Quick Summary of Basinga
- 🌍 Origin: A rare heirloom tomato variety originally from the USA.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Grows vigorously and can reach up to 2 meters (6.5 ft) in height when grown in a greenhouse.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, beautiful cream-colored (pale yellow/white) beefsteak tomatoes. The shape can vary, with some fruits displaying pronounced ribbing at the shoulders. They are consistently large, with growers reporting that even the smallest fruits often weigh over 300 g (10.5 oz).
- 👅 Flavor: Highly rated. The flesh is dense and meaty with a distinctly sweet and delicious flavor profile.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season.
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A rare tomato variety from the USA with cream-colored fruits. The fruits are quite large, tasty, meaty, and sweet. Some fruits turned out more ribbed. It’s a mid-season variety. In the greenhouse, it grew up to 2 meters (6.5 ft).
Edited October 25, 2017 by Drosera
A very old favorite of mine. There was nothing smaller than 300 g (10.5 oz) this year.
Edited August 22, 2025 by tomatinka
