Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3-7 Experience)
Indeterminate, mid-season, tall vine. Fruits are small, elongated, striped green-and-pink plum-icicle types. Flavor is really good, the little tomatoes are sweet with a slight tang and some spice. They are very crunchy though, and the skin is a bit thick.
Grew this vine outdoors, very low maintenance and it didn’t miss a single truss. A great variety if you love exotic tomatoes.
Lucky Tiger is a tall variety (hit 6.5 ft / 2 m in my greenhouse), mid-season. Fruits are small, green with pink stripes, plum-shaped. Very beautiful and tasty, juicy, sweet with a fruity undertone.
Grew it in the greenhouse, but I totally could’ve just planted it outdoors. By fall, they got super sweet.
Lucky Tiger.
A really successful cherry variety with unique coloring. Indeterminate, grew it in the greenhouse pruned to 6 leaders, incredibly productive. The vine got to about 5 ft (150 cm). Fruits are striped, sweet, crunchy, weighing up to 1 oz (30 g). Makes great company for similar varieties like Blush, Sweet Cream, and Candy Sweet Icicle. Big shoutout to Masha-Murka for the seeds 🙏
Sowed commercial seeds from Aelita and really liked this variety. Reached about 5.5 ft (1.7 m) in my greenhouse, so not massive, but highly productive, tasty, and nice and sweet.
This variety really doesn’t handle excess nitrogen well. I grew it in a heavily fertilized bed, and it pushed way too much vegetative growth, even throwing suckers right out of the leaf veins! But it didn’t hurt the yield at all.
Known globally as Lucky Tiger. Indeterminate vines, growing 5.5-6.5 ft (1.7-2 m) tall in the greenhouse. Mid-season producer, giving a harvest about 112-115 days after germination. The fruits are meaty, firm, with tender skin, and they don’t crack. The flavor is rich and sweet with tropical notes and a balanced tang. Tomatoes weigh around 1.2-1.4 oz (35-40 g).
The variety handles temperature swings well and is highly productive. Great for fresh salads, sauces, and winter canning. Yield under plastic is about 1.8-2.4 lbs per sq ft (9-12 kg/m2). The shape of the fruit and how pronounced the stripes are can change depending on growing conditions.
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Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Vigor
- 🌿 Plant: A vigorous, mid-season indeterminate. Usually tops out around 5-6.5 ft (1.5-2 m). Known to be exceptionally hardy but very sensitive to over-fertilization, which can cause extreme vegetative growth.
- 📈 Yield: Extremely high. Growers regularly report that it sets fruit on every truss without dropping blossoms, even during temperature swings. It thrives equally well in open ground and greenhouses.
- 👅 Taste & Texture: Intensely sweet with a complex, fruity, tropical tang. The texture is notably crunchy and firm, with skin that is thick enough to prevent cracking but tender enough for fresh eating.
- 🍅 Fruit: Elongated, plum/icicle-shaped cherries weighing around 1-1.4 oz (30-40 g). Visually striking green-when-ripe skin with pinkish-red striping.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Extensively tested by growers across short-season climates (Zones 3 and 4) as well as hotter southern regions (Zones 6 and 7), proving its wide adaptability.
Lucky Tiger is a brilliant creation from the late Fred Hempel of Artisan Seeds (California, USA). It belongs to the famous “Tiger” series (alongside Pink Tiger, Green Tiger, etc.). Yulia’s note about the vine throwing suckers straight out of the leaf veins is a fantastic observation. This bizarre mutation (often related to fasciation) frequently happens to vigorous indeterminate cherries when they are given too much nitrogen. Lucky Tiger is an aggressive forager—it doesn’t need heavy feeding to produce massive yields, and laying off the nitrogen will keep the vines manageable and the flavor concentrated.
