Tomato Gold Cherokee Green: characteristics and description of the variety, reviews, photos, who planted

This variety has everything to attract not only exotic lovers. Interesting taste, unusual appearance, simple cultivation. The Cherokee Lemon Stripe tomato is an extraordinary highlight for gardeners.

Height	Landing location	Ripening time	Fruit color	Fruit size	Origin	Fruit shape
Tall	Greenhouse, Open ground	Mid-season	Bicolor	Average	Variety	Flat-round

Characteristics and description of the variety

The Gold Cherokee Green tomato variety is not easy to find in the market. It is quite rare, but not a young variety. It was released in 1997 in the USA.

The owners of this tomato variety are mainly collectors. Not only the external characteristics of the fruit are interesting, but also the unusual taste properties of the tomato. Breeders managed to successfully combine a juicy, sweet taste with a hint of tropical fruit. The seeds give the vegetable its tropical touch.

The ripe fruit is brownish-yellow on the outside. Some collectors call it the color of old gold, which, in fact, follows from the very name of the variety. The skin is thin, but the vegetable usually does not crack. Inside, the tomato has a bright emerald color with a small number of green seeds. The pulp is juicy and aromatic.

The tomato belongs to the mid-season tall varieties. The ripe fruit is medium soft to the touch, flat-round in shape. The surface is ribbed and shiny. Green tomatoes that are not yet ripe, on the contrary, are light green in color and hard. The average weight of a ripe fruit is about 300-500 g, and the tomatoes from the first bunch are especially large, the rest are usually smaller.

A mature Cherokee Green Gold tomato bush can reach a height of 1.8 m and has several stems. The leaves are rich green in color, there are quite a lot of them, they are evenly distributed throughout the entire trunk of the plant. If planted in open ground, the height may be less.

The plant does not branch much in width; it grows more in height. Each stem usually has 4–5 clusters. One brush can accommodate 5 – 6 fairly large fruits.

Productivity

Tomato variety Gold Cherokee Green can be called quite productive. With good care, you can achieve fruiting up to 7 kg from one bush. It all depends on the climate, growing conditions and proper care at each stage, from seed selection to fruit ripening.

Maturation speed

Since the variety is a mid-season variety, the ripening period of the tomato is somewhat extended. It takes about 110–120 days from the germination of seedlings to the start of fruiting, and another week or two before the first fruit fully ripens.

The tomato will ripen gradually, throughout almost the entire summer. Therefore, you don’t have to plant other tomato varieties; you can make a salad of delicious, aromatic tomatoes all season long.

Reviews, who planted

Yuri:

“I ordered the Cherokee Lemon Stripes tomato variety by mail and this year I grew amazingly tasty tomatoes. The appearance of the fruit is unusual due to the combination of red, dark green and yellow stripes throughout the body of the tomato. The same original range of colors is on the inside in the cut. My wife immediately found a use for this beauty - she used the tomatoes to decorate salads, surprising the guests with such “exoticism.”

Anna:

“This is my second year growing Cherokee Stripes. Our family really liked tomatoes. The fruits have juicy, oily, sweetish pulp with a pleasant fruity aroma. And although the walls of the tomato are thick, this is not felt in the salad. And how good the tomatoes are when cut – a bright “flower”, painted in several shades. In our family, this variety is used not only in salads - we also store juices for the winter. I also like to add Cherokee to sauces for meat dishes - it gives a very original taste.”

Igor:

“Recently I have become interested in tall tomatoes - they are decorative and multi-yielding. I especially liked the striped Cherokees (both in appearance and taste). A real tree 1.8 m high grew in the greenhouse. Thanks to extended fruiting, we had fresh tomatoes for almost 5 months. They even ate them on New Year's Eve. In total, they took about 14 kg from the bush - each fruit weighed an average of 300 g.”

Features of growing and caring for the Cherokee Green Gold variety

Planting time for seedlings

Seeds for seedlings must be planted in cups or special boxes 60 - 65 days before the date of planting the plants in the ground. The soil used is standard for vegetables. Boxes with seedlings should be kept in a warm and ventilated place.

They need to be replanted to a permanent place when the earth has already warmed up sufficiently, this occurs approximately in the month of May. It is necessary to carefully monitor and protect the plant from possible frosts.

Features of cultivation

Before planting, the seeds must be soaked in water to swell. This will increase their germination. Empty seeds, unsuitable for planting, will simply float to the surface. You can throw them away.

For 1 sq.
It is recommended to plant no more than four tomato bushes. It is necessary to form a bush of 2 - 3 stems, and take stepson in time. The lower leaves should be picked off as soon as they begin to dry out or turn yellow. Adult bushes must be tied up so that the branches do not break off under the weight of the fruit. Important! To increase productivity, when planting in the ground, it is necessary to place a tablespoon of a mixture of superphosphate and potassium sulfate in each hole.
And at the time when the fruits begin to form, you need to feed the plant with a solution of magnesium sulfate at the root. During the growing season, watering is done only in severe drought. The water should be at room temperature, not cold. It is necessary to ensure that when watering the water does not wash away the roots, it is necessary that they remain underground, since in addition to the main root, additional roots emerge from the trunk, through which even greater nutrition is provided to the tall bush and, in fact, to the fruits themselves.

