Quick Summary of My Dancing Green Fingers
- 🌍 Origin: A relatively new, highly sought-after cherry variety created by Belgian gardener and collector Bart Praet. It took second place among the best tomatoes at the Tomatofest festival in Brussels (Nos Pilifs farm) in 2021.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), mid-season. The plant produces numerous thin stems with regular leaves. Grower’s Note: It often looks very weak and wispy in the seedling stage, but catches up rapidly once planted out.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Stunning elongated, teardrop-shaped cherry tomatoes with a little “beak”. When fully ripe, the green color shifts to a translucent champagne-green hue.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Highly praised for a sweet, honey-like flavor with a crisp texture. Multiple growers noted that if you close your eyes, it feels and tastes exactly like eating sweet green grapes!
- 💡 Growing Tips: It is crucial to let them reach full ripeness on the vine. Reviews are polarized based on growing conditions—some get sweet, large clusters, while others get sour, tiny fruits. They have an exceptionally long shelf life.
My Dancing Green Fingers is a new variety created by Belgian gardener-collector Bart Praet. At the Tomatofest festival held at the Nos Pilifs farm in Brussels in 2021, it took second place among the best tomatoes. This indeterminate, mid-season variety with excellent yield is already quite stable.
The plants are tall with thin, numerous stems and regular leaves. The cluster is complex, fan-type, and the fruits have a very beautiful teardrop shape with a little beak—thin, elegant little icicles resembling fingers.
The color is also very interesting: green, but when fully ripe it becomes the color of champagne, and the fruits themselves become translucent. The flesh is green, with an amazingly sweet, honeyed, mild flavor. There are few seeds in the fruits.
An excellent variety, sets fruit without skipping, problem-free, and very tasty! I got the seeds from Germany and grew it in a polycarbonate greenhouse. I trained the plant into 5 stems. Now this variety is in my top three favorite cherry tomatoes.
It’s impossible to convey the true color of the fruits in photographs. (Please add your own photos, those who grew it!)
I liked the variety, it’s very beautiful and tasty when ripe. I grew it in open ground. Trained it to 2 stems. The plant is powerful, tall, the stems are thick, and the clusters are complex.
I hardly got any ripe fruits for myself—I would come on the weekends to a completely eaten bush 😆
Sweet, very sweet, and generous yield. Grown in the greenhouse.
It is weak in the seedling stage, but then catches up rapidly. I had some misses with determining ripeness, so some fruits cracked. It doesn’t drop off the vine.
Shusha Kuznetsova said:
It is weak in the seedling stage, but then catches up rapidly.
Mine was exactly the same. I was even angry at it at first. And then it just took off… oh my! You absolutely must wait for full ripeness. I had difficulties with that too.
Hello everyone! Who has grown My Dancing Green Fingers, please share information, is it worth bothering with them? 😉
Olga said:
Who has grown My Dancing Green Fingers… is it worth bothering with them? 😉
I grew it in open ground a couple of years ago. I have no desire to repeat it. The taste is simple, without frills, sweetish, nothing special. They only started ripening towards the end of summer, when I was already pulling out all the bushes. The fruits are too small for me.
But that’s just my experience… I know many people like them.
Yes, a sweet and sour balanced taste. I plan to grow it again, but not next year. I bought too many seeds this year and the girls gifted me a lot too. The list has already been rewritten several times…
T@tka said:
I know many people like them.
I grew it this year. Also not planning to repeat. They are sweet. But I liked Green Dubai much better.
Olga said:
Who has grown My Dancing Green Fingers… is it worth bothering with them? 😉
Olga, I didn’t like them, just grew a bunch of sour little things. I planted it once and won’t repeat it.
Good evening. I grew it two years in a row and would have planted it a third, but there are many other varieties not yet tested. I liked the “fingers”, there is acidity, but more sweetness. Size-wise, like all cherry tomatoes. The grandchildren ate them with pleasure.
