I know this is an older video, but thank you for the explanation! We got some tomato plants this year, and one of them was clearly mislabeled because I'm pretty sure this is what's growing instead of regular cherry tomatoes! I'm excited to try them when they're fully ripe!
Thank you for this video! I found an indigo Rose cherry tomato plant at the Amish market...I thought it was really interesting so I got one. I have several dark purple ones that still have a bit of green at bottom. I googled how to tell if they're ready to pick and I found your video! Thank you for the info!
Thanks for showing when they are ready to pick! Growing for the first time here in the North West UK. most are now turning purple black and thankfully with growing in containers in the greenhouse I am able to turn the container round so get's even amounts of light/sun. They still feel very firm so not ready yet but cannot wait to try them (y)
I think as they start to get a bit purple from the top, it could be possible to harvest immediately and they'll finish their ripening on the kitchen counter or table, just like harvesting slightly reddish regular tomatoes that'll ripen inside the house! But nothing wrong in letting those big purple and red berries fully mature on its vines! 🍅
I planted this 2 years ago. They do take a long time to ripen but they're sweet like sugar.They are beautiful when fully ripe, with a red star shape at the stem end. I ate them daily for lunch. Then my nightshade intolerance really took off and I'm afraid to eat tomatoes!
Thank you, I'm a first time grower of these and the plant is covered with dark beautiful tomatoes but are all hard as rocks. I have 7 other varieties growing as well and only a few are starting to ripen so I figure they will soften up along with all the others. It's just a little deceptive because the color is so intense ones finds it hard to believe they aren't ready.
I am growing a Black Cherry Tomato too, just love the flavour and texture. Great to your ones performing well. Just let you know I subbed your channel, I am really enjoying the community in here. Happy gardening/Farming Marty Ware (Australian Micro Farmer)
Thank you for the info, I was perplexed, when I saw they were black,on how to tell when they were ripe. I will watch for the green bits to disappear and for them to get soft.
I'm really glad that you found it helpful, Megan! That was my whole goal in making this video.....to help a few folks out 😀 Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Thanks for this video...I'm growing them for the first time and mistakenly picked some two weeks ago because they were nearly black...but they are far from ready. I will now wait and be more patient. I live in the UK. Looking forward to them ripening completely now.
You are very welcome! I thought this might come in handy for a few folks that were trying to figure it out like I was. 38.8 degrees Celsius here yesterday. Hope you are cooler there. Hope you get lots of tomatoes this season!
Midwest Gardener I hope I do too! Temperatures never get that hot here! We live on an island of the north Welsh coast in the Irish Sea...so lots of wind! But it's been lovely lately with temps around 24c. That's enough for me! Hope your tomatoes don't dry out in that heat!
24c is just about right. Wish we could have temps like that for a few days. We have a cool front headed our way soon, so we will get a break from the extreme heat. Sure glad.
mine never turned black all over. they’d start out green, then the tops would slowly get darker & darker until they end up black 3/4 of the top then the bottom a dark red. I love them & they taste really good with Thai basil!
As long as they taste good. That's the main thing. And basil just makes them better. We make a salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, onion and garlic. We love it!
Thank u sir ! Because I plant some and see them turn purple and I was thinking something is wrong with them but thanks for your video now I know it’s ok
Thank You. This helpful. This is my first time growing Indigo Rose Tomatoes, and my first question was the same as yours - How do you know when the Indigo Rose Tomato is Ripe? I have some that are pure purple all the way around and feel kind of hard right now - some have purple shoulders - so I'll wait on those. Your video is very clear and helpful. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome! I'm glad that you found it helpful. When I wonder about something, I know I'm not the only one, so I thought I would put this out there and hopefully help a few folks here and there. Thanks so much for taking the time to leave such a great comment!
