Purple

The flavor must be heavily dependent on soil and moisture conditions as well as ripeness. I wouldn't grow these in a container or a semi sun spot - I grew these in-ground, in full sun, in very well drained soil a bit on the acidic side. I started three plants eight weeks early, and all were stocky and strong throughout the cool spring here. I watered during dry spells but they seemed to acclimate well without much attention, and set a ton of fruit. The ripening time is very long, and it's best to wait until they are at least thoroughly pink and a bit softened (in the underside areas that aren't blackened) to pick. Then let them mature to a brick-like color before eating. The dark black areas might lose their shine a little. Under these conditions the flavor was excellent. Didn't have any cracking until we got some heavy rain late in the season. I'll definitely grow this again.

Disappointed with these tomatoes. Plants took off easily and had sooo many tomatoes very early, but took forevee to rippen. By the time they would rippen, they were cracked or started to go bad. The only way to get some was to pick unripe and rippen in house which defeats the purpose. Woulb NEVER plant again

I'm having a great season with this tomato here in San Francisco. Abundant beautiful great tasting fruit and no difficulties. Black beauty has held up quite well despite the intermittently cold then blazing hot weather we've had this year. Leaves curled from heat and drought but the fruit has remained abundant and delishious. Top 10 in terms of flavor.

Every last seed germinate and flourished. The vines were laden with fruit and a few actually toppled over. We were off to a great start but then I had issues with the stem ends getting brown and mucky. Almost like blossom end rot on the top! I also had issues with symptoms of nutrition problems although the tomatoes growing next to them were fine. Very slow to mature. If you are looking for a good eating easy to grow tomatoe I wouldn't recommend these as they seem bland to me. If you want to grow something interesting and remarkable then this is definitely a great one and everyone will be interested. Just don't count on it for harvest.

I was curious about this tomato's hype and I grew a four-foot bush this year. I harvested a dozen tomatoes after a long battle with the hornworms, and many of the tomatoes had vivid blacks and crimsons. However, the raw flavor was rather bland like a flat diet soda. They made a decent pasta sauce and tomato salad. More of a nifty conservation piece than a great snack.