I’ll try to insert an image after all.
I’ll say it again—I liked them, but the skin was too tough; I had to strain to bite into it…
And in the photo, you can see that mine look a bit weak compared to yours… So I will try to grow them again this season…
Or maybe they are predominantly for greenhouse growing, and not for the conditions of a Siberian forest? 🙂
I had bad soil. So it was just a pathetic sight—a case of “hug and cry.” Yours is robust!
I’ll say my piece about Blush too. It really needs heat for flavor. It grew outdoors, in Moldova, a southern tomato country. It was on the sunny side, started to ripen, but had no flavor. Only when the African heat hit us at the end of July did the fruits finally develop flavor.
I wouldn’t say there was a lot of heat. But there was flavor. And a very strange one at that. A fruit with a tomato aftertaste.
Belka said:
I wouldn’t say there was a lot of heat. But there was flavor. And a very strange one at that. A fruit with a tomato aftertaste.
You have a greenhouse, and I have open ground (outdoors). Even with the same air temperature, it’s warmer in the greenhouse. Our summer was surprisingly rainy, maybe that also played a role.
Girls, can I brag a little too? 😳 My Blush succeeded both in taste and yield. My daughter appreciated it, even though she is completely indifferent to fresh tomatoes. She said to plant it again! 👏
Blush has been a favorite of ours for three seasons. The variety is very beautiful and productive! This summer it lacked sun and heat; it was tasty, but less sweet.
Elena, a very beautiful tomato! Did you train it to 1 stem?
LenaK said:
Blush has been a favorite of ours for three seasons.
Oh, it’s so abundant for you… Awesome!
Tatiana Senchukova said:
Did you train it to 1 stem?
I lead all my tomatoes to a single stem, rarely two, because of the cramped space in the greenhouse. Every year I try to plant them less densely, but there are always so many new varieties.
This variety came to me under the name “Shameful Blush” thanks to the girls from the forum 3 years ago, and I’ve planted it for three years in a row—tasty, meaty, beautiful, productive. This year, 2 bushes had typical fruits, but on the third bush, the fruits were oblate (flattened-round), though the color remained the same. I saved seeds from it, but why did this happen? It’s not a hybrid, so there shouldn’t be any de-hybridization? I don’t want to lose the variety… has anyone encountered this?
Nadezhda 69 said:
…on the third bush, the fruits were oblate (flattened-round)…
No, I can’t even imagine an oblate cherry tomato 🙈.
Do you have a photo? 🤐
Nadezhda 69 said:
has anyone encountered this?
Cross-pollinated with another variety?
And it wasn’t a cherry, the tomato was about 300 grams (10.5 oz); I don’t have the exact records on hand right now. Inserting the photo, it didn’t work immediately (photo was on the PC, I was writing from the phone, just got to the computer).
As for cross-pollination, I don’t know. There were 3 bushes, 2 with typical fruits, and one produced this. All fruits on that bush were different, not just isolated ones. By their appearance, the bushes themselves did not differ from each other.
Edited November 30, 2017 by Nadezhda 69
Nadezhda, good day, and did this giant taste different from the regular tomatoes of the variety?
The taste didn’t differ much.
Nadezhda 69 said:
And it wasn’t a cherry, the tomato was about 300 grams…
Did you save seeds from the non-standard one? If Blush produced 300-gram oblate tomatoes, then I am first in line for your seeds. By the shape, it looks like the tomato developed megablooms; in that case, these are weather-induced mutations and are unlikely to be stable. Or perhaps it’s a cross-pollination from previous years, and this seed just resulted in this. I would definitely isolate such a tomato, save its seeds, and plant it as an experiment. What if this shape stabilizes? A large, sweet Blush is my absolute dream.
In my opinion, it’s just a regular seed mix-up, and not a bi-color but a striped one, it looks very much like Vintage Wine.
It’s better to take this one to the “Help identify the variety!” thread.
remko said:
Did you save seeds from the non-standard one?
I saved seeds from it, I also wanted to plant it as an experiment to see what comes of it next. True, the experiment wasn’t planned for 2018, since the queue of new varieties + favorites is big, but maybe by spring I’ll find a spot. Elena, if you want, I can send you its seeds. As for a mix-up with Vintage Wine, that’s ruled out, since I don’t have that variety and I planted from my own saved seeds, not sent ones.
I found a few Blushes in my mom’s kitchen 😲, they of course look more like raisins now and are only good for tossing into soup, but the very fact 😛 of a fresh tomato surviving past New Year’s is amazing.
We didn’t intentionally try to store them like that; we picked the stragglers green, they laid on the glazed balcony for a long time, and then moved into the warmth.
Mine only grew to standard sizes. Grew it for the first time. The taste is very good, and it’s a cutie visually. Abundant, trouble-free. I’ll probably repeat.
