Brad's Black Heart

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Brad's Black Heart
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular, wispy
Fruit color	black
Fruit shape	heart
Fruit size	medium
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated
Country	USA

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (OH AN A) - sliced fruit. 2009-08-29.

B.C KO T

Compact indet. plants with regular wispy foliage produce medium to large (often fused) purple-black heart shaped fruit. It is quite early for a large fruited tomato, ripened at the end of July in my 2009 garden. The first fruit was over 18 oz, and the subsequent fruits were smaller. Fruits do not have as much green gel as other black tomato varieties. Good to very good flavor. Not very productive.

Seed source:

1. Annie Neoh, California 07

2. Linda Black of Fountain Valley, California (CA BL L) 08 (Linda Black, California) / Bruce Bradshaw, California 07

3. Al Anderson of Troy, Ohio (OH AN A) 07

Year grown: 2009

Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)

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IL LO N

80 days, indet., regular leaf, pink-black, 8-16 oz oxheart fruit, very good flavor, high yields.

Source 

Bruce Bradshaw, Concord, California 06

Location: Oblong, Illinois

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TN MA T

Classic shaped heart with green shoulders. This variety from Brad Gates produces 8-16 oz fruit. Indet, regular leaf foliage, 77 days.

Source 

Sue Bailey, Alaska 09

Year: 2009, 2011

Location: LaFollette, Tennessee, USA

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TX AN S

70-80 days, indet., regular leaf/droopy foliage, dense flesh, great flavor, mostly flattened swirly hearts, both pointy and blunt with some being a bit more elongated, medium size, clear skin, dark fruits.

Source 

Brad Gates 05 ( Wild Boar Farms ) in California.

Year: 2007

Location: Bastrop, Texas

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GERM SC K

No harvest

Source 

Manfred Hahm-Hartmann

Year: 2011

Location: Quitzdorf am See, Germany

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CZEC GR V

Seed source:

Tormato, MMMM swap 2014

Year grown: 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019

Location: Czech republic, Brno, 780 ft

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History

• First known black heart-shaped tomato, found by Brad Gates of CA (Wild Boar Farms) in a patch of several thousand Black Krim plants at a farm close by.
• First introduced in the 2007 SSE Yearbook by Susan Anderson of Bastrop, Texas (TX AN S), although it was listed under a wrong member code.

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Also known as

• Black Oxheart

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Similar to

• Chernoe Serdtse

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Picture Gallery

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – flowers. 2019-07-07.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – baby fruits. 2019-07-08.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – green fruits. 2019-07-09.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripening fruits. 2016-08-08.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripening fruits. 2019-08-31.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripening fruits. 2019-08-05.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (Anne Neoh) - ripe fruit. 2009-07-27.

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  Ted Maiden, Tennessee. Brad's Black Heart - green fruit. 2009-07-05.

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  Ted Corbett (GERM CO T). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. 2008.

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  Ted Corbett (GERM CO T). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit, with Japan Tomato Tree and Kellogg's West Virginia. 2008.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. July 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. July 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. July 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. July 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. July 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. 2013-07-31.

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  Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Brad's Black Heart.

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  Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Dora and Brad's Black Heart.

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  Sherry Shiesl, Alaska. Brad's Black Heart - ripe fruit. 2011.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripe fruits. 2017-08-07.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripe fruits. 2017-08-27.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (OH AN A) - sliced fruit. 2009-08-29.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (OH AN A) - sliced fruit. 2009-08-29.

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  Sherry Shiesl, Alaska. Brad's Black Heart - sliced fruit. 2011.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – sliced fruits. 2017-08-08.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – sliced fruits. 2017-08-28.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (Anne Neoh) - flowers. 2009-06-13

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (CA BL L) - baby fruit. 2009-06-10

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – baby fruits. 2017-07-26.

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  Ted Maiden, Tennessee.Brad's Black Heart - green fruit. 2009-07-05.

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  Ted Corbett (GERM CO T). Brad's Black Heart - green fruit. 2008 (uploaded with owner's permission)

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (Anne Neoh) - green fruit. 2009-07-12.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (CA BL L) - green fruit. 2009-07-12.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Brad's Black Heart (OH AN A) - green fruit. 2009-07-12.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – green fruits. 2017-07-29.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripening fruits. 2017-07-31.

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  Vladimir Gross. Brad Black Heart – ripe fruits. 2022-08-05.

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
2018		.	.
2017		.	.
2016		.	.
2015		.	.
2014	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - sold out for 2014 Diane's Flower Seeds Gleckler Seedmen Solana Seeds TomatoFest Wild Boar Farms	.	.
2013	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Delectation of Tomatoes - new Double Helix Farms Heritage Tomato Seed Knapp's Fresh Vegies Solana Seeds TomatoFest Wild Boar Farms	.	.
2012	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Double Helix Farms Gleckler Seedmen Heritage Tomato Seed Wild Boar Farms	.	.
2011	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - new (as Black Oxheart) Gleckler Seedmen Heritage Tomato Seed - new Knapp's Fresh Vegies Marianna's Heirloom Seeds Solana Seeds TomatoFest	5	2
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - new Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds - new (as Black Oxheart - old name) Gleckler Seedmen - new Knapp's Fresh Vegies - new Marianna's Heirloom Seeds - new Solana Seeds TomatoFest	3	2 (as Black Oxheart)
2009	Solana Seeds - new TomatoFest - new	4	.
2008		3	.
2007		1	.