Quick Summary of Bananu
- 🌍 Origin: A very attractive elongated yellow/orange paste tomato. Seeds are widely distributed by European and Russian seed vendors (e.g., R. Kraft, A. Kulik).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, mid-early (often leaning towards early). The plant is characteristically wispy, with thin stems and sparse, delicate foliage. Despite looking fragile, it is remarkably resilient and sets fruit well even in cool weather.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful ribbed, elongated, bottle- or banana-shaped yellow/orange fruits. Weight is typically around 3 to 5 oz (80-150 g). The flesh is very dense, granular, and almost seedless.
- ⚠️ Agronomic Note: As is common with many elongated paste varieties, it can be susceptible to Blossom End Rot (BER) if watering is inconsistent or calcium uptake is restricted.
- 👅 Flavor & Culinary Use: Firm and dense, making it a phenomenal keeper with a very long shelf life. The taste becomes sweet with a unique tartness when fully ripe. Ideal for canning, pickling, and making yellow sauces.
Mid-season, leaning closer to early, indeterminate variety. The bush is thin, leaves are thin; the variety is very resilient, didn’t drop blossoms even in cold weather. It grew outdoors in open ground on three stems. Planted late in early April, it reached a height of 4 ft (1.2 meters). The taste is ordinary, there were practically no seeds in the fruits. The variety is very beautiful, decorative, the fruits are like little bananas, ribbed, it’s pleasant to hold them in your hands. Seeds from R. Kraft. It is also listed in A. Kulik’s 2015/2016 Catalog.
I grew this beautiful variety in the greenhouse, planted a few bushes. The bushes are elegant, with thin stems and sparse foliage. One plant stood out in particular, which at the beginning of its growth started rapidly putting out suckers – I think the high doses of organic matter played a role…
It produces a lot of fruits, the plant looks spectacular hung with orange “bananas”.
The flesh has a dense structure, with a quite pleasant taste. When fully ripe, the taste changes – it acquires a unique tartness and sweetness.
The fruits can be stored for quite a long time, they should be tasty in marinades and pickles.
We’ll check it out this winter!
Seeds from Kulik, grew in the greenhouse, caught blossom end rot (BER). The fruits are very beautiful, but for some reason, they are not yellow 😳
Seeds from Kulik, grew in the greenhouse, caught blossom end rot (BER). The fruits are very beautiful, but for some reason, they are not yellow 😳
Some are shaped exactly like little bananas, the taste is good.
Quote from Anela:
Wow! How beautiful that ribbed one is over there. You should have saved the seeds from it in a separate little packet.
Grew it in 2017. Seeds from V. Redko.
Description: “Tall, mid-early. The bush is thin, complex clusters. The fruits have a very beautiful elongated bottle shape, bright yellow, resembling bananas, very dense. Fruit weight 3-5 oz (80-150g), the flesh is light yellow, sweet, granular. Good for pickling and long-term storage. High yield. For greenhouse and open ground.”
Grew it in the greenhouse on the shady side. Fully corresponds to the description. But the yield was absolutely nonexistent: 4 fruits on a plate and then I picked 2 more at the very end of the season.
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