Sun sugar is my favorite too! I growed super sweet 100, sun sugar, and sweet million. Sun sugar is definitely the winner. It’s the sweetest, and another winning point is its thin skin. Sweet million is almost as good as sun sugar, maybe just the sun color makes me feel sun sugar is slightly sweeter. Super sweet 100 is surpassed by sweet million on every aspect, from flavor to skin thickness. No need to grow it in the future. Another very good one is black cherry, I didn’t find the seedling in my area this year, but next year I’ll definitely grow it.
I planted Sun Sugar for the first time this year. I never had seen them before. They are like Candy!! Super flavor. Sweet 100 is always a winner. Always great videos.
I have grown Sun Gold for about as long as it’s been available. Two years in a row I also grew Sun Sugar. I didn’t like the thickness of Sun Sugars skin. I grew them the second year to make sure the skin issue wasn’t a fluke. It wasn’t and haven’t grown them since. I do always grow SS100 and Sun Gold. rotating other varieties in and out just to try. Thank you for posting the great review.
The sun sugar was bred to be as sweet or sweeter than sun gold with thicker skin so they don't split like sun gold do. Sun sugar and Cherry bomb are my 2 favorites but they both have thicker skin. No splitting.
I grew sun sugar this year and could not believe the taste. You picked the one I fell in love with this year. Definitely will be in my garden from now on.
After 35 years of growing I still like Super Sweet 100's as my fave cherry tomato. Obviously very subjective. I never trim these plants and let them grow up my 11 foot awning and use the same clamshell plastic clips I see you using. Great for salads and salsas.Here in 9b Sacramento mine will grow well into December and last year I overwintered the best one and it produced nicely this year.
I've never grown cherry tomatoes before (and I hadn't grown regular tomatoes in many, many years), but this year we tried a Sweet 100 plant. These tomatoes are absolutely *delicious*, although they're right up to the edge of my personal "too sweet". And I was amazed at how well the plant did, despite many weeks of neglect while life smacked us sideways this summer. It just keeps producing, and *producing*, and _producing_, despite irregular watering and no weeding at all! We're definitely going to grow this guy again, but now I know that it needs a whole trellis just for itself. It just laughed at the tomato cage my MiL gave me for it...
I'm growing a real winner called "Sweetie" by Self Sufficient Seeds. It is prolific and they have given me two rounds of the sweetest little cherry tomatoes that I've ever eaten let alone grown. I checked the plants a few days ago and they are setting flowers for a third round of these sweet gems.
I will have to try sun gold. Grew sun sugar this year and its good but my favorite by far is the Cherry Bomb. They are only available from Johnny's selected seeds and Pinetree gardens. You have got to try them they are FANTASTIC!
U have truly Mastered the presentation of any topic. Thank you. Always so educational. Wish I could clone you for my personal 100% Teacher and Mentor. I really enjoy listening and learning from you. Bravo🥰🙏🏽
I’m really struggling with late blight this year and bad weather in my area. Some years I get great tomatoes and lately it’s just been blight blight blight. I just want my good harvests back
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I agree! I grew Sun Sugar for the first time this year and my whole family (including the grandparents) LOVE them! Made a cherry tomato comfit with the Sweet 100 & Sun Sugar...sooooo good!!
I grew Sungold this year and it was my favorite tasting cherry. However, it was not as hardy and didn't appear to have as much resistance to leaf diseases as the black cherry and Barry's Crazy cherry. I live in Texas zone 9A with lots of heat and humidity.
Next year I have Roma, San Marzano and Amish Paste planned, so I can find out which one I like best. I'll start saving seeds the year after. I suppose I should pick a few cherry varieties as well, so I can do the same with them. I've grown Super Sweet 100 and used them to make sauce with Roma and Better Boy. It's a nice combination.
I bought a sun sugar cherry tomato plant this year.. It was a winner.BArrys crazy cherry was a new one for me.. Also Dancing with Smurfs was a good one too.
My all-time favorite is indigo cherry. They grew them at our local urban gardens when I volunteered, and I got hooked. They're big and very fruity in their flavor profile, not to mention visually stunning.
Thank you for this. I like Sun Sugar a lot, too. It is my first to bear, has no decrease in quality over the summer, doesn't split, hasn't succumbed to disease, and is the last to be bearing in my garden. It tastes so good and it is so beautiful.
Sun gold is being added next year for the first time. Now I may have to add the sun sugar for the grandkids. My favorite tomato is the Curtis cheek followed by the Black krim.
I tried Land Race Current tomatoes last year. It's an indeterminate so I grew it with 2 leads. It produced very little but lovely snack tomatoes. This year I grew it like a determinate in a 7g pot and just let it bush. It has been fantastic all season! The grandchildren love how tiny the tomatoes are and I really like how they teste. With their tiny size I haven't found preserving them worth it but as something to snack on, they are perfect.
