Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Volf Zossi (Wolf Zossi) 🌍 Origin: A variety originating from Germany. It was introduced to the Russian heirloom community by seed collector Vyacheslav Feldman. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), regular leaf (RL), mid-season maturity. Growers report it yields very well when pruned to 2 or 3 stems. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vashe Velichestvo (Your Majesty) 🌍 Origin: A commercial variety from the Siberian breeder “Altai Seeds”. It is officially listed in the Russian State Register. The name translates to “Your Majesty”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). It has classic “oxheart” characteristics, meaning the plant is spindly and flimsy with very thin, wispy … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: White Cherry (Belaya Vishnya) 🌱 Plant Habit: A tall indeterminate vine. It exhibits the classic “wispy” or frail-looking foliage that is typical of most oxheart varieties. 🍅 Fruit & Yield: Despite the “cherry” in its name, this is NOT a cherry tomato. It produces large, pale cream/white heart-shaped tomatoes weighing 9 to … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: Yellow Vernissage 🌍 Origin: Bred by the well-known Ukrainian breeder Ruslan Dukhov, part of his famous “Vernissage” series of striped tomatoes. 🌱 Plant Habit: A massive, sprawling, highly vigorous indeterminate vine. It requires aggressive pruning and sturdy trellising, otherwise, it will completely take over your greenhouse. 🍅 Fruit & Yield: A classic … Read more
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📌 Quick Summary: Creamsicle Grape 🌍 Origin: A relatively new US release, bred by Brad Gates at Wild Boar Farms. 🌱 Plant Habit: A vigorous, tall-growing indeterminate vine that can easily reach over 6.5 ft (2.0 m) in height. Highly productive and known for excellent fruit set. 🍅 Fruit & Yield: Produces elongated “grape” or … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Babushkin Potseluy (Grandma’s Kiss) 🌍 Origin: A commercial Russian variety from the “Semena Altaya” (Seeds of Altai) company, part of their Siberian Collection. The name translates to “Grandma’s Kiss”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Potato Leaf (PL) foliage. There seems to be significant genetic variability regarding its height. It is officially listed as … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Belyi Velikan (White Giant) 🌍 Origin: A Russian heirloom variety. The name translates to “White Giant”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and highly productive. It reliably sets heavy clusters, typically pushing out 5 to 6 large fruits per truss. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, ivory-white to pale yellow beefsteaks. The shape is noticeably … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Big Orange Stripe 🌍 Origin: A beautiful heirloom known in the Russian community as “Bolshoy Oranzhevyi Polosatyi”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, regular leaf, mid-season. It grows into a massive, vigorous plant easily reaching 6 ft (1.8 m) and taller. Growers usually prune it to 1 or 2 leaders. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): White Zebra 🌍 Origin: A novelty striped variety (originally developed by Tom Wagner in the US, widely circulated in Eastern Europe). 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. Highly reliable. Growers report excellent fruit set even in bad weather years when other varieties drop their blossoms. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small-to-medium round salad/cocktail tomatoes. When … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Balkoni Elo (Balcony Yellow) F1 🌍 Origin: A commercial container variety sold by the Russian seed company “Biotechnika”. Interesting Note: While marketed in Russia as an F1 Hybrid, European growers regularly save seeds and get perfectly uniform plants, proving it is actually an OP (Open-Pollinated) variety. Just a classic seed company … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bychye Serdtse Beloye (White Oxheart) 🌍 Origin: A Russian/Eastern European strain of the classic White Oxheart. Note: Like almost all “white” tomatoes, it is not pure paper-white; it ripens to a pale lemon-yellow or ivory, sometimes developing a slight pinkish blush or orange marbling at the blossom end when fully ripe. … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Yellow Brandywine (Platfoot Strain) 🌍 Origin: A legendary American heirloom from Ohio, popularized by Gary Platfoot. It is fascinating to see how highly prized and widely grown this specific US strain is among Russian and Siberian greenhouse growers! 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. True to the Brandywine family, it has Potato Leaf … Read more