📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bogema (Bohemia)
- 🌍 Origin: An Eastern European/Ukrainian Open-Pollinated (OP) heirloom. Name translates to “Bohemia”. Crucial Note: Do not confuse this collector’s heirloom with the commercial Russian hybrid “Bogema F1” or the commercial dwarf variety sold under the same name!
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), vigorous vine. Performs very well both in open ground and in greenhouses. Handles pruning to 1 or 2 main stems beautifully.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Massive pink oblate beefsteaks. They easily reach 500-700g (1.1-1.5 lbs) in a greenhouse, though they might run slightly smaller outdoors. Known for being highly crack-resistant.
- 👅 Flavor: Outstanding, classic sweet pink tomato flavor.
- ⏳ Maturity & Yield: Mid-season. Highly praised for its heat tolerance—it continues to set fruit without blossom drop even during severe summer heatwaves.
Variety BOGEMA.
Mid-season, tall indeterminate. The fruits are oblate, weighing 500-700g (1.1-1.5 lbs), pink, crack-resistant, excellent taste, and very productive. Recommended to prune to two main stems.
In my open ground garden, the weights were a bit smaller, but they definitely weren’t babies 😉. I really liked this variety! 👍 Very vigorous bush.
Elena, here is the Bogema grown from your seeds 😉. 2014 season. It’s definitely on the grow list for 2015!
I’m looking at two different commercial seed packet descriptions.
Bogema F1: Hybrid, mid-season. Red, oblate, 140g (5 oz). Determinate, 80 cm (2.5 ft) tall. Good for whole canning.
And then there’s this description from “Solnechnyi Mart” (Sunny March):
Bogema: Early season. Determinate, 50-60 cm (2 ft) tall. Bright pink, smooth, oblate fruits. Excellent taste, high yield.
So who is right?
Quote from Victoria:
So who is right?
Bogema F1 is a commercial hybrid (bred by Gavrish, entered into the Russian State Register in 2007).
Bogema (the one Elena posted) is an Open-Pollinated (OP) heirloom variety (breeder/author unknown).
Quote from Drosera:
Bogema – OP variety (author unknown)
Does this OP variety even officially exist? Or are people just selling seeds of something somewhat similar under the same name? The market is flooded with that right now.
I grew it this year. The true OP variety, from Ukrainian seeds. Absolutely delicious! One of the best varieties of the 2017 season.
I grew 1 bush pruned to a single stem in my polycarbonate greenhouse. It set fruit continuously with zero blossom drop, even in the severe heat. It did get some slight soft/yellow shoulders occasionally, but they didn’t ruin the taste at all. We will definitely be planting it again!