Mine are dark, dark purple, about the size of a big cherry tomato. But it's hard as a rock and green inside. II'll watch them for a while longer and see if they change color again.
thank you this is my first year growing indigo roses and i have picked everyone early so far so this was really helpful on my not ruining any more of my tomatoes i have picked 6 already and everyone was to green amd hard and undeveloped so now i just need to give them more time on the vine before i pick them please if you have any more helpful hints please let me know also
Midwest Gardener also thank you and do you have any more good thoughts you can share with me on what to do on growing these i got them because my kids thought it be cool to grow purple tomatoes but this the first year and now i got 17 on my first plant and ruined 6 so far
Well, if they've done pretty well for you up to this point, you probably are doing pretty well. They seem to get a little leaf roll if you water too much. That is about all I can think of. 17 is a decent number of tomatoes. One thing about them is that they are an open pollinated variety, so if you save seeds they should produce plants just like the parent.
Thank you! Before I watched this I picked deep purple tomatoes left about 3/4 on the plant. Seems I picked them to early 😢 Will the continue to ripe if I store upside down? I did leave the tops intact.
grew them once . prolific producer , below average tast/texture. I pulled them up after the first taste and sent them to the dump. With over three hundred great tomatoe varietys the "artisan " tomatoes were a waste of my garden space . Its why I view sites with good info. tks.
Thanks for your thoughts Robert! Much appreciated. They are supposed to be more healthy, but I value taste over nutrition for my tomatoes. I agree......so many more to try.
Thanks for the video fellow grower... Some recommendations: 1st, SNIP OUT ALL SIDE GROWTH. This promotes better growth of the plant overall. They are an indeterminant plant and prefer to remain like that rather than being made into a bush. obviously without human intervention they would grow like that naturally but don't worry about that fact. let them grow straight up. This will allow better LIGHT penetration, and therefore more chance of light getting to front and back of tomato, and therefore, more even blackening of each tomato at the same time. You showed that the tomatoes were going black on the front first. 2nd, prune some of the leaves that are blocking light close to the main trusses. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of great looking, healthy leaves as this helps with sugar production and therefore lovely tasting tomatoes. Pruning all side growth will allow more plants to be grown in less space without compromising yield. 18 inches apart or so. Thanks for the video, I'm just about to start mine and I had great results last year! Though we had fantastic year of sun here in the UK.
Thanks for the tips. I'm glad you had a fantastic year of sun, since tomatoes love some moderate heat and lots of sunshine. We get beyond moderate heat here. Sometimes over 100F, or about 37.7C. Good luck with yours this year. We usually do pretty well with tomatoes. Last year wasn't a very good year though, because we had a cold April, which delayed planting. Then we had a very hot May, which let to poor fruit set. And of coarse, we always have too much wind which also stresses the plants. But we do the best we can. if you like videos on tomatoes, I have a whole playlist of them. 124 videos in fact.
Thank you for this information because this is my first year growing these tomatoes from seed. I was wondering if the slightly curled leaves was a sign of too much of something or disease.
If they are hard when you lightly squeeze them, then they aren't ripe yet. When they get ripe, you will feel the difference. They will feel slightly softer.
I notice your Indigo Rose tomato has leaf curl too. I have never had this problem w/ any of my tomatoes before. Is it the breed? Should I be worried - it looks pretty severe?? Do you have a way for treating this?
Yes, Indigo Rose seems to curl worse than any other tomato I've grown. If it's physiological leaf roll, you don't have to worry. The plant might look funny, but it should still grow and produce a crop for you. Physiological leaf roll is caused by some stress to the plant,a nd the only way to make future leaves not roll is to remove the stress. The leaves that are rolled will never unroll.
@@MidwestGardener thanks! I was afraid I was going to have start butchering my plant to save it or something!😱 It shouldn't spread to any of the others than?
There is a virus that can cause tomato leaves to curl, but it should like yours probably isn't that. I would google it to get some photo comparisons just to make sure, but I think you will be fine.
That is a little odd. Mine start out green, then get a purple shoulder that grows until most of the tomato is purple, but almost all of them have some green that eventually turns a normal tomato orange color.
