Quick Summary of Fokus-Pokus (Hocus Pocus)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial variety from the “Aelita” seed company. The name translates to “Hocus Pocus”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Early season and indeterminate. It is a striking “Angora” type plant with silvery-green, heavily fuzzy (woolly) foliage. This dense fuzz makes the plant highly unattractive to insect pests. It also displays excellent drought tolerance.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright red, round cocktail-sized tomatoes with a distinct fuzzy, velvety skin (resembling a peach). Under standard pruning, they weigh 100-110g (3.5-3.9 oz), but if grown on multiple stems, they average 50-60g (1.7-2.1 oz).
- 👅 Flavor & Utility: They have a good, well-balanced classic tomato flavor. While they are great chopped in salads, some growers find the furry skin unusual when eating them raw on their own.
- ⏳ Yield: Sets fruit very reliably even in extreme summer heat, producing a generous crop.
An early, indeterminate variety. Tomatoes with fuzz, weighing 100-110 g (3.5-3.9 oz), red in color. The leaves are also fuzzy, which makes them unattractive to pests.
A very beautiful tomato, with green-silvery fuzzy foliage. The tomatoes are also fuzzy and cute. I let my plant grow wild 😅, left 4 stems, and ruthlessly cut off the rest. The tomatoes turned out smaller, about 50-60g (1.7-2.1 oz), but on 4 stems there were a lot of them. Overall, the heat didn’t affect the yield, it set fruit well and is drought-resistant.
The taste is a good, balanced tomato flavor. Good in a salad, but I didn’t like eating them raw just like that because of the furry skin, maybe it’s just unusual. Overall, I liked the variety.
Edited March 15, 2022 by Natalia79
