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    Ciudad Victoria

    • TM005
    • Solanum lycopersicum var cerasiforme.   These tomatoes have a bright, slightly acidic, classic tomato flavor, and are abundantly productive, even in hot/dry conditions. Their vigorous vines produce ample leaves to shade the  1/2" diameter fruit, and they don't need shade cloth even in the midst of the Tucson summer. Monica, our Conservation Garden Associate, says "They may be my new favorite tomato!" 

      A sprawling semi-cultivated tomato from dooryard gardens in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico.  From our Seed Bank Collection.

      • Approx. 0.1g/25 seeds per packet.
      • Indeterminate.
      • Limit 3 packets.
    • $3.95

    Customer Reviews

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    BFC
    Prolific and hardy but eh

    These plants are thriving in the Denver area. Lots of fruit, loving the heat. Super prolific. Not my favorite cherry tomato though: lackluster in flavor, neither particularly sweet nor acidic. Won't be repeating these.

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    Glen M.
    Grows well in Colorado

    I garden in north/central Colorado, and this has grown better than any other variety I've tried! It's weathered 100+ degree heat, dry winds, and intense sunlight with no supplemental water and is showing no signs of stress. The fruits are plentiful and delicious, not too sweet with a nice bright, acidic flavor. The size makes them perfect for snacking or adding to a salad.

    The seedlings were a little slow to start compared to my other tomatoes, and more sensitive to overwatering, but once the weather warmed up they outperformed everyone else. Definitely growing this again!

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    Jenna B
    Flavorful, stackable, adorable

    The Ciudad Victoria tomatoes are doing really well so far. The plants have stayed fairly compact, but are producing well. They're extremely tiny! Less than a quarter of the size of a grocery store cherry tomato—more like a large blueberry. It took a month longer to germinate these indoors than the other tomatoes I'm growing, that could have been user error. Once I fully gave up and repurposed that soil for other seeds, these came right up! They're fun to have but I'll grow fewer (one instead of three) next year in favor of larger, more versatile tomato varieties like NSS's Flamenco.

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    Susan Roden

    Seeds have germinated. So far, so good

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    Margaret Clark
    Gave as a gift

    I gave two packets of seeds as a gift. Haven’t even been planted yet.