Updated 5/2/26:
With over 2000 tomato varieties existed in this world, what is your favorite tomato variety? This review posts showcase the tomato varieties that I love and like. Tomatoes that I dislike and detest is on a separate post to help me remember which varieties I would never want to grow ever again.
1. Sungrape 109
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- Seed source: Tokita America
- Location: Tested in Oviedo, FL Zone 10A in Fall 2025
- Fruit production rate: High
- Description: SunGrape 109 is Japanese hybrid cherry tomato that perhaps among one of the variety I have tested with the most fruit yield. Fruits have a sweet fruity flavor. I love it so much I made a customized engraved plant label for this variety! I will grow it every year in my garden.
2. Suncherry Extra Sweet Hybrid Cherry Tomato
- Seed source: Tokita America
- Location: Tested in zone 10A FL in Spring 2025
- Fruit production rate: high yield
- Taste profile: The ripen Suncherry Extra Sweet cherry tomatoes are very sweet. It’s officially a keeper in my garden that I will be growing again. This variety is so much sweeter than Sweet Million, sweeter than Everglades, the sweetest cherry tomato compared to all the other so called sweet cherry tomatoes I have reviewed that ended up in my detest list.
3. Pineapple beefsteak tomato
Pineapple is a heirloom beefsteak tomato with a ripen orange color. The taste profile has a surprisingly sweet tropical fruity flavor! I sow the seeds in August 2025 and had a local gardening friend grew this for me. She and I love this fruity beefsteak tomato. I will definitely grow this tomato variety every year until I find a better substitute. The down side about this heirloom is that it cracks with excessive watering.
4. Golden Cherry Hybrid Japanese cherry tomato
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Golden Cherry Hybrid Japanese cherry tomato has a mild sweetness when not fully ripen. I let it ripen to a deep sunset golden color to taste its full sweetness. This variety has high fruit yield and is crack-resistant.
5. Mochi F1
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- Seed source: exclusive of Johnny’s Selected Seeds Company
- Location: Tested in Oviedo, FL Zone 10A in Fall 2025
- Fruit production rate: medium-high
- Description: The Mochi F1 cherry tomatoes’ skin is shiny like a marble and tasted very sweet when fully ripen. Fruits are crack resistant, but their are occasional black blemishes on random fruits.
- rating: I like to eat it but not so much growing it. I am testing this again now to see the difference between growing this variety in the spring versus in the fall in zone 10A.
6. Esterina
7. SunOrange Garden Cherry Tomato
- Seed source: Tokita America
- Location tested: Oviedo, FL 10A in full sun
- Fruit production rate: average
- SunOrange Garden is NOT Sungold but an improved version of Sungold, a Japanese hybrid cherry tomato, a Tokita Exclusive
- Profile: Indeterminate, crack resistant, golden orange when ripen, very juicy, heat-tolerant, disease resistant. The fruits sometimes tastes very sweet and sometimes tart to me. It has an inconsistent taste. It may be due to the weather being cool rather than warm. I might try growing this again in the spring another time. The only thing I don’t like about this variety is it’s thick skin.
8. Tutti Frutti Melon
- Seed source: Urban Farmer
- Location: I grew this variety in my friend Luke’s garden in Orlando, FL 10A in a 15-gallon size pot in in spring/summer 2025
- fruit production: vigorous, high yield, crack resistant
- taste profile: The fruit is firm and sweet but not as sweet and juicy like the Suncherry Extra Sweet hybrid. There is nothing about this tomato that would make me think of a melon about it. I cannot believe the seeds are $1 each. The seeds are not worth $1 each to me.
- Rating: Like to grow and eat, but not enough to love it.
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