Tasmanian Chocolate Tomato
Price: $3.95
SKU: 3402481
85 days, dwarf — The plants of 'Tasmanian Chocolate' have dark green, regular leaf, rugose foliage, stout central stems, and grows to three to four feet in height. Perfect for a large pot or garden. The fruit are oblate, ranging from five to twelve ounces, and ripen to a deep mahogany color. Flavor is full, balanced and delicious.
'Tasmanian Chocolate' originated from a cross between 'New Big Dwarf' (an historic large fruited pink dwarf) and 'Paul Robeson', made in 2006 by Patrina Nuske Small in Australia. The variety was further selected and named by Linda Reid of Tasmania. Now past its ninth generation, it is a quite stable open-pollinated variety but still may produce the occasional off-type plant.
Others involved in its development were Craig LeHoullier, Lee Newman, Greg Fee, Michael Volk, Tim McElroy, Howard Kushner, Paul Fish and Bill Minkey. This was a Victory Seed Company introduction for 2011 and one of the first introductions from the "Dwarf Tomato Project." Each packet contains 10 seeds.
Fruit Color: Black
Special Groups: Container Friendly
Special Groups: "Epic" Tomatoes
Special Groups: Dwarf Tomato Project
Harvest Timing: Main Crop / Mid-Season
Customer Reviews:
By ENRIQUE ORTEGA (North jersey zone 6b/7a) on July 29, 2024
I've grown this for a couple of years now and it is consistently a top performer when it comes to fruit set, hardiness, flavor and keeping ability. These are my favorite dark red/purple slicer with a rich and savory flavor and great acid sweet balance. They tend to be softer and very juicy and can take a while to get dead ripe, but they are worth the wait. Use pruners to harvest as they tend to not release well, even when ripe. They can get some mild cracking, but not the harvest ruining kind, just the stretch marks. Cracks heal over and the tomato still keeps well! Always will grow this one for its reliability and versatility in the kitchen.
By Shelley P Hauser on August 19, 2015
This dwarf is delicious, super sweet and refreshing.
Grown in a 7.5 gallon pot on the patio.
For me this dwarf was surprisingly late compared to my other dark tomatoes and the 30 plant and its fruits were smaller than expected with most averaging 2-4 oz. The fruits were ruffled and pleated. Quite pretty actually and the color is a beautiful shade of a dark brick orange.
The lower than expected production was likely affected by our month long record setting heat.
Compared side to side, and slice to slice with it's parents Paul Robeson and the superb New Big Dwarf, mine is different in both size and taste.
My smallest ruffled fruits are delightful little sugar bombs! The larger 3-4 oz sized fruits you can taste the Paul Robeson which makes for better balance given the intense sweetness.
I plan to regrow this variety again, as I only grew one plant this year. Maybe it was too hot this year on the patio or I had an atypical plant, but Tasmanian Chocolate deserves another grow out for sure!
By Craig LeHoullier on June 29, 2011
We were thrilled when a nice chocolate colored, good sized dwarf showed up in our project. Though not the absolutely best flavored of the dwarfs (to my taste buds, anyway - though some people at Tomatopalooza just loved it!), it is productive, good sized and lets people who are space challenged grow a unique colored, tasty, good sized tomato in a 5 gallon pot on their patio! Looking forward to hearing from others on what they think of this one!
