Quick Summary of Cherry Strawberry F1
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial F1 hybrid produced by the Russian seed company SeDek. Its Russian name is “Cherri Klubnichnyi” (Strawberry Cherry).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (bush), reaching about 1.2-1.4 meters (4-4.5 ft) in height. It can be grown both in open ground and greenhouses but requires staking and pruning to manage its growth.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright red, small tomatoes weighing 20-30g (0.7-1 oz). Their most distinctive feature is their beautiful, unusual strawberry-like shape (heart-shaped with a slightly pointed bottom). The skin is dense and strong, making them crack-resistant.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Known for a very good, sweet taste. While some growers found it “moderately sweet,” others rated it as the absolute sweetest tomato in their garden that season. Excellent for fresh eating and canning.
- ⏳ Yield & Expectations vs Reality: It is a very early variety (90-95 days). The seed packet promises massive, long trusses of 25-30 tomatoes, but real-world growers usually see more standard clusters of around 10 fruits. Nonetheless, it remains highly productive.
Description from the producer (SeDek):
“A hybrid for open ground and film greenhouses. For fresh consumption and for preparing colorful canned vegetable assortments. Very early (90-95 days). The plant is determinate, up to 1.2-1.4 m (4-4.5 ft) high. Requires tying and shaping. The fruits have an unusual shape, heart-shaped, resembling strawberries, scarlet red, weighing 20-30 g, tasty, with dense skin, gathered in long clusters of 25-30 fruits.
VALUE OF THE TOMATO: early and abundant fruiting, excellent taste qualities of the fruits, ornamental value of the plants.”
In reality, I did not get the promised large clusters of 25-30 fruits. My clusters had the usual amount, about 10 pieces. Everything else matches the description. Overall, I liked the hybrid! 👍
Here they are shown from the smallest to the largest, and cut in half. The fruit shape is indeed quite unusual. The little tomato looks like a berry.
For me this year, this little cherry was the sweetest tomato of all. Super! Yield is above average.
And how many fruits did you have in a cluster?
For me, the Strawberry one was only average in terms of sweetness. Detskaya Radost F1 (Children’s Joy) and a Plum Bunch grown from store-bought tomatoes were much tastier.
But the Strawberry one is also tasty. Actually, this year all the red cherries pleased me. All of them were good! 🍒
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