It's always great to hear what other tomato enthusiasts love to grow and eat! So far my favorite cherry tomato is Sungold. Last year I grew Sunsugar instead and I still prefer Sungold over Sunsugar and Sweet 100. This year I added Honeycomb and it was good but Sungold still wins. My favorite regular size tomato is Dad's Sunset with Green Zebra coming in second.
i also found that the sungold is better then the sunsugar by far... the subgold have more complex flavour... i dry farm tomatoes.. never watering them makes the sungold be the best lf all not just cherry
I like the husky red cherry. I tried tidy treats for the first time and last time this year. I will have to broaden my horizons and try some of the varieties. TFS
I believe as the season passes what we enjoy probably change as we get our fill and the for fillment is why we don't go after the market and greenhouse veggies. Hard desisson to make Sir
I grow Supersweet 100 and Sun Sugar every year! They are my 2 favorite cherry tomatoes 🍅 I’ve grown Sun Gold and I like those too, but the Sun Sugar are more disease resistant and taste just as good ❤️
Like you my grandkids love Sun Sugar. The don’t even ask anymore, they just pick and eat until there are no more ripe ones. I started growing them closer to the house for easy access for the 2 and 3 year old. The last two years it’s the only tomatoe I’ve grown.
Here in North Texas, the Sungolds that I started indoors in January are still producing. They laugh at the Texas heat. Sweet 100s are also very reliable here.
I love my sungolds.. I really like my dwarf tiny tims as well.. they have some awesome tomato flavor and great red color.. I will be trying supersweet 100 next season and now will get some sugar golds as well... I am also going to try as a few (James P) suggested like the Soldacki which is not a cherry but great for sandwiches .. ty for the taste test ..
Years ago I bought a packet of "Random cherry and grape tomato seeds." The only tomato seeds that grew were small and orange and delicious! I have no idea what they're called. I know they go overnight from green to orange, and if I wait until they turn red, they are too ripe, but I've never minded the secrecy. I've propagated that little, orange tomato ever since.
I'm raising Sun Sugar and have heard a lot of delicious talking about it,sweet 1,ooo,ooo also, Brad's Atomic Grape (our favorite last year and Honey Gold.. I'm agreeing with you many hard decisions. Thanks for the teaching Sir Love your Monday 11:00 Chat program it's loaded with information Thanks to your Team of helpful people.
Love your videos Scott! This year was my first time growing cherry tomatoes after watching your channel. I am in zone 3 up in Canada and started them early inside. The two I grew were the Super sweet 100 F1 VF and Grey's sweet Cherry. Both were fantastic but very different. Sweet 100 was for me a mild tomato taste and sweet, while the Grey's were a much more intense tomato taste and less sweet. My favorite were the Grey's. Looking forward to trying many more varieties next year.
Thank You for your cherry tomato comparison. I get frustrated with cherry tomatoes brecause they are so small. Picking can be a hassle. But I have to admit , they are tasty.
I think sun gold and sun sugar are close. They claim the gold crack more. The sugar also cracks. Generally over ripe ones that you missed. They produce so heavy that one cracked doesn’t matter to me. Sun sugar my personal favorite
great video G-Scott we Tried Sungold this year, absolutely delicious, it grew to almost 14 ft just pulled this week in 6a grow zone, i need to give sweet sugar a try. it looks like ..
my sun gold were much sweeter than my sun sugar cherry tomatoes I guess it may very depending on where and how you grow them or maybe even plant to plant I am growing all but lemon drop this year starting them in 3 weeks or there abouts.
I grew Sweet Apertif this year and Love it! It's difficult to wait but when they are deep red they are ready. So yummy. Adding it to my yearly garden along with the Sungold that I grow every year. Sounds like I should try Sunsugar next year. Thanks for the taste test, always valuable.
I grew a few different kinds of tomatoes this year and really like Sungold and a smokey flavored one called Kakao. I didn't think I liked raw tomatoes, but maybe I just don't like store bought ones? 🤔
SunGold and SunSugar are the same cherry tomatoe comoany... the SunSugar was hybridised by same people they did the SunGold and the SunSugar is skin improvement to the SunGold .. I also did several types of verieties of tomatoes over the years and for me the SunGold is number 1, especially if never watered
My first time growing Sun sugar 9B Central Florida very tasty super vigorous plants 8 ft tall sweeties also doing good Plus suyo long cukes and all winter veggies whatever?
Great video!! I"m growing sungold and sweet 100 here in NZ this Spring - the other varieties arent available here, that I've seen, though i"ll keep an eye out for sun sugar. Since Covid I havent been able to get sungold seed here, so I finally got some from the US. Hopefully they will grow well for me, as they have done in the past.
Lemon drop is the only one on the list that is open pollinated. It is nice to see that there is an heirloom veriety that can compete with a hybrid for taste. It would be interesting to have a list of top heirloom cherry tomatoes.
L.Y. I had ridiculously massive yields of Sungold and Supersweet 100. Was first year I used a large 18 gal storage tote full of really rich "Sea Soil" from British Columbia Canada where I reside. I only use that brand. Size of container and regular watering was the ticket for me. I love both varieties but Sungold was my fave of all cherries I've ever grown. This year I will have them again along with Black Cherry for first time. Excited for Black Cherry as everybody seems to rave about em. My cherry tomatoes are now growing to at least 8' tall and packed with fruit all season long. I gave hundreds away and had several hundreds frozen and still eating them in mid May.
