Blondkopfchen Tomato

I love these little tomatoes! They are like juicy candy! The vines sprawl and become huge and bushy so leave lots of room between. They are a great snack on hot days working out in the garden and delicious on salads. Huge producer! What's funny is they started out the smallest of all my tomato varieties before transplant, but then shot up fast once they were in the ground.

Loved these tomatoes, planted them for the first time summer 2019 here in zone 5/6. Just planted my next round under grow lights here and am looking forward to a second season. Great tasting, prolific, and stood up well to the summer sun here. Perfect as a snack and recently used to make homemade tomato sauce as well.

Background: Zone 7A, seeds were direct sown, seeds were innoculated at planting, growing tips were pruned throughout the season at ~24 inches in height.

Wonderful taste and prolific growth habit. As long as you have plenty of calcium in the soil and regular water, these tomatoes will produce huge amounts of fruit. I've got clusters of 20 to 30 on each branch of a single plant. Zero complaints, will continue with these into the future!

It’s December 28 and we JUST ate the last of these (I trimmed every branch with green tomatoes before the first freeze in October and let them ripen). They were fantastic and flavorful and the only downside was they were small and easy to put in your mouth instead of the container while picking.

Very productive plant but these were our least favorite small tomatoes due to very thick skin.

This is my favorite cherry tomato to date. I liked this one so much that I regretted using space to plant other varieties rather than planting multiple Blondkopfchen. Look up pictures of how this plant fruits. There are massive clusters of 25-50 tomatoes which makes it really easy to pick, as opposed to clusters of 6 scattered everywhere like most cherry tomato plants. It also doesn't shoot suckers everywhere, and seems to naturally stay at about 3 thick stems if you let it go. Very sweet flavor, not really any acidity. I grew the plant sideways on a balcony and snaked it back on itself, but it was easily 8 ft of vine. It also held up against diseases and pests better than other varieties I grew.

had two packs 2022 of these blonds. NONE, I repeat NONE germinated.

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I bought these seeds because the tomatoes sounded so delicious! I haven't tasted any yet--there are huge clusters of blooms, but not many fruit yet, and none ripe. I should get some, but the plants are moderately susceptible to Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus, which will reduce yields. When I say "moderately susceptible," I mean one plant succumbed entirely (very stunted, chlorotic, etc.); two have some chlorosis and leaf cupping, but it doesn't seem to have stunted their growth; and two look entirely unaffected. I'm in Hawai‘i, where TYLCV is a big concern, so unfortunately I won't be growing these again.

Had these for the first time last year. Two plants easily produced over 200 tomatoes each. Resilient in 7a. My daughter would eat them right off the vine. Great in pico de gallo.

This is my second year growing this variety and I am still in awe at how prolific they are! I have found they grow vigorously from seed while inside but don’t handle transplanting well, and get sad and wilty. But the ones that do make it, holy cow! These have to be the most prolific variety I’ve ever grown. The fruit comes from the 8” wide/4-5” tall groups of blossoms that the plant seems to explode outwards, I haven’t even tried to count, there are so many. Right now I have about 7 different ‘groupings’ on a 4 ft tall plant on a single stem! I am doing the ‘Lower and lean’ system this year to make the most of my space… yeah these guys need some room, so this is not the method for them. Bc of how hardy they are once they make it past transplanting they’d be impressive in its own grow bag (don’t know if they’d like it though… they are doing great in the ground)
I’m not blown away by the flavor but I’ve got 4 kids who are cherry tomato grazers, & they love em.

Have grown these for several years in central Maryland, and found that while the plants are highly productive, the fruits are prone to splitting. Specifically, I find that unless you pick when they're just barely ripe, a little of the skin tends to peel off when you pick them. Additionally, if you pick them to eat them later, I've found that quite a few tend to split open on their own after being picked, so it's really best to just pop off the vine directly into your mouth.