sarandipity is an open-pollinated release from the Dwarf Tomato Project, staying dwarf and stout at 2 to 3.3 ft (60-100 cm) tall with dark green rugose foliage. It loads up with dense, juicy, oblate-to-round saladette fruits weighing around 2-4 oz (60-110 g), featuring brick-red skin painted with bright metallic stripes. Outstanding performer in small 3-gallon patio containers exposed to open weather. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4 & 11 Experience)
Sarandipity is a variety out of the Dwarf Tomato Project. Medium-height dwarf, stayed right around 3.5 ft (1 m), mid-season maturity. The fruit is gorgeous, dark red with distinct striping, oblate, and medium-sized. Good flavor and very juicy.
Edited October 22, 2017 by Drosera
Edited October 22, 2017 by Drosera
Dwarf Sarandipity
For me, this dwarf stayed quite short, a neat and compact bush never taller than 2-2.2 ft (60-65 cm). Grew it last season outdoors in a small container all summer long. Really loved how fruitful it was: pumped out trusses of 4-6 fruits each, and every single one managed to ripen right on the vine. The tomatoes are firm, beautiful, marked with bright stripes over the shoulders, with dense and juicy pulp.
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Edited October 23, 2017 by Yaroslavna
For me, this dwarf stayed quite short, a neat and compact bush never taller than 2-2.2 ft (60-65 cm). Grew it last season outdoors in a small container all summer long. Really loved how fruitful it was: pumped out trusses of 4-6 fruits each, and every single one managed to ripen right on the vine. The tomatoes are firm, beautiful, marked with bright stripes over the shoulders, with dense and juicy pulp.
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Edited October 23, 2017 by Yaroslavna
Grew Dwarf Sarandipity this season. The bush looked handsome right from the seedling stage straight through to the end. Short, roughly 2 ft (60 cm) tall. Sat in a 3-gallon (12 L) pot. Thick, dark green rugose foliage. As far as the bulk harvest goes, it was mid-season, though the first few ripe tomatoes showed up pretty early on.
The fruits are gorgeous, firm little dark red striped globes. Turned out to be very productive with excellent flavor. In early spring, I shuffled the pot back and forth between the greenhouse and indoors overnight. Once settled, I left it outside for good and never sheltered it from the rain. I mixed zeolite into the potting soil, so even through torrential downpours there was never an issue with soggy, waterlogged roots.
Seeds came from Natalya (Yaroslavna). Huge shoutout to her for introducing me to such a wonderful variety! Definitely keeping this one in my regular rotation.
The fruits are gorgeous, firm little dark red striped globes. Turned out to be very productive with excellent flavor. In early spring, I shuffled the pot back and forth between the greenhouse and indoors overnight. Once settled, I left it outside for good and never sheltered it from the rain. I mixed zeolite into the potting soil, so even through torrential downpours there was never an issue with soggy, waterlogged roots.
Seeds came from Natalya (Yaroslavna). Huge shoutout to her for introducing me to such a wonderful variety! Definitely keeping this one in my regular rotation.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: True dwarf habit bred by the Dwarf Tomato Project (selected from the “Cheeky” cross of Black from Tula and Dwarf Wild Fred). Dense, rugose foliage on stout stems staying between 2 and 3.3 ft (60-100 cm) tall. Perfect candidate for 3- to 5-gallon patio containers.
- 📈 Yield: High for a container dwarf. Sets uniform trusses of 4 to 6 saladette-sized fruits (2-4 oz / 60-110 g) that reliably ripen on the vine even in short northern summers.
- 👅 Taste: Well-balanced, rich, and juicy with dark tomato complexity inherited from its Black from Tula lineage.
- 📦 Storage: Fruit has firm exterior walls that resist cracking and skin breakdown, even when left outdoors during heavy rains.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Gardeners trialing it in vastly different climates: short-season USDA Zone 4 in northern and central Russia, and subtropical oceanic USDA Zone 11 in the Canary Islands.
🍅 Grown Dwarf Sarandipity? Did you grow it in a pot or open dirt? Drop your container size and impressions in the comments below!