Black cherry is my favorite! I grow all the other usual suspects (Sungold, sweet 100). But what I like about this one in addition to the amazing taste is the fact that I can save seeds from it since it is an heirloom. Now I HAVE to try Sun Sugar!!!
My daughter's favorite tomato in the garden this year is the Black Cherry tomato. She doesn't like really sweet tomatoes. I asked her what do you like about it, she didn't know, she just said, it is her favorite and to grow more next year. A pretty tomato, also.
My sungold tasted nasty. I think I got some poor seed? I have the 100, Sunsugar, and Moby Grape as well. Those all taste good. On a side note, It is the Black Krim that is the only Beefsteak that has proven to be the most productive out of the 8 varieties I planted this year.
two weeks ago we had a hard frost here,(Billings Mt) overnight low of 26. I had covered my tomato's but still most are done from the cold and they were just starting to turn so now i have a lot of green tomatoes that i am waiting to see if they turn or start to rot....next year i will add cherry tomato plants so i can have tomatoes sooner. Thanks for the taste test i have some ideas now what varieties to start with
Living in the Pacific NW our growing season is short - as in it gets cool and wet come September, but freezes late. That and being further North than Colorado, it gets sunny later, and dark earlier. We are on the verge of not being warm enough to ripen the fruit. As such I have learned to stay away from the really big tomatoes so Early Girl, Roma, and the cherry and pear tomatoes are what I grow. But this year, someone swapped the tag on a plant container so the Roma turned out to be something else. Some years I get long vines of tomatoes, but not this year. Our very hot June rather stunted their growth.
SunGold are a must have for me too, they are soooo tasty. I'm also a fan of Indigo Blue Berry. Fab video, thank you, gives us some food for thought :D - see what I did there :D
YEEESSS! I am new to cherries, mainly because I don’t really like their true cherrie flavor, last year as I went looking for some sun gold tomatoes, I found sun sugar instead and I LOVE their sweet flavor, you are very right in saying they taste like candy! I only grew 2 plants but next year I’m probably gonna grow many more! Thank you for this video!
🍅 💚 Sun sugar 100% 👍 I've been growing "purple onions" as a perimeter and I think you may have recommended that in one of your videos 🤔 SWEETEST So yummy 😋 THANK YOU GS!!! 🍅💚🍅💚🍅
I've found over the years that yellow varieties of tomatoes simply don't stack up to the flavor or texture of red or orange varieties. The yellow ones aren't bad, they're just not what I like. My "go to" cherry tomatoes are Sun Gold & Sweet 100. I've grown Sun Sugar as well, and I didn't really notice a taste difference vs. Sun Gold, and the Sun Golds won me over with their sheer volume of production.
Grew sweet 100, yellow pear, chocolate cherry, green zebra, sunrise bumblebee and unicorn cherry.... my favorite was definitely the unicorn cherry. Chocolate cherry was probably second, then sweet 100, zebra, and did not care at all for yellow pear. Also grew indigo rose, worst tomato I ever tasted. Will be trying sungold and now maybe sun peach next year along with the unicorn cherries. Good video. Thanks much Scott.
@@GardenerScott chocolate cherry has a great sweetness and a hearty, low acid taste. Definitely a good one. Unicorn had a more tart and sweet taste, very firm and juicy, prolific grower.
A lot of folks loving those sun sugars by the looks of it...may have to sneak one of those in too. Zone 4a and my tomatoes both cherry and regular still going strong. Found a determinate variety I absolutely love a hybrid called charger. Very disease resistant. Large very uniform size and perfect shape. Really tasty and very prolific.
My favorite cherry t’s are Indigo Rose (years ago, can’t find them now) and Sunrise Bumblebee (new this year for me). I don’t know why, but I’m attracted to oddly colored tomatoes, even though most disappoint in the flavor. But the IR and Bumblebee are both prolific & yummy. Not candy sweet, but sweet enough to munch right out of the garden. The bumblebees also make amazing roasting tomatoes! 🍅❤️
I grew Indigo Rose for the first time this year (from Territorial Seeds). They were delicious and held up the longest in the greenhouse. To me they look like a plum and kind of taste like a plum. I will be growing more of them next year for certain.
Thumbs up for voting SS number 1. Woohoo. Thank you for making beautiful videos. Love every single one of them and you always remind me of Mr Rogers(you are more handsome. Shhhh)
I have not tried Sun Peach or Lemon Drop. I will have to keep an eye out. I have has Sweet 100, Sun Gold, & Sun Sugar. I once thought I had found the sweetest orange cherry tomato ever, but it turned out to be cape gooseberries aka ground cherries aka strawberry tomatillos.
So a challenge to you. Has anyone ever looked at tomatoes and terroir? I've grown varieties that people have flipped over and found them in my garden quite mediocre. Perhaps a project for next year? I'll be trying this out.
