Quick Summary of Exotic Fruit
- 🌍 Origin: A vigorously growing heirloom variety traded in Eastern European collections under the English name “Exotic Fruit”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (vining) and very powerful. The plants are highly vigorous and respond very well to multi-stem pruning. Growers successfully train them to 3 or even 4 stems without sacrificing the overall yield.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Medium-sized slicers, typically weighing between 150-200g (5.3-7 oz). They set heavily, producing large numbers of tomatoes per plant.
- 👅 Flavor Profile (A Polarizing Tomato!): The taste of this variety is highly debated and seems to depend heavily on your soil and weather. Some growers praise its perfectly balanced “sweet and sour” traditional tomato bite. Others report that the flavor profile leans heavily toward the tart and acidic side, even when left to fully ripen on the vine.
- 💡 Growing Conditions: Highly adaptable. It performs equally well indoors (greenhouse) and outdoors in open ground, though maximizing sunlight is recommended to boost the sugar content.
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I grew this variety in the greenhouse. The plant is tall (indeterminate) and vigorous. I trained it to about 3-4 stems. The fruits are medium, 150-200 g (5.3-7 oz). I liked the taste, a pleasant sweet-and-sour.
We planted this tomato this year, it is growing both in the open ground and in the greenhouse. Not large, there are a lot of them on the bush, but we didn’t like the taste at all, it’s quite sour (and we picked well-ripened tomatoes).
