Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato Review (Dwarf Tomato Project)

Seeds from Popenko. An excellent early, I would even say super-early variety. Tree-type bush (shtamb) 50-60 cm (1.6-2 ft). Grew outdoors in open ground. It was the very first to start setting fruit. The taste is good for an early one, not watery-sour but a normal tomato flavor with a hint of acidity.

The tomatoes are oblate, a beautiful red-brown color. It’s worth tying it to a stake only because the bush simply falls over from the abundance of tomatoes. The fruits are not small, from 80 to 200g (2.8-7 oz). Even as a seedling, this variety is a handsome guy; a sturdy little mushroom with dark green, slightly crumpled (rugose) leaves.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Drosera

Svetlyachok-plus said:

An excellent early, I would even say super-early variety… Even as a seedling, this variety is a handsome guy; a sturdy little mushroom with dark green, slightly crumpled leaves.

I subscribe to every word!!!

I have the variety from Kulik, although in his description it has a simple (potato) leaf, my plants have regular leaves. Very short seedlings, the first cluster on my plants is after the 6th leaf.

Svetlana, and here is your-my Tasmanian Chocolate:

At first, I doubted it because of the color of the tomatoes (they still turned out more red for me) – I thought I mixed them up as seedlings… but still – it’s him! I haven’t had such leaves and bush structure on any other variety – indeed, a “sturdy mushroom” – the leaf is fat, beautiful, slightly crumpled (rugose)… the bush as a seedling is like a toy 👍

True, in the greenhouse it has already outgrown me, and at the top the tomatoes are even larger – a couple are hanging that are already over half a kilo (1.1 lbs).. 😳

Edited November 26, 2015 by Drosera

Girls, can this variety be grown in pots? What was the maximum height?

Semechka said:

Girls, can this variety be grown in pots? What was the maximum height?

Mine grew in open ground, height 50 cm (1.6 ft).

My Tasmanian was 110 cm (3.6 ft) tall. But all my tomatoes turn out tall, taller than stated. I got a seedling from Lenochka (Plena), for which I am very grateful to her. The color is awesome, brick-brown, very tasty. The plant itself is sturdy, well-foliated. I only removed those small stems that grew inwards into the bush, otherwise it would have been an impenetrable thicket. I will definitely plant it next year!

Height in the greenhouse up to 1.2 – 1.4 m (4 – 4.6 ft). If fed all summer, it bears fruit until frost. I left almost all suckers, there were few of them. I liked the taste.

A sturdy fellow as a seedling, didn’t stretch out.

Planted Tasmanian Chocolate for the first time. The seeds were from Popenko. The bushes grew up to 0.8 meters (2.6 ft) tall. The fruits were very tasty, juicy, sweet, and festive-looking, weighing up to 300 grams (10.5 oz). The harvest was good.

Seedling at 6 weeks:
Top view (same age)

The first fruit ripened on July 11 (germination was on March 8):

In appearance, the plant resembles domestic tree-type (shtamb) varieties. It grew in open ground, slightly exceeded 0.5 meters (1.6 ft). I pruned suckers up to the first cluster, that was enough.

The fruits were of medium weight, 100-200g (3.5-7 oz), there were no small ones. The color of the fruits is typical for brown-fruited ones, the cross-section too (the color in the photo is not accurate). The flesh is meaty and buttery. The taste is sweet and rich. Despite the endless pouring rain. The taste was saved by clay soil enriched with humus, ash, and mulch.

Seeds from Kulik via garnet (thanks, dear!)

It is from the Tomato Dwarf (Dwarf Tomato Project) series. They all have this kind of leaf.

Yes, for me it was dwarf-sized, less than 50 cm (1.6 ft), little fruits up to 200g (7 oz), terracotta color. The taste 👍, everyone liked it. Didn’t prune suckers at all, there was nothing to remove except leaves to let light into the clusters. The leaf is regular, but curled into a fist (rugose), even the flower clusters ended up inside the leaves.

I had Tasmanian Chocolate from Popenko. Such vigorous bushes, leaves are regular and, as in the previous post, “but curled into a fist, even the flower clusters ended up inside the leaves”.

The fruits were approximately 200 grams (7 oz), but there were many at 300 grams (10.5 oz) too, and one record-breaker – 402 grams (14.2 oz).
They taste sweet, juicy, dark terracotta color (in the photo the tomato came out lighter). Since I planted them in the greenhouse indecently late this year (as late as June 5th), some are still ripening on the windowsill.

And yes, even though they are not very tall (about 80 cm / 2.6 ft high), but productive, it’s good to tie them up, because they can fall over onto their neighbor sideways.

Edited September 25, 2019 by Prostoy chaynik

In terms of taste among the dwarfs, it’s in third place for me after Wild Fred and Uluru Ochre. Otherwise, it differs little from other dwarfs.

A good, productive, tasty “gnome” (Dwarf Tomato Project), grew in a 12-liter (3.1 gallon) pot, height 60-70 cm (2-2.3 ft), the fruits are oblate, terracotta color, the taste is excellent, rich.