Quick Summary of Fitous
- 🌍 Origin: A highly resilient and dependable Russian variety. The name is “Fitous” (Фитоус).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (bush). It grows compactly to about 50-60 cm (20-24 inches) tall and features sparse/wispy foliage. It is incredibly rugged, requiring minimal care, and thrives even in poor soil and low-water conditions. Perfect for open ground.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red, oval to round-oval (plum shape) tomatoes. They weigh around 80-90 g (2.8-3.2 oz) and have thick walls, making them excellent for canning, processing, or making paste.
- 👅 Flavor: Good, classic tomato taste.
- ⏳ Maturity: Early season. Starts fruiting in 95-100 days from emergence.
Description from the seed packet:
Early ripening, 95-100 days from emergence to fruiting. The plant is determinate, 50-60 cm (20-24 inches) tall, with sparse foliage. The fruits are oval and round-oval, red, thick-walled, weighing 80-90 g (2.8-3.2 oz). The taste qualities are good.
Photo author: Elenochka
My Fitous.
This is how it looked when I planted it out.
From my mom, meaning she saved the seeds.
Sowed it from seeds directly in a garden bed in the greenhouse, then transplanted it outdoors (open ground).
Natalya said:
Sowed it from seeds directly in a garden bed in the greenhouse, then transplanted it outdoors (open ground).
The yield is amazing.
Valentina said:
The yield is amazing.
Thank you. Especially considering that the soil in this garden bed was very poor. It’s an old, almost abandoned plot; a 90-year-old neighbor asked me to plant a couple of tomatoes for him. He would come by sometimes and admire them… I hardly watered them (I have a lot to do on my own plot, so I’d just pop in when I had the time) and fertilized only a couple of times — a handful of fish meal and wood ash at planting, plus cow manure tea a couple of times over the summer… In general, I recommend Fitous to everyone.
