📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bulgaria
- 🌍 Origin: An heirloom variety named after Bulgaria. Often grown by collectors who prioritize flavor over yield.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, but tends to be on the shorter side in the greenhouse (around 5 ft / 1.5 m). It has extreme wispy foliage—the plant looks incredibly pale, spindly, and weak, even with perfect care and feeding. Don’t panic, this is just its genetics!
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, beautiful bright orange beefsteaks. The flesh is extremely juicy and contains very few seeds.
- 👅 Flavor: The main reason to grow it! The taste is absolutely mind-blowing—very sweet with a perfect touch of acidity.
- ⏳ Yield & Growing Traits: Generally a low yielder. It can struggle to set fruit and sometimes produces “blind stems” with no blossoms. However, the massive, delicious fruits it does manage to produce make it worth the effort for flavor chasers.
The bush is growing in the corner of the greenhouse, no taller than 5 feet (1.5 m). It’s so spindly and weak it’s actually scary! 😨
The foliage is sparse, hanging like torn limp rags, and the color is very pale, despite getting special care, extra watering, and feeding.
I can’t say it’s a heavy yielder at all.
I’m growing it to two stems. One stem is completely blind—no blossoms, no tomatoes on it at all.
On the second stem, there are 6 large tomatoes, 4 of which have already been picked.
I decided to write about this variety because the taste is absolutely mind-blowing!
Very few seeds.
Extremely juicy, sweet, with a nice little tangy kick.
Beautiful, bright orange. These large tomatoes just don’t fit in with the look of the pathetic bush at all; I have no idea how it even managed to support them!
Let me know if anyone else has grown this variety, I’d love to compare notes!
Edited August 15, 2025 by Mokushka
Mokushka wrote:
The bush is growing in the corner of the greenhouse, no taller than 5 feet (1.5 m), it’s so spindly and weak it’s actually scary!
The foliage is sparse, hanging like torn limp rags…
I can’t say it’s a heavy yielder at all.
…Beautiful, bright orange. These large tomatoes just don’t fit in with the look of the pathetic bush at all; I have no idea how it even managed to support them!
Let me know if anyone else has grown this variety, I’d love to compare notes!
Natalya Konstantinovna, me! Mine is exactly the same! 😂
