NYS 6B – Average last frost date 4/26
Started indoors 2/16, planted outdoors 5/1
– Plant: Prolific indeterminate currently 7 ft tall. Using cattle panel arches but Chaos Status will be reached soon. Fruit is ripening earlier and quicker than any other variety in my garden. Upstate NY, I am harvestongalmost a dozen ripe fruit daily this entire week, which is nice!
– Fruit Texture: Average cherry tomato texture.
– Fruit Appearance: The photos don't do them justice. They are so beautiful with a perfect name. The blushing sunrise streaks through the golden base invokes the imagery of a sunrise.
– Fruit Flavor: Sweet and robust. It tastes like a bright summer day. Better than my sunsugars. Toddler-approved snacking tomatoes. Works great in salads.
– Grow Again?: Most likely, although I am waiting for my sungolds to ripen to decide who wins a larger space in next year's garden. I like them and they are so cheerful to look at. Black Cherry Tomatoes win for me for flavor, though.
by JG-UpstateNY
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I’m looking forward to your review of Sungold. I’ve grown it over many years, but I’ll enjoy seeing the variety through your eyes. Just added Sunrise Bumblebee to next years’s grow list. Thanks.
I’m also growing these this year. I grew purple bumblebees last year and LOVED them, but my nursery didn’t have them this year so I grabbed these instead. They are so good. Like SO GOOD. I haven’t had sungold or sweet 100’s so I can’t compare. But they’re so refreshing. I’ve been eating them on avocado toast along with midnight snack and purple zebra, and every time I bite into one I’m just shocked by how good they are with being sweet. I didn’t think I’d like a sweet tomato.
These are waiting to ripen in my garden right now!
Sunrise bumblebee is one of my secret favorites. Sometimes I’ll just fill up one of our orders with it and nd send it out, and then people always love it!!
Just started ripening for me! I’m in the HV and actually thought I got the purple ones, whoops. But excited to try these!
Love these
https://preview.redd.it/cba0k98u4ifh1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c5399f54c321d2cb67a87f04e3814129ffb2e61
Our family has decided that Black Cherrys suck compared to Sunsugar. Are yours really black or greenish purple?