The term saladette originally came from the name of an open pollinted variety named 'Saladette' that was released from Texas A&M years ago. It is a small roma suitable for slicing for salads. Small plums or even larger ones have typically been referred to as saladettes. Cocktail tomatoes come from a European designation where these small round tomatoes are popular. A good way to produce hybrid cocktail types is to cross a cherry size with a large tomato, and the hybrid comes out skewed toward the smaller fruit size because small fruit size is dominant in crosses. I developed 'Mountain Magic' cocktail type hybrid by crossing a high sugar grape tomato x a large fruited early blight/late blight resistant line, NC 2CELBR. 'Campari' cocktail tomato hybrid comes from the same type of cross.
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