Quick Summary of Yaponskaya Roza (Japanese Rose)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial Siberian heirloom variety bred for reliability in open ground and unheated greenhouses. The name translates to “Japanese Rose”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (short-growing bush), reaching about 60–80 cm (24–32 inches) in height. Very low maintenance; seed producers recommend pruning suckers only up to the first flower cluster.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful crimson-pink fruits weighing 150–200 g (5.3–7 oz). The shape is a flattened oxheart featuring a distinctive, cute little beak (nipple) on the blossom end. The flesh is dense, thick-walled, and highly crack-resistant.
- 👅 Flavor: Sugary, sweet flesh with a classic tomato taste. Excellent for fresh eating, but its dense walls make it perfect for whole-fruit canning and pickling.
- ⏳ Maturity & Storage: Mid-season (though some growers expect it to be early). It has excellent shelf life and can be stored indoors for 1 to 2 months after harvesting.
Tomato “Yaponskaya Roza” (Japanese Rose).
Short-growing (determinate), suitable for Open Ground.
Official Description:
A mid-season, beautiful, and productive variety of Siberian breeding for open ground and film greenhouses. Plant height is 60-80 cm (24-32 inches). A cluster contains 5-6 crimson fruits shaped like a flattened oxheart with a pretty little beak, weighing 150-200 g (5.3-7 oz). The tomatoes are dense, thick-walled, do not crack, ripen uniformly, ripen perfectly off the vine indoors, and can be stored for 1-2 months. They are wonderfully suited for canning and pickling. The variety does not require intensive care (you only need to prune suckers up to the first cluster). Yield is up to 6 kg/m² (1.2 lbs/sq ft).
From the 2018 Season Photo Albums:
OlyaSashina wrote (Nov 13, 2018):
Yaponskaya Roza — the flesh is sugary, sweet, red, and tasty, but the yield was low, only 2 tomatoes. It only started setting fruit after the heatwave passed. I’ll have to think about whether it goes on my repeat grow list.
Olya Pskovishna wrote (Dec 5, 2018):
Speaking of the fact that I can ruin absolutely anything. Here we go. It was supposed to be early. I planted it alongside the ‘Iyunskiy’ (June) tomato. During transplanting, I broke… no, not the main stem, but a ton of leaves (its leaf wingspan was already huge). It started pushing out suckers to somehow compensate for this. Overall, it turned into an unknown mess. I didn’t get any special yield or earliness out of it. But otherwise, it’s a good little round tomato. Determinate. With an adorable little pointy beak.
