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The Tomato Punch Gathering

X’ing the sweetest 🍅 of Italy

Let’s explore what makes Datterino tomatoes so special.
In Italian, Datterino literally means “little date” named for its date-like shape and signature sweetness.
Compared to regular cherry tomatoes, Datterinos are:

* Lower in acidity.
* Higher in natural sugar content.
* Have a denser, juicier texture without being watery.

The little planting potatoes I got, also called seed potatoes, are kept especially for replanting. Each one already has tiny buds or “eyes,” surely new shoots were about to grow very soon.
Planting began in loose, rich soil in a sunny spot.

Roseval potatoes grow best when the soil stays slightly moist, not too wet, not too dry.

Their naturally sweet, rich flavor makes them a standout ingredient, even without seasoning or cooking.
That’s why Italian chefs love them and why they’ve become a must-have for home cooks seeking authentic Mediterranean flavors. Datterino tomatoes are incredibly versatile, you can enrich your cuisine style:

🥗 Raw in salads – Simply cut in half and drizzle with olive oil, sea salt, and fresh basil.

🍝 In sauces – Their sweetness stands out in tomato sauces without the need to add sugar, the need to cook them.

🍕 On pizzas – Spread out fresh or canned Datterino tomatoes as a topping or base for pizza sauces.

🍞 On bruschetta – Marinate halved Datterinos in olive oil, garlic, and oregano, then serve on toasted bread.

🔥 Oven-roasted – Slow-roast them to intensify their sweetness — perfect with pasta, grilled meats or cheese.

Datterino tomatoes are grown primarily in Southern Italy, in regions known for their rich soil and ideal tomato-growing climate:

Campania – Especially around Mount Vesuvius, where volcanic soil enhances flavor.

Sicily – Hot sunny days and dry mediterranean air concentrate the natural sugars in the fruit.

Puglia – A region famous for traditional farming and sun-ripened products.

Datterino tomatoes are an excellent choice for cooking. They’re packed at the peak of ripeness and offer an incredible flavor for sauces, stews, and soups and are perfect for anyone who loves fresh, flavorful sauces because they are:

✅ Naturally sweet
✅ Packed with flavor
✅ Easy to use in countless dishes
✅ A taste of Italy in every bite

Whether you’re making a quick pasta sauce or a sparkling summer salad, Datterino tomatoes add depth and sweetness.
Sometimes the simplest ingredients really are the best.

With some Mozzarella di Bufala, basilico, olio di oliva extra vergine, pepe nero, sale rosa dell’himalaya and a drizzle of aceto balsamico di Modena.

Have you ever tasted Datterino tomatoes? Share your favorite way to prepair them in our facebook group Devils Digital 😈Gang😈.
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Today DevilsColors wants to initiate you into the art of cross-breeding tomato varieties. The goal of this X project was to develop a grand tomato breed, exquisitely suited for making pasta sauces and soups. One that extracts the right volume of tomato pulp for a big pan of sauce and still has a strong bond with the authentic taste of Italy.


To breed a tomato which deletes the somehow more watery and sour taste out of one variety and inserts a sweet, natural sugary flavor into the other;
explicitly diverting the meat into something extraordinary, packed with ice-like crystals inside. A big firm heart which produces well-fed seeds and a sweet juiciness, fitness instructors would go mad about how much the amount of juice, packed inside these new specimens really is.

Your kitchen grinder will make an instant thick, creamy mash out of this cross-breed tomato, which was labeled in the summer of 2025 as the new “D666’s Dutchini” tomato.
No need to cook this variety for a long time to get a perfect, balanced sauce that has some very natural and sweet characteristics already. The crystalized texture keeps the sauce creamy and thick instantly.

For this cross-breeding project, 2 cultivars were scouted. A beautiful Daterrino tomato brench, super red and ripe, found in a local supermarket and picked a variety of tomatoes often grown in the Netherlands named:

“Hollandse tomaat.“

It is very simple to cross 2 tomato cultivars. Just collect the male pollen from one variety, or take the end of the flower and rub all the pollen over the female part of the other variety.

You can also collect the pollen, save it in the fridge and use a small brush or pencil to pollinate the female stem. In this project, the male pollen came from the datterino.

To grow the new X breed, a growing system was built from pipes and hung high on a garden fence.
These are the ripened fruits of the 2 cultivars that are about to give their offspring a new baby name, “D666’s Dutchini” tomato.

