I really liked the Chocolate Bunny variety. Productive, tasty. I grew it to 4 stems. One of the few varieties that had zero issues with fruit setting (blossom drop) in 2016. The cocktail tomatoes look great in jars with marinade. Here is my bush in the greenhouse.
I highly recommend this variety. In 2017, I will try to grow and compare it side-by-side with Black Moor.
Grew Chocolate Bunny in the greenhouse two years in a row. In 2015, I planted it alongside Prune (Chernosliv) from Gusev. They grew up to be identical twin brothers. One to one. I thought maybe I mixed up the labels. In 2016, I planted Gusev’s Prune again, Bunny from 2015 saved seeds, and bought a new packet of Bunny from Redko for comparison. All of them grew into identical twins again. No differences in appearance, size, fruit, or taste. Gusev writes about his Prune that it is an old heirloom variety. Go figure.
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…planted it alongside Prune from Gusev. They grew up to be identical twin brothers.
I’m so glad I read your post. I almost ordered Prune. Just another clone of the Bunny.
(And I have this creeping suspicion that our private collectors have started selling surplus seeds of their saved varieties to commercial seed companies, rebranding them.)
For me, Chocolate Bunny, Black Moor, Kumato, and De Barao Black are all twins. I mean, absolutely identical 😲
And for some reason, they burst in my canning jars, even though the size is perfect for jars 😞 And they are a bit tart (though that’s not a drawback for me).
Planted Bunny for the first year—surprised by its yield. Literally showered in tomatoes. They say it’s disease-resistant, but Blossom End Rot (BER) tortured me. Very convenient to pack into liter jars, and they look beautiful. But the taste of the fresh fruits didn’t impress me, kind of plain. Will I plant it next year? Probably not.
Blossom End Rot ate almost all of my fruits too. Out of 160 varieties, only 2 varieties were affected by BER: Chocolate Bunny and Sakmara Pickling. I won’t sow it again, there are a great multitude of cherries and cluster tomatoes that are resistant, tasty, and productive.
Grew it this year outdoors. Very productive, didn’t have any BER. Fresh taste is so-so, and a bit too soft in jars for my liking. Most likely won’t plant again.
Chocolate Bunny (seeds from Tumanov). Grew one bush in a polycarbonate greenhouse. Started it at 4 stems, then, seeing that there were no problems with fruit set, I let it branch out to 11-12 stems. Trusses strictly had 7 fruits each—it worked like a photocopier (endless yield)… as a result, the harvest was huge 🙌! The taste this summer wasn’t top-tier, but for the yield alone, it stays on the permanent planting roster 😎😉
Chocolate Bunny in the greenhouse reached nearly 2 meters (6.5 ft) in height. Productive, mid-season ripening. The fruits were very tasty, sweet, with a fruity aftertaste.
SOOOO productive (despite the small size) and tasty.
Grew Chocolate Bunny and Black Moor. Twin varieties. They started fruiting together and very actively. Shape, size, yield—absolutely identical. Had BER on a couple of fruits during the heatwave. The difference between the varieties only became noticeable in August. Chocolate Bunny stopped its growth at 1.5 meters (5 ft) and its leaves started getting sick. All went into salads, because they are tasty. Didn’t bother saving seeds.
I’ve been growing Black Moor for a long time, about 5 years, store-bought seeds. The grandkids demand I plant it. Chocolate Bunny for me is an exact copy of Black Moor, just as unpretentious and tasty, but the grandkids and I prefer Black Moor.
I don’t know exactly whether Bunny or Moor grew for me. A productive, dark pear-shape, very tasty, sweet-and-sour, aromatic, I liked it very much!
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A productive, dark pear-shape…
No, then that’s neither Bunny nor Moor. Their shape is an oval or a large plum, brown in color.
