The best varieties of cocktail tomatoes

ParameterIndicatorsBus typeIndeterminate tomato. The bush reaches 1.8–2 m. Covered with an average amount of foliage. Weakly branched. Often it independently forms into one stem. The leaves are dark green, small in size, rough, and have blistering seals. The first inflorescence is formed in the axil of 7-8 leaves, the next ones - every 2 leaves. Method of cultivation In the southern regions it is cultivated mainly in open ground. In the central and northern regions - in greenhouses. Productivity is high. Up to 2.5 kg of berries are harvested from one plant. Cherry fruits. The weight of each varies between 30–50 g. The shape of the berries is oblong, without ribbing at the base. The length does not exceed 6 cm. Tomatoes have a rich pink color inside and outside. The photo shows why the variety got its name. There may be a light spot at the base. The taste is rich, sweet, without pronounced sourness, with a tomato aroma. Note the presence of a fruity aftertaste. One fruit has 2-3 chambers with an average number of seeds. Transportability is high. Tomatoes have thick skin, so they do not lose their shape during transportation and are stored for more than 3 weeks. Ripening time: Mid-season variety. The berries will ripen 110–120 days after planting the seeds. Fruiting continues until the end of summer. Disease resistance Has immunity to most diseases characteristic of nightshade crops, including late blight.

Features of growing cocktail tomatoes

The skin of most cocktail tomatoes is dense; overwatering is not as bad for them as for cherry tomatoes.
Ripening is more or less consistent, but tomatoes at the ends of the clusters ripen longer.

Rice. 1 Ampel tomatoes. Photo by gulnara15

Weight - from 30 to 60 g (and a little more). The shape of tomatoes is round, pear-shaped, plum-shaped or teardrop-shaped.
Indets can be formed into 1-2 stems in a greenhouse or 2-3 stems in a greenhouse.
In mid-August we pinch off the top of the main stem, leaving only a couple of leaves at the top. We do not cut off the determinants.
Some cocktail tomatoes require frequent pinching, especially indets.
Where to grow cocktail tomatoes is up to you. They grow equally well both in protected soil and outdoors.

Tomato Striped Chocolate

Tomato Striped chocolate, mid-early hybrid, resistant to most diseases inherent in tomatoes. Fruit ripening takes 110 days. The seedlings are placed in the ground at a distance of 40−50 cm from each other and form bushes with 1−2 stems. Expected yield - 17 kg/m². Ripe tomatoes have red-orange skin, lined with green dashed stripes. The shape of the fruit is round, slightly flattened. Weight reaches 350 grams. The taste is sweet with fruity notes. The skin is thin and durable, not prone to cracking. Seed chambers are numerous, but small.

Tomato Niagus

Varieties of cocktail tomatoes in alphabetical order

Rice. 2 Barberry F1 in mid-July: “He sits in the middle and is already supporting the ceiling with the top of his head. The cover doesn’t allow me to climb even higher, there aren’t enough sticks anymore, and it seems like it’s too early to pinch.” Aulchanka Photos

Rice. 3 Barberry F1

Rice. 4 “I liked the tomato variety from Popenko Golubika . They started well - in clusters, black medium-sized tomatoes in my Spartan conditions. The peel is almost black, the bottom, which side faces the ground, is orange when ripe. Very sweet". Photos of Tasyonok

Rice. 5 Sveta-nsk : “And I will never plant a Golden Drop . The cute appearance of the fruit is all that is good about it. Indeed, like droplets. When ripe, they are dull yellow. The taste is the most ordinary, the yield is not so hot. But the bush is truly dimensionless. It immediately reached the height of the greenhouse ceiling and flowed further. Stepchildren climb literally from everywhere: from the brushes between the tomatoes, along the entire length of the leaf veins, and from the axils of the leaves directly in bunches, 6-8 pieces at a time. I no longer go near these five bushes without scissors. I cut my hair like a hairdresser, because it is simply impossible to tear out all this wildly growing disgrace. There will be no more of this variety on my site.”

Rice. 6 inveo : “ Golden bullet - I didn’t understand humor at all. It seems that the seeds were correct, from “Seeds of the Ob Region”. The plants are stunted, there are few fruits, the fruits themselves are small and have a very average taste.”

