📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Detskaya Radost F1 (Children’s Joy F1)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial Russian F1 Hybrid variety. The name translates beautifully to “Children’s Joy”, hinting at its target audience.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. An insanely vigorous, aggressive climber that shoots up like bamboo. Even outdoors, it can easily surpass 8 feet (2.5 m) in height and throws out a massive amount of suckers. Requires heavy staking/trellising.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small, round, light-red cherry tomatoes with thin skin.
- 👅 Flavor: Universally praised as being “candy-sweet”. It consistently beats out heirloom cherry tomatoes in blind taste tests for pure sweetness.
- 💪 Standout Features: Mind-blowing yields. The suckers set fruit almost instantly.
Out of the 40 or so cherry varieties I planted, this one turned out to be the absolute sweetest. I actually did a blind taste test – I just walked around the garden, picked fruits off the bushes, and ate them without knowing which variety I was tasting. By process of elimination, I chose the absolute sweetest and tastiest one, and only then did I check the plant tag to see what it was.
But as far as I remember, it is an F1 hybrid. The variety is incredibly productive.
Edited July 20, 2016 by Drosera
I grew the “Children’s Joy” F1 hybrid cherry last year. The bush is incredibly vigorous; grown outdoors in open ground, it reached over 8.2 feet (2.5 m) tall, it was way taller than all my other tomatoes 👋. It throws out a ton of suckers really fast, and those suckers instantly set fruit. It truly is a massive yielder. The skin is thin, and the taste is pretty good 😋, provided you let it vine-ripen completely on the bush. The color of the cherries is a somewhat lighter, less saturated red.
Children’s Joy is my absolute standout/discovery of the season. It sets fruit like crazy and shoots up like bamboo (I mean it grows super fast). I had to weave a crazy string trellis (like making lace) just to contain it:
But the main thing is the taste. 👍 It is the absolute sweetest cherry out of the 7 varieties I planted this year. The kids eat them like candy. 👋
