Tomato Black Pineapple is one of the exotic varieties with an unusual color of ripe tomatoes and good yield. Breeders began breeding tomatoes with dark skin color several decades ago. And now vegetable crops with unusual colors of ripening crops are found in garden beds as often as ordinary varieties.
Description and characteristics of the variety
Black Pineapple tomatoes belong to the indeterminate type of tomatoes, ripening is average. The height of the bush reaches 1.2-1.4 m.
The description begins with general information about the Black Pineapple variety itself.The bushes are tall, well branched, heavily leafy. The shoots are erect, tall, and require obligatory gartering to trellises or other supports. Additional supports are placed under the stems with ripening fruits to avoid breaking off the shoots.
This black vegetable requires mandatory pinching. To ensure good yield, it is better to form the plant into 2-3 shoots.
Ripe tomatoes are flat-round, unusually large - up to 0.5 kg each, fleshy, with excellent taste. And the color of the skin and pulp is unique and original. The skin is dense, not prone to cracking, brownish in ripe tomatoes with a greenish tint. Ripe tomatoes take on a purple color. The pulp combines several shades at once: pink, red, green and yellow. Each ripe tomato has its own individual pattern in the cut. There are few seeds in the chambers. The amount of dry matter is 5-6%.
If people do not know about the peculiar color of the Black Pineapple, then they believe that the crop began to rot before it had time to ripen. But the taste of such species is much better than that of their red or yellow “brothers”.
The harvested crop tolerates transportation well and can be stored for quite a long time at low temperatures. Black Pineapple is not suitable for canning due to its large size, but it looks great in salads and other appetizers and gives them a pleasant taste.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Black Pineapple variety
The advantages of this variety include:
- high productivity;
- wonderful taste and unusual color of ripe tomatoes;
- excellent keeping quality of the crop;
- The harvested crop tolerates transportation well.
However, Black Pineapple also has quite noticeable disadvantages:
- bushes require obligatory gartering and installation of supports for shoots;
- It is imperative to form bushes and regularly remove stepsons;
- the crop is not suitable for canning;
- the variety is demanding on regular fertilizing;
- In rainy, cold weather, tomatoes ripen more sour.
Variety stories
Currently, there are many varieties of tomatoes with black coloring of ripening vegetables. It is believed that such plants were bred with the addition of GMOs. But this is not true. To obtain dark-colored fruits, breeders crossed red tomatoes with their wild-growing “brothers” and selected bushes with a darker color of ripening tomatoes for further selection.
New varieties with dark fruit colors are the result of many years of work by scientists. The dark color of the skin and pulp comes from a mixture of red pigments and anthocyanins, which give the vegetables a purple hue.