Thanks Scott. I've been growing grape tomatoes which seem to crack less during rainy periods. On another topic, do you have a video of constructing that metal bed you're growing them in? I'm making a metal bed this fall and the videos I've watched they generally cut the metal and screw them into the frame with the corrugation going up and down and overlap the panels to make them sturdier but cutting with an angle grinder is a tough job.
Believe it or not I found it easier to use manual tin snips. Started with a power grinder but soon switched to the snips. My raised beds are galvanized sheets set vertically and overlapping. They are two feet high.
I'm planning to release the video on that bed next month. I started with hand snips but transitioned to an attachment for my drill that was fantastic. Check it out: amzn.to/3EQuBZF
Just wondering if you have considered the honeycomb variety. I have enjoyed those and have had some people say they enjoyed them more than the sungolds in blind taste testing.
Hi Scott (or others). Where do you get your seeds for Sun Sugar from? I’m struggling to find them at the normal suppliers I us (baker creek, Johnnys, parkseed, etc). Thanks!
I tried sun gold this yr and it just doesn't do it for me. I've been spoiled with the sun peach forpast two seasons. Just a wonderful cherry tomato! Has anyone here tried it?
Which are hybrids and which heirloom? I know Sungold's are hybrid, and I've been growing them from seeds for a few years but I feel like the taste has never been quite as good as the original year of proper Sungold. They've still been good though, and about 1/3rd of the plants come out red, but otherwise taste fairly similar.
I don't have a specific company to recommend. The seeds are so common you can find them at most seed companies. Consider adding them to an order you were already planning to make.
I know this is an older video but I have a question about cherry tomatoes. I was looking at one called Sun Green and wanted to know if you have ever grown that one.
That is a resistance that is not bred into many tomatoes other than some for greenhouses. Here's a good list of resistance in different varieties: www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/disease-resistant-vegetable-varieties/disease-resistant-tomato-varieties/
Sunsugar wasn’t very sweet or prolific and won’t be grown again in our garden. Black Cherry was much more productive. We’ve got some Sungold plants started for a fall harvest.
Great video, GS! I shall have to try those varieties! I have a question for you or anyone who would like to answer. This past Monday night it got down to about 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Not a killing frost, but cold like the fridge. I had a ton of ripe cherry tomatoes (Matt's Wild Cherries & Sakuras) on the vines which I wasn't able to harvest till next day. I'm noticing a difference in their flavor now and wishing I'd gotten them in the day before. And now I'm wondering about the unripe tomatoes still on the vine. Will they be affected by the chill? Will they continue to ripen?
Yes, cold will affect tomato flavor which is why you shouldn't store them in the refrigerator. Unripe may be able to recover without too much difference.
Sun sugar is my favorite too! I growed super sweet 100, sun sugar, and sweet million. Sun sugar is definitely the winner. It’s the sweetest, and another winning point is its thin skin. Sweet million is almost as good as sun sugar, maybe just the sun color makes me feel sun sugar is slightly sweeter. Super sweet 100 is surpassed by sweet million on every aspect, from flavor to skin thickness. No need to grow it in the future. Another very good one is black cherry, I didn’t find the seedling in my area this year, but next year I’ll definitely grow it.
I planted Sun Sugar for the first time this year. I never had seen them before. They are like Candy!! Super flavor. Sweet 100 is always a winner. Always great videos.
I’ve grown many cherry types and for me hands down the sungold is the best tasting and sweetest. My kids eat em like grapes.
Oooooooo! Black Cherry is my new favorite that I just discovered this year. Try it. You will not be disappointed.
I have grown Sun Gold for about as long as it’s been available. Two years in a row I also grew Sun Sugar. I didn’t like the thickness of Sun Sugars skin. I grew them the second year to make sure the skin issue wasn’t a fluke. It wasn’t and haven’t grown them since. I do always grow SS100 and Sun Gold. rotating other varieties in and out just to try.
Thank you for posting the great review.
The sun sugar was bred to be as sweet or sweeter than sun gold with thicker skin so they don't split like sun gold do. Sun sugar and Cherry bomb are my 2 favorites but they both have thicker skin. No splitting.
I grew sun sugar this year and could not believe the taste. You picked the one I fell in love with this year. Definitely will be in my garden from now on.
After 35 years of growing I still like Super Sweet 100's as my fave cherry tomato. Obviously very subjective. I never trim these plants and let them grow up my 11 foot awning and use the same clamshell plastic clips I see you using. Great for salads and salsas.Here in 9b Sacramento mine will grow well into December and last year I overwintered the best one and it produced nicely this year.
I've never grown cherry tomatoes before (and I hadn't grown regular tomatoes in many, many years), but this year we tried a Sweet 100 plant. These tomatoes are absolutely *delicious*, although they're right up to the edge of my personal "too sweet". And I was amazed at how well the plant did, despite many weeks of neglect while life smacked us sideways this summer. It just keeps producing, and *producing*, and _producing_, despite irregular watering and no weeding at all! We're definitely going to grow this guy again, but now I know that it needs a whole trellis just for itself. It just laughed at the tomato cage my MiL gave me for it...
