Black CherryTomato (50 Fresh Seeds Grown in 21/22 Growing season):



The only truly black cherry tomato. Large, sprawling, indeterminate, regular-leaf, vigorous tomato plants that yield abundant crops in huge clusters of 1″, round, deep purple, mahogany-brown cherry tomatoes. Fruits are irresistibly delicious with sweet, rich, complex, full tomato flavours that burst in your mouth, characteristic of the best flavourful black tomatoes. Beautiful to mix with other coloured cherry tomatoes. Unique tomato variety. Disease resistant.

***Grown In the West Tamar in Tasmania using Organic (non-certified)/Permaculture principles focusing on soil health!

INFO:

CULINARY USE: Salad

FLAVOR PROFILE: Sweet

FRUIT COLOR: red - black

FRUIT SHAPE: Small round cherry

MATURITY: 65 Days – Early

PLANT TYPE: Indeterminate

BREED: Heirloom/ Open Pollinated

SEEDS: 50

SPECIES: Solanum Lycopersicum

Full Sun
Sprouts in 7-14 Days
Ideal Temperature: 20-25 Degrees C
Seed Depth: 3mm
Plant Spacing: 50cm
Frost Hardy: No
Solanum lycopersicum


Tomato Growing Instructions:

1. Select Your Preferred Tomato Seed

It's fairly easy and inexpensive to start many tomato varieties from seed, so experiment with the types you like best. Here are some factors to take into consideration:

o Look for organic seed if you prefer organic produce.

o If you know your area is prone to a particular disease, choose a hardy tomato variety.

o If you want your tomatoes all at once to preserve them, look at determinate varieties. Indeterminate types bear fruit over a longer period, with some starting later in the season than others.

o Note the mature size of the plant. In general, determinate plants tend to be smaller than indeterminate ones

o Which size of tomato do you want and/or what use? Cherry sizes are small for salads or beefsteak are large for slicing

o Flavor Profile, some are sweet, and some are tart. Consider what you want to use the tomato for: saucing, slicers, salads, relish, decorative/colourful

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2. Prepare the Containers for Planting

It is often more efficient to dampen the potting mix before you put it in the containers. Add some water and work it through the soil. Keep adding water until the mix stays compressed in your hand but is not dripping wet. It should break apart when you poke it with your finger.

Then, fill your containers with potting soil. Gently firm the soil, so it's about 1cm from the top.

3. Plant the Tomato Seeds

Make a 1/2cm furrow in the potting mix. Then, sprinkle two to three seeds into the furrow, and cover them with a sprinkling of potting mix. Gently pat down the mix, so the seeds make good contact with the soil. You can spray the surface with water if it doesn’t feel moist.

At this point, place your containers somewhere warm. Check them daily to make sure the soil is moist—but not wet—and watch for germination. Tomato seed germination typically occurs in about five to 10 days

4. Care for the Tomato Seedlings

Keep your tomato seedlings warm and moist and provide them with light—preferably grow lights. Rotate the plants if they are leaning in one direction. Once your tomato seedlings have true leaves, it's time to start feeding them. Any good liquid fertilizer can be used once a week but dilute it to half the label's recommended dose.

Tomato stems grow sturdier if they are tossed about by the wind. You can simulate this indoors by putting a fan on your plants for an hour a day or by gently running your hand through them each time you pass.

5. Pot the Tomato Seedlings

When the seedlings are 2 to 3 inches tall and have a couple sets of true leaves, it's time to pot them in larger containers. In general, 7.5cm-10cm containers are a decent size, though you might have to move them to larger pots later if you can't plant them outdoors.

Fill the new pots with moist potting mix just as you did when you started the seeds. If more than one seed germinated in the same container, you will need to thin the seedlings. Either gently jiggle entangled roots apart, or simply snip off unwanted seedlings at soil level. This ensures that you won't damage the seedling you want to keep.

Plant each tomato seedling in its new pot a little deeper than it was in its original container. If it's tall and leggy, you can plant it right up to its top-most leaves. Then, firm the soil gently around the seedling.

6. Transplant the Seedlings Outdoors

When you're finally ready to plant your tomatoes in the garden, choose a cool or overcast day. Once again, plant them deeper than they were in their pots, so new roots will form along the buried stem.

You can plant them all the way up to the top couple sets of leaves. This is especially ideal if your plants have gotten too tall indoors, and you want them to become stockier and stronger. If you can’t dig deep enough, you can always plant them sideways in a furrow. The top of the plant will find the sun and grow upright in a few days.

Postage & Packaging: All our seeds come in small zip lock bags to make postage more economical. They have a sticker label with basic germination instructions and are posted in a padded bubble mailer to protect seeds. Unless the listing states items are sent as a parcel, most seed sales are small enough to be sent using only postage stamps and therefore there is no tracking. This help keeps our prices low. If you require tracking, we suggest buying your seeds using the express option. Where multiple Items are purchased, the package may be bulky enough to send as a parcel, but this is at our discretion, and we will update tracking in that case.



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It is the buyer’s responsibility to know whether these seeds are allowed into your country as no refunds or re-sends will be given on seeds that do not arrive. By agreeing to purchase these seeds you accept the risk involved in the chance they may be taken by your countries biosecurity if not permitted as i cannot know the regulations of every country. Thank you for your understanding. I Currently offer a rate for a tracked parcel. (unfortunately this is expensive from Australia but can be beneficial by ordering a larger quantity of seeds) Please understand that by offering tracked parcel and by the buyer reading this disclaimer, any requests for refund or resend will be denied by ebay. So, it is very important you contact your local authorities to make sure these seeds are allowed or if you need an import permit.