Captain Lucky Tomato: Real Grower Reviews & Photos

Mid-season indeterminate variety. Leaf type – potato leaf. The fruits are beautiful, bright, bi-color green-and-pink beefsteaks, a very unusual color pattern for a bi-color. The taste was a bit bland for me.

Edited November 11, 2016 by Drosera

Well, looks like I finally figured out the name of my unknown tomato from last year 🤫👍

Edited November 4, 2014 by Drosera

Seeds from Popenko. Grew it both in the greenhouse and outdoors in the dirt. Potato leaf. Pruned to 2 stems. In the greenhouse, as of 07/23/14, there were 9 tomatoes on the plant. The ones outdoors suffered from cracking.

Here is what mine looks like, also from Popenko. Unusually beautiful, tasty, average yield.

I actually really liked the taste of it 🙂!

Edited November 20, 2014 by Danko

The fruits are beautiful, bright, bi-color green-and-pink beefsteaks, a very unusual color pattern for a bi-color.

Lena, it’s actually not a bi-color, it’s a pink-yellow-green tricolor 🤫

Ah yes, it does turn out to be a three-color. Yours looks so beautiful, Svet! 👍

Planted it for the first time this year. Very beautiful 👍, absolutely delicious 😋😋😋, honestly I can only speak about it in superlatives)) So it was one of the greatest discoveries for me. My old favorites (Malachite Box, Everett’s Rusty Oxheart) had to step aside and make room for it)) Only got one picture of it, I remember we were leaving the next day and had no time for a photoshoot, so no cross-section pics.

Planted two bushes in the greenhouse. Potato leaf. Height 5.5-6 feet (1.7-1.8 m). Pruned to two stems. Sparse foliage. Very low yielder. Didn’t crack for me. Taste was not bad, but it fell short compared to my other bi-colors. I’m going to give it a third try. First ripe and largest one was picked on 09/01/2018.

I grew the “Captain” in 2018 and 2019. Both times it was a mid-season indeterminate with potato leaves. The plant grew to 5.2-5.5 feet (1.6-1.7 m) in a polycarbonate greenhouse. I cared for it exactly the same as all my other varieties. In my conditions, the bush was skimpy on foliage and kind of flimsy. The fruits are, of course, absolutely gorgeous bi-colors (I’ve planted it 2 years in a row purely for the beauty and taste). 😋 The yield on this variety is just so-so, I’d even call it a straight-up poor yielder. I pruned it to 2 stems, and I only got 7 proper tomatoes off the entire plant for the whole season. Averaged 7-12 oz (200-350 g). Hangs on the vine nicely, doesn’t crack. The flavor is sweet, juicy with fruity notes.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong and it has the potential to be more productive?

I’m debating whether it’s worth trying it for a third year… 🤔

Edited February 11, 2020 by LanYa

This variety is currently growing and plumping up its fruits in my greenhouse right now. And it’s better to see it once than hear about it 100 times. Here is a short video on how it’s growing for me.

Here is the cross-section and taste test.

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Turns out the first one I tasted was actually a bit underripe. When it’s fully ripe, the outside takes on a much redder hue. Here is a video of me tasting a fully ripe fruit, it is of course much, much tastier than the previous one.

The fruits look so interesting when sliced, very beautiful to serve on a platter for the table. The flavor is interesting and balanced – sweet with a light tomato tartness, not bland at all. Fruit weight is up to 7 oz (200 g).

Captain Lucky made me very happy again this year.