Dynnye (Melon) Tomato Review

Seeds from V. Monakhova: Determinate, mid-season, fruits are yellow, oblate (flattened), up to 10.5 oz (300g).

Grew outdoors in the open ground for me (kept under row cover the whole time). The first fruits ripened by mid-July. Pruned to 2 stems, each truss had 6-8 fruits. The tomatoes themselves are light yellow, and at full maturity, a pink blush appears on the blossom end. The skin almost looks translucent. They don’t have a long shelf life. The harvest ripened pretty uniformly all at once. Didn’t crack. The bush has dense foliage.

Regarding taste: meaty, juicy, great in a salad, but honestly a bit bland for my liking 😳.

Regarding yield: I had to yank the plants in early August (due to late blight), so I can’t give an objective final yield. By that time, the bush had managed to size up 6 trusses. I’ll keep it in my collection, I will plant it again, but not in 2014.

Seeds from T. Yashchenko. A mid-early variety, indeterminate bush up to 5.2 ft (1.6 m). The fruits are round and oblate, large, and tasty. Excellent yield and good fruit set. The color is a deep, rich yellow-orange. The flesh is dense and firm.

Does the name actually match the taste? (Does it taste like melon?) 😊

Wait, they are completely different! One is a determinate, the other is an indeterminate. The first one has green shoulders, the second one doesn’t, the fruit shapes are different, and the cross-sections look totally different too. Which one is the real Dynnye?

Elfa said:
Does the name actually match the taste? 😊

I didn’t notice any melon aftertaste in mine at all.

Nadia said:
Wait, they are completely different!… Which one is the real Dynnye?

Who even knows which one is the real deal anymore, different seed vendors sell entirely different things under this name 😄

There are even people on this forum growing a completely different “Dynnye” that is shaped like elongated plums/icicles.

I ordered some from V. Redko’s collection, we’ll see what actually grows out for me. Let’s call it “Dynnye version 3”.

My Dynnye are just like Olga’s, from Monakhova. Productive, juicy, tender. I didn’t have green shoulders on a single tomato, though.

I liked them, will be planting them again in 2014. And I’ll plant Tomatanya’s version right next to them to compare. 🙂

Irina, I didn’t end up with green shoulders either, they all ripened fully and perfectly 👍

The green shoulders are only visible when the fruits are still in the unripe stage.

Nadia said:
I ordered some from V. Redko’s collection, we’ll see what actually grows out for me.

Her version of Dynnye is the icicle/elongated shape. They take forever to size up, they are very firm-because they are late-season. They didn’t work for me at all in my climate!

Yet again, a bunch of totally different tomatoes circulating under the exact same name. Here are my Dynnye from Andrey Shcherbakov’s collection. Very low fruit set, very few seeds. The bush is weak, tall, and narrow (wispy). Grew in the greenhouse, reached about 5.5 ft (1.7 m) tall. They were tasty, though.

Tomatanya said:
Seeds from T. Yashchenko… The color is a deep, rich yellow-orange.

I recently received Dynnye seeds from Yashchenko, but they are RED. Is the only difference the color, or what is going on ???

Dynnye, seeds from Redko. Productive, tasty, sweet.

My Dynnye from Sha_iri’s seeds:

Dynnye from V. Redko. Tall indeterminate. Fruits are yellow-orange elongated plums, up to 3.5 oz (100g). Tasty, sweet.

Here are my Dynnye (not the icicle version)

Natasha, whose seeds were those originally? 😳 And are they determinates or indeterminates?

trofi said:
Natasha, whose seeds were those originally? 😳 And are they determinates or indeterminates?

Seeds are from Knyaginya Olga, tall indeterminate. Your Dynnye seeds (the icicle ones) failed for me, I don’t remember exactly what happened, but something went wrong in the seedling stage, they didn’t survive until plant-out 😕

Dynnye from Tomatanya 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸. Dynnye from Natasha NatNik 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸.

Looks like there are definitely three completely different varieties of Dynnye now.

My seeds were originally from Redko. It’s currently one of my favorite varieties, despite the average yield. I value it highly for its taste, disease resistance, and versatility. I only grow it in the greenhouse, pruned to 2 stems. Sets fruit very well, doesn’t drop blossoms, and the fruit size barely shrinks at all on the upper trusses.

Couldn’t upload the photos the first time. I’ll try again today.

Oh boy, Redko’s Dynnye really reminds me of something… probably Orange Icicle (Oranzhevaya Sosulka) 😂. And I’m actually growing Dynnye (the plum version) this year. Now I’m sitting here guessing whether it’s yet another new off-type… or if it’s the same one from Redko.

Yes, you are right, they are indeed very similar. I planted both varieties again this year, I will compare them side by side.

The Dynnye from Redko is literally just Chukhloma (another commercial Russian variety) in its purest form. 😊

And here are my Dynnye… beautiful and tasty… when fully ripe, they developed a pink blush on the top. Thanks to Tanya-Tatianka for the seeds! 🌸

LLL said:
The Dynnye from Redko is literally just Chukhloma. 😊

I wouldn’t say so – my Chukhloma plants always had neat little trusses of 5-7 fruits, but Dynnye produces massive, heavy clusters 😲. Plus, I don’t recall Chukhloma having a pointy nipple on the end. Seeds were from Redko.