Rice. 7 I_Natalka : “My Goldfish have outgrown me, in a week they grew good tomatoes. Now the main thing is that they grow up and mature.” Photo from August 1 Ya_Natalka

Siberian mothers notice that Goldfish outside, as it is late. Bugagashenki : “I liked the goldfish - tasty, plentiful. Beautiful. There is only one drawback - the mid-late variety. There’s a lot of ovary that never ripened.” Ratta : “This particular Goldfish does not mature on the street. The tomato is not at all early, but even closer to late.”

Anton's mom: “ The Mandarin duck from Gavrish. I didn’t get sick, there was no late blight at all, even after a hailstorm in the exhaust zone, I cleaned everything up at the end of September (autumn allowed it). There are a lot of fruits, oak ones, the taste is a la Sukhovsky State Farm, however, they lay there for a very long time. Too big for salting. Assorted cut only, for lecho, but the peel is tough. It was a pity for the place. But there were picture Mandarins in the seedlings. Of course, the summer is not very good, but it didn’t hurt the Golden Domes and Persimmon.” Rimm : Mandarin duck . It led into three trunks. In the greenhouse he is tall. Orange color, delicious. They grow for several years and are also delicious when pickled.”

Rice. 8 Mandarin duck . Photo Mom Anton

Rice. 9 Mandarin duck . Rimm Photos

Nadya: “One of my favorite cocktail varieties is Rocket . This is a determinant. It is possible both in the exhaust gas and in the greenhouse. Elongated, plum-shaped. They’re also good in pickles, a good size for jars.” Kuzya74 : “However, I would like to highlight the Raketa variety, they were frozen, they were black, I thought that’s it. However, they returned to normal and produced a very good harvest. The tomatoes are oval, small, the skin is thick, the inside is just like sugar, they are simply wonderful for pickling. I decided to take note of this variety.”

Rice. 10 Rocket . Nadya Photos

UralSZ : “ Pink snow, Aelita Agro . They grew up normally, there was enough for the grandchildren to feast on. They ate them right from the bush in the greenhouse. Well, there was still some left for canning.”

Rice. 11 Pink snow.

VZH&K: “ I didn’t really like the yellow cream doves: “ Sunny Bunny , from Ilyinichna ( Yellow Cream ) - sweet when fully ripe, but a little hollow, and is affected by crown rot.”

Rice. 12 Yellow cream (Sunny Bunny). Photo of the little dove

JuliaZa: “ Chio-chio-san is very productive, there are 30 or more fruits in a cluster, it is better to grow in two trunks (I tried only 1 and 2) and plant in the OG.” ZaNa: “I also want to mention Cio-Cio-San - there is just a huge amount on the bush, the clusters are healthy, you need to tie them up right away. The skin is thin. Fleshy. The tomatoes are a little larger than the red date.”

Rice. 13 Chio-chio-san . “Half of the brush has already been collected.” Photo by ZaNa

Rice. 14 “ A wonder of the world - both in the greenhouse and in the exhaust gas. The taste is average. But we are so tired, there are no words - they bore a lot of fruit, I’m just tired of them, and the fruiting is extended. But super frost-resistant! I lost a lot of varieties during the frosts in June 2011, but at least that’s okay! Great for pickling. Suitable for salad too. The brushes are huge, you can tie them up, otherwise they will break off. Average height." Nadya Photos

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Photos of seed packages are taken from open Internet sources. 03/15/17 Nadya Novosibirsk

Tomato Pear black

Tomato Black Pear is a tall tomato (up to 2.0 m) of indeterminate type, grown in greenhouses or under film. The fruits are medium-sized, with a pear-shaped expansion downwards, the color is dark burgundy with a brown tint. The tomatoes are very tasty, with thick skin, and store well. Peculiarities of growing tomatoes Black pear It is recommended to grow pears in one or two trunks, and be sure to tie them up when the first cluster appears. Leaves below the cluster and side shoots are removed. Excessive fertilizing and watering harm the tomato.

Black Moor tomato

The best varieties of tomatoes of different sizes for the greenhouse

When choosing which tomatoes to plant in a greenhouse, varieties of cluster tomatoes are often given preference. Tomatoes that ripen in whole bunches are most often uniform in size, available in many shades, and ripen together. Many hybrids and varietal plants have excellent taste and good yield.

