Beauty King Tomato: Grower Reviews & Photos

I loved this variety purely for its looks, it is incredibly beautiful both inside and out. Very tasty. Grew it outdoors in the dirt, it only reached 30-35 inches (80-90 cm) because of late planting. Fruits were up to 10.5 oz (300 g). The only “but” is that it was not very productive, but I will absolutely be planting it again.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Drosera

Well, it definitely looks exactly like my Beauty Queen, just significantly larger. 👍

And it looks exactly like what I have labeled as Beauty King. So what is it really? I’m confused 🙂

Now I am almost certain that the folks on the foreign forums were right. The only real difference between the two is the size.

So it turns out you and I have the exact same tomatoes, Verochka: Krasota Korolevy is literally just a translation of Beauty Queen.

Beauty King (USA). Grew in the greenhouse. Tasty, very low yielder. I will absolutely plant it again!

Edited November 16, 2014 by rudik

Has anyone grown it in a greenhouse? Just how tall did it get?

I got mine from Popenko. It wasn’t extremely tall – about 5 feet (1.5 m) with a thick main stem and massive leaves. The yield was pretty small. The taste had a nice tang to it, but it truly is a stunner 👍

Well, as usual: all I have are pictures of green tomatoes… 😆 An excellent variety! I got mine from Yaroslavna. Grew in the greenhouse. Hit about 6 feet (180 cm) tall. Taste had a bit of a tang to it. What a beauty! 😘

Well, as usual: all I have are pictures of green tomatoes… 😆 An excellent variety! I got mine from Yaroslavna. Grew in the greenhouse. Hit about 6 feet (180 cm) tall. Taste had a bit of a tang to it. What a beauty! 😘

Olya 🌸🌸🌸 The ripe fruits will look like this… You’re right, the variety is excellent – gorgeous and tasty 👍

Has anyone grown it in a greenhouse? Just how tall did it get?

Grew it in a hoop house, it hit roughly 6.5 feet (2 m). Seeds from Popenko.

Olya 🌸🌸🌸 The ripe fruits will look like this… You’re right, the variety is excellent – gorgeous and tasty 👍

Yes, Natalya Pavlovna, that’s exactly what they looked like when ripe 👍😋 But as always, I failed to take pictures of the ripe ones 😳

Edited December 29, 2014 by Drosera

The variety is beautiful, but it tasted like nothing to me. I’m not planning to plant it for 2015, but maybe someday I’ll repeat it.

The variety is beautiful, but it tasted like nothing to me. I’m not planning to plant it for 2015, but maybe someday I’ll repeat it.

Irin, in what way was it tasteless? I have it on my planting list… Maybe I should scratch it before it’s too late.

Irin, in what way was it tasteless? I have it on my planting list… Maybe I should scratch it before it’s too late.

Len, for me there’s usually no such thing as a “tasteless” tomato, but the King turned out to be the first. Grew it both in the polycarbonate greenhouse and outdoors, and in both places it tasted like grass. Not sour, not sweet – just absolutely nothing.

I’m not ruling out that maybe my hands just don’t know what they’re doing, but last year I went crazy for striped varieties, grew a ton of them, and the only decent ones flavor-wise were Chocolate Stripes, Schimmeig Creg, and Don Juan. And Michael Pollan was decent for canning. Based on all that, I’ve come to the conclusion that modern breeding for stripes comes at the heavy expense of flavor. This year I didn’t order a single striped one, even though in 2014 I dreamed of collecting every single one in existence. 🤠🌸

Beauty King – indeterminate, mid-season, average fruit weight 7 oz (200 g), fruity-sweet. This specific variety became the parent line for a ton of the blue and striped modern varieties and hybrids. The longer the fruit hangs on the vine, the brighter and redder it gets inside.

Edited September 20, 2015 by Alisa

The bush was wimpy, very spindly as a seedling. The taste wasn’t a WOW! but it wasn’t a YUCK either. Very beautiful, but it was a terrible yielder, only 4-5 tomatoes on the entire plant.

