Tropical tomato varieties

[templeton]

I've had an enquiry regarding the best tomato varieties to grow in Darwin - warmer than Florida. My correspondent grows cherries fine, but wants some other varieties. Any suggestions? Availability on this side of the Pacific might be problematic, so relatively common sorts might be preferred.
"The coldest it has ever been here is 10C, and we generally only get down to 15 a few nights per year with the average maximum daily temp over 30.
So our winter is like a warm summer for most of the country but without those rally hot days. The humidity will drop considerably soon, and rain will almost stop completely. The first dry I had up here, there was zero rain for over 140 days!"
He's tried Tropic, Thai Pink, and cherries but wants to expand his repetoire.
T

[DarJones]

Creole and Burgundy Traveler would be worth getting.

[templeton]

Thanks D,
T

[blueadzuki]

If you can find it (since we are talking about Australia I can never be sure what you can and cannot get from outside the country) you might also want to look into one called Nagaraclang (or something like that)a strain from the Philippines that is one of the few tropical black tomatoes I know of. Though it may not be a perfect fit, since it's really for tropical areas that get a LOT of precipitation (it's the famous "tomato you plant if you live in the middle of a rainforest and have everything sopping wet all the time one, with the flowers that shed water so they don't rot)

Actually, if your friend is only trying to add to what he has (as opposed to trying to replace all his cherries with bigger tomatoes). Cheeseman's (L. cheesemanni) might be a good fit, since it is a classic choice for high heat, low precipitation (it supposedly can go for many, many months with no water)

[templeton]

Thanks for the recommendations, all.
T