Here is what my Dynnye looked like: Grew in the greenhouse, tall bush, large fruits, meaty. The interior flesh was buttery and sweet 😋

And here is my Dynnye. Visvisually it actually really resembles a little melon, and taste-wise–just a sweet, delicious tomato.

Russi said:
Yet again, a bunch of totally different tomatoes circulating under the exact same name. Here are my Dynnye from Andrey Shcherbakov’s collection… They were tasty, though.

Looks like these are the exact Dynnye I’ve been looking for… Could you tell me what they taste like, please? The ones I grew were large, sweet, with a delicate fruity aroma… are these like that?

I can offer a trade for our forum’s famous Marmeladnye (Marmalade), it’s an old heirloom, seems to have originally been the “Lampochka” (Lightbulb) variety. I wrote about it in the “Family Heirlooms” section.

Zolushka said:
[Photo of large yellow icicle cluster]

Wow, it looks identical to Golden Rain (Zolotoy Dozhd), both in weight and shape.

And here are what my Dynnye plums looked like. Seeds were from Lyuba-Alavia, tall indeterminate bush. I didn’t take a photo of the cross-section, but I remember being surprised by how surprisingly meaty and incredibly pleasant-tasting they were.

ivanovochka said:
And here are what my Dynnye plums looked like… I remember being surprised by how surprisingly meaty and incredibly pleasant-tasting they were.

I also planted the icicle/plum version of Dynnye. But they are just way too identical to Orange Icicle (Oranzhevaya Sosulka). Shape, size, taste, and the bushes themselves are indistinguishable – tall, powerful indeterminates. They easily handle multiple leaders, you can run them to 4-5 stems and they’ll support all that fruit without a problem! Well, there is one minor difference – the Dynnye have a pronounced little nipple on the blossom end, while Orange Icicle sometimes has it and sometimes doesn’t 😄 probably depends on the weather when the tomatoes were developing.

I grew Dynnye this year. Mine were oblate, indeterminates, very productive.

But for me, they were the absolute last to ripen in the greenhouse. True, they were planted in the North-East corner, maybe that’s why? But all the other tomatoes right next to them ripened way earlier.

Only 3 Dynnye actually ripened on the vine, the rest I had to pick green and let them ripen on the counter indoors.

The taste was fine, but nothing outstanding.

Tyapochka said:
Could you tell me what they taste like, please? The ones I grew were large, sweet, with a delicate fruity aroma… are these like that?

Oof… the last time I grew them was 2015. But I remember really liking the taste, they were buttery and sweet. And weight-wise, the fruit in my photo was 12.3 oz (350 g).

DYNNYE

That’s what is printed on the seed packets from two different Ukrainian companies, with pictures of pointy-ended plums on the front. Yet, the text description on the back of BOTH packets says “oblate, large beefsteaks”. Nobody fixes it, apparently they printed enough of those mismatched packets to last for years of sales…

Our tomato is the pointy plum version, sometimes with a very prominent little beak.

Grows up to 5 ft (1.5 m), it throws out suckers freely, especially in the fall when the root system is fully established and there’s plenty of nutrition for all the tomatoes. In all my photos, you are looking at a single plant with multiple side shoots/leaders.

The bush grew outdoors in the open ground. In October, we threw a perforated plastic sleeve over it. When we finally pulled the plant, it was completely healthy and green. The trusses are simple, up to 6 fruits, rarely forked trusses up to 13 blossoms. Fruit set is excellent. It handled drought perfectly too. The taste is above average, the tomatoes are firm with no empty locules/voids inside. This variety is definitely NOT Golden Rain (Zol. Dozhd) or Chukhloma. We haven’t grown Icicle, though. It ripens on the counter perfectly without rotting, but by December the texture turned mealy, so we just threw them in soups. In the photo, the crate next to Dynnye contains the variety Thumbelina (Dyimovochka), taken on 1.11.18. It turned out to be an incredible year for tomatoes.

Seeds were from Tomatinka. We never plant fresh seeds from the previous year, we prefer aged seeds that have sat for a while.

Mine were from Lyubasha in Moldova, but without that pronounced “nipple” on the end. Very productive though, I grow them outdoors in the open ground.

??????

I don’t remember who my Dynnye seeds were from / I’d have to go digging through my garden logs, I have way too many seeds now. / I didn’t even bother taking pictures. I will absolutely never grow them again. They look exactly like Kazakh Yellow (don’t remember who those seeds were from either).

My Dynnye are the icicle/plum shape. A tall, highly productive variety.

Zolushka said:
I wouldn’t say so – my Chukhloma plants always had neat little trusses of 5-7 fruits, but Dynnye produces massive, heavy clusters 😲.

@Zolushka Olya, could you tell me how tall this tomato gets for you? I planted your seeds this year, just trying to figure out what kind of stakes/trellis I need to set up for them.