In our review, we will present varieties with medium and large bunches, most of which are included in the State Register of the Russian Federation with permission to grow in greenhouses in any region, without restrictions. The exceptions are the varieties Mandarin (recommended for the European part of the country) and Orange Pear, which have not yet been added to the register. The yield data obtained in greenhouses during the trial period before inclusion in the register is indicated.

Tomato Indigo Rose

The Indigo Rose tomato is one of the first varieties with a dark purple color. It is distinguished by small fruits up to 50 grams, almost black in color with bright red flesh. It belongs to dessert varieties, as the pulp has a special sweet taste. Indigo Rose Tomato - planting and care The plant does not require special care and is resistant to most nightshade diseases. The planting scheme is standard - seeds are sown in greenhouses or pots, seedlings can be planted in open ground. The variety is an early variety, so the first harvest is harvested after 90 days. Tomatoes of this variety have an antioxidant effect and can be grown for health purposes.

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The best varieties of small-fruited cluster tomatoes

Small fruits are good in salads, appetizers and assorted pickles. In this section we will present especially small cocktail and dessert tomatoes weighing up to 30 g, the best varieties of cherry tomatoes for greenhouses weighing 30-70 g and small-fruited tomatoes with fruits up to 100 g. Among them are the most productive (from 10 kg/m2 and above) - these are varieties and hybrids Trebus F1, Forte Rose F1, Forte Akko F1, Cherry Negro F1.

There are even more varieties with excellent taste characteristics. These are almost all emerald and dark tomatoes, pink tomatoes Raspberry Cloud, Forte Rose, Malyshok, the cultivar Striped Reis, the red variety Ushakov and orange tomatoes Mandarin and Orange Pear.

Red cluster tomatoes

Bright red fruits decorate salads, culinary dishes, and canned assorted dishes. They are always in demand among summer residents. The best brush varieties include:

Potted red . Ultra-early salad variety of determinate type. The smooth, medium-density fruits have a good taste. The variety is valued for its productivity and the ability to grow in pots.
Sakura F1 . An early-ripening Dutch hybrid with simple clusters of even, small, dense tomatoes. The taste is good. The plant is indeterminate. Valued for its stable yield.
Trebus F1 . The early-ripening hybrid has excellent yield and resistance to cracking. The bushes are indeterminate. Smooth, dense fruits have a good taste.
Ushakov . The determinate variety is valued for its early ripening, original egg-shaped tomato shape and excellent taste.

Pink-fruited cluster tomatoes

The number of pink bunch varieties is quite large, and lovers of this shade will find options with both tiny fruits up to 15 g and heavier clusters. We recommend paying attention to the following tomatoes:

De Barao pink . Recommended for planting in greenhouses in spring and summer. Valued for its yield and universal use with the ability to preserve tomatoes as whole fruits. An indeterminate plant 2 m high bears fruit on the 117th day. The smooth fruits have a good taste.
Crimson cloud F1 . Indeterminate hybrid with early ripening. Valued for the excellent taste of very small raspberry fruits and resistance to fusarium. Smooth fruits are preserved whole.
Baby F1 . An early ripening hybrid with very tasty fruits. The plant is determinate, grows up to 70 cm. It is resistant to brown spot, TMV, and fusarium. The harvest yield is friendly.
Monisto pink . The mid-early variety is valued for its high yield of smooth, medium-density fruits. The ripening period is mid-early, the bushes are of indeterminate type.
Striped flight . A new original variety, the ripe fruits of which have green stripes on a crimson background. The background brightness increases with ripeness. The determinate mid-early variety is valued for its excellent taste, productivity, resistance to fusarium and verticillium.
Forte Rose F1 . The hybrid is one of the best varieties of tomatoes for greenhouses in terms of yield. The plant is indeterminate with the obligatory formation of bushes. Fruit ripening is early. Fruity, smooth tomatoes have excellent taste.

Yellow-fruited cluster tomatoes

The contrasting combination of red and yellow cherries is valued both when decorating holiday dishes and for creating multi-color pickling mixes. The best yellow raceme varieties:

Potted yellow . A very early determinate variety with smooth, medium firm tomatoes. Despite its small size, it has high productivity. The tomatoes taste good. The variety is suitable for pot growing.
De Barao is golden . The variety is recommended for spring-summer rotation. It is valued for the possibility of whole-fruit canning, productivity, and resistance to late blight. Fruiting occurs after 120 days. The plant is indeterminate, taller than 2 m, highly branched. The taste of the fruit is assessed as good.
Golden Flow F1 . The mid-season hybrid is valued for its resistance to fusarium and good yield. The fruits are of good taste, smooth and even. The bushes are indeterminate and require shaping and tying up.
Orange caviar . A variety with bright yellow fruits that ripen in 95-100 days. The plant is early, the bushes are standard and determinate. Very small, hard, smooth fruits of good taste, excellent for whole-fruit canning. Recommended for use in spring and summer.

