Dwarf Purple Heart Tomato Review & Photos

Want to brag about a new dwarf that was released in 2015 — Dwarf Purple Heart, coming from excellent parent lines: Brad’s Black Heart and Dwarf Wild Fred. Since the seeds from Canada (Tatiana) took foooorever to get to me due to postal errors, they were late for spring sowing. I sowed at the end of June and planted it in a pot in early August without a blossom truss yet. Grew it to a single stem. Topped it at the 4th blooming truss, so by mid-September it was 3.5 ft (105 cm) tall. Fruit shape: a very pronounced heart.

The variety is meant for container growing, but you can grow it in beds too. Compact, sets trusses every 1 leaf, sometimes every 3, but the blossoms are spaced very closely together. Listed as an indeterminate. Fruit weight is 6-16 oz (180-450 g). Tasty, well-balanced flavor. People who already grew it this year say it has a nice sweetness to it. If our Indian summer stretches out, maybe I’ll get to taste it too. Overall, for those who love the Dwarf family, this is an interesting and worthy variety to test out next season.

In the photo below, there are only 3 trusses. This is 45 days after potting up. As of 9/15/2015 it has set 2.5 trusses.

Edited September 20, 2015 by Drosera

I want to say a couple of kind words about this variety too 🙂 My seeds are also from Tatiana in Canada. The dwarf plant grew outdoors in the dirt, mine wasn’t tall, only about 20″ (50 cm). Very beautiful — completely green and stout. It only started ripening in September since it was planted late. Fruits weigh 3.5-5 oz (100-150 g), very pretty dark brown hearts, and sweet 😋 Yield was average, but next year I want to plant a few of them and give them more attention, because this variety is definitely worth it 👍

The color of this beauty isn’t easy to catch on camera, but I think it turned out pretty well this time.

Thanks to Toma (tomik) 🌸 for such a wonderful tomato.

I also want to express my admiration for this variety 👍 The very first one. Next to Syzran Pipochka today.

My Dwarf Purple Heart grew to 3 ft (1 m) and ripened mid-season. The fruits aren’t just beautiful, they’re incredibly tasty, sweet, and tender.

Last year my Purple Heart was barely knee-high, fruits were exactly like Olya’s in both color and shape, really loved it from every angle, especially the taste.

A productive beauty, and delicious too. Grew outdoors to 2.3 ft (0.7 m).

Dwarf Purple Heart. Absolutely loved it. Productive, sweet and delicious. The tomatoes weren’t huge, up to 7 oz (200 g), but there were so many of them. Seeds from Natalia Pavlovna @Yaroslavna. Thank you!

Edited February 24, 2019 by Inn@

On 2/24/2019, Inn@ said:

Inna, did it grow in a poly tunnel? 2 stems? When did you sow it? Is it too late to start it now?

On 2/24/2019, Tatiana Kemerovo said:
Is it too late to start it now?

Tanya, I don’t think it’s too late. I sowed it mid-February. All my dwarfs take a long time to sprout and come up unevenly. Same last year as this year. Don’t remember exactly how Purple Heart germinated, but the last of my eight dwarf varieties in 2018 came up a full month after sowing. Then they all slowly caught up to each other and were practically the same size by transplant time. I grew the dwarfs outdoors. Planted them out in late May, but due to a cold May-June (we even had frosts in June 2018), everything in the dirt (dets, peppers, and dwarfs) sat under thick row cover all the way until late June.

Dwarf Purple Heart – gorgeous variety, one of the best dets in my collection 👍. Grew 2 plants in the greenhouse, didn’t pull suckers, height up to 24-28″ (60-70 cm), incredibly productive 👋 Fruits are beautiful brown hearts up to 7 oz (200 g), extremely tasty 😋

Seeds from Lena – @Belka 🙏

Edited September 23, 2019 by Svetikk

Out of all the dwarfs I grew in 2019, Purple Heart was the tastiest, prettiest, and most productive. The fruits are absolutely gorgeous.

And they really do look just like hearts!

Thanks to Ninochka (Ninulik0980) for the seeds.

