📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Afro-Cherry
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial dark-fruited cocktail tomato variety developed by Russian breeders.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). The plant grows to about 1.8-2.2 m (6-7.2 ft) in height.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Dark mahogany/cherry-colored cocktail tomatoes weighing 40-50 g (1.4-1.8 oz). They are very glossy, thick-walled, and grow in clusters of 8-12 fruits.
- 👅 Flavor: Mixed reviews! Depending on the growing conditions, some growers find them tough and totally flavorless, while others report a very sweet and delicious taste.
- 🥫 Best Uses: Extremely firm texture makes them perfect for whole-fruit canning. They also have an incredible shelf life and ripen off the vine beautifully (lasting well into November).
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-early season.
AFRO-CHERRY Tomato, 40-50 g (1.4-1.8 oz).
Official Description:
A mid-early cocktail variety with interesting dark cherry-colored fruits.It combines excellent taste, good yield, and health benefits due to the high content of the antioxidant lycopene, which is necessary to reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, vascular diseases, and oncology.
Plant height is 1.8-2.2 m (6-7.2 ft).
The truss contains 8-12 round, glossy fruits weighing 45-50 grams (1.5-1.8 oz). The tomatoes are firm, thick-walled, with a high dry matter content.
They store and ripen off the vine exceptionally well, and are perfect for whole-fruit canning.
Pomidoroved said:
AFRO-CHERRY Tomato, 40-50 g.
Terrible taste. They are tough and taste completely bland, like grass.
The variety is super! Tasty, sweetish, and highly productive. They are delicious just to eat right off the bush, in a salad, and canned in jars. They ripen indoors beautifully; the photo of them in my hand was taken in November.
I grew 2 bushes each in 2021 and 2022. Interestingly, in 2021, one bush had slightly elongated fruits.
