Amana Orange Tomato Review: Giant Heirloom Beefsteak

Tall bush (in the greenhouse), medium foliage. Tomatoes are round, orange-colored, inside it’s “solid meat,” tasty, large (from 200 to 700g / 7 to 25 oz), mid-season ripening, quite productive, resistant to cracking, and they store fairly well for a yellow-fruited variety.

Olenka, Verochka, how do things stand regarding yield? Whose seeds did you use? Mine are from Gusev. I’ll be planting it this season, already soaked the seeds.

Yield is normal/good. Mine are also from Gusev. 👍

My seeds are from Gusev too. I grew the bush on a single stem and collected almost 3.5 kg (7.7 lbs) from this bush. For me, a beginner, the yield is good.

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Girls, look what grew for me 😳 😳

Marisha, how was the taste? In the bottom photo, it looks so juicy, you just want to lick it 😂.

The taste blew me away instantly, so it became one of the favorites of the season—that’s why it posed for me… 😂 😂

Very tasty variety, grew in the open ground (outdoors) for me, the harvest was good. Seeds were from Gusev.

And here it is in a salad… help yourselves!!!

Tanya, how tall was it outdoors?

“A meter with a cap” (Barely over a meter / 3.3 ft)… 😂

Just what I need. 😂 Thanks! 🌺

I don’t know, but mine was just yuck, terribly sour. Grew outdoors, two fruits weighed 450g (1 lb) each. But the taste—no, not for me, super sour. 😞

Olya, that’s the tomato making you “pay” for putting it in the open ground. 😉

Marisha said:
Olya, that’s the tomato making you “pay” for putting it in the open ground. 😉

Are you egging me on to shove it in the greenhouse? 😉

I grew it in the greenhouse both last year and this year.

For me, this variety turned out to be very moody about the weather. All summer it gave me tomatoes of an indistinct color weighing 50-70g (1.7-2.5 oz) 😲, and only when the warm weather finally set in, I found three fruits under the greenhouse roof weighing about 300-350g (10.5-12.3 oz). Unfortunately, with our weather, definitely not my variety ((.

Taste is average (though compared to other yellows, it was actually quite decent), yield above average. Began ripening in early August. Liked it.

Delicious 😋

I liked it for its color, taste, and yield 🙂. Grew in the greenhouse on 2 stems, not very tall.

I really liked the tomato, planted it both outdoors and in a polycarbonate greenhouse. Outdoors, the tomatoes were even larger.

o-lya-lya said:
Are you egging me on to shove it in the greenhouse? 😉

Olyushka, it needs to be planted in a greenhouse. Delicious 😋 👍

My variety was from Popenko. Height 1.50m (5 ft), vigorous, productive. Taste is very good, beautiful 👍

Seeds from OlgaZ.
Grew in a greenhouse. Pruned to 2 stems. As of July 23, 2014, there were 11 fruits. Productive, bore fruit until October 1 (until I cleaned out the greenhouse). The weight of the last picked fruit was 541g (19 oz).

My Amana Orange.

Beautiful, tasty variety, but in my greenhouse, the fruits were heavily affected by rot.

I really like this variety. Productive, large tasty fruits. Although there are many tastier varieties, I will keep planting Amana because my family loves orange tomatoes.

I didn’t understand the part about misting/sprinkling the foliage of this variety? Is it true or not? As far as I know, wetting the foliage is harmful to tomatoes… or am I missing something? Is dampness useful for this variety…? I’m planning to plant it. I need an answer on how to care for it.

I watered it just like all the rest and everything was fine, didn’t do anything special to it.

Valentina said:
I didn’t understand the part about misting/sprinkling the foliage of this variety? … Is dampness useful for this variety…?

That’s probably something we have to do here, at temperatures of +30°C (86°F) and higher with humidity at 2-10%. In Central Russia, etc., you don’t need to do it; the humidity is already normal there. Pollen needs a specific humidity (from 25 to 40%) to ripen (requirements and tolerance vary by variety). Amana is apparently sensitive to this factor.

In the extreme heat, I literally “wash” my tomatoes with a shower not only in the greenhouse but also outdoors, but our bushes dry out in 15-20 minutes, so they don’t get sick.

Grew Amana in the 2019 season. In a polycarbonate greenhouse, pruned to 2 stems. I liked it, very much so. The bush grew to about 1.6m (5.2 ft), a bit wimpy of course, sparse foliage, but it sets fruit well and quite abundantly. Cared for it like all other varieties. 3-4 fruits per truss. Average weight 200 to 600 grams (7 to 21 oz).

Liked the taste too. Tomatoey, moderately sweet. Solid meat when sliced, but still quite juicy. Started ripening for me after July 20. Ripe fruits have a beautiful yellowish-copper color. Writing this and remembering the warm colors and summer..))) I had one bush in the greenhouse and harvested almost 3 kg (6.6 lbs) from it. Sorry girls, didn’t take a picture of the bush with fruits..( But I would recommend it to all lovers of slicing varieties. Amana Orange is worthy.

Valentina said:
I didn’t understand the part about misting/sprinkling the foliage of this variety?

Don’t even think about sprinkling them, that’s someone’s foolishness. Plant and care for it like all other tomatoes.

I planted a bush in the greenhouse this year. Here is how it looks in early August. Planted late, and the seedlings were poor and very overgrown. Seeds from agricultural firm Partner.

All the fruits are incredibly beautiful, with a perfect shape. When I was bringing them home, everyone was talking over each other asking what variety it is. Well, now let’s evaluate the cross-section and taste, and find out if their advertising is true.

This year Amana popped up as a volunteer (self-seeded). And it turned out to be very welcome.

For me, it comes out sweet with a pronounced tartness, very tasty. A favorite among the oranges.

So it turns out the variety is quite heat-loving? In conditions of a cool summer, will the taste be significantly inferior?