Pineapple is a fruity, tropical tomato predating the 1950’s, most likely derived from Amish and Mennonite communities in the Ohio and Kentucky territory. Unparalleled to Gold Medal, Mr. Stripey, Hill Billy, and Old German, Pineapple’s flavor rivals the rare Willard Wynn. Pineapple is a vigorous, dominate multi leader vine, that grows prolific in a regular leaf and indeterminate nature. Fruit is oval, bridge, round, generally crack, and ‘ugly’ free! Pineapple tends to have more red underscoring a vibrant gold and yellow with pink marbling more than other German Bi-color tomato. Flavor is low in acid, and tropical, savory aroma that is completely distinctive from almost all tomato varieties available.A classic "beefsteak" type, though in a class of flavor all to itself. The fruit is large, ribbed, smooth and translucent. Compared with Willard Wynn, however, the vine structure is more limber, and less tree-like when pruned properly. I am of the right mind to say Willard Wynn and the famous Pineapple are related and diverged sometime in the 1970's. Pineapple is a prolific, and precocious adaptable heirloom tomato; but with many unusual shapes. Storage potential is the best, as it can keep for weeks while ripening.
