Sweetie Cherry a Multiflora?

AlittleSalt · May 8, 2017

This is our second year growing Sweetie cherry tomatoes. The way they flower and the fruit set makes me think it is a multiflora, but I've never found info saying it is. If you like sweet cherry tomatoes, this OP is one to grow.

While searching, I found this link that seems to be a pretty good one. http://www.michiganheirlooms.com/TomatoCHERRY.html You'll have to scroll down to see what it says about Sweetie cherry.

StrongPlant · May 9, 2017

Inflorescence is compound and it says so in the description,but I wouldn't call it multiflora.I got a few plants putting out flower clusters like that too.True multifloral types in my experience produce even more flowers(once I counted 300 on a single branch) and they don't seem to stop dividing until the meristemic tissue is too far away from the stem to pull any more sugars.Trust me multifloras are monsters when it comes to flower production.

**carolyn137** · May 9, 2017

There's more than one variety with Sweetie as part of the name.

https://www.google.com/search?q=swee...&bih=788&dpr=1

https://www.google.com/search?q=Wild...&bih=788&dpr=1

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Wild_Sweetie

http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Sweetie

There's the one bred by Peter's Seed and Research and one,the Wild one, well, just found in the wild in certain areas.

I haven't grown the one from Peters, I have grown the wild one.

But in doing my searching I found nothing that referred to either one as a multiflora.

Hope that helps,

Carolyn

AlittleSalt · May 9, 2017

Thanks

It is a really good tasting sweet cherry tomato.

I'm also growing one called Sweetie Beefsteak which took me a while to find info https://www.sandhillpreservation.com...og/tomato.html

"Sweetie: Early, Indeterminate, large, 1 pound plus, pink beefsteak type that continues to be the earliest pink beefsteak."

Even when the sweetie beefsteak tomatoes were the size of the sweetie cherry tomatoes - they looked nothing alike. They just share their name.

zipcode · May 10, 2017

Seems like the typical commercial cherry tomato. But not a hybrid this time. Even though they are not multiflora like Riesentraube, with massive bunches of flowers, it's still a type of multiflora imo, just that it's differently branched out (much more neatly looking).
The typical horses of commercial production like Sweetelle (very popular premium grape) make easily 100 fruits per branch (this type of multiflora also usually makes fruit from all its flowers, unlike the Riesentraube style that loses 90% of them)

May 9, 2017	#3
carolyn137 Moderator Emeritus Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY, zone 4b/5a Posts: 21,169	There's more than one variety with Sweetie as part of the name. https://www.google.com/search?q=swee...&bih=788&dpr=1 https://www.google.com/search?q=Wild...&bih=788&dpr=1 http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Wild_Sweetie http://tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Sweetie There's the one bred by Peter's Seed and Research and one,the Wild one, well, just found in the wild in certain areas. I haven't grown the one from Peters, I have grown the wild one. But in doing my searching I found nothing that referred to either one as a multiflora. Hope that helps, Carolyn __________________ Carolyn

May 9, 2017	#2
StrongPlant Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Europe/Serbia-Belgrade Posts: 151	Inflorescence is compound and it says so in the description,but I wouldn't call it multiflora.I got a few plants putting out flower clusters like that too.True multifloral types in my experience produce even more flowers(once I counted 300 on a single branch) and they don't seem to stop dividing until the meristemic tissue is too far away from the stem to pull any more sugars.Trust me multifloras are monsters when it comes to flower production.

May 9, 2017	#4
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	Thanks It is a really good tasting sweet cherry tomato. I'm also growing one called Sweetie Beefsteak which took me a while to find info https://www.sandhillpreservation.com...og/tomato.html "Sweetie: Early, Indeterminate, large, 1 pound plus, pink beefsteak type that continues to be the earliest pink beefsteak." Even when the sweetie beefsteak tomatoes were the size of the sweetie cherry tomatoes - they looked nothing alike. They just share their name.

May 10, 2017	#5
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	Seems like the typical commercial cherry tomato. But not a hybrid this time. Even though they are not multiflora like Riesentraube, with massive bunches of flowers, it's still a type of multiflora imo, just that it's differently branched out (much more neatly looking). The typical horses of commercial production like Sweetelle (very popular premium grape) make easily 100 fruits per branch (this type of multiflora also usually makes fruit from all its flowers, unlike the Riesentraube style that loses 90% of them)