Sonny

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• 2012 Growouts
• 2009-2011 Growouts
• Seed Availability

Sonny
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	orange, golden
Fruit shape	round, oblate
Fruit size	cherry
Fruit type	cherry
Variety type
Country	Canada

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2013-09-10.

B.C KO T

Indet., but compact plants with regular leaf foliage produce very good looking, flattened and slightly ruffled yellow-orange cherries with great assertive flavor. Selection for flavor continues in 2013 from F5 generation plants grown from seeds saved by Olga Golikova of Coquitlam, BC in 2012.

There is a segregation (or another cross??) by color: most of the plants produced pink fruits, and 3 plants produced orange fruits, as desired.

Seed source:

F2 seed: David Lemasters, Pennsylvania 07

Year grown: 2009(F3), 2011(F4, crop failure), 2012(F4), 2013(F5)

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

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History

• A golden cherry segregating line of an intentional cross Sungold X Mom's by David Lieven of Belgium. Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T) has been working on this line in 2009-2013. Working name.

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Related

• Sungold F1,
  
• Mom's

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See also

• Sungold X Mom's F3 Gold Cherry,
  
• Igor,
  
• Sonica

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - green fruit. 2013-07-29.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - green fruit. 2013-07-29.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Pink variant - ripe fruit. 2013-08-29.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2013-09-10.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - sliced fruit. 2013-09-10.

B.C KO T

2012 growout: This is the earliest small tomato to ripen after SunGold F1, which is very impressive. I am getting some color segregations on the 6 plants - 3 are various shades of orange, 1 is beautiful bi-color that turns almost red in storage, and 1 is oblate bright red ~2 oz. Most of the fruit shapes and size are consistent between the plants, and yields are pretty good. It is small and flattish, like a mini-beefsteak, very unusual for a large cherry tomatoes that are usually round in shape. All the plants are relatively compact although indeterminate. A keeper!

#3 - Orange/apricot color, flattened shape, small saladette or large flattened cherry fruits with very good flavor with some SunGold undertone but with some acidic bite.

Seed source:

F2 seed: David Lemasters, Pennsylvania 07

Year grown: 2009(F3), 2011(F4, crop failure), 2012(F4), 2013(F5)

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

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - baby fruit. 2012-07-13.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - green fruit. 2012-07-13.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-11.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-12.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-12.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-12.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-12.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-17.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - ripe fruit. 2012-08-17.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#2) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-20.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#2) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-20.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#1) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-19.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#1) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-19.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#2) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-23.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#2) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-23.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#3) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-17.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#3) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#3) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-17.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#3) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-17.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny (#3) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-20.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-20.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - ripe fruit. 2012-08-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - sliced fruit. 2012-08-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - sliced fruit. 2012-09-08.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny Red (#5) - sliced fruit. 2012-09-08.

B.C KO T

In 2009 I grew 4 F2 plants of Sungold X Mom's, 3 out of which produced red large cherries, and one plant produced golden peach-colored, slightly flattened large cherries. Fruits from all the plants had very good to excellent flavor, sweet and tangy, and the peach-colored cherries had the best flavor, intense tangy with sweet undertone.

2011 growout

late blight killed all my tomato plants in mid July, before any fruit ripened.

Seed source:

F2 seed: David Lemasters, Pennsylvania 07

Year grown: 2009(F3), 2011(F4, crop failure), 2012(F4), 2013(F5)

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

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sonny - baby fruit. 2011-07-09.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sungold X Mom's F2, plant #3 - ripe fruit. 2009-08-06.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Sungold X Mom's F2, plant #3 - sliced fruit. 2009-08-06.

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Seed Availability

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