📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bizon Chernyi (Black Bison)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial variety, distributed primarily by the “Poisk” seed company as part of their “Vkusnoteka” (Tasty Library) series.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. A tall, very vigorous and powerful plant. Growers note it has a tendency to go vegetative (focusing on leaf growth rather than fruit production).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Dark-colored, very juicy tomatoes. The variety is highly prone to producing “megablooms” (fasciated blossoms), which result in misshapen, fused fruits.
- 👅 Flavor: Good, rich tomato flavor with a unique aftertaste.
- ⏳ Grower Feedback: Generally reported to have very low yields. Fruits are highly susceptible to severe cracking, even when shaded from the heat.
Tall, vigorous plant, but the yield is low. The tomato is tasty, with a rich tomato flavor and an unusual aftertaste. Very juicy. Prone to cracking and megablooms (fasciated blossoms). And here is what grew out of those megablooms:
Svetlana, whose seeds are these? (Which seed company?)
I have seeds from “Poisk”, three Bisons – black, orange, and yellow. I haven’t seen seeds from any other company with this name.
komp1790 said:
I have seeds from “Poisk”, three Bisons – black, orange, and yellow. I haven’t seen seeds from any other company with this name.
Persistent 🙂
I found the packet – it’s Poisk, “Vkusnoteka” series.
komp1790 said:
Exactly, mine is also Vkusnoteka.
Are you getting them ready to plant?
It’s tasty, of course, but the yield is pretty much nonexistent… and the fact that it cracked on me is also not good. Very few varieties cracked like that for me. This one and Chocolate Stripes (Polosatyi Shokolad).
I’ll definitely plant the Black one, the photo is very beautiful. I probably won’t grow the yellow and orange ones. And I can’t stand cracking either, but I really want to try it.
I didn’t get along with this variety either. Seeds from Poisk, “Vkusnoteka” series. At first, both plants struggled and languished as seedlings. I repotted them into different soil, they started growing, I was happy. Planted them out in the garden in their final spot, and they just went completely vegetative (growing all foliage) ???. They put out tiny fruits on the lower trusses, the tomatoes on the 2nd and 3rd trusses were larger, about 100-150g (3.5-5 oz). They cracked from the heat, even though I provided shade for them.
