Here's more recent photos of my Indigo Rose and Great White (which happens to be great yellow!). Taste of the Indigo Rose is nothing outstanding, just tomato, but looks great in a salad.
I have one Black Tom plant in my crop this year. I have picked a few, but haven't tasted one yet.
kiwimade64,
Jan 30, 3:16pm
can you let us know what they taste like as our plant isn't quite ready. I love the look though, something different in the garden.
akl439,
Jan 30, 3:59pm
The taste is good and they are supposed to have health benefits due to the black skin. They are certainly very prolific - tons on each truss. I'd certainly grow them again. I've just got them in a large pot with good potting mix.
dna187,
Feb 12, 12:51am
hi i also planted Indigo Rose this year, and my vines look like yours. I notice most of it is black and still a wee bit of green underneath. Tried one, and was quite different than normal red tomatoes. Maybe not quite ripe enough
donnabeth,
Feb 12, 4:22am
I've been waiting eagerly for my black cherry to fruit. They turned into a mystery teardrop shaped red tomato. Look like low acid tomatoes, taste o.k but not as nice as the black ones. No point complaining about it now.
Am I allowed to have a little boast? Here is the first black tomato I have ever grown and it is laden with shiny black fruit, despite the plant having psyillis(?). Haven't tasted any yet as I don't think they are quite ripe but they look gorgeous. I think this is Indigo Rose.
Well done Black Cherry and Midnight from King Seeds are also excellent. I never had much luck with Black Krim, but Midnight "behaves itself" and has a more regular fruiting distribution.
lythande1,
Jan 6, 9:19pm
Lovely!
yep, that bug is well established now. we have one plant affected. Not too badly though. It got one of the potatoes earlier.
nukhelenc,
Jan 6, 10:22pm
Nice Has the same looking leaf shape as my Japanese Black Trifele.
nonumbers,
Jan 6, 10:33pm
The tomatoes are ripe when they turn orange from the bottom up - hence 'rose' in the name.
akl439,
Jan 6, 11:21pm
Thanks for your comments. Can't wait to try one. Shouldn't be too long now.
nukhelenc,
Jan 7, 10:05pm
Make sure ya show us one cut in half aye :) Who else has some good toms to show. ? Ive only just now getting a few change colour on my standard supertoms, Was slow starting my seeds for the others. Everyone start showing ya tomatoes ok :)
holmda,
Jan 7, 10:10pm
Wow - never seen black tomatoes before. Let us know what they taste like.
And they are fairly slow to ripen so maybe by mid February . . .
devine-spark,
Jan 10, 7:41pm
How do you treat psysillis?
dottyone1,
Jan 11, 3:54pm
you cant.
ang_ck,
Jan 11, 3:57pm
I have never seen a black tomato. How does it taste like? Same as red/orange ones?
poppy69,
Jan 11, 11:19pm
I haven't tried growing the black ones yet but am growing yellow ones at the moment. I was given some orangey toms last year and the fruit was absolutely delicious but was unable to get orange this year when I got round to looking for plants hence the yellow. I was reading the other day that tomatoes were originally orangey yellow and the colour was bred out of them. Apparently the good stuff, lypocene is more abundant in the raw yellows and orange fruit and stays in the system longer than in the raw red fruit. The red fruit does have benefits and they are magnified by the cooking process. So homemade tomato sauce is good for you as well as being yummy. Of course there is also nothing like sliced still green tomatoe on toast with pepper and olives if you like them. Thats my favourite brekky actually. Tomatos any colour and olives sliced on toast sometimes ham or a slice of corn beef added if I am more peckish. Roll on morning.
autumnwinds,
Jan 13, 2:58pm
I bought a "Black Knight" last year at the good old 'Red Shed", Goodness, what a surprise, it was the nicest tasting and easiest growing tomato I've had for years! Have another the same growing in a big pot (as last year), doing just as well.
It's a nice, medium-sized tomato, not totally black but very interesting in a salad, keeps well, and for me it's the flavour - superb!
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