📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Armyanskie (Armenian)
- 🌍 Origin: A magnificent heirloom bicolor tomato. The name simply translates to “Armenian”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), but generally has a somewhat frail, wispy, or “weeping” bush structure. Despite the delicate foliage, it has incredibly strong fruit stems (pedicels), meaning the heavy trusses rarely need extra support. Throws a ton of suckers.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Stunning orange-red bicolors. Oblate (flattened) shape, turning slightly heart-shaped higher up the vine. They are massive, routinely hitting 400-600g (14-21 oz). The interior is beautifully marbled and almost entirely seedless (making seed saving a challenge!).
- 👅 Flavor: Absolutely top-tier. Extremely sweet, juicy, and fruity. Many growers consider it a “dessert” tomato.
- ⚠️ Growing Tip: Like many large, sweet bicolors, it is a slow starter (mid-late to late season) and is prone to radial cracking around the stem end, especially if watering is inconsistent or after heavy rains. Requires full sun to develop its best flavor.
A bicolor variety that I liked very much. Grew it outdoors in the open garden, it reached about a meter (3+ ft) tall, though I planted it late. Productive, the largest ones were 400-450g (14-16 oz). The taste is superb.
Wow, what a beautiful cross-section 😋, it looks completely marbled. Sasha, are the seeds from Popenko?
Seeds are from Kulik.
Thanks to this variety, I can honestly say I fell in love with late-season tomatoes: when the season is in full swing, you barely even notice the fruits on these bushes, but later, when the main harvest from everything else is mostly over, these late ones give you such a wonderful surprise 👍
I liked this variety. It grows outdoors for me. Tasty, productive. The fruits are huge, 500-600g (1.1-1.3 lbs). The only issue was they cracked after the rains.
They ripened:
Armyanskie (Armenian)
Unfortunately, Armenian didn’t work out for me this year 😞. There weren’t many fruits, but they were all very large, and they suffered from severe radial cracking. Inside, it’s solid meat (there were practically no seeds), beautiful, but totally tasteless. Apparently, they just didn’t get enough sun to develop flavor and a brighter color. They were the absolute last ones to ripen.
My Armenian seeds were also from Kulik. The variety turned out mid-season, almost mid-early, which was a nice surprise considering June was exceptionally cold in our region last season, with night temperatures dropping to +3°C (37°F) for three weeks straight.
The variety proved to be productive and tasty, growing over 1.8 m (6 ft) tall in the poly greenhouse. The lower fruits were oblate (flattened), but higher up the vine, they developed a heart shape.
Very tasty! It turned out to be one of the sweetest bicolors I grew. Unfortunately, I can’t say much about the overall yield, since I only grew 1 bush and its top broke off in early June. I definitely want to repeat it.
Seeds from Kulik.
I didn’t like the taste or the texture at all.
– Bush appearance: Medium, spreading, normal, leaning slightly towards weak (wispy foliage).
– Fruit set: No skips, the very top trusses are ripening.
– Height in open ground: By Aug 10 – 1.2m (4 ft), by Sept 6 – 1.4m (4.5 ft).
– Trusses: 1-2 fruits each.
– Overall yield: Average.
– Fruit: Flattened orange-red bicolor, very unique; the later ones are brighter both inside and out.
– Density of ripe fruit: Low (soft).
– Taste: As they say, “Meat” — balanced, tasty, juicy, sweetness 5/5.
First impression: A tasty, beautiful tomato for fresh eating and processing.
Cons: Prone to radial cracking at the stem end, slightly weak bush.
Rating: Seedlings – 5, Bush – 4, Fruit – 5, Overall variety rating – 5-.
Just a VERY tasty tomato!!! My mom calls them a dessert. Grown outdoors the taste isn’t quite as sweet, but still very good. The seedlings were very nice and stocky with crinkly leaves, they don’t get leggy. Mid-season maturity, outdoors it acts like a late-season, but 2 trusses managed to ripen fully on the vine. Will absolutely plant it again.
I almost forgot! I barely managed to collect any seeds—some fruits didn’t have a single seed in them at all.
A very, very tasty bicolor. At first, it set very little fruit for me, but when it finally bulked up its fruits, I realized that for this size, the yield wasn’t actually that small.
There were absolutely no small fruits, all 500-600g (1.1-1.3 lbs).
It’s a bit late, but it can hang on the vine well without overripening. It cracked a little, but I had some major inconsistencies with watering. I will definitely plant it again.
I’ve wanted this variety for a long, long time. And it was worth it! It was very slow out of the gate and took a long time to ripen. But this is a tomato that is absolutely worth the wait. It’s basically a piece of fruit! Extremely beautiful. True, the yield was just average, but there was enough to eat our fill. Seeds from Angelina.
Armenian is tasty, and I wish every tomato had fruit stems (pedicels) like this—there’s no need to tie up or support the trusses at all. It throws a ton of suckers. It turned out mid-late in the open garden here in Saratov. I planted 4 bushes; 1 was an off-type. Honey Salute (Medovyi Salyut) was 2 weeks earlier, looks very similar, and yielded twice as many fruits.
