📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bolshoy Oranzhevyi Khrebet (Big Orange Ridge)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian heirloom variety. The name translates to “Big Orange Ridge”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Requires pruning/training (growers typically prune to 2 or 3 stems). It can experience slow fruit set during unfavorable early-season weather but compensates heavily once conditions stabilize. Demonstrates good heat tolerance.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, orange, oblate beefsteaks with slight ribbing. The flesh is dense and meaty.
- 👅 Flavor: Sweet and meaty.
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Growing this variety for the first year. The tomatoes are large, orange, oblate with slight ribbing, meaty, and sweet. The plant is indeterminate and requires pruning. I grew it on 2-3 stems. At first, I thought the variety was unproductive—it had poor fruit set (I didn’t shoot a video of it then, but I’ll probably shoot one in a few days and post it here). But as soon as the weather improved, it just pumped out fruits. Here is the tasting and cross-section video.
I grew it in 2019. I liked the variety; it’s a heavy yielder, the fruits are large, beautiful, and tasty. It’s definitely staying in my collection.
I’ve planted this variety 3 times already, I really like it. It sets fruit well despite our heat. They are tasty, meaty, and dense.
