📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Georgia Streak
- 🌍 Origin: A classic heirloom variety originating from the state of Georgia, USA. Known and loved by collectors for its stunning marbled appearance and superb flavor.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. The plants are extremely vigorous, often surpassing 6.5 feet (2 m) in height.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, beautiful bicolor beefsteaks (yellow/orange with red marbling inside and out). Average weight is typically around 8.8-12.3 oz (250-350 g), though they can easily get larger.
- 👅 Flavor: Renowned for being exceptionally sweet with virtually zero acidity. A true dessert-class slicer.
- 💪 Disease Resistance: Growers on the forum specifically note its impressive resistance to late blight.
Georgia Streak. Indeterminate, gets well over 6.5 feet (2 m) tall, heavy yielder. The flavor has zero acidity – it is incredibly sweet. It also held up really well against late blight.
Edited January 17, 2015 by Drosera
Angelina, where did you get your seeds? And what was the average weight of the tomatoes?
The seeds were from Popenko*. Average weight was around 8.8-12.3 oz (250-350 g).
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The seeds were from Popenko, average weight was around 8.8-12.3 oz (250-350 g).
It’s funny how Popenko, who loves using machine translation, messed up the name. In Russian, the English word “Georgia” translates to both the country in the Caucasus and the US State. He managed to pick the wrong one and even misspelled it in Russian!
Speaking of bad translations, it reminds me of a dubbed movie I saw about England. The translator called “Georgian-era chairs” “chairs from the Republic of Georgia”. Like, where would they get Caucasian chairs in old England? Or maybe the Brits considered them trendy antiques?
Popenko actually has a disclaimer on his site. He writes: “We cannot guarantee high-quality translations of variety names, which is why we always include the original name in its native language in parentheses.”
Is that it? Did nobody else grow this one??
Such a delicious tomato! Yields were just average for me, though. My seeds were from Lidiya Ganzen.
Edited March 13, 2021 by PolinaG
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*Valery Popenko: Popenko is a highly respected pioneer seed vendor in Russia, credited with introducing hundreds of Western heirloom tomatoes to Russian growers in the late 90s and 2000s. Alexander’s joke in the thread stems from a linguistic quirk: in Russian, the US State of Georgia and the country of Georgia (located in the Caucasus) are spelled differently (Georgia vs Gruziya). Machine translators frequently mix them up, leading to amusing seed catalogs where “Georgia Streak” sounds like a tomato from the Caucasian mountains rather than the American South!
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