Quick Summary of Feyerverk (Firework)
- 🌍 Origin: A well-known Russian commercial heirloom. The name translates to “Firework” (or Fireworks), referencing its striking visual appearance.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, typically growing around 1.8m (6 ft) tall. Growers note that the foliage is usually Regular Leaf (RL). It requires good support but can be somewhat sensitive to diseases compared to hardier varieties.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red beefsteaks with distinctive yellow or golden speckles and stripes. Sometimes the striping presents as slight russeting or corking (looking like dried scratches). They are meaty but can have a slightly tough skin.
- 👅 Flavor: The main reason growers keep trying it! It is widely praised for its outstanding, sweet, and rich classic tomato flavor (though a few growers found it average depending on conditions).
- ⏳ Yield: The most debated aspect of this variety. While commercial packets claim high yields, almost all forum growers report very low to average production, often noting that it skips trusses. It seems to perform slightly better outdoors than in greenhouses.
Seeds from Gusev. Indeterminate, vigorous bush, height about 1.8m (6 ft). Early, very tasty and sweet, meaty, but the skin is a bit tough. The fruits have yellow speckles, very beautiful. I trained it to 2 stems. Gusev claims it is a very productive variety, but I didn’t get many fruits (maybe because I’m still a beginner in tomato growing).
Edited January 24, 2015 by Drosera
I also grew Feyerverk for 3 years in a row. In a greenhouse. I won’t do it again. The fruits are tasty and beautiful. But there are very, very few of them. Either it doesn’t get along with me, or I don’t get along with it. 😕 I don’t remember which company the seeds were from, bought them in a store.
Veta wrote:
I also grew Feyerverk for 3 years in a row. In a greenhouse. I won’t do it again. The fruits are tasty and beautiful. But there are very, very few of them.
Sveta, well, I also had very few, it set the first 2 trusses with 2-3 tomatoes each, skipped the third one, and on the fourth there were some tiny things… And that’s iiit 😲 I won’t be planting it next year.
I grew it outdoors and in a greenhouse, it turned out tastier and more productive outdoors. But it’s a bit small for me, I like larger ones. I will grow it when my variety-mania (seed hoarding phase) ends 😂.
Mine was very average in taste and yield. It grew in a greenhouse. I won’t plant it again.
I also had 2 bushes growing in the greenhouse, to be honest, I didn’t even understand what kind of variety it was – small fruits, sickly, and this was while all the other varieties were just super 🙈 In early August I yanked them out, I couldn’t bear to look at them 😳😳😳😳😳😳 I won’t plant it again, I don’t see any promise in this variety, or maybe it just didn’t “take off” for me 😝😝😝😝😝😝😝😝
Mine was also nothing special, set about 6-7 fruits. It sat in the greenhouse, I won’t waste space on them anymore.
Mine grew outdoors, average yield, started ripening in July, didn’t get sick, but the tomato fruitworm (cotton bollworm) devoured a lot of fruits. The taste is tomato-y.
And I love it for its taste 😋
I had it from Petrov. So ugly. Whitish stripes on top, tasted “meh” (yuck). 😞
Mine was tasty, but low-yielding. Grew outdoors. Maybe I’ll try growing it again.
Ours grew quite decently, tasty and beautiful with golden splashes Feyerverk.
True, it was planted from a SeDeK seed packet labeled “Ryabchik” (Partridge). But judging by the fruit shape and height – it’s more likely Feyerverk.
Feyerverk (Seeds originally from Popenko) – is one of my favorites! The yield, of course, is not high – but it is very tasty. I plant it outdoors. I also planted Ryabchik from SeDeK, but for me, that was completely not Feyerverk.
I grew it from Gusev’s seeds. Tasty, but not productive. Grew in a greenhouse. I will not repeat it.
I tried to grow this variety for two years. In ’18 in the greenhouse, 2 bushes died, I managed to taste 1 half-grown tomato, but the taste was so good that in 2019 I tried to grow it again. I grew it outdoors this time, but it was the only one that got sick. I had to yank the bush out. Now I want to try my luck one last time in 2020.
I planted this tomato for the first time, but I doubt it’s the real deal, since the description claims the leaf of the variety is regular, while mine has potato-type leaves.
I planted it for the first time in the 90s, I remembered it as unusual. I repeated it in 2013-2014. This year I decided to plant it once again, and to update my seeds. Yes, the skin is mottled, but the stripes actually look like they were scratched and then dried up (russeting/corking). The taste is tomato-y, good. The yield is not bad, the fruits are uniform.
