Accordion Cherry (Akkordeon) Tomato Review

Accordion Cherry. A very beautiful variety. Bright red, glossy, oval-cuboid fruits with clearly defined ribs—like little red pleated pouches—gathered in large, complex, absolutely gorgeous trusses.

Flavor & Size: Quite juicy, with a good level of sweetness, a nice classic tomato flavor, and a strong aroma. Weight is about 20-30 grams (0.7-1 oz).

Plant Habit: The plant is indeterminate (tall)—grew over 2 meters (6.5 ft) in my greenhouse. The adult bush is powerful and strong, although at the seedling stage it looks a bit wispy and weak.

It is a mid-season variety, extremely productive. A real decoration for both the garden and the dinner table.

These Accordion cherry tomatoes ripen beautifully off the vine and store very well for a long time. I took these photos in November!

Seeds were a gift from Julia (@Tiffany), thank you!

Accordion Cherry. Last autumn, @Hrizantema57 gave me a few tomato trusses loaded with fruit. I saved the seeds and grew this beautiful, highly productive, and delicious miracle!

The trusses are huge; as they ripened, you couldn’t even see the leaves behind the solid wall of fruit. They are dense and meaty, but not dry at all. They are sweet, with very few seeds and almost no gel—which is exactly why they store so well. The weight of the fruits on the plant varied, ranging from fairly large cocktail-sized ones down to small cherries.

A cherry with a very interesting shape. Productive, but the taste is just ordinary tomato. Very few seeds, and the flesh is a bit on the dry side.

I really wanted this variety, but as a result, I am disappointed and won’t be growing it again for now.

Mine turned out beautiful and highly productive—that’s a plus. However, the fruits varied greatly in size, with many being very small, and they were hollow inside. The flavor was completely ordinary; I didn’t even bother picking all of them, many ended up in the compost bin. This is not the kind of cherry tomato you just can’t stop snacking on as you walk by.

Maybe I just didn’t grow it right. I didn’t even try to store them; perhaps that’s when it shows its best qualities. I might try it again someday, but for now, my garden space is reserved for genuinely tasty cherry varieties.

I received the seeds as a gift and grew it in 2023.

Beautiful, but that’s about it. It was dry, the taste was unremarkable, and it had hollow voids inside. I have no desire to repeat it.

anbelo (Anya) said:
Beautiful, but that’s about it. It was dry, the taste was unremarkable, and it had hollow voids inside.

Hello. Yours look quite large. Mine were exactly like Svetlana’s. In the smaller ones, I didn’t experience any hollow voids at all. It stood strong and kept fruiting in my poly tunnel right up until the frosts.

Tatyana77 (Tatyana) said:
Hello. Yours look quite large. Mine were exactly like Svetlana’s. In the smaller ones, I didn’t experience any hollow voids at all. It stood strong and kept fruiting in my poly tunnel right up until the frosts.

No one is arguing that mine might have been a bit large, but other cherry varieties I’ve tried are still way better in taste and texture, even if they put on more weight than stated. Well, as they say, taste is highly subjective—to each their own!

anbelo (Anya) said:
Beautiful, but that’s about it. It was dry, the taste was unremarkable, and it had hollow voids inside. I have no desire to repeat it.

It seems you clearly had crossed seeds (an off-type) or genetic segregation.

Olyalya71 (Olga) said:
It seems you clearly had crossed seeds (an off-type) or genetic segregation.

I got my seeds directly from Inna. And mine was also dry, hollow, and lacked any special taste, with fruits on the same truss varying wildly in size. Though it was extremely productive.

But here is the catch: my sister in St. Petersburg grew tomatoes from my exact same seeds, and hers grew into the most delicious tomatoes ever. Most likely, it highly depends on your growing conditions (especially watering and soil type). I grew mine in sandy soil inside a polycarbonate greenhouse, and it was a very hot year.