📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR)
- 🌍 Origin: A well-known early anthocyanin (blue/purple) tomato variety.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, very tall (often exceeding 2 meters / 6.5 ft). Known for its robust health and strong disease resistance. The foliage stays green and healthy until late in the season. Can be grown both in greenhouses and outdoors.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small cocktail/salad size fruits weighing 35-60 g (1.2-2.1 oz). They feature stunning burgundy-purple shoulders with strong anthocyanin pigmentation where exposed to sunlight.
- 👅 Flavor: Reviews are mixed. When fully ripe (the bottom turns deep red) and grown in full sun, it has a rich flavor with fruity notes. However, in cold, wet weather, or if picked too early, the taste is often considered bland or strictly “basic tomato.”
- ⏳ Yield & Climate: High yield with extended fruiting. Sets fruit reliably, often producing tight clusters of 6-8 tomatoes. In cooler climates, it behaves as a late-season variety.
Another blue-fruited variety. Very similar to OSU Blue, but the fruits are smaller. Weight is 35-60 g (1.2-2.1 oz). The variety is tall, over 2 m (6.5 ft), disease-resistant. Yield and fruit set are high, fruiting is extended over a long period. The fruits are versatile in use, and tasty.
I was simply charmed by the beauty of this variety! It’s good in every way! Both with its burgundy-purple fruits with strong anthocyanin pigmentation, and its sturdy, disease-free leaves that lasted right until the end of the season. Trusses of 6-8 fruits hung on the bush right up until the cold weather without any signs of wilting…
The taste of the ripe fruits is rich, with fruity notes.
This photo was taken at the end of September. The plant continues to bloom… The upper truss with fruits is just starting to color up with anthocyanin.
Here is the blue pigmentation on the leaves (by the way, this happens on all blue-purple-crimson-red varieties) on a young bush; it disappears later on.
In the last week of October, we harvested perfectly firm fallen tomatoes, as well as those still hanging. The bushes were grown under a plastic tunnel. As for the taste, for us (having tasted up to 80 varieties), it doesn’t even make our top 30. Let’s just call it a basic “tomato” flavor; it was like that at the beginning of fruiting and at the end.
The kids tried them but still asked only for the red and yellow ones. Even a mother hen that hatched 10 unplanned chicks in September was let into the garden—they pecked out the red and yellow tomatoes, even the unripe ones. But they didn’t touch the blue ones at all.
I do want to add that we did find a delicious one among these blue types, absolutely amazing, a solid 5 out of 5. Try things out, find your own flavor.
Rodebielesumer (Elena) wrote:
I do want to add that we did find a delicious one among these blue types, absolutely amazing, a solid 5 out of 5. Try things out, find your own flavor.
Elena, if it’s not a secret, what is its name?
Ponchik (Irina) wrote:
Elena, if it’s not a secret, what is its name?
Check its description. It is listed in our catalog under the name Blue Beauty, some of our growers call it Blue Tom.
Grew it outdoors in open ground. The beauty was indescribable!!!!
The yield was 👍, all trusses were full. The plant was hung all over like Christmas tree ornaments.
It is late-season — it only started ripening in September. The top photo is from August 12. I pruned it to 2 main stems.
But it was completely inedible 🤷♀️ — maybe the weather was to blame, it was damp and cold. My family refused to eat it. Although they absolutely devoured Dancing with Smurfs 😋😋😋, they picked the whole bush clean.
Grew it outdoors in open ground, planted it late. Only 2 trusses managed to ripen, there were no suckers. Maybe it didn’t like the open ground? Heat and wind… The taste becomes good at full ripeness, when they start turning red underneath.
In the greenhouse, it turned out tall (2 meters / 6.5 ft) and productive, mid-season ripening. The fruits are small, with anthocyanin coloring, round shape, and juicy.