This tomato is a joy to look at! Sowed mid-March, seedlings were small and compact. Debated whether to put it in a bucket or out in the dirt (went with the dirt outdoors). Took a long time to get going, but what a stunner! Reached 3 ft (1 m) tall. Completely loaded with fruits, totally disease-free. Tough, didn’t burn in the sun. Honestly, I can’t imagine how you’d grow this in a pot, because it is so stout and bushy. Fruits are heavy and meaty. Started ripening in early August. Texture is not watery at all. Long story short – I’m in love with it!

Edited August 19, 2020 by Marusha

After a year off, I decided to grow Purple Heart again this year. Yup, it’s an excellent, highly productive, tasty dwarf.

We are having non-stop, endless rain right now. Pretty much all my tomatoes are splitting, both outdoors and in the greenhouse, but P. Heart is holding strong, barely cracking at all.

Really loved the Dwarf Purple Heart. The modest-sized heart-shaped beauties are incredibly tasty.

Grew it outdoors, but with the weather rollercoaster we had, it clearly didn’t reach its full potential. Low yield. The plant was about 3 ft (1 m) tall, very robust, with heavy leaf cover. In the seedling stage, it was a joy to watch—so healthy and sturdy—but grew slow, like all dwarfs. Took a long time before it wanted to set fruit.

Taste is pleasant, mostly sweet, but not as vibrant as Wild Fred or Tasmanian Chocolate. Personally, it lacked enough tartness for me. When fully ripe, the flesh seemed overly juicy and mushy. I tried it slightly underripe and liked it much better—the flavor was brighter because of the acidity, and the flesh was quite firm, exactly how I like it. I’ll repeat it next season in the greenhouse.

Edited August 20, 2020 by T@tk@

I fell in love with this beauty too, growing it for the second year. It’s got it all – pretty as a seedling, pretty in the greenhouse, and the tomatoes themselves are incredibly tasty. Definitely repeating it next season too. The color in the photo is too bright, couldn’t quite catch the real shade.

Edited August 21, 2020 by olyaka

Gorgeous tomato. Sowed March 8, it was one of the first to pump out fruits. So many large hearts. No diseases. Didn’t pull suckers. Had to tie it up, even though the stems are very sturdy. By mid-season, I thought I picked up on some odd aftertaste in the fruits. The rest of the family didn’t notice any aftertaste at all. They only wanted this one in their salads. It ripened perfectly off the vine without losing any flavor. And honestly, it turned out to be the best keeping heart variety I had.

Grew it right alongside its parent, Brad’s Black Heart, and the fruits look very similar.

Definitely getting a permanent spot in my rotation.

Edited October 8, 2021 by Lenhik

This year, probably because of the heat, my Purple Heart tomatoes were somewhat smaller than usual. But regardless, it’s a tasty and productive variety.

Dwarf Purple Heart

Delicious, productive, one of the early ones, and… just an absolute monster in the greenhouse – it shot up to 5.5 ft (1.7 m)! My husband used every cuss word in the book while tying up this “dwarf”, if you can even call it that. 🤪

The first fruits were large, around 1 lb (500 g), and the later ones were up to 7 oz (200 g).

Seeds from @Lyudmila D. Lyudochka, thank you! 🥰

Edited October 22, 2021 by neLENTyayka

On 10/22/2021, neLENTyayka said:
Seeds from @Lyudmila D. Lyudochka, thank you!

She gifted some to me, too. Grew outdoors. 👍 tomato

My comrade Purple Heart. Off to the left, behind the stake, Kookaburra Cackle got a bit lost, not many tomatoes on that one. Growing in a warm bed outdoors, covered from late spring frosts. How it manages to set SO much fruit and grow it all out, I have no idea. A total favorite, of course)))))

This is the harvest from the single plant pictured above. 15.8 lbs (7.2 kg). And the ripe ones turned out incredibly delicious. Had to pull them all at once because of frost threats.

Edited August 22, 2022 by Olga Viktorovna

The dwarf grew outdoors. The slugs were constantly coming after it, it’s very tasty. Before this, I didn’t like black tomatoes at all. Excellent, beautiful, delicious.