I know black tomatoes, but not are as black as her. What is the taste of their black tomatoes, sweet and crisp, or rather mealy? But they look very good!
Sorry, but I no longer have seeds for this one. There are a few seed sellers that sell internationally, but I'm not sure which ones might have this particular tomato. Good luck!
these guys take forever to ripen. I always made the mistake of pickin em too early. Just be patient, wait till they really soften up and get anice deep color. Flavor is a bit strange. Im still unsure if I like them, stopped growing them however, very thick skinned.
Thank you, i m asking about because i have seeds of this variety and i want to plant them this summer but i dont want anything GMO, Greetings from Greece!
Mine have turned all black. Thought one was a bit soft, so pulled it and popped it into my mouth. Bitter beyond belief! Turns out my daughter had tried the same experiment a couple of days earlier with the same result/opinion. I don't know how much "summer" I have left here in central coast CA, but I'm not trying another one for a while! Thanks for all the tips.
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Thank you! This is my first year with Indigo Rose and I had NO idea how to tell when they were ripe!
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy growing them. They are definitely a conversation starter :)
Thank you! This is my first year growing purple tomatoes and I am so glad I found your video to help me. 💜
You're welcome, Laurie!
I am a new gardener and I am trying out things so I bought Indigo Rose seed for this year. Your video is spot on! Thanks...
Thanks for watching, and the kind comment! I hope you grow to love gardening as much as I do!
I know this is an older video, but thank you for the explanation! We got some tomato plants this year, and one of them was clearly mislabeled because I'm pretty sure this is what's growing instead of regular cherry tomatoes! I'm excited to try them when they're fully ripe!
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
Thank you so much. The label said we purchased a Green Zebra, but really it's an Indigo Rose and this is very helpful.
Yep, sometimes those labels get switched. I'm glad that I could help!
It’s my first year with this variety and I was wondering about this. Thanks for posting this video.
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!
Very helpful, thank you! I'm growing these for the first time this year and I had no idea how to tell!
Thanks! And you're very welcome! They are definitely a conversation starter in the garden.
Thank you for this video! I found an indigo Rose cherry tomato plant at the Amish market...I thought it was really interesting so I got one. I have several dark purple ones that still have a bit of green at bottom. I googled how to tell if they're ready to pick and I found your video! Thank you for the info!
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
Thank you. I was wondering how to tell when they were ready. Mystery solved 😊👍🏻
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
Thanks for the tip. Didn't know exactly when, but I harvested just a couple of individuals. Tastes so good and sweet.
You're welcome! I'm glad that you like them.
Very helpful! Saved me from picking mine too early. Thank you for sharing!
You're welcome, Sondra!
I bought seeds this year and this is a very informative video,thank you
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!
Thanks for showing when they are ready to pick! Growing for the first time here in the North West UK. most are now turning purple black and thankfully with growing in containers in the greenhouse I am able to turn the container round so get's even amounts of light/sun. They still feel very firm so not ready yet but cannot wait to try them (y)
You're welcome, Heather! I'm glad that I could help. Yes, being in a container will come in pretty handy.
I think as they start to get a bit purple from the top, it could be possible to harvest immediately and they'll finish their ripening on the kitchen counter or table, just like harvesting slightly reddish regular tomatoes that'll ripen inside the house!
But nothing wrong in letting those big purple and red berries fully mature on its vines! 🍅
Nothing wrong with giving it a try.
I planted this 2 years ago. They do take a long time to ripen but they're sweet like sugar.They are beautiful when fully ripe, with a red star shape at the stem end. I ate them daily for lunch. Then my nightshade intolerance really took off and I'm afraid to eat tomatoes!
Sorry to hear about your nightshade intolerance. I agree about their beauty when ripen. They are just so different to look at.
Thanks for the video! Very helpful! My first year growing this variety.
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!
This really is important with indigo rose. One is tempted to eat them too early. Good info!