In all bushes it is necessary, if necessary, to fluff up the soil around the stem so that additional oxygen flows through the roots. The weed is also regularly pulled up so that it does not take all the nutrients from the vegetable.

Storage

Cherokee Green gold is not suitable for long-term storage or transportation, because this variety of tomato has a thin skin and the fruit itself is quite juicy, so there is a risk that the tomato will simply crack or be crushed, losing its original appearance.

The short shelf life is compensated by long and gradual fruiting, until the beginning of autumn, so the gardener can enjoy fresh vegetables straight from the bush at any time so that they do not lie stale for a long time.

Purpose of tomato Gold Cherokee Green

This tomato variety is suitable for fresh use. Thanks to its interesting external characteristics, yellow-purple color of the skin and emerald core, it will be an excellent decoration for any salad or just a vegetable salad.

The juice from this variety of tomatoes has a very interesting taste and color. The consistency is quite thick, practically without seeds, so you don’t have to get rid of them. The taste is very bright, soft, sweetish with a fruity aftertaste. The color is emerald, unusual for a tomato. If you give this juice a try, not everyone will immediately understand what it is made from.

Interesting! In addition to the high content of vitamins B and E in tomatoes, as well as iron, these seemingly simple and “ordinary” vegetables can lift your spirits. Tomatoes contain tyramine, which in the body is converted into serotonin, considered the hormone of happiness.

Resistance to diseases and adverse conditions

The tomato variety Gold Cherokee Green is quite resistant to all types of pests and specific diseases. As a precaution, you can treat the seeds with any pesticide before planting. This will get rid of many problems in the future, including the Colorado potato beetle.

To prevent fungal diseases, treatment is carried out with preparations containing sulfur or copper.

Productivity

Starting to produce the first tomatoes in mid-summer, the bush extends fruiting until late autumn. Throughout the entire period, summer residents collect large harvests. You can take at least 1 kg of fruit from just one cluster.

Since the variety is grown exclusively in greenhouses, the question of zoning does not arise. “Cherokee Lemon Stripes” can be bred in any region of the country, providing suitable indoor conditions are created.

Other interesting tomato varieties:

Tomato Lemon Liana
Tomato Dubrava
Tomato Budenovka
Tomato Black Pineapple

Benefits of Cherokee Green Gold Tomato

Like all tomatoes, this variety has its advantages, but it is also not without its disadvantages. The advantages are as follows:

Like all tall varieties, due to its growth it produces more bunches of fruit, and accordingly, it can produce a higher yield in comparison with low-growing varieties of tomatoes.
Beautiful, unusual presentation of the fruit, excellent taste.
Resistant to pests and specific diseases.
Easy to care for.
It does not branch much, so more bushes can be planted on the site.
Large fruits.
Long fruiting period, throughout the summer.

Pros and cons of the variety

If the summer resident has no fear that he will not be able to cope with growing an indeterminate variety, then he can safely plant “Cherokee Lemon Stripes.”

These tomatoes have many advantages:

high productivity;
excellent taste;
with good agricultural technology, the variety is not susceptible to late blight;
extended fruiting period.

It is easier to collect fruits from a tall bush. True, you have to do frequent pinching, but it’s convenient to do this work on tomato trees.

Other disadvantages include the following:

not suitable for open ground;
a whole system of supports and frequent tying are required;
The variety is not suitable for long-term storage and preservation.

These disadvantages can be considered relative. The shortcomings are more than compensated for by high yields and other positive qualities.

Disadvantages of Tomato Gold Cherokee Green

This variety has practically no significant disadvantages. Here are its main “weaknesses”:

When growing Gold Cherokee Green, the bushes need to be tied up so that the trunk does not break under the mass of fruit.
It takes a long time from planting to fruiting.
Used only fresh and in juice form.
Has a short shelf life.
Can only be grown in a greenhouse or southern regions with warm climates.
A rare variety, seeds are not available everywhere.

Cherokee purple heart

One of the varieties of exotic tomatoes is Cherokee Purple Heart. In central Russia and in the northern regions it is recommended to plant it in a greenhouse. Only in the south does it grow successfully in open beds.

The height of the bushes largely depends on the growing conditions and ranges from 1.2 to 2 meters. The fruits are purple. They have excellent taste and aroma. The variety has an average fruit ripening period. There are up to ten tomatoes on one bunch. They surprise with their peculiar “heart-shaped” appearance, with a point downwards. Purple Cherokee is very meaty with a good delicate taste and pleasant aroma.

The weight of one fruit is from 150 to 300 g. One bush can produce up to 4 kg of ripe tomatoes in the presence of an irrigation regime and timely fertilizing.