Dyuiymovochka (Thumbelina) Tomato Review

I got the Dyuiymovochka (Thumbelina) variety in a seed trade. It grew as a super-determinate, mid-early pink tomato. Fruit weight was 2.1-2.8 oz (60-80 g). The flavor is average, but the yield is excellent.

Edited January 7, 2015 by Drosera

That is so weird, my Thumbelina is completely different – it’s an indeterminate cherry. Early season. Fruits weigh 0.5-0.7 oz (15-20 g). Round shape. 🤷‍♀️

My seeds were the official ones from the Poisk company.

Here is their exact packet description:

An early-season indeterminate variety for greenhouses. 90-95 days from seedling emergence to the start of fruiting. The plant requires staking and pruning. Trusses fill out very well, with up to 15 fruits per truss. Fruits are round, smooth, red, and tiny, weighing 0.5-0.7 oz (15-20 g) with a wonderful dessert flavor. Tobacco Mosaic Virus (TMV) resistant. Recommended for fresh eating and canning.

My Thumbelina was also from Poisk, just like Karamel’s. They were cherry tomatoes about 1-1.2 inches (2.5-3 cm) in diameter with a very thick skin. I didn’t like the taste at all, so I decided not to grow it again.

In this cold and wet year, my Thumbelina grew super tiny. Nano-tomatoes! The bushes are tall and just absolutely smothered in trusses of tiny fruit. My grandson loved them. I’ll grow it again just for him. But next time, I’m putting it in the flower bed because the bush is gorgeous, but it takes up way too much space in the vegetable garden. It can grow there and be eye candy. The fruits set and grow very fast. The beginning of the truss already has little tomatoes while the middle is still flowering. Just like in this photo:

This year my Thumbelina threw out these incredibly long trusses:

My grandkids absolutely adore these little “peas”. 🥰 And the bush itself is very ornamental. I even planted some along the fence. The lacy foliage and currant-sized tomatoes look very unique and decorative. 👍

I’ve been growing Thumbelina for a long time too! Mine isn’t extremely tiny. I really like it for canning jars. Yield is abundant.

But in this crazy hot summer, it developed some weird color streaks, making it look almost like a bicolor.

Still, Thumbelina is the absolute smallest cherry I’ve ever grown.

I love freezing them! 👍 In the winter, when I’m making a salad, I just toss a handful of these frozen nano-tomatoes right in. By the time I dress the salad, carry it to the table, and serve it on plates, the little tomatoes have thawed to the perfect consistency. Because of its thick skin, Thumbelina holds its shape better than any other tomato when thawed. And the size is literally a perfect single bite. 😉

I specifically took a photo of all my indeterminate red cherries together. Thumbelina is at the bottom. You can clearly see it’s significantly smaller than the rest. 😊

My Thumbelina was 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter, grew in simple trusses, and was sour with a tough skin. Looks like there are a few different strains floating around out there…

Apparently so. 😊

But mine match the photo on the seed packet one-to-one. Exactly that tiny.

By the way, my very first generation of Thumbelina actually had slightly larger fruits. But I honestly like these “tiny little runts” much better.

Here is Thumbelina from Poisk:
An early-season indeterminate variety for greenhouses. 90-95 days from seedling emergence to fruiting. Requires staking and pruning. Excellent truss set, up to 15 fruits per truss. Round, smooth, red, tiny fruits weighing 0.5-0.7 oz (15-20 g) with a wonderful dessert flavor. TMV resistant. Recommended fresh and for canning.

Very tasty and sweet fruits. I actually grew mine from Poisk seeds too, but they were from a batch with the old packet design.

Looks like everyone has a completely different Thumbelina! 😂 Mine looked like this:

I really loved it, it was delicious, highly productive, and set fruit right up until the frosts (I picked the last ones at the end of October). It didn’t have thick skin at all. 👍

A colleague gave me the seedlings, but I remember the packet she had looked exactly like the one in my photo. Indeterminate, truss-type. I didn’t really prune it much – removed some suckers early on, and then just let it grow wild. 😂

Edited February 10, 2019 by Lena Vanyushka

We got our seeds from Tomatinka. Grown for 3 years, and the result is exactly the same every time: a great, fluffy, short little bush, about 24 inches (60 cm) tall. Starts fruiting early, is constantly in bloom along with its suckers, and finishes very late. Simple trusses, up to 7 flowers each. In the super-tomato year of 2018, we harvested the very last tomatoes on November 1st.

We loved the taste, my daughter even picked them to sell. They don’t split at the stem. Grew it one year under cover and 2 years outdoors in open ground, and I’m sowing it again. It looks absolutely nothing like the picture on the original packet, which means it’s an off-type “gift” from the seed company. Gift accepted! It’s so fluffy because we didn’t prune the suckers – it grew in 3 main stems right from the soil line. The second photo is from November 1, 2018.