📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vechnyi Zov (Eternal Call)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial Russian variety from the well-known seed company “Siberian Garden” (SibSad). The name translates to “Eternal Call”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate. The seed packet claims it’s a short 28-inch (70 cm) bush, but growers in this thread report highly variable heights. Depending on pruning and location, it can stay under 3 feet (1 m) or push up to a vigorous 5 feet (1.5 m). Takes very well to multi-stem pruning (running 3-4 stems).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, glossy red, oblate (flat-round) beefsteaks. They are very meaty with small seed cavities. While the packet advertises them as giants, average real-world weights fall around 7-10 oz (200-300 g).
- 👅 Flavor Profile: Highly debated! While the manufacturer promises a “tender sugary taste,” several growers found the flavor to be completely average or even on the tart/sour side. If it doesn’t impress you fresh, its dense flesh makes it a highly productive processing/canning tomato.
Description from the seed packet: Early-ripening, determinate variety with giant fruits for open ground and hoop houses. The plant is not a tree-type (non-rugose), semi-sprawling, up to 28 inches (70 cm) tall. The fruits are uniformly large, oblate (flat-round), glossy red, very meaty, few seeds, with a tender sugary taste. The variety is suitable for fresh eating and for winter canning. Yield is 11-20 lbs (5-9 kg) per bush.
Photo credits to users: cat2008, LLL, and Feechka.
This is how my Eternal Call from SibSad turned out. Grew it in the greenhouse.
My Eternal Call from SibSad was on the tart side, just not for me 😢
Edited February 8, 2016 by VALENTINA / Abakan
For me out in the open dirt it was a mid-season, vigorous bush pushing 5 feet (1.5 m). The fruits are large, round, with just a regular average tomato flavor.
I actually liked it. Sure, I didn’t get any massive ones, they were around 7 oz (200 g). Maybe slightly bigger. But the yield was solid.
It’s a really good flat-round, red mater for the open ground. The bush stayed under 3 feet (1 m). But I ran it to four stems instead of two.
