Auria Tomato Review & Photos

Well, my Auria has started too. Here are photos of the first fruit set on the first truss 😉.

P.S. The beginning of this thread was on the old forum.

How lovely!!!! I don’t even have flower buds on mine yet!!!

My Auria is setting fruit too… I am looking at the tomatoes in deep contemplation. Are they… all going to look like this?

Sha_iri wrote:

Are they… all going to look like this?

Irishka, are they reaching out to you or something? 😆

This is what mine looked like last year:

Danko wrote:

Irishka, are they reaching out to you or something? 😆

Apparently, yes… I was sitting right in the aisle, pruning and tidying up the tomato bushes, and suddenly… so many “weapons,” and they were all pointing right at me! 😂

The shape is just far too unambiguous. These tomatoes are much less modest than the ones our dear Admin showed..

Such interesting wee-wees… I mean, Aurias 😂 Mine has some small fruit set too, but they are still tiny babies.

And here is my Auria.

Here is what mine looks like.

Super 👍 Svetlana, whose seeds were those?

Natalia wrote:

Super 👍 Svetlana, whose seeds were those?

Inherited them from my mother-in-law, who got them from a neighbor, who brought them from Ukraine 😆. Honestly, the variety turned out to be finicky for me—the slightest bit of shade, and it gets super leggy, which hurts the yield. And this year, it completely died on me during the seedling stage 😞

And these are my little Aurias 🙂!

Beauties! Definitely something worth looking at, I’m getting in line for seeds… 👍

Girls, I’m pruning my Auria to 2 stems, and on the sucker, the first flower truss didn’t appear until after the 6th leaf. It’s just a massive bare stem with a flower cluster at the very end. But from the higher suckers (that I haven’t had time to pinch off), flower trusses appear immediately.

Maybe it’s better to prune it to 1 main stem, and then once it starts fruiting, leave the suckers but pinch/top them right after their 1st flower truss?

Valya, I grew mine on 2 stems and pinched out the rest of the suckers.

Lenochka (Danko), as always, I am drooling over your tomatoes.

Here is mine. I pruned it to 2 stems, but near the top, it pushed out a lot of suckers that quickly set tomatoes, so I decided not to remove them.

Girls, what is the ripening time for Auria and how tall does it get?

Olya, the height isn’t super tall, and the ripening speed depends on the conditions. For me, outdoors in open ground, it was mid-early. However, only the very first ripe ones suffered from Blossom End Rot (BER), despite me treating them with calcium.

I don’t know about anyone else, but my fruits were distinctly sweet.

I liked Auria, it turned out to be very productive. Pruned to a single stem, grown in a high tunnel. It got very tall, I had to keep topping it. In winter preserves, they are much tastier than when eaten fresh—they develop a nice little flavor.

Even though I sowed the seeds on Feb 20, for me, it performed as a late-season variety.

This year’s Auria! I sowed seeds gifted by Irochka from St. Petersburg 🌺. It always seems like apples are sweeter in someone else’s garden—hers always looked more vigorous and productive! 🙈 Well, it turns out mine was just as great this year! 👍 It dropped almost no blossoms, set fruit perfectly right up to the greenhouse roof, pruned to 2 stems. I only noticed BER on four fruits across two bushes.

It is my absolute favorite variety for canning in jars 😋 and for giving out as funny little gifts 🙈

I have very mixed feelings about Auria. On the one hand, my kids absolutely loved eating them (they love this shape), and it’s excellent for canning…

But on the other hand, I can’t bring myself to recommend it to anyone yet.

Why? It’s vigorous, sturdy, beautiful… and extremely finicky. It drops its blossoms at the slightest cold spell (and my Junes are usually very cold). It is best friends with Blossom End Rot—while other paste/icicle tomatoes only need one dolomite treatment and you forget about BER, this one stubbornly throws out 1-2 rotten fruits periodically… And when given calcium, the leaves turn pale, demanding more food.

It’s productive and is still fruiting at a height of 3 meters (10 ft), but it definitely has issues.

I hope I manage to acclimatize it to my region so everything works out, but I’m planting fewer of them next year and will keep an eye on it.

Wow!!! We just opened some jars of canned tomatoes. Auria is the absolute best! So meaty, and very convenient to bite into 🙈 😂 😂

Pure meat… And very aromatic too. Just lovely!!!!

