The summer before last, it was about 1 meter (3.3 ft) tall in open ground, producing large pink oxhearts. Very tasty.
Grew this variety for the first time in 2017 in a greenhouse. Conditions: Southern Urals, cold spring and early summer. It performed absolutely brilliantly. Shape: perfect large pink hearts, quite dense, with thin skin and almost seedless. From August onwards, when the heat kicked in, the tomatoes became larger and tastier (they were a bit bland at first) and changed color to a dark pink, closer to raspberry.
The bush looks extremely frail on the outside, doesn’t overproduce suckers or foliage, the stem is not powerful and only stays upright thanks to the stakes. At the same time, it’s amazing how it manages to support such a massive harvest. It was one of the first to start ripening and kept fruiting until we took down the greenhouse. I concluded that the variety is quite low-maintenance and highly suitable for risky farming zones.
Unfortunately, I can’t seem to upload photos, but they look very similar to m_Kallista’s photos.
Grew it outdoors; a very unpretentious, highly productive variety. Fruits are very beautiful pink, closer to raspberry color. Very tasty and meaty. They weren’t very large, though—maybe because there were so many of them, or maybe I messed up the agricultural techniques somewhere. Next year I will repeat it using seeds from 2 different sources, plus my own saved seeds.
I grew Abakan Pink in the greenhouse. My seeds were from the “Altai Seeds” company.
Description on the packet: Late-ripening, determinate variety. Fruits weigh 200g (up to 500g), pink-raspberry color, flat-round shape. Very high flavor qualities allow it to be used for gourmet salads and juices.
Mine wasn’t too tall, up to 1.5m (5 ft), grew near the greenhouse wall, pruned to 2 stems. Yield was average. All fruits were roughly the same size. Really liked the variety, the tomatoes are juicy, sweet, and delicious.
Hello! I planted Abakan Pink from Sibsad outdoors for the first time. It grew right next to Sugar Bison, Batyanya, Oxheart, Budenovka, and Eagle’s Heart, as I wanted to compare them. Abakansky was about 2 times more productive. The taste is almost identical to Bison, but it ripened 2 weeks later. However, there were a lot of them.
Turned out a bit late, but that’s due to late sowing. It grew as a short indeterminate. Yield was average. I should repeat it. I don’t remember the taste. This summer was pretty terrible for tomatoes.
My Abakansky was indeterminate, 1.8m (6 ft) tall, grown outdoors, pruned to 3 stems. Fruits are heart-shaped with a beak at the bottom, pink-raspberry colored with delicious sugary flesh.
I planted some seeds I had lying around from last year. Liked it, set a decent amount of fruit, and the taste is good.
Good productive variety. Grew outdoors. Despite the cold nights, it set fruit well. In my opinion, it is a sweet, sugary pink salad tomato. It was completely unpretentious. The fruits were large—200-350g (7-12 oz) for me. Height-wise, it reached about 90 cm (3 ft). It definitely needs potassium, otherwise you get hard green/yellow shoulders.
Hopped in here to read about my favorite variety, and people are describing it so differently here!!! 😳
For me: it is early, ripens very first, produces a heavy crop every single year, is pink, and the fruits tend towards a “heart” shape ♥️. The bush is frail/wispy, but pumps out a massive yield. Delicious!
This year I planted it in a “rich/fertile” spot. It pushed out huge fruits, some weighing half a kilo (1 lb+).
Overall—a favorite!
Oh, right, it’s medium height.
OlyaSashina said:
It definitely needs potassium, otherwise you get hard green/yellow shoulders.
Could you please tell me how to feed it with potassium? I’m really struggling with these hard shoulders…
I start feeding with potassium fertilizers when the second truss is flowering. I use MKP (Monopotassium phosphate), or you can use potassium sulfate according to the package instructions. Or basically when the green fruits just start to swell. If you do it later, it’s too late. It seems to me that sugary pink varieties are very prone to hard shoulders, so you need to feed them early—right during the fruit swelling phase.
You can also use wood ash.
OlyaSashina said:
I start feeding with potassium fertilizers when the second truss is flowering…
Thank you so much. I will give it a try.
Some friends passed along these seeds to me. Does anyone know if they will do fine outdoors in Belarus?
VasyaGrodno said:
Does anyone know if they will do fine outdoors in Belarus?
In my opinion, this is a variety that succeeds everywhere and always! Plus, it’s an early one.
Buketik said:
In my opinion, this is a variety that succeeds everywhere and always! Plus, it’s an early one.
Awesome, can’t wait for them to sprout!
Natalya79 said:
My Abakansky was indeterminate, 1.8m (6 ft) tall… Fruits are heart-shaped with a beak at the bottom…
It’s highly unlikely that what you have is Abakansky—it looks exactly, one-to-one, like “Vater Rhein”. Abakansky is only slightly prone to having a small point. In your photo, in my opinion, it is Vater Rhein—it has those exact characteristic sharp beaks and is slightly flattened around them. And the cross-section matches it perfectly too.
Natalya79 said:
My Abakansky was indeterminate, 1.8m (6 ft) tall… Fruits are heart-shaped with a beak at the bottom…
It’s highly unlikely that what you have is Abakansky—it looks exactly, one-to-one, like “Vater Rhein”. Abakansky is only slightly prone to having a small point. In your photo, in my opinion, it is Vater Rhein—it has those exact characteristic sharp beaks and is slightly flattened around them. And the cross-section matches it perfectly too.
Buketik said:
It’s highly unlikely that what you have is Abakansky—it looks exactly, one-to-one, like “Vater Rhein”…
Vater Rhein is different, I grew it as well. This Abakansky came from a private heirloom collector, and yes, it is a distinctly beaked variant of it!)
