Pomidornaya zemlya said:
Tell me, how is this tomato when it comes to shelf life (storage)?
Yesterday I tried the last two fruits, picked a month ago. Both were completely green when picked, without even a hint of turning white (breaking). They sat on the windowsill, I thought they wouldn’t ripen and I’d have to throw them away. But no, they ripened and didn’t shrivel. And the taste turned out to be very good, unlike many other varieties that ripen indoors. A very pleasant tomato taste with a predominance of sweetness.
I will plant more of these for late fresh salads.
Mine turned out to have a very low yield, but it was delicious 😋. I will try to repeat it just for the taste.
The vine pleased me. Productive, tasty, meaty. Fruit weight 120-180g (4.2-6.3 oz).
My African Vining tasted bland and sour compared to Wolford Wonder, which was bland and sweet. The yield was good for both, but I’ll keep WW.
Its yield is far behind Batyanya. But the taste, nevertheless, is somewhat better.
My African Vining is from Kulik. In my opinion, it is one of the tastiest pink tomatoes! 😘
I’ve been growing this wonderful variety for two years, always productive and very tasty! 👍 😋 Pink hearts up to 400g (14 oz), meaty but juicy, with almost no seeds. Seeds from ElenaN.
This is how my African Vining turned out. Seeds from Sveta 777. 👍 🙌
Beautiful, stores well. A delicately sweet little tomato. Just eating it by itself went down a treat, but in a cucumber salad, it seemed a bit bland. I wanted to add a slightly more tart tomato for balance. There were more tomatoes on the first truss, I already picked them. As with most tomatoes for me, the first truss is full, and the higher ones are smaller. This is most likely due to our heatwave of 2018 and a lack of nutrition/watering. But it didn’t bake in the sun, and growing in sand, it didn’t suffer from blossom end rot (BER) like some others. 🙄 🤐
I’ve already posted too much in this thread. But taste is a delicate matter, especially tomato taste. Overripe, underripe, soil, humidity, fertilizers, subjective human factor—everything influences it. The taste can turn out completely different.
Yesterday, my husband and I very critically evaluated the taste of different varieties slice by slice while I was saving seeds from them. We tried about 40 varieties, and African Vining earned an “Excellent” rating, proving to be the tastiest variety of all in the greenhouse. The gold standard of this summer.
Growing it for the second year, the yield remains average, but it didn’t grow in the best spot. We will definitely keep working with this variety.
True, this year I didn’t plant Cuban Pepper-like, which was the taste leader last summer. I’ll have to compare them.
Olvia said:
African Vining earned an “Excellent” rating, proving to be the tastiest variety of all in the greenhouse. The gold standard of this summer.
For me, African Vining is the tastiest pink tomato right after Wolford Wonder. But African Vining is larger. On average 300g (10.5 oz).
African Vining is a real find for lovers of “pink hearts”. Productive, tasty, fruit is large, meaty, few seeds. 🙌 👍 😋
As a seedling, African Vining was a super-wimpy weakling, worse than Vater Rhein. It was sick with something, the leaves were drying out at the edges, which I periodically removed. At first, I rejected it and decided not to plant it. But then, because other varieties didn’t fit into the greenhouses, I decided to pack them in tighter in the second greenhouse and plant 40 bushes instead of 34.
And so African Vining got a spot in the corner, right against the polycarbonate. It sat deep in thought for a very long time, but then eventually reached the ceiling and set a few fruits. So the yield turned out to be below average.
Today was the first tasting (sown April 4th). I liked its taste more than Wolford Wonder (it was often compared to it earlier in the thread); it is more balanced in taste and not as bland. Today I also tried the first tomatoes of Mrs. Schlaubaugh’s Famous Strawberry, and African Vining tastes more like that one. African Vining entered the top ten of my rankings for this summer, I will be repeating it.
I plant African Vining every year—productive, beautiful, and very tasty! Very few seeds in the fruits.
A productive and heat-resistant variety, I will definitely repeat it. Last summer we were roasted from May to August, +35°C (95°F) in the shade, I won’t even mention how hot it was in the greenhouse. African Vining made me happy, it didn’t drop a single blossom.
