Candyland

• Grown, sold, and described by Bunny Hop Seeds
• Plant growth: COMPACT indeterminate
• Leaf type: regular leaf
• Time to maturity: early
• Germination tested after Hot Water Treatment for fungal and bacterial diseases
• Approx. number of seeds per pack: 20+

Candyland is a little red currant-type cherry variety, not rare by any means, but relatively new. It selling point is that it is a currant-type that does not make a massive plant. You might say that it is a ladylike currant-type, as it has a rather bushy-skirted compact growth habit.
I planted Candyland in a 3-gallon black nursery pot, and it grew to 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide. If I had not staked it, the branches would have poked out that far on all sides…so this will make a fine hanging basket tomato if you have a nice wide location for it.
The fruits are round and sometimes a wee bit oval, as you will see in my photo. The flavor was a nice pungent tomatoey taste but definitely not as sweet as Matt’s Wild Cherry or Hawaiian, two of my favorite currants for flavor. Still, it did produce abundantly, the fruits had a much better shelf life than my two other favorite currants, and the plant has stayed quite healthy all this time. In fact, it was still alive (WOW!) and producing (WOW!) in my garden past the mid-August mark. For size reference, this is not a quarter in my pics, it is I believe a “silver” dollar.