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Dancing with Smurfs Cherry Tomato
60 days to harvest from transplant
Solanum lycopersicum
Purple! Tomatoes!
Each glossy, glorious fruit ripens from green to purple to purple-crimson, borne in prolific clusters with classic tomato flavor and a red heart. Dancing with Smurfs Cherry Tomato has a wide window of delectability: When she’s slightly under-ripe, her deep purple fruit is more firm with flavor more bright acid; as she turns more fully ripe her skin turns crimson where the sun directly lands, her flesh softening and flavor deepening. We’ll always be so grateful for our dear friend and mentor Dan Brisebois of Tourne Sol Seeds in Montreal for introducing us to this fabulous tomato.
At Fruition, we sow tomatoes in soil blocks indoors 2 months before final frost, early April for us here in Zone 5, germinating them on heat mats with ease. Good light is essential: Younger, less stressed seedlings are healthier and more abundant than older, more stressed seedlings.
Organic Dancing with Smurfs Tomato
Planting Method:Â Transplant Only
When to sow: 6-8 weeks before last frost
Seed Depth: 1/8 inch    Days to Germination: 7-10 at 80°F (27°C)
Sowing and seedling care: Don’t start too early! Sow indoors 2 seeds/cell or soil block, & thin to 1. We recommend sowing on a heat mat at 80°F to emergence, 75°F after. Good light is essential: Younger, less stressed seedlings are healthier and more abundant than older, more stressed seedlings. Pot up to 3-4” pots when first true leaves, submerging 3/4 of the stem below soil.
When to transplant:Â Harden off & transplant outdoors after frost, again burying stem.
Strong 3′ trellis optional but helpful. Water soil, not leaves. Prune lowest stem “suckers” as they emerge.
Transplant Spacing: 2.5 feet   Sun Needs: Full
Days to Harvest: 60
Harvest: Indeterminate
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Jason (verified owner) –
Had to give it a low star rating because of really poor germination. Out of the entire packet I planted, there was only 1 seed that germinated. I used a heat mat, excellent growing medium. My other tomatoes and peppers sown at the same time germinated much better. I do have one seedling, so hopefully it will be a good plant, but it’s clear there was something wrong with these seeds.
Heather –
Thanks so much for your feedback Jason. We are sorry to hear of the poor germination and would be happy to send out a replacement packet. Please reach out to heather@fruitionseeds.com and I will take care of you 🙂
Wishing you buckets of tomatoes and peppers! -Heather & The Fruition Team
tomato girl (verified owner) –
Delicious but only was able to harvest a few cherry tomatoes before the whole plant was consumed by disease nearly over night, Here in SE Pa may have been some kind of wilt.
It was planted with Sungold and Juliet near by, both of which were not affected. If you spray or live in an area without wilt or never had wilt before it was tasty and seemed to be very productive
Maddie –
We are grateful for you sharing your reflections with us and the Fruition community, and truly sorry to hear that you haven’t found abundance in this experience. Apologies that we are just now getting you a reply — we are responding to a backlog in product reviews, and iterating our teamwork to ensure we are consistently and quickly responding with care to reviews, now and in seasons to come. We appreciate your patience alongside your feedback!
Thank you for taking a chance on something new, and providing your learnings so others may have more information to make their choices. Adapting to diseases is a never ending dance in the life of plants! (By the way, our favorite delicious tomatoes with great disease resistance are Chiapas, Coyote, Brandywise F1, and Gardener’s Sweetheart F1.)
Surrounding you with beauty and abundant harvests is why we do what we do– one way or another, we would love to see you find more delight this season! We have reached out to you directly by email to joyfully provide you with a coupon for a free packet of seed. Please feel free to read our Satisfaction Guarantee and email support@fruitionseeds.com should you wish to reach out any time in the future. Thanks for growing with us!
And p.s.! Friends, while we are on the subject, for anyone reading who may be finding challenges with tomato diseases, we invite you to check out our blogs on identifying tomato diseases and preventing them.