📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Buyan Zheltyi (Buyan Yellow)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial variety, officially registered in the Russian State Register for the West Siberian region. Also known as “Boets Yellow” (Fighter Yellow).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Rugose determinate dwarf (tree-type). Extremely compact, sturdy, and short, typically reaching only 30-60 cm (1-2 ft). Seedlings do not get leggy. Excellent candidate for container growing or planting at the feet of tall indeterminates.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Lemon-yellow, elongated plum/cylindrical shape. Fruits usually weigh 60-120g (2-4 oz), but can reach 180g (6 oz). Dense, meaty, with very few seeds.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: Good, classic sweet-tart tomato flavor. Highly versatile—perfect for fresh salads, canning, or dehydrating.
- ⏳ Grower Notes: Early season. Very unfussy and highly productive for its small size. The fruits have excellent shelf life and ripen perfectly off the vine.
Variety Boets (Buyan) Yellow.
Information from the State Variety Register:
Included in the State Register for the West Siberian region for growing in open ground in home gardens. Slicing/salad type. Mid-season. The plant is a determinate dwarf (rugose/tree-type). Leaves are medium-sized, dark green. Inflorescence is of an intermediate type. Jointed stem.
The fruit is cylindrical, smooth, of medium density. Color of unripe fruit is green with a small dark spot at the stem end, ripe fruit is yellow. Number of locules is 4-6. Fruit weight is 60-120g (up to 148g / 2-5 oz). Taste is good to excellent. Dry matter content in the juice is 4.0-4.6%, total sugar 2.1-3.3%.
Yield of marketable fruits is 163-494 centners/hectare, while standard varieties Demidov and Sibirskiy Skorospelyy yield 194-402 centners/hectare. Marketable fruit output is 69-86%. Tolerant to adverse weather conditions. Fruits ripen perfectly off the vine.
Description from the Agros seed packet (Novosibirsk):
An early-ripening variety that is undemanding to growing conditions. The bush is dwarf (tree-type) and compact. Fruits are large (up to 180g / 6 oz), lemon-yellow, oval-elongated shape, for universal use. Variety advantages: early maturity, high yield, seedlings do not get leggy. Recommended for growing in open ground. Growing features: The plant does not require pruning or staking, which makes it easy to grow.
I really loved this variety! The plant itself is tiny, but the fruits are unexpectedly large. Lemon-yellow, meaty, dense fruits. Almost seedless! Usage: salads, canning, dehydrating (sun-drying). The fruits transport well and have a good shelf life.
Comparing the two Buyans (red and yellow) – the fruits on the yellow one are larger, and it’s more productive.
Edited February 20, 2015 by Drosera
Could you tell me what height the Yellow one reached (if possible, at the beginning of fruiting and at the end of the season), and what kind of support is required – I am growing it this season, so this is very relevant to me.
Thank you!
Alena, Buyans are very short, 30-40 cm (1-1.3 ft) – if grown in open ground.
The seedlings do not get leggy.
Theoretically, you don’t have to stake them, but I stake everything, even little guys like these, because flea beetles run rampant here right when we plant seedlings out, and they eat the tomato leaves.
Wishing you a successful Buyan harvest 😋
Mine isn’t ripening yet, it has set a decent amount of fruit, but I don’t know if it will have time to ripen. It’s very convenient to grow, the bush is small. I’m considering it for next year as a candidate for interplanting at the feet of indeterminate tomatoes in the greenhouse.
gggalina said:
Alena, Buyans are very short, 30-40 cm – if grown in open ground.
Theoretically, you don’t have to stake them, but I stake everything…
They aren’t quite that short. Mine grew to 50-60 cm (1.6-2 ft), both the yellow and red Buyans (Boets). Tasty, sweet with a tartness, with a pleasant tomato aroma. Good for canning in jars, in salads, or just eaten fresh with fried potatoes. But this year cutworms/fruitworms were eating them (even though right next to them were Orlik, Novato, Summit, and Novichok – and the caterpillars didn’t touch those for some reason), and a typhoon on August 20-22 knocked down and broke the Buyans along with their stakes; 2 out of my 8 bushes (4 yellow, 4 red) never recovered. 🤦♂️
I grew Yellow Buyan this year. Seeds were from Aelita, from a packet like this:
Like all determinates, I grew it out in open ground. Didn’t cover it with anything. The height of the bushes was about 60 centimeters (2 ft). Seemed productive. The taste didn’t impress me. And I also didn’t like the color inside – it wasn’t yellow, it was somewhat whitish/pale. But it had a beautiful color on the outside. I don’t have a photo of fully ripened fruits.
