Green Grape Tomato: Real Grower Reviews & Photos

Green Grape is an early little tomato. The green fruits are about 1.4 inches (3.5 cm) in size, growing in simple and complex clusters of 6 to 15 fruits.

When they reach full ripeness, little golden speckles appear on the surface of the fruits. The taste has a distinct fruity note and a very pleasant aftertaste. It was listed as an indeterminate (tall) variety, but one of my bushes actually topped itself (terminated) at 4 ft (120 cm) in the greenhouse. The other one grew to about 5 ft (150 cm). I pruned them to two leaders, and I picked the very last fruits just two days ago. The clusters weighed up to 1.3 – 1.5 lbs (600-700 g). The overall yield was average.

The fruits are juicy and very tasty.

On the vine.

Green Grape cherry. Seeds are from Tamara Semyonovna, thank you so much to her!!!! 🙌🌺

It was an indeterminate, grew to about 5 ft (1.5 m) in the open ground. It survived a late blight attack, grew back, and started producing fruit all over again right up until the cold weather hit. Fruit weight was 0.3 – 0.5 oz (10-15 g). I absolutely loved the taste, they are so sweet 😋👍. The shape is elongated, just like “ladies’ fingers” grapes. When ripe, the green color takes on a golden hue. I will definitely plant it again! 👍 I actually grew it in my flower bed 😳.

It really does look exactly like grapes. 🙂👍

Well, that answers it. Mine were rounder and the taste wasn’t that great. That means I definitely had an off-type (wrong seed).

tomatinka wrote:
Well, that answers it. Mine were rounder and the taste wasn’t that great. That means I definitely had an off-type (wrong seed).

Vera, it’s possible you just got seeds from a different source… My “Green Grape” came from Kulik in Ukraine, and it was also round. The plant wasn’t tall at all (you could definitely call it a determinate)… but the fruits were sweet and delicious… and there were so many of them 🙌

I saw a photo of Green Grape in someone’s album where it was shaped like a little icicle, and the whole cluster looked exactly like a real bunch of grapes.

Ah, I remember now, it was in Lisenok’s album. 👍

It’s probably not just her. But honestly, nobody is going to dig through thirty-five thousand album photos just to find a picture of one specific variety. 🤫

My flavor wasn’t great, and the fruits were extremely firm. But yeah, the bushes were definitely determinates.

Oh man, I must be going totally blind. I just took a closer look at Danko’s photos, and hers are definitely the elongated ones 😳.

Mine were completely round. Seeds were from Gusev.

Here is the photo and description straight from D. Gusev’s website “Pomidom”:

“Green Grape. It is impossible to stop eating these as long as there is at least one tomato left on the table. A very interesting taste and aroma. The variety is productive and early. Once you try it, you will plant it every single year. Very popular in restaurants all over the world.”

You can’t really tell much from that description, but in his photo, they are clearly round. I ordered seeds from him and I plan to plant them, we’ll see what happens. My only question is: which Green Grape is actually the true, authentic one? The round one or the oval one??? 😕

But honestly, Danko’s version really does look exactly like actual grapes!!!

Indeterminate. The fruits are sweet and slightly larger than average for a cherry tomato.

Mine was not early at all. It’s a tasty, sweet cherry. You really have to wait for full ripeness for it to get super sweet. At first, I felt like it had a weird nightshade-like aftertaste, but now I’m completely used to it. 😋

A friend gave me this variety. She actually extracted the seeds from a tomato she bought at a farmer’s market. The seller told her it was the Green Grape variety. It seems to perfectly match the variety described in Tatiana Kouchnareva’s database in Canada. And I totally agree with Tatiana – the seeds are extremely tiny. One interesting trait: on my hot terrace, the fully ripe fruits would literally drop off the vine on their own, taking the pedicel (stem) with them.

Here is my Green Grape:

My Grape had the elongated “ladies’ fingers” shape 😄

Grew it outdoors in the open ground. Indeterminate, regular leaf. The fruits are elongated finger-type cherries, green-olive in color, weighing 0.7 – 0.9 oz (20-25 g). Extremely sweet. The clusters are massive 🙌, it’s very productive.

