I also have one bush of Black Heart with a spout from Borisovna growing. So far it doesn’t differ from the others, a beautiful, sturdy little bush, not even spindly/skinny. Seeds from Svetikk.
When I wrote my season report, the variety wasn’t in the catalog yet, so I hesitated to add it.
Based on the results of last season, it was the tastiest and sweetest (according to the reviews of my tasters). It wasn’t overly prolific for me, but that’s most likely my fault. This year I am repeating it from my own saved seeds. The seedlings are completely normal. My original seeds were from MamaAntona.
My seedlings are normal, sowing for the first time. The seeds were from Lvovna, thanks to her. And thanks to Borisovna as well for distributing it!
Black Heart with a spout from Borisovna.
Seeds from Voditsa (Ardak from Kazakhstan) received via registered mail in 2017.
Sown on 18.03.2019. Pricked out on 03.04.2019.
This is what the seedlings look like today. Slender/skinny, like all oxheart varieties 😉. Maybe not all.
I also have a good bush, already planted it out in the greenhouse.
Borisovna wrote:
I don’t understand what I did wrong, 3 bushes can’t just be without a growing point 😫
Natalya Borisovna, this year I planted 4 seeds from the ones you sent in 2018 — all 4 turned into absolutely normal seedlings, quite sturdy actually, especially for an “oxheart”. Thick little stems. I broke one when transplanting it to its permanent spot, but everything grew with proper growing points, normal true leaves, and cotyledons. In fact, it already has fruit set out in the open ground (outdoors), and the largest little fruit is also on one of the “Black with a spout” bushes, bigger than the ones grown in the greenhouse…
Wonderful forum members sent me seeds. I sowed 3 of them this year, all are absolutely normal. I don’t think it’s a flaw with the seeds or the variety. It just happens sometimes with any variety, they are plants, they are unpredictable, and it’s impossible to control it.
Here is the first fruit of Black with a spout, and outdoors in open ground, too! Discovered on 28.06.2019. The rest are still small, but this one is huge, and it’s already coloring up. This is that very first fruit I wrote about earlier.
The variety is wonderful, it has earned a permanent spot on my grow list. Beautiful, productive. A bright taste with pronounced sweetness.
Huge thanks to Natalya Borisovna for promoting the variety and to Sveta (Svetikk) for the seeds.
Picked the first ripe tomato today. Who would doubt that it was Black with a Spout! It is so delicious!!!!! The tastiest variety of all that I’ve tried, and I usually don’t like anything) Even the very first tomato is delicious! Usually, the first fruits aren’t great in taste, but this handsome guy is amazing.
Girls, I also picked my first tomato today!!!! It grew fused (megabloom), but its taste and beauty didn’t suffer at all!!!! The girls from the forum shared the seeds! Thank you, for your kind and generous hearts everyone!!!!!
Very tasty!!! And very prolific!
And for me this year, it just froze as a 30 cm (1 ft) bush. No flowers, no fruit set. And by the way, I had several varieties do this this year. Although they developed normally as seedlings. After transplanting outdoors, they just stalled.
I really want to thank the girls from the forum who shared seeds with me, and of course, the respected Natalya Borisovna, who released this tomato to the public. Thank you from the bottom of my heart! 🌺
The tomatoes are very beautiful, such an interesting color, easily distinguishable from other dark tomatoes. Meaty and juicy at the same time. It’s just all flesh, flesh, flesh… There seem to be enough seeds, but the seed locules are tiny. You’ll struggle to find seeds to save.
And about the taste. When cut, the tomato has these bright pink veins. And the taste gives the impression that they mixed the bright, rich, sweet taste of a good pink tomato with the characteristic taste of a dark tomato. The taste is rich, interesting, and very sweet. Here on this page, they compared the taste of Black Heart with a Spout from Borisovna with the taste of Brad’s Black Heart. Both are very tasty, just different flavors. Brad’s Black Heart has a more typical “black tomato” taste.
The yield is wonderful. And that’s for me, and I generally have problems with yields. The only thing is, my fruits grew with blunt noses. I didn’t get that elegant pointy nose.
And a little about the survival conditions. The tomatoes grew outdoors in open ground without canopies or other shelters. They safely ripened on their own on the bushes. And this was during such an extreme summer this year! For us, summer started at the end of May and ended on the first of July. And since then it’s just been rain, rain, rain…
And my Black with a Spout was definitely pointy-nosed, although the lower tomatoes were not as long-nosed, but slightly larger: the first was 355 g (12.5 oz), and the rest were from 230 to 300 g (8-10.5 oz). All perfectly shaped, handsome guys. 8 have already ripened, and 8 are still green. Very juicy, the flesh itself is juicy, and very sweet. Almost too sweet for my taste.
I went out this morning and examined the bush more carefully. Fruits of different shapes are hanging: at the bottom, they are large and blunt-nosed, at the top they are small, still green, but with beautiful sharp pointy noses.
Repeated this wonderful variety.
This little tomato made me very happy. Very meaty and sweet, just the way I like it. I lost the photos of it on the bush.
I am so happy that my favorite tomato went to the public and showed itself so well for so many people 😍
For New Year’s, I received a gift from Natalya Pavlovna (Yaroslavna), and among other luxurious varieties, there was Canadian Heritage. They grew next to each other, and it was a fantastic sight: 2-meter (6.5 ft) bushes from floor to ceiling hung with burgundy-brown and orange-red hearts of identical shape and size. And sliced on one plate, they are even more beautiful, but the harmony of flavors of these two varieties is simply stunning. They are completely different, but together they give an absolutely delightful combination. For valid reasons, I unfortunately don’t have photos this year, I had no time for them this summer.
Grew it this year, it got hit by frost in May, so I had to grow it out from suckers. Because of that, only a few managed to set and ripen. A very unusual taste, but I didn’t fully grasp it. I will repeat it next year from my own seeds. I absolutely love all dark tomatoes.
A tasty dark one:
First truss:
I join in thanking Natalya Borisovna for this stunning variety. You rarely find such a combination of positive traits in a tomato variety. Even though I consider myself quite spoiled by the abundance of varieties as a tomato lover 😄.
It has it all—yield (one of the best of the season), taste (excellent throughout the season), and unpretentiousness (it gave a crop from a weakened seedling even when planted in a 10-liter / 2.6-gallon bucket, and survived two frosts). A miracle, not just a variety!
Svetikk wrote:
Indeterminate with good yield. I am growing it for the second year in a greenhouse, pruned to 2 stems…
Sveta, where will this variety feel better in a polycarbonate greenhouse? In the absolute sun against the wall? Or staggered—in the second row behind the wimpy-leafed oxhearts?
Natalya Borisovna indicated that this variety is mid-late…
Do you think that in the Middle Volga region, if sown on March 15th, it will have time to ripen outdoors in open ground?
T@tk@ wrote:
…where will this variety feel better in a polycarbonate greenhouse? In the absolute sun against the wall? … Do you think it will ripen outdoors?
For me, this variety has always grown in the middle bed of the greenhouse and felt great. I do not recommend planting it outdoors in open ground. Such a beautiful, large-fruited variety fruits for a long time in the greenhouse, with large fruits hanging right under the roof. Outdoors, it won’t show its true potential.