Sunsugar is my favorite too.
I'm growing a real winner called "Sweetie" by Self Sufficient Seeds. It is prolific and they have given me two rounds of the sweetest little cherry tomatoes that I've ever eaten let alone grown. I checked the plants a few days ago and they are setting flowers for a third round of these sweet gems.
I will have to try sun gold. Grew sun sugar this year and its good but my favorite by far is the Cherry Bomb. They are only available from Johnny's selected seeds and Pinetree gardens. You have got to try them they are FANTASTIC!
U have truly Mastered the presentation of any topic. Thank you. Always so educational. Wish I could clone you for my personal 100% Teacher and Mentor. I really enjoy listening and learning from you. Bravo🥰🙏🏽
I’m really struggling with late blight this year and bad weather in my area. Some years I get great tomatoes and lately it’s just been blight blight blight. I just want my good harvests back
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I agree! I grew Sun Sugar for the first time this year and my whole family (including the grandparents) LOVE them! Made a cherry tomato comfit with the Sweet 100 & Sun Sugar...sooooo good!!
I grew Sungold this year and it was my favorite tasting cherry. However, it was not as hardy and didn't appear to have as much resistance to leaf diseases as the black cherry and Barry's Crazy cherry. I live in Texas zone 9A with lots of heat and humidity.
Next year I have Roma, San Marzano and Amish Paste planned, so I can find out which one I like best. I'll start saving seeds the year after.
I suppose I should pick a few cherry varieties as well, so I can do the same with them.
I've grown Super Sweet 100 and used them to make sauce with Roma and Better Boy. It's a nice combination.
I bought a sun sugar cherry tomato plant this year.. It was a winner.BArrys crazy cherry was a new one for me.. Also Dancing with Smurfs was a good one too.
My all-time favorite is indigo cherry. They grew them at our local urban gardens when I volunteered, and I got hooked. They're big and very fruity in their flavor profile, not to mention visually stunning.
Ditto here - my black tomatoes have been lovely and are still cropping.
we did sun sugars and sweet 100 this year, kids loved the sun sugars.
Thank you for this. I like Sun Sugar a lot, too. It is my first to bear, has no decrease in quality over the summer, doesn't split, hasn't succumbed to disease, and is the last to be bearing in my garden. It tastes so good and it is so beautiful.
Same. I like how the skin is thin, too.
Makes awesome soup too
Sun gold is being added next year for the first time. Now I may have to add the sun sugar for the grandkids. My favorite tomato is the Curtis cheek followed by the Black krim.
I tried Land Race Current tomatoes last year. It's an indeterminate so I grew it with 2 leads. It produced very little but lovely snack tomatoes. This year I grew it like a determinate in a 7g pot and just let it bush. It has been fantastic all season! The grandchildren love how tiny the tomatoes are and I really like how they teste. With their tiny size I haven't found preserving them worth it but as something to snack on, they are perfect.
Oops, Tess's Land Race Currant tomatoes*
I grew Independence Day Cherry Tomatoes, and my wife and daughter both LOVE them!
I love love sun sugar I refuse to let mine go this year amazing
I grew a lot of sun sugar this year and really enjoyed them.
It's always great to hear what other tomato enthusiasts love to grow and eat! So far my favorite cherry tomato is Sungold. Last year I grew Sunsugar instead and I still prefer Sungold over Sunsugar and Sweet 100. This year I added Honeycomb and it was good but Sungold still wins. My favorite regular size tomato is Dad's Sunset with Green Zebra coming in second.
i also found that the sungold is better then the sunsugar by far... the subgold have more complex flavour...
i dry farm tomatoes.. never watering them makes the sungold be the best lf all not just cherry
I absolutely love Sun Sugar too! But I tried a new one a couple of years ago. It's a red one called Rapunzel. So delicious!
I like the husky red cherry. I tried tidy treats for the first time and last time this year. I will have to broaden my horizons and try some of the varieties. TFS
Sun sugar for me was so delicious and hardy! 😊 I added sun gold this year.
Great video - loved the variety of different cherry tomatoes.
I believe as the season passes what we enjoy probably change as we get our fill and the for fillment is why we don't go after the market and greenhouse veggies.
Hard desisson to make Sir
I grow Supersweet 100 and Sun Sugar every year! They are my 2 favorite cherry tomatoes 🍅 I’ve grown Sun Gold and I like those too, but the Sun Sugar are more disease resistant and taste just as good ❤️
My sun sugar from seed this year grow faster than everything and were bigger and ready to go outside faster than anything.
Like you my grandkids love Sun Sugar. The don’t even ask anymore, they just pick and eat until there are no more ripe ones. I started growing them closer to the house for easy access for the 2 and 3 year old. The last two years it’s the only tomatoe I’ve grown.
I grow the Sweet 100s too. I suppose I need to order MORE seeds. Thanks for the suggestions.