Orange-fruited raceme varieties

Orange cluster tomatoes are very appetizing, and cluster varieties will delight you with their beautiful appearance even when ripening in a greenhouse. Of the small-fruited options, you can buy seeds of the following varieties:

Potted orange . A very early determinate variety with high yield. Can be planted in pots. The fruits are smooth, not very dense, of good taste.
Orange pear . Indeterminate variety with fruiting after 110-115 days. The variety is valued for its unusual pear-shaped shape, excellent fruit taste, and productivity.
Mandarin duck . The variety is mid-early and bears fruit in 106-113 days. A vigorous indeterminate plant must be formed into one stem to obtain a high yield of up to 5 kg per bush. The fruits have a wonderful taste.
Monisto amber . The mid-early indeterminate variety is valued for its yield and beautiful, smooth, medium-density cream.

Emerald small-fruited tomatoes

All emerald varieties of tomatoes are famous not only for their original color, but also for their excellent taste. You can grow one of the following varieties in a greenhouse:

Monisto emerald . The mid-early salad variety is valued for its tasty smooth fruits of unusual color. The density of tomatoes is average. Plant of indeterminate type.
Emerald gem F1 . The mid-season hybrid is valued for its universal use of tasty, juicy fruits, which can not only be canned, but also frozen. The plant tolerates temperature fluctuations well and sets fruit consistently. The bushes are indeterminate and require shaping.
Gemstone Jade F1 . Indeterminate hybrids tolerate low temperatures and lack of light. Its juicy, sweet fruits are light green at any stage of ripeness. The plant is mid-season, grows up to 200-250 cm.

Dark-fruited raceme varieties

Like emerald tomatoes, all brown tomatoes have a great taste, usually with a high sugar content. The pulp may match the color of the skin or differ. You can find options with dark red, dark cherry or almost beet pulp. The choice of small-fruited varieties is very wide:

Hot chocolate . The new variety, added to the register in 2022, is valued for its excellent taste of brown fruits, productivity, and resistance to verticillium and fusarium. The plant is of indeterminate type, early ripening.
Monisto chocolate . The appetizing brown fruits of this variety are distinguished by a sweetish taste and great density. The indeterminate plant is valued for its high, stable yield. Ripening period is mid-early.
Forte Akko F1 . We can safely classify these early-ripening cherry tomatoes as the best varieties for greenhouses: the hybrid is characterized by high yield, complex resistance and excellent tomato taste. The indeterminate plant is also stress resistant. The fruits are brown in color, dark red when cut.
Cherry Negro F1 . The early-ripening hybrid is valued for its sweet, tasty fruits and good yield. The plant is indeterminate and forms a single stem. The fruits are smooth and dense. You can harvest both after the cluster has fully ripened, and as individual fruits become ripe. The hybrid is resistant to both diseases and adverse weather conditions.
Black Pearl . Smooth, dense tomatoes with two or three nests have a good taste when fresh. The variety is early ripening, indeterminate type.
Black chocolate . The early variety is valued for its original purple-brown color and excellent taste of smooth, medium-density tomatoes. Bush of indeterminate type with obligatory formation.

Black Moor tomato

Among the variety of tomato varieties, this semi-determinate stands out for its exquisitely colored fruits, collected in large, heavy clusters - up to 18 pieces each. This makes them very convenient to assemble. Tomato Black Moor: characteristics The variety is mid-season - the interval from germination to the appearance of ripe fruit is 115 days or a little less. It was bred for cultivation in greenhouses and film shelters. The ripe fruits are miniature in size, weighing only 40-50 g. The tomato has an original plum-shaped shape, they are colored in a rich raspberry-chocolate color. Near the stalk it turns into a darker brown-brown. The fleshy center is dense and very sweet. Suitable for fresh consumption, pickling and preservation.

