Quick Summary of Easter Egg (Paskhalnoe Yaitso)
- 🌍 Origin: A highly popular commercial/heirloom variety in Russia and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Ukraine). The name translates perfectly to “Easter Egg”, reflecting its beautiful shape and colorful stripes.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, extremely tall (easily exceeding 1.7 – 2 m / 5.5 – 6.5 ft) and vigorous. Performs exceptionally well both in greenhouses and outdoors (open ground). Known for being highly disease-resistant and unpretentious.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Stunning red cocktail-sized tomatoes painted with striking golden/yellow stripes. They are egg-shaped or barrel-shaped, typically weighing 40-50 g (1.5-1.8 oz). Fun fact: When sliced in half horizontally, the thick seed walls form a perfect, distinct cross (+).
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Very dense, fleshy, and firm with a thick (but not tough) skin. The taste is generally rated as very good to excellent (sweet and juicy).
- 💡 Pro Tips for Growing & Usage: This is a top-tier canning (pickling) variety. Because of the firm walls and thick skin, the fruits do not burst when poured over with boiling water/marinade, and they even retain their beautiful stripes in the jar! If you prefer soft, mushy pickled tomatoes, this might be too firm for you—but for those who like a tomato with a “bite,” it is perfect.
Natasha (Rusalka) shared the seeds with me.
A beautiful little tomato, sets fruit without skipping, 4-5 small fruits per cluster.
It grew outdoors (open ground), didn’t get sick.
I grew these outdoors, very beautiful, as if painted with gold (although I saw slightly different coloring on the internet).
Sorry, I don’t remember who sent the seeds. :-[
Vikusya, are they cherry or cocktail size?
Vera, cocktail size, I will weigh them a bit later and write the weight. 😉
I weighed them, they are 45-50 g (1.5-1.8 oz) each, seeds from Lenochka from Kostroma. :thx:
Hello everyone! Tell me, is Easter Egg suitable for pickling/marinating? What is its skin like? Is it thick or what, for example, comparing it to De Barao?
irinka-malinka wrote:
Hello everyone! Tell me, is Easter Egg suitable for pickling/marinating?
Irochka, they are perfectly suitable for canning. :yep: :yep: :yep: The skin is dense, but not tough. In the jars, they almost never burst, and if any do burst, they don’t fall apart. I liked the variety. Productive, beautiful, you can eat it fresh or can it. Grew outdoors. By the way, the stripes are preserved in the jars, although they become faintly visible.
This is what my Easter Egg looked like. Lenochka (ElenaN) shared the seeds with me. :thx: :thx: :thx: :thx: :thx: :thx: :thx:
Somewhere on the vastness of the internet, I came across a picture: this little tomato in a cross-section, and a distinct cross made by the internal walls/partitions is visible there. That is, it has exactly four identical seed cavities. Very impressive!
Have you noticed if there is also a cross on the cut of your tomatoes?
I also grew Easter Egg this year, and I think it was also from Natasha (Rusalka). It grew from the very beginning outdoors (open ground). I liked it very much, beautiful, productive, set fruit right up until autumn. Managed it in 2 stems. I liked the variety, it’s in the plans for this year.