For me, both the King and the Queen turned out to be identical, massive fruits up to 1.1 lbs (500 g), but they were honestly some of the most sour tomatoes I grew 😞. But gorgeous! And it’s true, there were very few of them. But they did keep slowly ripening 1 or 2 at a time until late fall. The photos aren’t great, I took them in the evening 😞

Beauty King made me very happy. It was quite early, the first ones were ripe by mid-July. A pretty heavy yielder by my standards, definitely got at least 15 off the plant 😉 A beauty, and tasty on top of that 😋 True, they didn’t get massively huge. The bush was very sturdy, tall indeterminate, right to the roof of the greenhouse, so 6.5+ feet (2+ m). Loves the sun. Seeds were from TatyanKa 🌸 Overall, it ticks all my boxes, I will repeat it 👍

Here is how mine turned out. Taste is a 4 out of 5, sweetish with a fruity note, the fruits got a bit sunbaked out in the heat.

Here is how mine turned out. Taste is a 4 out of 5, sweetish with a fruity note, the fruits got a bit sunbaked out in the heat.

Svet, why a 4+, what was it lacking in taste for you?

Svet, why a 4+, what was it lacking in taste for you?

Tomato fatigue, my taste buds got numb… Tasting a whole bucket of tomatoes a day will do that to you…

I have Beauty King, Royal Beauty, and Beauty Queen prepped for planting. All from different sources – but I have a strong feeling they are all going to turn out to be the exact same variety…..

Beauty King (seeds from Verunya), grew it from a rooted sucker. Pruned it to 2 stems. Yield as of 09/08/17:
1. 6 oz (172 g)
2. 4.5 oz (127 g)
3. 13.5 oz (383 g)
4. 10.3 oz (292 g)
5. 7.6 oz (217 g)
6. 3.7 oz (106 g)
7. 5.6 oz (159 g)
8. 5.5 oz (157 g)
9. 4.3 oz (122 g)
10. 3 oz (87 g)
11. 2.8 oz (81 g)
Total: 4.2 lbs (1903 g). Beautiful, but I didn’t really like the taste (probably because our summer was a total disaster this year).

I have Beauty King, Royal Beauty, and Beauty Queen prepped for planting. All from different sources – but I have a strong feeling they are all going to turn out to be the exact same variety…..

You have to look at the original English names. Koroleva Krasoty is likely just the exact same thing as Korolevskaya Krasota (Beauty Queen). This variety is slightly different from the Korol Krasoty (Beauty King) listed in Popenko’s catalog.

Planted it two years in a row, absolutely loved it 👍 – beautiful and tasty 😋, grew in the greenhouse pruned to two stems, yield was slightly above average, fruits up to 10.5 oz (300 grams), some had a slight heart shape to them. The cross-section looks like an exotic fruit 😘

Grew this variety for the first time. For me it turned out looking extremely similar to Beauty Queen, but the fruits on Beauty King were flatter. Didn’t notice any difference in taste.

It is very beautiful. But honestly, I can’t tell the difference between it and Lithium Sunset. The differences must be incredibly subtle.

It is very beautiful. But honestly, I can’t tell the difference between it and Lithium Sunset. The differences must be incredibly subtle.

My Lithium Sunset was much more ribbed.

Yeah, probably. Sunset is definitely curvier 😆

My Lithium Sunset was much more ribbed.

Ilya, is there a difference in taste? Which one is tastier? What about yield? 🤠

Ilya, is there a difference in taste? Which one is tastier? What about yield? 🤠

Tatiana, the yield was pretty much the same for me. In my conditions, both varieties were very tasty and sweet, but Beauty King also had a fruity tartness to it.

Beauty King is very beautiful and a very heavy yielder, weights varied, up to 10.5 oz (300 g). Looks like Plan 9, but less striped. Taste is sweetish with a tang. I liked it.

Beauty King. Repeated this stunner, fruits up to 7-10.5 oz (200-300 g), the flesh is jelly-like, firm, sweet, honestly just tastes like fruit 😋

Edited October 3, 2022 by Svetikk