Here in North Texas, the Sungolds that I started indoors in January are still producing. They laugh at the Texas heat. Sweet 100s are also very reliable here.
Check out SuperSunSugar 100!
I love my sungolds.. I really like my dwarf tiny tims as well.. they have some awesome tomato flavor and great red color.. I will be trying supersweet 100 next season and now will get some sugar golds as well... I am also going to try as a few (James P) suggested like the Soldacki which is not a cherry but great for sandwiches .. ty for the taste test ..
Years ago I bought a packet of "Random cherry and grape tomato seeds." The only tomato seeds that grew were small and orange and delicious! I have no idea what they're called. I know they go overnight from green to orange, and if I wait until they turn red, they are too ripe, but I've never minded the secrecy. I've propagated that little, orange tomato ever since.
Awesome! I have Sun Sugar & Sun Gold growing in my beds now! I have never tasted either of them yet, so I'm excited.
Thanks for the taste test!
I'm raising Sun Sugar and have heard a lot of delicious talking about it,sweet 1,ooo,ooo also, Brad's Atomic Grape (our favorite last year and Honey Gold..
I'm agreeing with you many hard decisions.
Thanks for the teaching Sir
Love your Monday 11:00 Chat program it's loaded with information Thanks to your Team of helpful people.
The girls and I love the Sun Gold and Sun Sugar, too! We picked and ate a gallon baggie-full while you were on your vacation! :)
Love your videos Scott! This year was my first time growing cherry tomatoes after watching your channel. I am in zone 3 up in Canada and started them early inside. The two I grew were the Super sweet 100 F1 VF and Grey's sweet Cherry. Both were fantastic but very different. Sweet 100 was for me a mild tomato taste and sweet, while the Grey's were a much more intense tomato taste and less sweet. My favorite were the Grey's. Looking forward to trying many more varieties next year.
Thank You for your cherry tomato comparison. I get frustrated with cherry tomatoes brecause they are so small. Picking can be a hassle. But I have to admit , they are tasty.
Thanks!
Thank you very much!
I grew all those varieties also and I would have to 100% agree with your assessment! Loving all you share from North Idaho zone 6a 💚🌻🌿
I think sun gold and sun sugar are close. They claim the gold crack more. The sugar also cracks. Generally over ripe ones that you missed. They produce so heavy that one cracked doesn’t matter to me. Sun sugar my personal favorite
Love your channel. Your voice is calming, and you give great information. Thank you for your work.
great video G-Scott we Tried Sungold this year, absolutely delicious, it grew to almost 14 ft just pulled this week in 6a grow zone, i need to give sweet sugar a try. it looks like ..
my sun gold were much sweeter than my sun sugar cherry tomatoes I guess it may very depending on where and how you grow them or maybe even plant to plant I am growing all but lemon drop this year starting them in 3 weeks or there abouts.
My favorite so far is Honey Gold Hybrid but I have limited experience.
They are producers and love em
I grew Sweet Apertif this year and Love it! It's difficult to wait but when they are deep red they are ready. So yummy. Adding it to my yearly garden along with the Sungold that I grow every year. Sounds like I should try Sunsugar next year. Thanks for the taste test, always valuable.
I grew a few different kinds of tomatoes this year and really like Sungold and a smokey flavored one called Kakao. I didn't think I liked raw tomatoes, but maybe I just don't like store bought ones? 🤔
SunGold and SunSugar are the same cherry tomatoe comoany... the SunSugar was hybridised by same people they did the SunGold and the SunSugar is skin improvement to the SunGold .. I also did several types of verieties of tomatoes over the years and for me the SunGold is number 1, especially if never watered
My first time growing Sun sugar 9B Central Florida very tasty super vigorous plants 8 ft tall sweeties also doing good Plus suyo long cukes and all winter veggies whatever?
Great video!! I"m growing sungold and sweet 100 here in NZ this Spring - the other varieties arent available here, that I've seen, though i"ll keep an eye out for sun sugar. Since Covid I havent been able to get sungold seed here, so I finally got some from the US. Hopefully they will grow well for me, as they have done in the past.
Lemon drop is the only one on the list that is open pollinated. It is nice to see that there is an heirloom veriety that can compete with a hybrid for taste. It would be interesting to have a list of top heirloom cherry tomatoes.
L.Y. I had ridiculously massive yields of Sungold and Supersweet 100. Was first year I used a large 18 gal storage tote full of really rich "Sea Soil" from British Columbia Canada where I reside. I only use that brand. Size of container and regular watering was the ticket for me. I love both varieties but Sungold was my fave of all cherries I've ever grown. This year I will have them again along with Black Cherry for first time. Excited for Black Cherry as everybody seems to rave about em. My cherry tomatoes are now growing to at least 8' tall and packed with fruit all season long. I gave hundreds away and had several hundreds frozen and still eating them in mid May.
Very interesting video. Thank you.
I'm growing Sungold for the first time this year, my husband does not like cherry tomatoes, so I'm hoping to get him hooked. Thank you for sharing :)
I oven dried some of my sungolds this yr and omg! if you like dried tomatoes you will love them .. its like eating tomatoes raisins .. lol..
