Quick Summary of Alleghany Sunset
- 🌍 Origin: A stunning and highly regarded heirloom bicolor tomato that has won over many growers in our community.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, regular leaf. Reports on plant vigor vary: some seed sources describe it as a very powerful and tall plant, while other growers found their bushes to be more compact and less aggressive. It can be grown outdoors, though in cooler climates it may realize its full yield potential better in a greenhouse.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, heavy, and very meaty fruits weighing between 200–450g (7–16 oz). The skin is bright yellow-orange with gorgeous red and crimson marbling (blushes). The shape can vary on the same plant, ranging from broadly oblate (flattened) to blunt, ribbed hearts.
- 👅 Flavor: Absolutely exceptional. Often described by collectors as “tasting like fruit rather than a tomato.” It is intensely sweet with a perfectly balanced hint of tartness. It frequently converts growers who normally do not prefer bicolor varieties.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-late season.
Indeterminate, mid-late bicolor. Regular leaf. The fruits are large, beautiful, bright yellow-orange with red marbling.
It grew outdoors in the open ground. It was planted late, and on top of that, it suffered a bit of frost in June, so it didn’t reveal its full yield potential. The official description states very good yield, and I think this variety would perform better in a greenhouse.
Outdoors, two trusses managed to ripen, each with 2-3 fruits weighing 200-300 grams (7-10.5 oz). The taste is very good, balanced, with both sweetness and tartness. I will definitely grow it again.
I got the seeds from Lena Danko. Her description was:
Indeterminate, vigorous bush. Bicolor fruits with a rosy skin, exceptionally tasty. I don’t usually like bicolors, but this one is truly delicious. Meaty, heavy fruits. They can be in the shape of blunt hearts with ribbing, or more broadly rounded (oblate), also with ribs on the sides. Fruit weight is from 250 to 450g (8.8 to 16 oz). The tastiest of all bicolors.
This is not a tomato, it’s a fruit! Very tasty, sweet. The flavor is rich. There are few seeds. Quite productive. However, my bush didn’t turn out to be powerful at all, and it wasn’t the tallest either.
A gorgeous tomato, grew outdoors in open ground, pruned to 2 stems. Very tasty and beautiful!
