I want to try it outdoors in 2015. Tomatanya wrote that she led it in a greenhouse with 5 stems. Svetlana, how did you grow it outdoors? How many stems? It’s an indeterminate, right?
Tatiana Kemerovo said:
I want to try it outdoors in 2015. Tomatanya wrote that she led it in a greenhouse with 5 stems. Svetlana, how did you grow it outdoors? How many stems? It’s an indeterminate, right?
I barely prune any cherries outdoors—they grow however they want; a flower cluster appears immediately from every sucker. I only remove the lowest suckers near the ground for better ventilation, and maybe a little bit inside the bush. But by early August, I start removing new suckers and pinching off the tops—so that whatever has already bloomed has time to set and grow. So I don’t even count the stems.
My Blush also grew outdoors. I removed the lower suckers and then just left it alone. There were so many tomatoes! 🍅 The taste was very good. I will definitely plant it again in 2015.
The seeds were from Elena (ElenaN). 🌺 🌺 🌺 🌺 🌺
I can’t find a photo of the whole bush though. 😳
Super productive, low-maintenance variety with colorful candy-like fruits 😋
I grew it in a greenhouse, tucked in a corner, so it was somewhat deprived of attention—but it still pumped out a massive amount of fruit 🍅
The flesh is firm, sweet with fruity notes… The fruits store for a very long time (by the way, I still have about a dozen left right now, they almost naturally sun-dried themselves) 🙂
Seeds of this wonderful variety were gifted by Elena (ElenaN), THANK YOU! 😘
Productive, tasty, grew outdoors without any special care. In the photo, it is not completely ripe, so the stripes aren’t very visible, but it was very striped. Seeds from ElenaN. Elena, thank you.
It grew outdoors. I believe that cherries of any kind do not belong in a greenhouse; I only keep large-fruited beefsteaks in there.
VERY beautiful and meaty fruits grew on the Shameful Blush cherry. It has a tomato taste, but I have much sweeter cherries; this one doesn’t reach the level of a perfectly sweet variety yet. Maybe the special taste will appear in the later fruits. So far, on the first and second trusses, the flesh is slightly mealy and a bit bland, the seeds are a little sour, and there are a lot of them (my other cherries have far fewer; today I squeezed a whole portion of seeds from just one tomato for saving, usually it takes 3-4 cherries). But the beauty is indescribable.
It sets clusters quickly; at first, it seemed like it would fall behind, but no, it’s fast. It is weather-sensitive, clearly stalling when the cold hit. I got the seeds from Kulik; I think I need to repeat it and see how it behaves from my own seeds. Only in the second year will I decide its fate. Also, for many growers, this cherry is “chubby”, but on my first clusters, they are perfectly straight “fingers”. I understand it all depends on the conditions. I had a bad year and the taste wasn’t great, although other cherries are doing fine.
It’s growing for the second year for me. It sets fruit noticeably better—almost all the flowers were pollinated; last year there were skipped flowers on the trusses. But I remembered it as the absolute sweetest! This year, the first fruits didn’t shine with sweetness, apparently, the cold is taking its toll. But I didn’t notice any stunted growth—it just keeps growing and setting fruit continuously.
By September, the sweetness increased, which makes me very happy!
It turned out to be very productive for me. Seeds from ElenaN – thank you! 🍅
I liked it very, very much – both tasty and beautiful, great for fresh eating and for pickling 👍 👍 👍
Everything that bloomed, set fruit. It grew outdoors in open ground and ripened on the vine.
The first photo is from August 3, planted out on May 10. So it falls into the mid-season category.
For me, this variety turned out to be quite early outdoors – the first single ripe fruits were on July 10th, and by August 1st it was ripening en masse. Very sweet, but it is best for fresh eating and treating guests; the skin is not very suitable for canning.
Seeds from ElenaN – thank you 🍅. I liked it very much, they are so beautiful and tasty in jars 😋 they didn’t burst.
Girls, I planted these tomatoes this year. But space is limited in the greenhouse. How is it best to train them: plant 1 and prune it to 2-3 stems, or plant 2 and grow each on a single stem? What do you advise?
Tatiiyasha said:
How is it best to train them: plant 1 and prune it to 2-3 stems, or plant 2 and grow each on a single stem?
Tatiana, Blush can easily handle 4-5 stems, so it’s better to just plant one.
Tatiana, thank you 🌺
This is actually very good news—I’ll use that extra spot for another variety. Greenhouse space is worth its weight in gold; I want to try so many new varieties 😉
A beautiful variety, extremely productive 👍 🍅. The taste varied depending on the rain, ranging from very sweet to slightly bland. It fruited until the very end. Outdoors until mid-September. I sent them to the freezer, it’s a very convenient size for that.
I’m planting Blush for the second year, and this time from my own saved seeds, something completely absurd grew—it’s only 50 cm (20 in) tall! And at this height, the third truss is already blooming, while the bottom two are setting fruit. By the truss and fruit shape, it’s definitely Blush, but where did this dwarf growth come from??? 😲
Last year it was 1.8 meters (6 ft) tall!
It probably remembered some distant dwarf ancestor 😉.
Svetlyachok-plus said:
It probably remembered some distant dwarf ancestor 😉.
Svetlana, I don’t know who its ancestors are 😂
But the first truss appearing at a height of 10 centimeters (4 in) scares me 😬
The leaves are the same, the fruit shape is the same, but it’s some kind of pygmy 😠
Once it ripens, maybe it will become clearer what exactly happened here.
Iva, it grows slowly at first. I’ve been planting it for three years; it will grow big eventually. Mine is currently just over a meter (3 ft) tall.
Tatiana, does that mean it is a late-season variety?
I planted it for the first time. And it seems to be stalling. I thought the weather was to blame.
Mine started ripening as one of the very first in early July. Its height is about a meter (3 ft) right now, growing outdoors.
Sown on February 27.
Mine aren’t as red as the girls’ in the photos; they are transparent-amber, very beautiful.
I really liked this variety.
For me, it’s the tastiest 😋 But I love sweet tomatoes.
Very productive and undemanding. I regret planting so few. Next year, I will train it to 4 stems instead of 2 😉
An amazing variety! Grew outdoors…
