📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Cafe Bule
- 🌍 Origin: An American heirloom variety known for producing masses of dark, pear-shaped cherry tomatoes.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Growers describe it as “well-behaved” and not overly aggressive in its growth. The foliage is relatively light-colored, taking on a purplish-blue hue in strong sunlight.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small, beautiful chocolate-brown/black cherry tomatoes shaped like little pears. Highly crack-resistant.
- 👅 Flavor: Very pleasant, aromatic, and sweet.
- ⏳ Maturity & Vigor: Generally a late-season variety in cooler climates. However, it is very disease-resistant and forgiving of poor weather or beginner mistakes.
Description: “USA — a highly productive tomato variety with small, black, pear-shaped fruits! The bush produces up to a hundred attractive fruits with a pleasant taste and aroma! A rare and beautiful variety!”
I completely agree with the description. It is a well-behaved, not overly aggressive indeterminate. The bush is light-colored, and in the sun, the foliage takes on a bluish-purple hue. It grows and sets fruit slowly, sequentially, but surely—it doesn’t drop its blossoms, the fruits don’t crack, and it is very forgiving of any beginner mistakes in plant care. For me, the variety was late-season, but despite the long growing period, I didn’t notice any diseases on it at all. 😘
And the taste is not only pleasant, but genuinely sweet. 😋
Edited October 6, 2016 by Drosera
Cherry Cafe Bule. Just like Polina said, it’s a moderately tall indeterminate. It grew outdoors in open ground with no shelter and zero pruning (I didn’t remove any suckers). The summer was very cold, so it grew slowly and in no hurry at all 😂. It turned out to be late-season with average yield.
However, it produced very interesting, beautiful, and tasty little brown pears. The bush decorated the entrance to our gazebo alongside the ‘Blush’ cherry tomato (which ended up slightly choking it out with its massive vigor).
It’s definitely worth growing for beauty and exotic appeal.