Thanks Karl! Yep, very true....it's easy to not wait long enough.
Thank you, I'm a first time grower of these and the plant is covered with dark beautiful tomatoes but are all hard as rocks. I have 7 other varieties growing as well and only a few are starting to ripen so I figure they will soften up along with all the others. It's just a little deceptive because the color is so intense ones finds it hard to believe they aren't ready.
You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!
I am growing a Black Cherry Tomato too, just love the flavour and texture.
Great to your ones performing well.
Just let you know I subbed your channel, I am really enjoying the community in here.
Happy gardening/Farming
Marty Ware (Australian Micro Farmer)
+martysgarden
Thanks for the sub. Much appreciated.
Thank you, I will enjoy watching your plants grow this season.
Very Beautiful tomatoe!!! I want to try some!
There are better tasting ones for sure, but these are definitely a conversation starter.
im finding your tomato videos very interesting. I like unusual tomatoes that cant be found in the stores. good video
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Glad that you like them. If you like different, this is a good one to try.
Thank you for the info, I was perplexed, when I saw they were black,on how to tell when they were ripe. I will watch for the green bits to disappear and for them to get soft.
I'm really glad that you found it helpful, Megan! That was my whole goal in making this video.....to help a few folks out 😀 Thanks for taking the time to comment!
Thanks! Very helpful; I was really wondering how in tarnation I was supposed to know when to eat mine. LOL!
You're welcome! Lol, I know what you mean. That is what I was thinking at first.
Thanks for this video...I'm growing them for the first time and mistakenly picked some two weeks ago because they were nearly black...but they are far from ready. I will now wait and be more patient. I live in the UK. Looking forward to them ripening completely now.
You are very welcome! I thought this might come in handy for a few folks that were trying to figure it out like I was. 38.8 degrees Celsius here yesterday. Hope you are cooler there. Hope you get lots of tomatoes this season!
Midwest Gardener I hope I do too!
Temperatures never get that hot here! We live on an island of the north Welsh coast in the Irish Sea...so lots of wind! But it's been lovely lately with temps around 24c. That's enough for me!
Hope your tomatoes don't dry out in that heat!
24c is just about right. Wish we could have temps like that for a few days. We have a cool front headed our way soon, so we will get a break from the extreme heat. Sure glad.
Super helpful! Thank you so much.
You're welcome! Glad I could help!
mine never turned black all over. they’d start out green, then the tops would slowly get darker & darker until they end up black 3/4 of the top then the bottom a dark red. I love them & they taste really good with Thai basil!
As long as they taste good. That's the main thing. And basil just makes them better. We make a salad with cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, onion and garlic. We love it!
Good Golly!
Thank u sir ! Because I plant some and see them turn purple and I was thinking something is wrong with them but thanks for your video now I know it’s ok
You're welcome!
Thank you you have answered my question very well.
Thanks for letting me know. I'm glad that I could help!
Thank You. This helpful. This is my first time growing Indigo Rose Tomatoes, and my first question was the same as yours - How do you know when the Indigo Rose Tomato is Ripe? I have some that are pure purple all the way around and feel kind of hard right now - some have purple shoulders - so I'll wait on those. Your video is very clear and helpful. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome! I'm glad that you found it helpful. When I wonder about something, I know I'm not the only one, so I thought I would put this out there and hopefully help a few folks here and there. Thanks so much for taking the time to leave such a great comment!
Thank you for explaining. Mine still have a way to go....
You're very welcome! I'm glad I could help.
Mine are dark, dark purple, about the size of a big cherry tomato. But it's hard as a rock and green inside. II'll watch them for a while longer and see if they change color again.
Yep, if they are hard, they aren't ready yet. You will be able to feel the difference.
Thanks! You answered my exact question.
