📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Braviy General (Brave General)
- 🌍 Origin: A rugged commercial variety from the Altai region of Russia, specifically bred for short, cold summers. The name translates to “Brave General”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: A compact, short indeterminate. It is very well-behaved and doesn’t require aggressive pruning. Because of its neat, contained growth habit, many growers successfully plant it “two to a hole” (two plants per planting hole).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, smooth, pink oblate beefsteaks. They can get quite large, typically weighing 12-18 oz (350-500g), and the plant consistently produces large fruits without throwing out small “runts”.
- 👅 Flavor: Very good, classic balanced tomato flavor.
- ⏳ Yield & Growing Traits: Rated as an early to mid-early variety depending on your climate. It is highly praised for being extremely low-maintenance, very disease-resistant, and cold-tolerant. However, because it sets such heavy, large fruits early on, it requires good feeding; otherwise, the fruits can drain all the energy from the bush, shortening its fruiting season.
One of my absolute favorites 👍 because it’s so incredibly low-maintenance! An Altai variety. Early, perfect for the North-West region. Handles cold climates perfectly, didn’t get sick at all, and I didn’t even prune the suckers.
The fruits are large, slightly boat-shaped beefsteaks up to 12 oz (350g). The bush is not very tall and stays very neat and compact. You can easily plant them 2 per hole. Grew it outdoors in open ground, and there were no small runts at all.
I didn’t feed it, but I definitely should have. Toward the end, those large fruits just sucked all the life and energy right out of the plant. Maybe that’s why the fruiting period wasn’t very prolonged for me.
Generally, the description says it’s a mid-early, not an early variety.
Excellent variety! And for me, it performed much closer to an early variety too! 👍
Thanks, Vera! I’m narrowing down my grow list right now, and it’s a strong contender.
A good, heavy-yielding variety. It grew in my greenhouse, pruned to 2 stems. It’s a short indet, mid-season. The fruits are beautiful, smooth, pink, oblate beefsteaks weighing up to 1.1 lbs (500g), with very good flavor. Seeds were from N. Berezhnova.
A good variety, but it wasn’t early for me. It ripened in July, but it hung on the vine for a long time just waiting its turn to be picked and processed.
