Cherokee Chocolate

74 days from transplant (zone 4B), indeterminate — The regular leaf plants produce 13 ounce, oblate irregular shaped fruit that are a deep mahogany in color (yellow skin with purple/pink flesh). The fruit is delicious and the perfect tomato for BLTs and caprese salad. Seed saved in 2023 from 25 plants that I harvested the first two fruit from each plant for seed saving. From Victory Seeds 2018: “Sets fruit that are the same size as 'Cherokee Purple' but the color is a darker crimson red with shoulders that are brownish-black. It appears to be a stable skin color mutation of 'Cherokee Purple'. Excellent flavor and flesh texture. Sweet, slightly tart, firm but very juicy flesh. An excellent slicing variety. This variety originated in the garden of heirloom tomato collector Craig LeHoullier in 1995. After determining that it was stable, Craig named it, shared it with seed savers, and sent us seeds.” Learn more: https://www.victoryseeds.com/tomato_cherokee-chocolate.html