Cherokee Purple tomatoes....has anyone had success growing

i've never been able to get my Cherokee plants to produce more than a couple.. i dont mess with them anymore

My brother had great success with them last year. By great success, I mean he had a living plant, and it made a few dozen tomatoes. They do not produce as much as one of your standard varieties. They do taste good though.

Around Lafayette La if that helps.

Mine are loaded with blooms rt now. Hope they put out. Best tasting tomato I've eaten. I get about a dozen off each plant every year. Did have a plant last year that put out 35.

As mentioned by others, not a high yielder, but certainly a viable variety for the area. I had a couple of dozen plants last year, along with several other heirloom varieties.

One thing to watch for is pollination, those varieties are often a bit more difficult to pollinate, and if you don't have plenty of flying pollinators, you might need to help them out.

Last year I had Cherokee Purples, Pink Brandywines, Black Prince and Black Krim, Pruden's Purple and a coupla more varieties that I can't immediately recall.

Man I'm missing my garden this year!

The 1st year we grew them many went bad because we produced so many. They are the best tasting by far. Last year i moved the garden and the soil was shite, so they did not produce

I'm trying two this year for the first time. They are dark and healthy and have many blooms and already a couple of small tomatoes for being small (about 15" tall). If they do good and taste as good as I hear, I'll have several more next year.

From what I understand, they can be easily over fertilized. Once you have a healthy, established plant back off of the nitrogen and switch to something like a 2-10-10 fertilizer. That will allow the plant to produce more flowers and not just leaves. Like someone else mentioned, shake the plants occasionally when you walk by them. Also, start keeping your seeds or try to buy locally grown seedlings to help acquire plants that are adapted to the local environment. I plant them deep and place a fish head in the bottom of the hole like this:


Good luck!

Have a couple of plants here in Orlando that are still producing since last year and have new blooms on them.

Probably due to the fact that we never really had any real cold to speak of.

Planted them in 5gal pickle bucket......picked 3 last Friday....They are great as are the Black Krim and the Sea Man Russian heirloom.......I can't get any Creole plants here in Florida though

Anyone have ideas regarding ordering some from Louisiana? Saw some plants on Amazon......grown in Ohio.....no thanks

In Acadiana & I've got 2 planted in large pots; they are full of blooms & ive got a couple of small maters on the plant. If all the blooms produce, I'll be happy with their production. This is my first time growing them, I put them in pots so I could watch them more carefully. I've never eaten one but heard good things about them. Ive been using Dr Earth liquid fertilizer, low in nitrogen.