{"id":5656,"date":"2026-10-17T13:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=5656"},"modified":"2026-10-17T13:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T13:54:19","slug":"emerald-monisto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/emerald-monisto\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerald Monisto Tomato Reviews & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Emerald Monisto<\/em> is a firm, crunchy, sweet dark (?) cherry tomato from the seed company Gavrish. While growers love its crisp texture and disease resistance, the yield can be hit or miss. This thread also covers the rest of the “Monisto” series (Chocolate, Amber\/Yellow, and Pink), revealing that Pink Monisto is actually a massive, multiflora-style cocktail tomato rather than a true cherry. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)<\/h2>\n
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Seeds from Gavrish. Grew outdoors, indeterminate vine. In August, at a height of about 4.5 ft (1.4 m), I topped them. I didn’t notice any diseases on it. The little tomatoes are very beautiful, with firm, crunchy flesh, but not woody. They didn’t crack, sweet, weighing up to 0.5 oz (15 g). A decent variety for cherry tomato lovers.<\/p>\n


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MORYACHKA (Marina) \ud83c\udf45 Member (62 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nadezhda, did you plant the other Monistos from Gavrish? I have my eye on the yellow ones. Should I buy them? Are they sweet?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nadia (Nadezhda) \u2b50 Pro Grower (10,763 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Marina, I didn’t plant any other Monistos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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kormanova (Ksyusha) \u2b50 Pro Grower (2,718 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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I also bought Monisto, but the pink ones. There are absolutely no reviews on it \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f. I’ll plant them and see how they do.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Weird name for a brown tomato, but otherwise – it’s sweet (better than Black Cherry and Black Chocolate), the flesh is crunchy. The bush is very elegant, it’s best to prune to 2 leaders. I’ll definitely keep it for next season.<\/p>\n

Pink Monisto is not a cherry size – they are cluster-type, cocktail sized, oval-elongated with a little beak. The clusters are small, the flesh is a bit spongy, the skin is soft, it lacked juiciness for me. The bush is sturdy, I grew it to 1 leader, although 2 would have been fine. I didn’t try canning them, but they look beautiful in a jar and didn’t crack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf3e Editor’s Note: Gavrish’s “Monisto” Branding<\/strong>
\nThe Russian seed company Gavrish sells an entire series of tomatoes under the “Monisto” name (Emerald, Chocolate, Amber, and Pink). “Monisto” traditionally refers to a necklace made of coins, hinting at the fruit cascading down the vine. However, as growers noted, these are *not* the same genetic lines just in different colors. Pink Monisto acts more like a multiflora cocktail tomato (similar to Barry’s Crazy Cherry), while Emerald and Chocolate are standard crunchy cherries.<\/div>\n
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Emerald Monisto. Indeterminate vine, can be pruned to multiple leaders, fruit up to 0.7 oz (20g), firm, sweet, crunchy, and very beautiful.<\/p>\n


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We grew every Monisto we could find outdoors for two years.
\nChocolate was the tastiest, but not the most prolific.
\nEmerald is very similar to chocolate, but it gave us practically zero yield.
\nAmber (Yellow) was overall not bad, more productive than chocolate and emerald, but nothing special compared to other yellow cherries.
\nBut Pink Monisto completely surprised us – huge clusters similar to Barry’s Crazy Cherry, loaded with pear-shaped pink fruits. Except they cracked, but we never managed to get a proper watering schedule dialed in outdoors.
\nFor now, we gave up on them and are trying other varieties.
\nIn the photos from August 12, 2020: Harvest from the plants: pink, chocolate, and amber. And the Pink Monisto bush.<\/p>\n


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Full Summary: The Monisto Series<\/h2>\n