Black cherry is my favorite! I grow all the other usual suspects (Sungold, sweet 100). But what I like about this one in addition to the amazing taste is the fact that I can save seeds from it since it is an heirloom. Now I HAVE to try Sun Sugar!!!
My daughter's favorite tomato in the garden this year is the Black Cherry tomato. She doesn't like really sweet tomatoes. I asked her what do you like about it, she didn't know, she just said, it is her favorite and to grow more next year. A pretty tomato, also.
My sungold tasted nasty. I think I got some poor seed? I have the 100, Sunsugar, and Moby Grape as well. Those all taste good. On a side note, It is the Black Krim that is the only Beefsteak that has proven to be the most productive out of the 8 varieties I planted this year.
two weeks ago we had a hard frost here,(Billings Mt) overnight low of 26. I had covered my tomato's but still most are done from the cold and they were just starting to turn so now i have a lot of green tomatoes that i am waiting to see if they turn or start to rot....next year i will add cherry tomato plants so i can have tomatoes sooner. Thanks for the taste test i have some ideas now what varieties to start with
me too! Sun Sugar!!!
I have to try the lemon drops next year😍
Living in the Pacific NW our growing season is short - as in it gets cool and wet come September, but freezes late. That and being further North than Colorado, it gets sunny later, and dark earlier. We are on the verge of not being warm enough to ripen the fruit. As such I have learned to stay away from the really big tomatoes so Early Girl, Roma, and the cherry and pear tomatoes are what I grow. But this year, someone swapped the tag on a plant container so the Roma turned out to be something else. Some years I get long vines of tomatoes, but not this year. Our very hot June rather stunted their growth.
SunGold are a must have for me too, they are soooo tasty. I'm also a fan of Indigo Blue Berry.
Fab video, thank you, gives us some food for thought :D - see what I did there :D
YEEESSS! I am new to cherries, mainly because I don’t really like their true cherrie flavor, last year as I went looking for some sun gold tomatoes, I found sun sugar instead and I LOVE their sweet flavor, you are very right in saying they taste like candy! I only grew 2 plants but next year I’m probably gonna grow many more!
Thank you for this video!
🍅 💚 Sun sugar 100% 👍 I've been growing "purple onions" as a perimeter and I think you may have recommended that in one of your videos 🤔 SWEETEST So yummy 😋 THANK YOU GS!!! 🍅💚🍅💚🍅
I've found over the years that yellow varieties of tomatoes simply don't stack up to the flavor or texture of red or orange varieties. The yellow ones aren't bad, they're just not what I like.
My "go to" cherry tomatoes are Sun Gold & Sweet 100. I've grown Sun Sugar as well, and I didn't really notice a taste difference vs. Sun Gold, and the Sun Golds won me over with their sheer volume of production.
Grew sweet 100, yellow pear, chocolate cherry, green zebra, sunrise bumblebee and unicorn cherry.... my favorite was definitely the unicorn cherry. Chocolate cherry was probably second, then sweet 100, zebra, and did not care at all for yellow pear. Also grew indigo rose, worst tomato I ever tasted. Will be trying sungold and now maybe sun peach next year along with the unicorn cherries. Good video. Thanks much Scott.
I think I'll try Chocolate Cherry next year. I tried it a number of years ago and remember I liked it. I agree with yellow pear and no longer grow it.
@@GardenerScott chocolate cherry has a great sweetness and a hearty, low acid taste. Definitely a good one. Unicorn had a more tart and sweet taste, very firm and juicy, prolific grower.
A lot of folks loving those sun sugars by the looks of it...may have to sneak one of those in too. Zone 4a and my tomatoes both cherry and regular still going strong. Found a determinate variety I absolutely love a hybrid called charger. Very disease resistant. Large very uniform size and perfect shape. Really tasty and very prolific.
Short season? Ya! Already had snow here in central Alaska. Was only 19* Wednesday morning.
My favorite cherry t’s are Indigo Rose (years ago, can’t find them now) and Sunrise Bumblebee (new this year for me). I don’t know why, but I’m attracted to oddly colored tomatoes, even though most disappoint in the flavor. But the IR and Bumblebee are both prolific & yummy. Not candy sweet, but sweet enough to munch right out of the garden. The bumblebees also make amazing roasting tomatoes! 🍅❤️
I grew Indigo Rose for the first time this year (from Territorial Seeds). They were delicious and held up the longest in the greenhouse. To me they look like a plum and kind of taste like a plum. I will be growing more of them next year for certain.
Great video thank you
Thumbs up for voting SS number 1. Woohoo. Thank you for making beautiful videos. Love every single one of them and you always remind me of Mr Rogers(you are more handsome. Shhhh)
I have not tried Sun Peach or Lemon Drop. I will have to keep an eye out. I have has Sweet 100, Sun Gold, & Sun Sugar.
I once thought I had found the sweetest orange cherry tomato ever, but it turned out to be cape gooseberries aka ground cherries aka strawberry tomatillos.
