Quick Summary of Siberian Crown (Sibirskaya Korona)
- 🌍 Origin & Name: A robust commercial variety from the Russian seed company Semena Altaya (Seeds of Altai). The name translates to “Siberian Crown”.
- 🔍 Shape Discrepancy: The official seed packet often describes this variety as an oxheart (heart-shaped). However, growers report that it actually produces round-cuboid (blocky) fruits.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (compact bush). It is a sturdy plant that typically grows to about 80 cm (31 inches) tall in open ground, making it very manageable.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Crimson-pink tomatoes with a firm, dense, and meaty texture.
- 📈 Performance: This is a workhorse variety. Growers praise it for delivering guaranteed, reliable harvests every single year, specifically when grown outdoors in open ground. It has a stretched fruiting period, providing ripe tomatoes all summer long.
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Seeds were from Semena Altaya. It was advertised on the packet as a heart-shaped tomato, but for me, all the fruits turned out to be round-cuboid (blocky).
The height of the bush in open ground was about 80 cm (31 inches). Quite productive. The fruits are tasty, firm, meaty, with a good classic tomato flavor, and colored a beautiful crimson-pink. I saved them for seeds.
We plant only this variety, we don’t need any others at all. In open ground, it gives guaranteed harvests every single year… Here is the photo. We harvest them all summer long. We only pick the fully ripe tomatoes straight off the bush.