And it’s incredibly convenient to pack them tightly into jars. In short, even though it is finicky as a seedling, it gets a permanent residence permit in my garden—4 bushes guaranteed!

elsa30 wrote:

Wow!!! We just opened some jars of canned tomatoes. Auria is the absolute best! So meaty, and very convenient to bite into 🙈 😂

Exactly!!! 👍 That’s our kind of person!!! 😆 For me, Auria is always number 1 for canning 😋 And when it’s fully, properly ripe, it’s pretty good fresh, too 😋

Girls, I want to plant it too. Do you feed it with anything extra, since it’s known to be finicky and prone to getting sick?

Sasha, I didn’t feed it anything special personally; it got exactly what everyone else got.

Prone to getting sick—yes, it catches Leaf Mold (Cladosporium) before the others, but I didn’t get any BER on it. This year I will plant its cousin, Zabava.

So Auria is definitely worth planting for canning? I was worrying that it would be ruined by BER. I’ll plant it along with Eros (the orange version) and a yellow pepper-shaped one from Myazina—they will look beautiful packed together in the jars.

It’s entirely possible that you will get some BER on it—this variety is prone to it 🙄 But for me, losing 2-3 fruits to BER is not critical. I don’t feed it anything separate, but in autumn or spring, I dust all my tomato beds with dolomite lime or wood ash.

This year I harvested about 4 buckets from Auria (if not more 😂), and only about 7 fruits were affected by BER. Not critical at all. But I didn’t hold back on the wood ash. When the fruits started ripening, I dusted the entire greenhouse. And I did foliar sprays with Bordeaux mixture 4 times over the season (I wonder if it absorbs Calcium from that? 😛).

Regarding Blossom End Rot on Auria.

In 2013, one and a half trusses across 2 plants were completely ruined by it. BER shows up during hot weather when watering is insufficient. No amount of Calcium nitrate feedings helped.

In 2014, during the early fruit growth stage (and basically all summer), it was cold. Just in case, I fed it with Calcium nitrate a few times and made sure the soil under the plants was always moist. Not a single fruit got Blossom End Rot!

The second photo is from this year—late August. It already caught Leaf Mold (Cladosporium), but nothing critical, most of the leaves are still intact.

I’ve only ever seen such an obscenity in the men’s sauna… what a nightmare… how can you even eat this?? 😆

Andrey_K wrote:

I’ve only ever seen such an obscenity in the men’s sauna… what a nightmare… how can you even eat this?? 😆

😋 🙈
Rest assured, no men from the sauna were harmed in the making of this jar! 😂

Auria, Eros, and Banana Legs.

My daughter-in-law and her friends refused to eat them! 😂

I planted just 1 bush of Auria, and the green tomatoes were a source of endless joy for the neighbors. The neighbors didn’t even let them ripen—people were coming from neighboring streets just to ask about them!

🙂 I planted it last year, our Irina shared the seeds with me. Mine wasn’t quite as prolific, of course, but it still grew decently, definitely something to look at 😉:

Abika wrote:

The neighbors didn’t even let them ripen… people were coming from neighboring streets just to ask about them.

Golsirya, what do you mean the neighbors didn’t let them ripen? Did they eat them green? 😲

Galya, my neighbor took 1 red one for seeds and bragged about it, and after that, people started taking even the green ones! I gave away at least 15 of them. This year I’m planting 4-5 bushes.

My Auria.

Alenusik wrote:

My Auria.

Well, what can I even comment here… 😆 You need to work on your breeding for length and girth! 🙈

But otherwise, the proportions are practically ideal.

I had a few fruits get BER because the heatwave lasted for 2 months, but overall I liked it. It grew very tall, and grew into a massive mess of stems—I pinched suckers at first, but then just gave up. I canned them in jars, they didn’t burst. Haven’t opened them yet, it’ll be a surprise for New Year’s! 😂 😂 😂 Here is what it looked like:

My “Auria” is from Tomatanya—Tanechka, thank you so much for such a wonderful gift! 🌺 It grew outdoors in open ground, withstood our intense heat, didn’t get sick. I can’t comment fully on the yield since I only grew one bush. I gave seeds to all my acquaintances—they all burst out laughing, but they gladly take the seeds! 😆 Next year I will plant about five bushes each of Auria, Eros, and Yellow Auria from Katyusha Zhavoronok, let the neighbors and friends have a good laugh, and bring joy to myself! And I’ll finally get a chance to properly evaluate Katyusha’s Auria 👍

I really loved Auria in marinades/pickles!