T@tka said:
I grew it in open ground a couple of years ago. I have no desire to repeat it… The fruits are too small for me.
Well, Tatiana! For me they were large and so delicious—sweet with a bright tang! Beautiful milky-light green color, huge clusters. I snacked on them constantly whenever I walked into the greenhouse… What a difference growing conditions make!
Ptichka Pevchaya said:
What a difference growing conditions make!
Yes, the conditions are different… Natalia, did yours grow in a greenhouse?
T@tka said:
Natalia, did yours grow in a greenhouse?
In the greenhouse, Tatiana. The plant was tiny at first… but the taste for me was very good…
Vesely ogorodnik said:
I liked the “fingers”, there is acidity, but more sweetness.
I agree. I liked them very much! For me, they were like grapes; you wouldn’t immediately realize you’re eating a tomato. Crispy, juicy, and very sweet. I grew them outdoors in open ground.
Olga, mine were very tasty, very sweet, crispy, everyone thought it was grapes. The sourness is barely noticeable.
Ladoshka said:
mine were very tasty, very sweet, crispy, everyone thought it was grapes.
Mine were also sweet and firm. In open ground, the clusters were prettier, but they ripened later than the greenhouse ones. For some reason, there are very few seeds in them, mostly just gel with embryos. I’ve planted them for three years in a row, and only this year did I manage to collect any seeds at all. It also stores quite well.
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Svetikk said:
For some reason, there are very few seeds in them… It also stores quite well.
And I had plenty of seeds in them! In some they were small (the ones I planted), and in others, the seeds were significantly larger and abundant. And I can’t say they stored very well; they could last a bit, but only if you pick them on time.
I had one bush in the greenhouse and two outdoors—I noticed absolutely no difference between them, neither in timing nor in taste.
IMHO, there’s no point in asking others about specific varieties; it all depends so heavily on the weather, soil, and care.
Svetikk said:
It also stores quite well.
That’s for sure 😂. Last September, I sent a couple of boxes of tomatoes to my daughter in Krasnodar via a rideshare, and the “fingers” were in there. I arrived for New Year’s, and my son-in-law says: “Your green tomatoes are still sitting in our fridge, they never ripened.”
What green tomatoes? 🤔 I didn’t think I sent any green ones. Ah, those were the Dancing Fingers! I didn’t tell them, so they didn’t know and didn’t taste them right away. They just kept storing them, waiting for them to turn red 🤣.
Good evening, good people!!
I will subscribe to every positive review about My Dancing Green Fingers. I liked them very much, absolutely not bland, very tasty. If you eat them with your eyes closed, you’ll think it’s a grape, not a tomato.
The ones in the photo are not the largest. Grew in open ground, few seeds in the fruits.
Damn it. Now they’re praising these Dancing Green Fingers too…
Irina193 said:
Damn it. Now they’re praising these Dancing Green Fingers too…
Tell me about it… but I am a rock… for now, a rock!))
HATA55 said:
Tell me about it… but I am a rock… for now, a rock!))
Lucky you. I gave up quickly after Robutti and Evgenia. Already got them. And now these Fingers…
Irina193 said:
Damn it. Now they’re praising these Dancing Green Fingers too…
Irina, let me send you some. The variety is truly worthy.
I generally really like varieties of this type—with a similar bush habit, clusters, and fruits. For a long time, I’ve been planting Flaschentomaten (up to 40 grams) and its smaller cherry copy, San Mazzo.
Vesely ogorodnik said:
Irina, let me send you some.
Lyubov… I will wait… Maybe the urge will pass.
Svetlana, for 2026 I have Debosliv, I have 3476 from Zuzya of this type, but I don’t have these green Dancing Fingers… BUT… that’s only… for now. I am already working on this issue 😂 As they say: I see the goal, I see no obstacles!
Irina, I saw them on Wildberries [Major Russian e-commerce marketplace], but I know you don’t buy there, and I’m somewhat afraid to get these exact “fingers” there too. Although I did just grab a few other varieties from there 😁.
