📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Alenkiy Tsvetochek (Scarlet Flower)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian heirloom variety. The name translates to “The Scarlet Flower” – a famous classic Russian fairy tale similar to Beauty and the Beast. The specific strain discussed here was sourced from the catalog of Evgeny Fech, a well-known Russian private seed collector.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Features moderate, medium-density foliage.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Despite the name “Scarlet”, the fruits are actually pink! They are large oxhearts with a blunt or truncated tip, weighing between 300–500g (10.5–17.6 oz).
- 👅 Flavor: Known to be very tasty, with a dense, meaty flesh.
- ⚠️ Pros & Cons: It is a mid-early variety with very good yields. However, there is a major drawback: it is highly prone to severe splitting and cracking on the vine.
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Tall bush (grown in the greenhouse) with medium foliage coverage. The tomatoes are pink, meaty, and tasty. The shape is a truncated heart, weighing 300-500g (10.5-17.6 oz).
Mid-early ripening period, quite productive.
There is just one “but”: mine suffered from severe cracking on the vine.
*Note: The watermark on the photos indicates seeds were from E. Fech’s private collection.
I am trying this one out this year. Two bushes in the greenhouse. And two outdoors in open ground on drip irrigation tape. We’ll see how it goes.
