Quick Summary of Best Bestos
- 🌍 Origin & Type: A gorgeous, deeply ribbed (pleated/ruffled) red tomato. Some fruits take on a pear-like or wide piriform shape.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, mid-season. Reaches up to 6.5 ft (2 meters) in height. Highly prized for its stress tolerance—it performs exceptionally well in both extremely hot regions and cold, short-summer areas.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, meaty, ribbed fruits with very few internal voids (which is rare for deeply pleated varieties). The skin is red, but the flesh inside often has a deep crimson-raspberry hue.
- 🌸 Megablooms: While many growers prune off “megablooms” (fused blossoms) to prevent misshapen fruits, growers note that Best Bestos actually produces fantastic, uniquely shaped giant fruits from these fused flowers.
- 👅 Flavor Profile: Very tender, sweet, and juicy-meaty with a nice balancing acidity. It does not suffer from the “bland” taste that sometimes plagues heavily ribbed varieties.
Best Bestos, in my opinion, is one of the very best varieties with ribbed fruits. In the greenhouse, it showed excellent yield. The height of the bushes was about 6.5 ft (2 meters). The fruits are tender and sweet.
I chose this variety as a stress-resistant one suitable for any conditions, because here in the Omsk region in open ground, only those kinds of tomatoes bring us joy. And I was absolutely right: I harvested the first large ones today, I am happy as a clam! 👍
The tomato variety Best Bestos is a mid-season, indeterminate variety, up to 6.5 ft (2 m) tall.
The fruits are pear-shaped, ribbed, dense, without any empty internal voids. The skin is red, the flesh is crimson-raspberry, very tender, sweet with a nice acidity, not bland at all. I purposely left the megablooms (fused blossoms) on the plant; I really like the fruits that develop from megablooms on pear-shaped varieties like Karl, Garmoshka, and Abruzzo.
An excellent tomato, very tasty with tender flesh.
Fruits of large and medium size, meaty, and tasty.