You're very welcome! And tanks for watching and commenting!
thank you this is my first year growing indigo roses and i have picked everyone early so far so this was really helpful on my not ruining any more of my tomatoes i have picked 6 already and everyone was to green amd hard and undeveloped so now i just need to give them more time on the vine before i pick them please if you have any more helpful hints please let me know also
Glad I could help, Jeremy! And thanks for taking the time to leave a comment. Very much appreciated.
Midwest Gardener also thank you and do you have any more good thoughts you can share with me on what to do on growing these i got them because my kids thought it be cool to grow purple tomatoes but this the first year and now i got 17 on my first plant and ruined 6 so far
Well, if they've done pretty well for you up to this point, you probably are doing pretty well. They seem to get a little leaf roll if you water too much. That is about all I can think of. 17 is a decent number of tomatoes.
One thing about them is that they are an open pollinated variety, so if you save seeds they should produce plants just like the parent.
well thank you very much ill have to post a video soon of my kids plant and let you see the progress you have been very helpful nd i thank you
You're welcome. Thanks for watching.
Beautiful tomatoes!
Thank you.
Thank you! Before I watched this I picked deep purple tomatoes left about 3/4 on the plant. Seems I picked them to early 😢 Will the continue to ripe if I store upside down? I did leave the tops intact.
If you leave them on the counter, some of them might ripen.
grew them once . prolific producer , below average tast/texture. I pulled them up after the first taste and sent them to the dump. With over three hundred great tomatoe varietys the "artisan " tomatoes were a waste of my garden space . Its why I view sites with good info. tks.
Thanks for your thoughts Robert! Much appreciated. They are supposed to be more healthy, but I value taste over nutrition for my tomatoes. I agree......so many more to try.
Thanks for the video fellow grower... Some recommendations: 1st, SNIP OUT ALL SIDE GROWTH. This promotes better growth of the plant overall. They are an indeterminant plant and prefer to remain like that rather than being made into a bush. obviously without human intervention they would grow like that naturally but don't worry about that fact. let them grow straight up. This will allow better LIGHT penetration, and therefore more chance of light getting to front and back of tomato, and therefore, more even blackening of each tomato at the same time. You showed that the tomatoes were going black on the front first. 2nd, prune some of the leaves that are blocking light close to the main trusses. Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of great looking, healthy leaves as this helps with sugar production and therefore lovely tasting tomatoes. Pruning all side growth will allow more plants to be grown in less space without compromising yield. 18 inches apart or so. Thanks for the video, I'm just about to start mine and I had great results last year! Though we had fantastic year of sun here in the UK.
Thanks for the tips. I'm glad you had a fantastic year of sun, since tomatoes love some moderate heat and lots of sunshine. We get beyond moderate heat here. Sometimes over 100F, or about 37.7C. Good luck with yours this year. We usually do pretty well with tomatoes. Last year wasn't a very good year though, because we had a cold April, which delayed planting. Then we had a very hot May, which let to poor fruit set. And of coarse, we always have too much wind which also stresses the plants. But we do the best we can. if you like videos on tomatoes, I have a whole playlist of them. 124 videos in fact.
Thank you for this information because this is my first year growing these tomatoes from seed. I was wondering if the slightly curled leaves was a sign of too much of something or disease.
You're very welcome! I was hoping the video would help a person or two :)
i am going to try growing them
Good luck! They are a fun tomato to grow.
Mine are jet black all over not just on one side. Should I wait for them to start turning red or can I eat them now?
If they are hard when you lightly squeeze them, then they aren't ripe yet. When they get ripe, you will feel the difference. They will feel slightly softer.
Thanks I wondering about that.
You are very welcome. It's one of the things I wondered when I first grew them, so I knew there had to be other people wondering the same thing :)
Good Video 👍
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hello, does it matter if they are ripe or not to save the seeds for next year ? Thanks
I usually let them ripen to save seeds, but if they are close to ripening, you could let them ripen on the counter.
Ok thanks
Would this species work in a hanging tomato pot?
They are indeterminate, so you might have to hang it pretty high to keep it from reaching the ground.
Thank you!