Eaten fresh, it was a bit dry and small due to the drought. Mostly they went out as souvenirs! 😆
Thanks to Lesya (Kryzhopol) for the seeds. 🌺

This is my third year planting Auria. Huge thanks to Svetikk 🌺 for the seeds! I absolutely love it for canning, those are always the first jars eaten. We like them fresh too. It remains on my permanent grow list for next year. And as for a bit of BER… that’s not a big deal. 3-4 ruined fruits is a minor issue.

I’m at work… and opening these photos, Lord forgive me 🤦‍♀️… We liked Auria too, but my entire family tried very hard to pretend they didn’t realize what it looked like 😛

My Auria. I had one bush. For me, it was late, grew to the ceiling, dropped its first flowers, and then really took off towards the end of summer. In September, I had to harvest everything from the bush, including the unripe ones—it yielded about 4 kg (8.8 lbs). The taste is normal, not dry, everything went into the canning jars.

I don’t care, I’m going to upload photos of my favorite again!!! 😛

Photos from September 10, 2014

Natalia, awesome, what a harvest! 👍 How was the taste for you? I have seeds, maybe I should plant it too…

And here is mine. Zero BER, and the taste was good, the only issue was it felt a bit hollow/empty inside.

So that Auria doesn’t end up empty and dry, you need to walk around it in a bikini all summer! 😆 🙈

Verunya wrote:

Natalia, awesome, what a harvest! 👍 How was the taste for you? I have seeds, maybe I should plant it too…

It’s nicely sweet, and meaty! 😂
Especially in jars. My husband said it was almost too sweet. In a good way, its flavor stands out strongly from other tomatoes.

You absolutely must plant this “tree”!!!!

Andrey_K wrote:

So that Auria doesn’t end up empty and dry, you need to walk around it in a bikini all summer! 😆 🙈

That’s exactly what I do! 🙈 I even crawl around on all fours between the bushes in the greenhouse! 🙈 After that, Auria didn’t even fit in my 1-liter jars! 😂

Andrey_K wrote:

So that Auria doesn’t end up empty and dry, you need to walk around it in a bikini all summer! 😆 🙈

With my figure, if I walked around in a bikini, I’m afraid all the blossoms would drop off in shock! 😂 😂 😂

Yes, I liked Auria too, in pickles, in canned jars, and the old village grannies liked it too 😉

Zhanna wrote:

Yes, I liked Auria too, in pickles, in canned jars…

Maybe I was too harsh on it, considering how tasty it is when canned.

elsa30 wrote:

I don’t care, I’m going to upload photos of my favorite again!!! 😛

Now that is beauty, whereas I only had 6 little pee-pees and even those were rotten little whistles (BER). I need to try planting it in a different spot. Yours is just too good.

Just as a fresh tomato straight off the bush—I didn’t like it at all. But for canning (I grow it, my mom cans it), I loved it. The skin is thick and it holds its shape perfectly! 😂

Lidiya wrote:

Now that is beauty, whereas I only had 6 little pee-pees…

Lida, my two bushes grew right by the entrance and were super productive. Now I’m wondering, should I plant Eros (the yellow version)?

o-lya-lya wrote:

Now I’m wondering, should I plant Eros?

Olya, I didn’t like Eros, I won’t plant it again—it was hollow inside. Better to just plant 2 more bushes of Auria, I absolutely loved it 😋 but that’s just my opinion 🤫 🙈

Lidiya wrote:

I need to try planting it in a different spot. Yours is just too good.

Mine was planted in the sunniest spot in the greenhouse, because I read that it is very demanding regarding light….
And its seedling was the absolute weakest of the bunch, though to be fair, it got put into some bad potting soil.
Basically, I messed up with it at first, but then I tried to make amends, and it appreciated the effort! 😉

By mid-summer, I had actually written it off as a “disappointment”. But oh, how wrong I was!!! 🙈

o-lya-lya wrote:

Lida, my two bushes grew right by the entrance and were super productive. Now I’m wondering, should I plant Eros?

Olya, it grows great outdoors too. Excuse me, it was Eros that was outdoors this year. It turned out to be even more productive than Auria in the greenhouse, and there was very little BER, despite the hot and dry summer. I did water it regularly though 🙈 And the only difference between Auria and Eros, in my opinion, is the color. So it just depends on what you prefer! 😆.

Zhanna wrote:

Just as a fresh tomato straight off the bush—I didn’t like it at all. But for canning… I loved it, the skin is thick and it holds its shape perfectly! 😂

I am of the exact same opinion.