Quick Summary of Bosque Blue Bumblebee
- 🌿 Plant Habit: INDETERMINATE (Tall/Vining). An extremely vigorous, powerful, and tall plant. Growers recommend pruning it to 3 main stems and ensuring you have enough vertical space (and strong supports) to tie it up near the greenhouse roof.
- 🌍 Origin: A stunning anthocyanin cocktail-sized tomato bred in the USA, widely loved by international growers for its ornamental beauty and heavy production.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful, round-to-oval cocktail tomatoes weighing 50-80g (1.7-2.8 oz). The base color is a bright yellow/gold, heavily overlaid with deep purple (anthocyanin) splashing on the shoulders. The fruits are firm yet very juicy.
- 👅 Flavor: The taste profile can be tricky! If eaten too early or right off the vine, they can be unpleasantly acidic/sour. However, if allowed to fully ripen and sit indoors for a while, the acidity mellows out, and a wonderful, sweet flavor develops.
- ⏳ Maturity & Yield: Mid-late to late season. Known for a long, extended fruiting period. It is exceptionally productive and has a fantastic ability to set fruit in difficult conditions, even when other varieties drop their blossoms due to heat or stress.
Bosque Blue Bumblebee. A most beautiful, highly productive variety, a true decoration for the greenhouse! I’m glad I planted it near the entrance in the middle bed, right in the most prominent spot 😁.
A powerful, tall indeterminate; it is optimal to prune it to 3 stems and plan ahead for tying it up near the ceiling. Trusses are both simple and complex, and it sets fruit very well even in difficult conditions when other varieties were dropping their flowers.
The fruits are beautiful, yellow, round-oval with a purple dusting. Firm but juicy, weighing 50-80g (1.7-2.8 oz). The taste is wonderful, with a nice sweetness. Long fruiting period. I rate this variety a 5+, a real discovery of the season! 🍅
Edited September 17, 2020 by Svetikk
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I liked the variety very much. Seeds from @Svetikk.
Edited August 26, 2021 by Hrizantema57
Seeds were from Sveta @Svetikk via Lyubasha @Vesennyaya. Thank you, girls! 😘
I grew it this year in a polycarbonate greenhouse. I pulled it out in September—it was a very powerful bush, over 2 meters (6.5 ft) tall, with a stem as thick as my arm. The fruits started to ripen later than the rest of my varieties.
It’s a highly productive variety, wonderfully beautiful, but… honestly, I didn’t like it the first time I tried it, because it was disgustingly sour! However, after some time, after all the tomatoes were removed from the greenhouse and a portion of the harvest was eaten or processed, it was finally this Bumblebee’s turn. And, lo and behold, the taste had noticeably changed for the better! Of course, it didn’t become marmalade-sweet, but it was perfectly edible, with a nice sweetness, just like Svetlana described.
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