📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Altayskiy Oranzheviy (Altai Orange)
- 🌍 Origin: A renowned commercial heirloom from the Altai region in Siberia. The name translates to “Altai Orange”. It is highly sought after by collectors for its incredible texture and flavor.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Some growers report it being a “short” indeterminate, while others see it easily reach 2 meters (6.5 ft). It has average foliage density and is noted for being very healthy and disease-resistant. Thrives both in greenhouses and outdoors in the open garden.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright orange, large beefsteaks. They are oblate (flattened globe) to round. Fruits easily reach 300-400g (10-14 oz), and if pruned to a single stem, they can push 700g (1.5 lbs).
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Top-tier. It is famous for its “buttery” (маслянистая) flesh. The interior is solid meat with very few seeds and seed cavities. The taste is perfectly balanced—sweet, rich, with just a hint of tang to make it complex. Often compared favorably to Kellogg’s Breakfast or Amana Orange.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season (some report mid-early to mid-late depending on the climate).
Altai Orange (Altayskiy Oranzheviy) – grew in the greenhouse, short indeterminate, average yield, pruned to 2 stems. VERY tasty!!! 😋😋😋
Sveta, the tomato cross-section is impressive, I really want to get my hands on it. Is there any tang/acidity to it, or is it just pure sweetness?
Rodebielesumer said:
Sveta, the tomato cross-section is impressive, I really want to get my hands on it. Is there any tang/acidity to it, or is it just pure sweetness?
I don’t know exactly how to describe it—it’s just very balanced, tasty, and buttery/meaty. Similar to Southern Tan (Yuzhnyi Zagar) and Meat Breakfast (Myasnoi Zavtrak) among the orange varieties 😋
Mine turned out to be a tall indeterminate. Average yield. Excellent taste.
Seeds were from the St. Petersburg Center of Natural Farming, sent to me by Sasha Taleks (thank you 🌸).
Seeds from Svetlana (Svetikk). 🌸
Indeterminate, I pruned it to 2 stems, yield was good, the foliage is relatively sparse.
(If you prune it to a single stem, the fruits would probably reach up to 700g / 1.5 lbs, I think).
Tasty. The flavor is balanced, with a slight tang, juicy, and “buttery”.
One of the best orange-yellow tomatoes of 2015.
Loved it, will keep growing it.
Does it make sense to plant it outdoors under row covers (low tunnels)?
Marina 111 said:
Does it make sense to plant it outdoors under row covers?
I also want to plant it outdoors under row covers. Sveta wrote it’s a short indeterminate, usually those do fine. What do you guys think?
I am really impressed by this variety. In 2016 it was one of the most productive and trouble-free/disease-resistant in my open garden. Seeds from Agrouspekh. This year we’ll try growing Altai Pink (Altayskiy Rozovyi).
The variety is quite productive, tasty, trouble-free, mid-late season.
I really liked this variety: productive, mid-early, didn’t get sick, set fruit without skipping any blossoms, large fruits, pruned to two stems. Seeds from Lyuda Ovechka, huge thanks to her.
I received Altai Orange seeds as a gift from Sveta (Mama Antona). A wonderful variety, mid-season, indeterminate. The bush has average foliage, grows up to 2m (6.5 ft) tall, healthy, and disease-resistant. It grew in the open garden pruned to a single stem, but I probably should have let it run to two stems to increase the yield.
The fruits are orange, round, and oblate (flattened globe) in shape. The flesh is literally like butter, with very few seed cavities and very few seeds. I absolutely loved the taste, not bland and not sour, everything is perfectly balanced.
One of my favorite tomatoes with buttery flesh. I’ve been planting it for 3 years now and plan to keep doing so.
A wonderful variety! The seeds originally came from Sveta (Svetikk), but this year I grew them from my own saved seeds. It’s the tastiest orange variety for me. This year it produced very large fruit. Here is one that ripened on the third truss.
The entire third truss weighed a kilo and a half (3.3 lbs). The first ones were even heavier.