A new Roman aquatic way to transport and collect water through an aqua precise channel, a long grey pvc sewer pipe with self-made inserted hydrophonic net pots to develop a very strong airy rooting system. Air also blows through the piping system.

In this hydropot (net pot) small sneaker socks are fitted to be layered with styrofoam. This is to prevent any growing medium too barrier the water flow. Crumbled styrofoam gives an even water flow and keeps the soil from pressing down on top.

The net pots ar watered automatically with a 360 micro-sprayer system with tiny nozzles that spray water in every direction, fitted one on top of each net pot. The pipe beneath it contains another net pot directly underneath the upper net pot.

At the bottom of the fence is the planting tray, containing soil for planting out the rooted saplings inside the pipe, so no water that falls gets spilled. The rest of the water is collected in a barrel at the end of the pipeline.

With a pump or by hand, the water can be inserted at the beginning of the pipeline to water the roots. Additional nutrients can be added as well at every stage of growth, from the bottom where the roots have penetrated the socks through the airy styrofoam.

For rooting tomato plants this method and system works superb, because the heated tube and hydrated tube really creates, a warm damp environment for strong roots to develop, even without any root enhancement fertilizers.
More information on how the Mario G.O.D. II tube was built, and how it works will be revealed in detail in another blog post.

Here is another cool site where almost alien-looking creatures experience marvelous adventures together as
green protectors of nature in an animated world full of sparkling colors.

For the start of this new adventure, named the tomato punch gathering. About 10 to 12 tomato seeds where planted in small cups and placed in a humid, propegated environment above 80% moisture level for a few weeks till they were transported to a greenhouse outside around May and planted as 2 bushes besides each other.

The stems buried so the stood up in an L shape, so roots can develop on the buried stems that lay underneath the fresh self-made compost heap for extra nutrients feed.

The plant almost has a circular shape now. To provide extra support wire is spun around a frame of sticks or racks are used to tie the heavy fruits that are expected to grow next month after the flowering period.

It will then set its genes to production mode, and almost all bottom leaves will be drained off nutrients, to develop roots underneath the freshly layered soil. The soil is just dumped on top of the stems as a very big pile, bending the stems outwards so the top of the plant will grow up and the stem develops an L-shape.

This big pile of soil on top will surely shrink by the thousands of water droplets that are about to hydrate the extra roots that have grown. And form a consistant strong bush again. Then it will drain all the color from its lower leaves to produce flowers and grow more roots, but it will overcome and eventually give you loads of presents in the form of fruit.

You can pick a hand full of tomatoes for more then 2 months every day if you have grown a well placed on a spot it can get its feed, a strong bush will grow when and wheater is on your side, your soon going to be a very happy home-grower.

The compost (https://www.devilscolors.nl/makin_compost) is enough to fertilize the tiny balls on the ends of the flowers that will grow from the size of a ping-pong ball to a tennis ball. For a Datterinno cousin, this is extremely big.
The size of the fruits you are about to witness, are not suited for liberal chefs.

Big bunches of tomatoes are tied with plastic root cloth wires to poles and firm brenches for support. Some got eaten by snails, but most of the crop was well preserved. In late Oktober the plants were still producing after harvesting 50 big and small tomatoes from one plant.

But the biggest balls weren’t quite ripe yet at the end of summer. Bummer!!
So I bought 2 red see-through A3-format sheets to cover the window for intense red lighting to ripen the last bunches a.s.a.p. before the dug out plant would start to go into the endfase of its natutal life and crumble to dust particles and dehydrate itself.

The tomatoes would surely shrink and rot away. Weather forecasts had predicted a very rainy period for the end of October, so smart move to ripen them inside behind red covers and speed up the process.
When the weather cleared, the plants went outside in their huge containers and let them soak up some more rain, then finally harvested all.

Due too the period inside, 14 to 16 extra tomatoes were harvested.
The biggest tomatoes, the size of a tennisbal were saved for last.
One of the plants is still producing fruits and growing bigger as this blog post is written.

Maybe I will update it if something magical should happen, but I don’t expect much of it anymore.

The seeds of this new variety were washed, cleaned and stripped of the placental seed capsule, then dried for a few days and packed for later projects with the Mario G.O.D. II tube.

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