Data specific to Tomatoes (Edit)
Skin Color: Blue
Fruit Shape: Round
Fruit Size: Cherry
Leaf Type: Regular-Leaf
Best Uses: Salad
Growth Mode: Indeterminate
Earliness: Mid-season
Country: USA

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 11 +4.4 °C (40 °F) to +7.2 °C (50 °F)
Plant Height: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Plant Spread: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Leaves: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Fruiting Time: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Flower Color: Yellow
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Other: Varies greatly by species and cultivated variety.
Uses: Vegetable
Suitable as Annual
Edible Parts: Fruit
Eating Methods: Raw
Cooked
Resistances: Rabbit Resistant
Toxicity: Leaves are poisonous
Roots are poisonous
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Other info: Direct sowing into the garden not recommended. Sow seeds into sterile seed starting mix, 1/8"-1/4" deep, indoors, 6-8 weeks prior to last expected frost date. Optimal germination occurs in 7-14 days with constant moisture and soil temperatures of 75-90F.
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Self
Various insects
Containers: Preferred depth: Some tomato varieties, primarily dwarf and determinate varieties, are suitable for container gardening. Large, vining, indeterminate types can be grown in 5 gallon or larger containers but may require extra attention.

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Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2022-08-07
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2022-05-21
Young plant.
Location: Ingleside. Illinois
Date: 2022-08-07

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Comments:
  • Posted by sallyg (central Maryland - Zone 7b) on Jul 4, 2019 10:47 AM concerning plant:
    I bought one Dancing with Smurfs plant as a nice starter at the nursery. Plant has grown well (2 months) and is producing. Fruits start out very dark and green on the bottom. As they ripen, they turn red-orange and lose the dark blue-black. I tried several, all were bland and tasteless. And not very novel, as they lost the dark color. The plant suffered in the summer heat but did rebound in fall with a fair amount of fruit. Still, they were always bland and tasteless to me, all season long. I gave them to the chickens.
    ('Black Cherry' tomatoes are dark when ripe, with much better Cherokee Purple kind of taste. And they make much bigger clusters of fruit too.)
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4 seeds.
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