So a challenge to you. Has anyone ever looked at tomatoes and terroir? I've grown varieties that people have flipped over and found them in my garden quite mediocre. Perhaps a project for next year? I'll be trying this out.
I have considered that and think it makes a difference. Soil nutrients and minerals can affect tomato flavor.
Try chocolate sprinkles cherry tomatoes. They are super sweet. Sometimes I taste a hint of chocolate.
Honey Gold
great video. how far apart should I plant cherry tomatoes in a hydroponic green house?
It depends on trellising and pruning, but a minimum of 18-24 inches should work.
@@GardenerScott thanks for the info
Thanks Scott. I've been growing grape tomatoes which seem to crack less during rainy periods. On another topic, do you have a video of constructing that metal bed you're growing them in? I'm making a metal bed this fall and the videos I've watched they generally cut the metal and screw them into the frame with the corrugation going up and down and overlap the panels to make them sturdier but cutting with an angle grinder is a tough job.
Believe it or not I found it easier to use manual tin snips. Started with a power grinder but soon switched to the snips. My raised beds are galvanized sheets set vertically and overlapping. They are two feet high.
@@cathy1657 I was going to buy tin snips but backed off that idea. I'll give them a try. Using the grinder is brutal. Thanks.
I'm planning to release the video on that bed next month. I started with hand snips but transitioned to an attachment for my drill that was fantastic. Check it out: amzn.to/3EQuBZF
What yellow pear do you like, or do you like any? I didn't see any in your garden.
I'm not a fan of Yellow Pear and no longer grow it. I prefer using the space for cherry tomatoes.
Just wondering if you have considered the honeycomb variety. I have enjoyed those and have had some people say they enjoyed them more than the sungolds in blind taste testing.
I haven't tried those yet. Thanks for the suggestion.
Does the sun sugar have the splitting problem sun gold has?
I haven't had that problem.
No splitting problem here either.
I find most split after a rain or watering so after that happens I try to pick as many as I can before they split.
Hi Scott (or others). Where do you get your seeds for Sun Sugar from? I’m struggling to find them at the normal suppliers I us (baker creek, Johnnys, parkseed, etc). Thanks!
Check Seeds 'N Such.
I tried sun gold this yr and it just doesn't do it for me. I've been spoiled with the sun peach forpast two seasons. Just a wonderful cherry tomato! Has anyone here tried it?
Which are hybrids and which heirloom? I know Sungold's are hybrid, and I've been growing them from seeds for a few years but I feel like the taste has never been quite as good as the original year of proper Sungold. They've still been good though, and about 1/3rd of the plants come out red, but otherwise taste fairly similar.
Lemon Drop is the only heirloom. The others are F1 hybrids.
Thank you. Which seed company do you recommend we order from for the top two tomatoes
I don't have a specific company to recommend. The seeds are so common you can find them at most seed companies. Consider adding them to an order you were already planning to make.
I know this is an older video but I have a question about cherry tomatoes. I was looking at one called Sun Green and wanted to know if you have ever grown that one.
I have not grown that variety, but based on reports it's sweetness is similar to Sungold.
Sun-sugar is Awesome!
i love the sweet 100s, ćause theyŕe really sweet, but still have that umaminess that makes you go "MH thats good" and now your plant's bare. whoops!
Which do you think are the best non-cherry and cherry tomatoes that are powdery mildew resistant?
That is a resistance that is not bred into many tomatoes other than some for greenhouses. Here's a good list of resistance in different varieties: www.vegetables.cornell.edu/pest-management/disease-factsheets/disease-resistant-vegetable-varieties/disease-resistant-tomato-varieties/
@@GardenerScott thanks for the link. That is useful.
Sweet 100 is my wife’s favorite, since I can’t seem to get Sweet Million. Not sure they are different...?
If memory serves me right,sweet 100 is an open pollinated variety,from which sweet million is derived from.
Of the tomatoes I grew this year, the cherries were the only ones that didn't ripen.
Sunsugar wasn’t very sweet or prolific and won’t be grown again in our garden. Black Cherry was much more productive. We’ve got some Sungold plants started for a fall harvest.
Is Sweet 100 the same as Supersweet 100?
They are similar but Supersweet 100 has more hardiness and disease resistance.
Thin skin cherry tomatoes !
I have Honeycomb
isn't the same?
It's similar but not the same.
No contest sun sugar.
Great video, GS! I shall have to try those varieties!
I have a question for you or anyone who would like to answer. This past Monday night it got down to about 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Not a killing frost, but cold like the fridge. I had a ton of ripe cherry tomatoes (Matt's Wild Cherries & Sakuras) on the vines which I wasn't able to harvest till next day. I'm noticing a difference in their flavor now and wishing I'd gotten them in the day before. And now I'm wondering about the unripe tomatoes still on the vine. Will they be affected by the chill? Will they continue to ripen?
Yes, cold will affect tomato flavor which is why you shouldn't store them in the refrigerator. Unripe may be able to recover without too much difference.