Quick Summary of Aunt Anna
- 🌍 Origin: A magnificent red heirloom variety that is highly prized in our community for its incredible flesh-to-seed ratio.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and vigorous. Growers recommend growing it in a greenhouse and pruning to 2 stems. It is quite adaptable and can even perform well in slightly shaded spots.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Massive, red tomatoes that range in shape from classic blunt oxhearts to large, chunky “barrels.” They consistently weigh between 400–600g (14–21 oz), with megablooms producing monsters over 900g (2 lbs). The most defining trait is the interior: it is nearly solid meat with almost zero seed cavities.
- 👅 Flavor: Universally loved. The flesh is dense yet very juicy (not dry). It boasts a perfectly balanced flavor profile with very low acidity and a pronounced, delicious sweetness.
- ⚠️ Seed Saving Warning: Because this variety is so dense and meaty, it produces incredibly few seeds. Some growers report cutting open entire large fruits and not finding a single seed inside!
AUNT ANNA
Indeterminate. Large red fruits in the shape of hearts, some are in the shape of a large barrel. Very meaty, sweet, weight up to 450g (16 oz). Grew in a greenhouse.
I liked the variety; the tomatoes are meaty, sweet, with almost no acidity at all, and have very few seeds. The bush grew in the greenhouse, in a slightly shaded spot.
Aunt Anna. A gorgeous variety, absolutely mandatory to grow again! Indeterminate, grew in the greenhouse on 2 stems. The fruits are large, even, barrel-like hearts up to 600g (21 oz). Red, soooo tasty. Very few seeds, it’s just solid meat.
Svetikk said:
…soooo tasty.
Sveta, is the flesh firm? Is the taste balanced, or does something dominate?
T@tk@ said:
Sveta, is the flesh firm? Is the taste balanced, or does something dominate?
Firm, but juicy, not dry. The taste is very well balanced with a clear sweetness. I love this type.
Svetikk said:
Firm, but juicy, not dry. The taste is very well balanced with a clear sweetness. I love this type.
Thank you, that means I’m putting it on my list. Sveta, where can I see your updated seed list?
Svetikk said:
Very few seeds, it’s just solid meat.
The tomato is absolutely delicious. And as for seeds, it’s not even “very few”—I haven’t found a single one yet! I have one last little tomato sitting here, pinning all my hopes on it… maybe, just maybe…
Svetikk said (previously):
Aunt Anna. A gorgeous variety, absolutely mandatory to grow again! Indeterminate, grew in the greenhouse on 2 stems. The fruits are large, even, barrel-like hearts up to 600g (21 oz). Red, soooo tasty. Very few seeds, it’s just solid meat.
I repeated this variety this year, and it is still gorgeous! It gets a permanent spot on my grow list! Tasty, beautiful, large, productive—what more do you need for happiness? 😂
It’s just that there are very few seeds in it. The weight of the largest one this year was 922 grams (32.5 oz)!