Mine grew out with perfectly round fruits. Grew outdoors in the open ground. It was a compact little bush, reaching up to 2 ft (60 cm). I didn’t prune the suckers at all. It was productive. The fruits are tasty and sweet, and the seeds are very tiny.

This variety was my absolute biggest disappointment of the year. I was so excited for it. I literally registered on this forum just to read about it!))) And then it did this…

First of all, it was gigantic. It shot way past 5 ft (1.5 meters) in the open ground, I had to look up at its growing tips… It threw out a sea of suckers. I got tired of fighting them, and by August they had won, I just ended up tying them all to the main stem with rope. It hated the heat. It REALLY hated the heat: it wilted, got sunscald, and dropped its leaves. It suffered from severe nitrogen toxicity (all leaf, no fruit). I have no idea how a plant can get nitrogen toxicity for three months straight when planted at an ultra-dense spacing (6 inches / 15 cm between roots!), but it did. It pushed out 12-inch massive leaves, a main stem as thick as two fingers, the whole nine yards. I had a second bush in another bed with much more space, where I deliberately didn’t prune it at all. It grew into a sprawling, shorter little monster. But it STILL looked like it was suffering from too much nitrogen.

Secondly, the yield was terrible. The clusters had about 8-10 fruits. That’s the kind of cluster size you expect from 3 oz (80-100 g) tomatoes, a nice neat bunch… but instead, I just got these little “pimples” on the truss. The tomato sizes ranged from medium round cherries (20-30 g) to hefty little barrels (40 g). And on top of that, they cracked. Cherries! Cracking!

This variety could honestly be used as an illustration for every horror story about growing cherry tomatoes – a mountain of foliage and a handful of pathetic little fruits. You walk up to the garden bed, and this 6-foot monster is looming over you, hiding its rare, ten-berry clusters underneath its giant canopy.

And thirdly. It’s bitter. Legitimately bitter! When it was unripe, it was awful. When it got soft, it was slightly less bitter. It only turned sweet exactly once, after two weeks of brutal heat (but again, it supposedly hates the heat! 🤣). Then it went right back to being bitter. And neither the color change of the skin nor the softness of the fruit gave any indication of whether it had stopped being bitter yet.

Overall, from the description, you can tell this was a “conversation starter” novelty tomato for the garden))) It disliked me, and I “nagged” it the whole season))) God forbid I ever plant it again! It looks cute in the pictures, but don’t fall for that angelic appearance!

This is my absolute favorite variety in terms of taste)) So incredibly delicious. I got my seeds from Gusev, and it matches the appearance and description posted by Svetikk perfectly.

I have this description in my notes:

Green Grape, Tom Wagner, USA
Developed from a cross of several varieties, including Evergreen. A mid-early variety. The bush is compact, indeterminate. The fruits are slightly elongated cherries, yellowish-green, meaty, with a thin but moderately firm skin. Weight is 1 oz (25-30 g) and 1.4-1.6 inches (3.5-4 cm) in diameter. Grown in clusters of 8-15 fruits. Cute golden speckles appear on the skin of fully ripened fruits. The flesh is juicy, very sweet, aromatic, with excellent flavor and a fruity note. The fruits ripen well off the vine and have a good shelf life. The variety is exceptionally productive. Intended for fresh eating.

A friend of mine told me a story: his son asked him, “Dad, why are grapes growing on the tomato plants?” And that basically sums up my review of it too 🙂

My Green Grape produced elongated fruits, just like Elena Danko’s. Very tasty, honey-sugar sweet fruits.

A wonderful variety, determinate (bush). But mine actually grew out to almost 4 ft (1.2 m). I pruned the suckers up to the first flower cluster. It took up a lot of space in the greenhouse, but it yielded incredibly well. The simple clusters had about 8-10 tomatoes each. You really have to let it ripen fully on the vine, and then it is soooo sweet!

Delicious!