{"id":21786,"date":"2026-01-03T09:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=21786"},"modified":"2026-08-13T21:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:12:18","slug":"king-aramis","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/product\/king-aramis\/","title":{"rendered":"King Aramis"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Grown, sold, and described by <a href=\"http:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bunny Hop Seeds<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plant growth: determinate dwarf<\/li>\n<li>Leaf type: rugose regular leaf<\/li>\n<li>Time to maturity: midseason<\/li>\n<li>Approx. number of seeds per pack: 15<\/li>\n<li>Germination Tested after Hot Water Seed Treatment for Fungal and Bacterial Diseases<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cKing Aramis\u201d is a determinate dwarf variety with a shadowy past. Well, by \u201cshadowy\u201d I just mean that there have been several theories put forward as possible originations of a dwarf plant showing up in a batch of indeterminate, non-dwarf seedlings. King Aramis was first known as DGOC, or Dwarf Grandma Oliver\u2019s Chocolate. Grandma Oliver\u2019s Chocolate is an indeterminate variety that came from a cross developed by Marianna&#8217;s Heirloom Seeds from Grandma Oliver&#8217;s Green and a black tomato, stabilized to F5 before releasing to the public. Seeds were shared as well. At some point, a dwarf plant was found among Grandmother Oliver\u2019s Chocolate seedlings. Fruits produced were said to be a \u201creddish\u201d chocolate that in later generations became fully chocolate (chlorophyll-retained red flesh with yellow epidermis). This dwarf was grown further and in time the name was changed to King Aramis.<br \/>\nI was not really expecting this tomato to be a \u201cEllie\u2019s Wow List\u201d variety. I mean, it is a chocolate beefsteak dwarf, and the 4 to 7 oz fruits were not really that pretty. When I tasted it, however, I actually did say, \u201cWOW!\u201d The taste is sweet and complex with acid and the other deep flavors you find in the red flesh\/chlorophyll-retained fruits. The texture of the flesh was succulent and perfect, not too firm and not too soft. I suppose the fruits were not very pretty because the stinkbugs (who always seem to know which varieties have that strong sugar\/acid balance) had left their marks. I just had one plant, so I do not have many seeds this season&#8230;I have to save most of them for my planting reserve stock. My plant grew from three seeds I was sent in 2013\u2026I have no more of the original seeds. There will be more plants in the coming season, however. <strong>NOTE: One packet per order please.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21787,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[31,15,12,59,107],"product_tag":[117],"class_list":["post-21786","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-beefsteak","product_cat-brown","product_cat-bunny-hop-seeds","product_cat-dwarf-varieties","product_cat-ellies-wow-varieties","product_tag-new-for-2026","first","outofstock","sold-individually","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/21786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=21786"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=21786"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heritageseedmarket.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=21786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}