Notes
Single row, 7-ft stake or roll-and-pinch. Prune to 2–3 leaders. Pick daily at color break.
Cultivars / Solanaceous
Black Cherry
Cherry tomato · Solanum lycopersicum
DTM
64 d
191 d occupancy · tender
Rows
1
18 in in-row
Density
0.67
plants / bed-ft
Yield
5.5
pints / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$24.75
$5.00 / pint
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 72s
- Nursery lead
- 49 d
- Germination
- 6 d
- Germ temp
- 60°F – 90°F (opt 78°F)
- Seed spacing
- 18 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 1
- In-row
- 18 in
- Seed spacing
- 18 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 0.67
- Plants / 50 ft
- 34
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 64 d
- Holding
- 70 d
- Occupancy
- 191 d
- Multicut
- yes · 20 cuts · 3 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1
- Frost hardiness
- Tender
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- pint
- Units / bed-ft
- 5.5
- Avg unit wt
- 1.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 6 lb
- Cull rate
- 10%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $3.25 / $5.00
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 1
- Emitter spacing
- 12 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.5 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 25
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 116.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.6 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.85 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 4 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.3 / 0.4 / 2 lb
- Family
- Solanaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-07
- First greenhouse
- 2026-02-25
- First harvest
- 2026-06-18
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 21 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 10 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 40 seeds · 34 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $804.38 / $1237.50
Companions
basil · carrot · onion
Avoid
fennel · potato · brassica