Matt S Wild Cherry Plant

Matt s wild cherry was obtained in hidalgo mexico by teresa arellanos de mena a friend of agronomy professors dr.
Matt s wild cherry plant. Keep temperature of the starting mix at 75 90 f 24 32 c. For a long season of tiny 5 8 to 3 4 red cherries with full definitely sweet flavor try matt s wild cherry it is so named because the seeds originally came from hidalgo in eastern mexico where the plants grow wild. This product is available now. Tomato seeds germinate very slowly in.
Matt s wild cherry solanum lycopersicum. The flavor is intense and they seem impervious to almost any disease you can name. Wild is the operative word here. Vigorous and very prolific.
Indeterminate all of our tomatoes are grown from non gmo seed. This makes sense as the tomato s wild ancestor is much smaller than modern beefsteak varieties. 25 seeds planting solanum lycopersicum. With a long tall and sprawling growth habit this plant produces clusters of small deep red fruits that are round and smooth.
Days to maturity are from transplants. An early maturing variety about 60 days from transplant. Sweet and delicious cherry tomatoes are borne on open trusses. Matt s wild cherry intensely sweet flavorful small red tomatoes.
Laura merrick and dr. They are also early and will continue to yield well up to the first frost. Matt s wild cherry is the hardest working cherry tomato we ve ever grown. After reading the rave reviews on this tiny tomato i started several from seed and ultimately planted 3 matt s wild cherry in a 4x4 raised bed along with 1 jelly bean grape tomato and 1 yellow pear tomato.
Suitable for protected and outdoor growing. Greenhouse tomatoes maintain 4 square ft plant. I grow all my tomatoes single stem so it ought to be interesting to see matt s wild cherry as a single stem. For determinate varieties 12 18 for indeterminate 24 36.
From seed collected in the wild near hidalgo in eastern mexico. With high sugar content these blow modern hybrids out of the water. These cherry tomatoes range in size from 5 8 to 3 4 and are borne. Open pollinated heritage heirloom variety.
Sow 1 4 deep in flats using a soilless mix not potting soil 5 6 weeks before plants can be transplanted out after frost danger. Johnny s and other sources describe it as a small current sized tomato that readily reseeds. 1 or more 2 50 gbp each. Start seeds 6 8 weeks before planting date.
Root bound leggy plants that have open flowers or fruit when planted out may remain stunted and produce poorly. Solanum lycopersicum matt s wild cherry cordon vine tomato. Strong vines are overwhelmed by an abundance of small cherry tomatoes hundreds of them. Supplied as a packet of approximately 15 seeds.