📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): De Barao Tsarskiy Zholtyi (Royal Yellow De Barao)
- 🌍 Origin: A highly sought-after commercial variety from Ukraine/Russia, part of the premium “Tsarskiy” (Royal) line of the famous De Barao family.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. A tall, aggressive climbing vine. It can reach nearly 10 feet (3 m) in a greenhouse, but stays a more manageable 4 feet (1.2 m) when grown outdoors in open ground.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Despite the name “Yellow”, the fruits are a vibrant, glowing orange! They are large plum/oval paste tomatoes, weighing 5.3-7 oz (150-200 g), though some grow even larger.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: Incredibly sweet, dense, and meaty. Excellent for fresh eating, but holds up perfectly for whole-fruit canning. It retains its sweetness even when picked green and ripened off the vine.
- 💪 Standout Features: Known for extreme cold tolerance and high resistance to disease.
Our wonderful Ukrainian friend Tomochka sent me this variety!!! I am so incredibly grateful to her for it! I planted it a bit late, so unfortunately, not all of it managed to ripen on the vine, but I will definitely plant it earlier next year. I absolutely loved it – the tomato is delicious, meaty, and was larger than what was stated on the packet. The bush is very vigorous. This is my discovery of the season! I think growing it from my own acclimatized saved seeds will be even better!
Edited January 29, 2015 by Drosera
De Barao Tsarsky Yellow (De Barao Tsar Yellow) is a refined, premium gardener’s strain of the classic De Barao line. A mid-to-late season indeterminate variety (120–130 days), it grows exceptionally vigorous vines reaching 8 to 10 ft (2.5–3 m) in height. Each cluster sets 4 to 7 smooth, oval-to-plum shaped yellow fruits weighing 4–5.5 oz (120–160 g)—noticeably larger than the standard Yellow De Barao. Featuring dense, firm flesh, these tomatoes are great for fresh eating, hold their shape perfectly during whole-fruit canning and pickling, and store well after harvest without losing quality. Highly cold-tolerant, shade-tolerant, and resistant to late blight
Lenochka, I have an immodest question right away: did you manage to dig out and save a lot of seeds? 😊 And another question – is it better in taste and yield than Yellow Dusya? 😉
Lena, when you look at that sliced De Barao, it just looks sweet. 😊
The Ukrainian company “Radomir” advertises it as a TOP SELLER!
- Mid-season maturity (which for me means mid-late) and produces right up to the frosts
- Climbing vine up to 10 feet / 3 m (so, a thin-stemmed indeterminate?)
- For both open ground and greenhouses
- Fruits are oval, orange, 5.3-7 oz (150-200 g), excellent taste (photo shows no beak)
- High yield, up to 5 lbs/sq.ft (25 kg/sq.m)
- Disease resistant
- All-purpose use
Raya-Amira! Have you ever grown Royal Golden De Barao?
I tried to start a new thread for it, but it didn’t work…
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Raya-Amira! Have you ever grown Royal Golden De Barao?
Zulya, I haven’t grown it yet, I haven’t even seen that one around here. 😊
Girls, I only managed to save a few seeds. The taste is definitely no worse than Yellow Dusya, they are actually quite similar. The yield wasn’t great for me because I planted it so late, plus they were from store-bought commercial seeds, so they just didn’t have time. But I saw the potential of this variety, and it’s excellent. I will absolutely plant it again next year using my own acclimatized seeds. I really loved it!
Adding a photo of it on the bush.
Thank you to Lenuska Danko for this wonderful variety. 🙏 It grew outdoors in open ground, got to about 4 feet (1.2 meters) tall, and was quite productive. And even in this year’s exceptionally cold and rainy summer, it delighted me with its taste. Even the green fruits that were picked and ripened off the vine indoors had a distinct sweetness to them.
Girls, is this one suitable for canning in jars? Or is it too big? I had originally planned to use it for canning. 🤭
Len, it is large, but it will still squeeze through the opening of a standard canning jar 😉
Yellow Dusya vs Yellow De Barao: Svetlana asks if this tomato tastes better than “Yellow Dusya”. If you read our review of Yellow Dusya, you’ll know that despite the name “Yellow”, it actually ripens to a brilliant orange. The exact same thing happens with “Royal Yellow De Barao”! In Soviet and post-Soviet commercial seed catalogs, breeders frequently labeled bright orange tomatoes as “Yellow” or “Golden”. Both varieties are exceptional, meaty, orange paste tomatoes that are sweet enough to eat fresh!