You're welcome!
hows this compare to black cherry tomato? what are their big differrences
The Black Cherry tastes better and is more prolific, but smaller.
Midwest Gardener ok thank you
@@maddymuhat8079 You're welcome!
Thank you sir
You're welcome!
I notice your Indigo Rose tomato has leaf curl too. I have never had this problem w/ any of my tomatoes before. Is it the breed? Should I be worried - it looks pretty severe?? Do you have a way for treating this?
Yes, Indigo Rose seems to curl worse than any other tomato I've grown. If it's physiological leaf roll, you don't have to worry. The plant might look funny, but it should still grow and produce a crop for you. Physiological leaf roll is caused by some stress to the plant,a nd the only way to make future leaves not roll is to remove the stress. The leaves that are rolled will never unroll.
@@MidwestGardener thanks! I was afraid I was going to have start butchering my plant to save it or something!😱 It shouldn't spread to any of the others than?
There is a virus that can cause tomato leaves to curl, but it should like yours probably isn't that. I would google it to get some photo comparisons just to make sure, but I think you will be fine.
@@MidwestGardener thank you so much for your help & knowledge!!!!
@@ramibu239 You're welcome!
I'm confused by mine at home. They have been purple since a start? What's up with that?
That is a little odd. Mine start out green, then get a purple shoulder that grows until most of the tomato is purple, but almost all of them have some green that eventually turns a normal tomato orange color.
Mine too. Started out as little black beads and now are big black hard beads. I lost my ID tag on them so don't know the name.
I know black tomatoes, but not are as black as her. What is the taste of their black tomatoes, sweet and crisp, or rather mealy?
But they look very good!
I would say that the taste is just and average tomato taste.
Thanks, maybe I will try it next year.
Thank you
You're welcome Devin!
I love you brother!
Thanks, Jeff. Glad I could help.
I'm in Uganda but we don't have such tomatoes yet I would like to try them, can you please mail me some little seeds brother?
Sorry, but I no longer have seeds for this one. There are a few seed sellers that sell internationally, but I'm not sure which ones might have this particular tomato. Good luck!
Where can the seeds be found.
I'm not sure. It's been a while. A quick google search could probably come up with a few places.
these guys take forever to ripen. I always made the mistake of pickin em too early. Just be patient, wait till they really soften up and get anice deep color. Flavor is a bit strange. Im still unsure if I like them, stopped growing them however, very thick skinned.
Yes, I agree. You have to be patient and wait.
How to get seeds of this pair of Black tomato from Brazil?
I want this seeds
Not sure where you could get them in India.
Hi, is indigo rose GMO?
I don't think so.
Thank you, i m asking about because i have seeds of this variety and i want to plant them this summer but i dont want anything GMO, Greetings from Greece!
They are a fun tomato to grow. Or at least I thought so. Drop back in and let me know how they do.
Isn't it grow in india
Not sure.
You black tomatoes look great . I planted Cherokee tomatoes here hope they grow well and produce more fruit than you .
I hope your Cherokee tomatoes do well and give you lots of tomatoes!
Midwest Gardener thanks
You're welcome!
let's exchange seeds ! =D
I don't really have any of these to spare, but thanks anyway.
I was trying to eat them half green. yuck
Yep, that's an easy mistake to make with these.
Mine have turned all black. Thought one was a bit soft, so pulled it and popped it into my mouth. Bitter beyond belief! Turns out my daughter had tried the same experiment a couple of days earlier with the same result/opinion. I don't know how much "summer" I have left here in central coast CA, but I'm not trying another one for a while! Thanks for all the tips.
What a nice looking tomato!
Yes, they are pretty nice to look at. Their flavor doesn't really live up to what I expected.
@@MidwestGardener ok thank you 😃
@@MidwestGardener this year im trying the orange chef's choice tomato 😃
@@IIlllIllllllIIIllllIIIllIIIIll I've never tried that one. Sounds like a good one though.
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Thanks so much.
You're welcome!