Tomato Indigo Rose

Growing cocktail tomatoes - name and description of varieties and care

The fashion for cocktail tomatoes came almost immediately after the fashion for cherry tomatoes. Their advantage is high decorativeness, good yield and, most importantly, non-shattering fruits with durable, non-bursting skin.

Every gardener knows cherry tomatoes, or cherry tomatoes. They have small fruits weighing 15-30 g, mostly round in shape (although mini-cream, mini-fingers, mini-pears and mini-drops are also found). But tomatoes with slightly larger fruits weighing from 40 g to 60 g of various shapes and colors are called cocktail tomatoes. Tomatoes of this size are very convenient: you can take them to work and put them on the table as a buffet appetizer. They are also suitable in salads, and for whole-fruit canning and freezing they are simply irreplaceable: this size allows you to compactly place the fruits both in a jar and in a freezer drawer.

The beauty of the plant is given by the inflorescences of a characteristic shape - long and unbranched, symmetrical, strong, although there are also varieties with complex branched inflorescences. From 16 to 20 fruits are formed on each, and they are not required to be rationed.

By the way, you shouldn’t think that small-fruited tomatoes are low-yielding. For example, the yield of the mid-early indeterminate variety Patron

(suitable for open ground in the southern regions, but to the north it is better to plant it in greenhouses) under film covers reaches 9.7 kg/sq. m. The fruits are elegant, cylindrical, red, weighing 30-50 g.

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IMPORTANT. The fruits of cocktail tomatoes ripen within one inflorescence almost simultaneously, which is important when harvesting in whole clusters.

The quality requirements for cocktail tomatoes are quite high. They must be uniformly and richly colored, durable, uniform in shape and size in the inflorescence and in no case cracked.

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By type of growth, cocktail tomatoes are most often indeterminate (tall), but there are also determinate varieties

- for example,
Striped flight
, growing up to 1-1.5 m. Its fruits are very elegant - chocolate-burgundy balls with pronounced green stripes, each weighing 30-40 g, and up to 30 tomatoes can be formed in a long inflorescence. Medium-sized varieties are convenient, bear fruit abundantly in open ground.

Agricultural technology for cocktail varieties and hybrids is traditional. They, like other tomatoes, are grown through seedlings, which allows you to create the race in plant development necessary to obtain an early harvest. The optimal sowing time is early to mid-March. At this time, the lighting conditions are already good enough to produce high-quality seedlings. Sowing at an earlier date is not advisable.

The substrate needs to be porous and moisture-absorbing; it is convenient to use a ready-made peat-based substrate, but it is better not to use pure peat without additives. Seeds are placed in boxes to a depth of 1 cm, leaving a distance of 1.5-2 cm between them, covered with moistened sifted substrate to the depth of the grooves or slightly less.

The container with the seeds, covered with film, is kept indoors at a temperature of 24-26°, and after the first shoots appear, the cover is removed, moving the boxes towards the light. The temperature is reduced to 19-22°, and the plants are watered as the soil dries.

IMPORTANT. If the cotyledons remain on the seedling, the seeds were probably sown shallow. If this does happen, you should moisten the cotyledons from a spray bottle and carefully remove the peel.

Tomatoes peak when the first true leaf appears, using larger diameter cassettes or separate pots. After the plants have taken root, the first fertilizing is carried out with water-soluble fertilizers, the next fertilizing is carried out every 7-10 days. It is also permissible to constantly water the plants with a weak solution of mineral fertilizers. Good results are obtained by adding humates to mineral fertilizers.

The essential point is a sufficient amount of light. So it’s worth placing the pots wider when the leaves close. A common problem is the stretching of seedlings. For prevention, watering is limited in advance and the room temperature is reduced (to 16-18° during the day and 14-16° at night).

Tomato Niagus

Tomato Niagus is a mid-season hybrid variety with a ripening period of 3.5 months. The brush forms 3-5 rounded fruits weighing up to 250 grams each. The pulp is juicy, dense, sweet, with notes of tropical fruit in the aftertaste. The skin is smooth and durable, thanks to which the fruits are perfectly stored and transported. To obtain high yields, it is recommended to place the seedlings in fertile soil at a distance of 25-30 cm and form them into 2-3 stems with pinching of the shoots. The yield in open ground will be 14-15 kg/m², when grown under a covering film - up to 22 kg.

Tomato Pear black