📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bolshoy Plombir (Big Ice Cream)
- 🌍 Origin & Name: A commercial Russian variety. It is named after “Plombir,” which is a famous, rich Russian vanilla ice cream. The name reflects the tomato’s pale, creamy white/yellow color.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, but generally medium-tall, usually topping out around 1.5m (5 ft). Performs adequately in both greenhouses and open ground. Highly praised by some for its strong resistance to Late Blight.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Pale, creamy-colored oblate beefsteaks. While the seed packet advertises 150g (5.3 oz), growers report varying sizes ranging from quite small up to 300g (10.5 oz). Extremely poor shelf life (not a keeper).
- 👅 Flavor: The flavor profile is highly debated. Some appreciate its slightly buttery texture and tart aftertaste. However, many growers complain that the flavor is too “pastel,” muted, or bland, making it difficult to use for fresh eating or canning.
- ⏳ Yield: Generally rated as average to slightly below average (typically around 1.1 – 1.5 kg / 2.5 – 3.3 lbs per plant).
Description from the packet: “A magnificent large-fruited mid-early variety for open ground and plastic greenhouses. Fruits average 150 grams (5.3 oz), oblate, medium-ribbed, multi-locular. The color of ripe fruits reminds everyone of their favorite vanilla ice cream. Beautiful and tasty as a dessert!”
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“Bolshoy Plombir is a slightly buttery tomato, the tartness comes as an aftertaste; yield is decent, but it skipped the 3rd truss (dropped blossoms), then started setting fruit well again. But it is absolutely not a keeper (poor shelf life).”
Review and photo author: Semechka
Planted it in 2016 out in the garden (open ground). It turned out to be the earliest out of 8 varieties, tasty. But Big Ice Cream turned out to be not big at all ))) here is the largest one 
I grew it for the first time in 2018. In the greenhouse and out in the garden it showed the exact same yield of 1.2-1.5 kg (2.6-3.3 lbs) per plant. Now in 2019, I planted 1 bush out in the garden, trained it to 2 stems. The variety is very resistant to late blight (it didn’t even get sick, even though everything around it caught it). It grew in poor soil, yet still yielded 1.1 kg (2.4 lbs) of fruit. Fruits are oblate, weighing from 100 to 300 g (3.5 to 10.5 oz). I really liked the variety. I wouldn’t say the fruits are small.
Grew it in ’17. Seeds were from the forum. Medium-tall indeterminate, yield is slightly below average. The fruits are beefsteaks with a muted, mild flavor. I couldn’t even figure out what to use them for. For both salads and canning, the taste seemed too “pastel” (bland) to me.
Grew it this year, 2020. The bush is medium height (1.5m / 5 ft), yield is average, if not less, the flavor is not bright. It suffered from internal rot. Ripened mid-season.
