📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Viola-1 Cherry
- 🌍 Origin: A rare cherry variety circulating in Eastern Europe. In this thread, seeds were sourced from Tamara Yashchenko, a highly respected Russian tomato collector from the Altai region.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (short bush). Out in the open ground, it stays very compact, reaching only about 32 inches (80 cm). It requires zero pruning (no need to pinch suckers), but it is so productive that you must stake it heavily, otherwise it will collapse under the weight of the fruit.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Classic round, bright red cherry tomatoes.
- 👅 Flavor (The Standout Feature): Incredibly sweet. Growers describe it as having an almost fruity, grape-like sweetness with just a hint of classic tomato flavor. A perfect “candy” tomato for snacking.
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I bought the seeds under this name from Tamara Yashchenko. It is a very sweet variety 😋. The taste has an almost grape-like sweetness with just a slight hint of tomato flavor 👍.
Out in the open dirt, the height was 32 inches (80 cm), I didn’t prune the suckers at all. It is incredibly productive 🍅. The bush definitely needs to be tied to a stake/support. The tomatoes are round and red.
