Calvados Tomato Review: Yields, Taste & Photos

A variety I also really liked among the black tomatoes. Good taste, though the fruit is a bit on the watery side, so it would be great for juicing. The fruits were up to 7 oz (200 g), heavy yielder and beautiful.

Tell me, friends, is Calvados an indeterminate or determinate?

I searched around the forum and found a catalog stating the height is 5.2 feet (160 cm).

I found it on a Ukrainian site through a search engine. I won’t post the link because a sketchy banner popped up over there, lol.

Mid-season, indeterminate, 6 feet (1.8 m), fruits 14-17 oz (400-500 g), dark brown, oblate. The absolute best dark-fruited variety. Fruits are clustered in large trusses, tasty, sweet.

Grew it out in the dirt, planted it late around April 10th. It was probably a little under 3 feet (1 m) tall. I’m guessing in a greenhouse it would easily hit 5 feet (1.5 m), but I’m not so sure about 6 feet (1.8 m). I wouldn’t call the plant super vigorous, but the yield is great. Kulik lists it at 4 feet (1.2 m).

Very tasty dark tomato 👍😋

Planted Calvados in the greenhouse in 2014, and it really impressed me. Grew to almost 5.5 feet (1.7 m). Plus, a very good yield and excellent taste.

Calvados 2015. The photo came out pretty bright. Tasty, productive tomato. Reached 4.5 feet (1.35 m) in the greenhouse. Extremely juicy. Let me clarify – not watery, but juicy. Perfect for salads and juicing, I think.

Tasty, juicy tomato. Yield was average. It got over 6.5 feet (2 m) in the greenhouse.

I liked it.

I agree with everything said above, but for me, it was completely identical to Chernaya Ulybka (Black Smile)! The color and the texture, not to mention the plants themselves – I started having doubts just looking at the vines. Today I sliced them both open and made my husband and myself take alternating bites of each to see if we could spot any differences. We couldn’t find a single one. He thought one of them was a tiny bit more tart, and I thought it was the other way around, lol.

Ninulia: “…Today I sliced them both open and made my husband and myself take alternating bites of each to see if we could spot any differences. We couldn’t find a single one…”

So they are basically twin varieties? Which one are you going to plant next year?

Seeds from Shevchuk (Ukraine).
– Plant habit: mid-late, moderately sprawling.
– Fruit set: didn’t skip any trusses, the top trusses ripened all the way out.
– Plant height outdoors on Aug 15th: 5.2 feet (1.6 m).
– Trusses: 2-4 fruits per cluster.
– Overall yield: average.
– Fruit: round, chocolate color with a burgundy tint.
– Density when ripe: high.
– Flavor: dense, juicy, with a noticeable tang. Sweetness gets a 4/5 rating.

Initial impression: a tomato for processing and canning. The downside is the average yield. Rating for seedlings – 4, plant – 4, fruit – 4, overall variety rating – 4.

A very productive variety. Indeterminate, pruned to 2 stems in the greenhouse. The fruits are beautiful and quite tasty, a red-brown color, up to 10.5 oz (300 g) 😋

Productive and tasty tomato.

Ninulia: “…it was completely identical to Chernaya Ulybka (Black Smile)!”

Ninulya, what do you think about Chernaya Ulybka (Black Smile)? It practically begs the question if it’s just a different translation of the same original name…

Calvados definitely earned a permanent spot for me. I really loved it this past season.

Here is the handsome guy.

Repeated this variety in 2015. Taste-wise this year, it gets a solid 4 out of 5. The yields in the greenhouse were way better than what I got out in the dirt in 2014.

Grew it for the first time in 2016. Had 1 plant in a glass greenhouse pruned to 2 stems. Yielded 10 fruits with an average weight of 10.5 oz (300 g). Good taste. When sliced in a salad with a little salt – it’s incredibly delicious! (Although for me, the best black tomato for eating straight up with no salt is still Qingdao). Calvados is the top one in the photo, Black Prince is below it. The weight on that one is 12.5 oz (360 g).

I had 2 plants growing out in the dirt. It turned out productive and tasty. Didn’t get sick with anything. Seeds from LenaN.

ElenaPr: “I had 2 plants growing out in the dirt…”

Lenchik! How tall did it actually get for you outdoors? 🙂

Elena 62: “Lenchik! How tall did it actually get for you outdoors? :)”

Lena, definitely over 3 feet (1 m). Probably right around 4 feet (1.2 m).

Tasty, juicy. Will definitely repeat it. The yield was pretty low, but that was just my bad gardening practices failing me. Very worthy dark tomato.

Wow, really! 😮 It was the absolute heaviest yielder and earliest ripener for me, but! completely tasteless 🙁

Olya, I really loved it, and the fruits were large too. Good taste and great yield 👍

Repeated it this year. Taste was not bad. It dropped a lot of blossoms during the heatwave in the greenhouse. But then it started setting fruits from the tiny nubs that were left. Persistent little guy)))

Grew it in the hottest, worst-ventilated spot in the greenhouse. Dropped some blossoms, average yield. The fruits were large, starting at 7 oz (200 g). The taste wasn’t bland at all, it was good. Very juicy fruits.

When fully ripe, they have a beautiful, deep, rich color.

Calvados is one of the absolute best-tasting varieties of this season! Excellent yields, the fruits aren’t huge – right around 7-10.5 oz (200-300 g), but the flavor is luxurious, and if you pull them green, they ripen off the vine perfectly.