Chocolate Princess

General Info
Seed Availability

Chocolate Princess
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	black, brown
Fruit shape	round, oval
Fruit size	small
Fruit type	salad, slicer
Variety type	unstable segregation line
Country	Canada

B.C KO T

indet., regular leaf, 1.5-2" round chocolate colored fruit with dark green shoulders, very beautiful and different from any dark-colored saladette/large cherry tomatoes I have seen before. Very good strong flavor.

2012 growout: Plant #1 - brown/black round fruits, 2-2.5" in diameter. Plant #2 - small green fruits with yellow epidermis, some are flattened. Plant #3 - larger chocolate brown/black fruits, 4-6 oz, flattened and ruffled, beefsteak shape, very beautiful.

Seed source:

B.C SA D 08 (Denise Salmon, Vancouver, BC, Canada) (F2 seeds) / Nat Bailey Farmer’s Market, BC, Canada 2006

Year grown: 2010, 2011 (crop failure), 2012

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

History

Denise Salmon of Vancouver, BC, Canada found a yellow/bi-colored off-type fruit in the box of green-when ripe tomatoes labeled Tennessee Green sold by a local vendor at Nat Bailey Farmer’s Market in 2006. The sale person told Denise that this fruit was found in the field of Tennessee Green tomatoes. Denise bought the off-type colored fruit, saved seeds and shared them with Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T) in 2007.
Tatiana grew out 6 plants from these seeds in 2010, and one plant produced chocolate colored cherry tomatoes, which was totally unexpected. The only explanation for a black cherry type to appear from a bi-color beefsteak tomato is that the bi-color beefsteak itself was crossed with a dark cherry tomato.
Further growouts are needed to stabilize this variety.

Related

(Spear's) Tennessee Green, Yellow Strain (parent)

Picture Gallery

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess F3 - plant. 2012-06-21.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess F3 - flower. 2012-06-28.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - ripe fruit. 2010-08-25.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - ripe fruit. 2010-08-25.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - sliced fruit. 2010-08-29.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Plant 1 (F2) - sliced fruit. 2010-08-29.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess - ripe fruit. 2012-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 1) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 1) - ripe fruit. 2012-09-05.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 1) - sliced fruit. 2012-09-05.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chololate Princess (segregation line 1) - ripe fruit. 2010-09-07.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 2) - ripe fruit. 2012-09-03.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 2) - ripe fruit. 2012-09-03.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 2) - ripe fruit. 2012-09-09.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 2) - sliced fruit. 2012-09-09.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - ripe fruit. 2012-09-04.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - ripe fruit. 2012-09-04.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - ripe fruit. 2012-10-02.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - ripe fruit. 2012-10-02.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - sliced fruit. 2012-09-12.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - sliced fruit. 2012-09-12.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Chocolate Princess (segregation line 3) - sliced fruit. 2012-10-02.