Gold Medal Tomato Grower Reviews and Photos

The taste and color are typical of a bicolor. It is sweet and looks beautiful. I planted it late, so it is hard to judge the overall yield. It set fruit well, usually 3-4 tomatoes per cluster. The fruits weigh about 3.5 – 5.3 oz (100-150 g). Based on the ripening time, I’d say it is a mid-early variety. I really liked it and will definitely plant it again next year.

Just an update to my previous post. I actually think the variety is very productive. What’s interesting is that while the weight is supposed to be around 5.3 oz (150 g), on a different bush they got up to 7 – 7.7 oz (200-220 g).

My Gold Medal turned out to be the earliest of all my bicolors, and the most productive. On the bush where I had this cluster of three massive tomatoes, there were a couple more growing on a sucker that I already picked. Right now, two more clusters of three are sizing up, they are already huge, and more little ones are setting. I haven’t had a single tomato under 1.1 lbs (500 g) across my 3 bushes yet. The plants are about 5.2 ft (1.6 meters) tall right now out in the open garden. Very delicious, I will absolutely grow it again.

A huge thank you to Alexander for this wonderful bicolor! I want to add that this variety has Potato Leaf (PL) foliage. It is very productive and low-maintenance. The fruits are incredibly tasty and they don’t lose their flavor even when ripened indoors off the vine.

I grew this Gold Medal from Elena’s seeds. It is so delicious. What’s interesting is that the flesh has the texture of a plum. The tomatoes aren’t very big, but there were tons of them. I really liked the variety. I highly recommend everyone try it!!! It is so good!!!

ElenaN wrote:
I want to add that this variety has Potato Leaf (PL) foliage.

My Gold Medal had Regular Leaves (RL).

These are different Medals. The one in my photo is much smaller. The one you have is massive. I actually planted the massive one this year, I’ll show photos in a few days. Why two completely different varieties are circulating under one name makes no sense to me. It seems even overseas where they came from, different vendors are selling different seeds under the same name.

Nadine wrote:
My Gold Medal had Regular Leaves.

Nadine, there are two different varieties sharing the same name. One has potato leaves and small tomatoes, and the other has regular leaves and massive tomatoes. Both are bicolors. 🌺

Looks like Alexander and I typed our answers at the exact same time… 📝

Exactly, Tanya! Next year I am going to plant both Medals at the same time. If the large-fruited one tastes as amazing as the small one, this bicolor is going to be absolutely priceless. 👍

Look at the forum ratings, it’s getting straight 5-star reviews from everyone!!! 🌺

Yeah Tanya, I actually forgot to cast my vote yesterday. Voting 5 stars now 👍

And the flesh really does have the texture of a plum, I don’t know how else to describe it. Overall, I loved the variety. 👍

Here is how my large Gold Medal turned out. Of course, it’s nowhere near 1.7 lbs (800 g), but our climate isn’t like Volgograd, and our summer this year didn’t even feel like summer.

Sasha! Well obviously it’s not 800 g. But what was the approximate weight? And the taste? Although with the weather you guys had this year, it’s probably better not to ask about flavor 🙁

But your large-fruited Medal looks very similar to the small one visually 👍

Whose variety is this anyway? Which seed company or breeder? Where did you guys originally order it?

The weight was about 10.5 – 12.3 oz (300-350 g). And no, they aren’t similar at all, neither inside nor outside. Maybe they just look vaguely similar in the wide photos, but in person they are completely different and the flesh texture is totally different.

Just picked the very last ones out of the greenhouse yesterday…

Beautiful! 👍 Tanya, are they still sweet even now in the fall?

Yes, still delicious!!!! 😋😋

Girls, what kind of leaf does this tomato have?

Potato leaf. But remember, there are two versions of Gold Medal. One is large and one produces 3.5 – 5.3 oz (100-150 g) tomatoes. Both are bicolors.

Thanks. I couldn’t find info on the leaf type anywhere, and I was looking at my seedlings thinking a potato leaf was popping up.

My seeds are from Redko. The leaf is regular (RL), not potato leaf.

According to Tatiana’s TOMATObase, there is only one true version, without variations, and it has a regular leaf.

I had the large bicolor, and the leaf was regular (RL).

I strongly suspect that the Potato Leaf version of Gold Medal circulating here is actually the variety Little Lucky. I could be wrong, though.

We tasted our first Gold Medal today. My seeds are from Dukhov, it has a potato leaf (PL). Weighed 6 oz (171 grams). It’s very tasty and turned out to be quite early. It’s among the very first good-sized tomatoes to ripen for me. 👍

I grew the large bicolor. Seeds were from Nadine. The variety is tasty, sweet, and the fruits are heavy and beautiful. I pruned it to 2 leaders, but I was forced to completely remove one of the stems in mid-July (even though it was loaded with fruit clusters). Because of that, I can’t fairly judge the final yield. But I really liked the variety.

An excellent variety! I got my seeds from Nadine too. Large, beautiful, and most importantly, incredibly tasty tomatoes! I grew it to 2 leaders, and the bush reached about 6 ft (1.8 m). I strongly suspect this variety will become a permanent resident in my garden.

Here is my Gold Medal on a tray, just a single day’s harvest. 😄

I grew the version with Potato Leaves and small fruits. Indeterminate, grew in the greenhouse to 2 stems. It’s a very productive, early variety with a long fruiting window. I absolutely loved it! 👍👍👍

It produces a ton of fruit 🙌. They are beautiful, up to 5.3 oz (150 g), juicy, and incredibly tasty. Sweet, just like fruit jelly 😋.

I loved this variety. It was early, productive, and had potato leaves. Very sweet, and it even kept its great flavor right up until the end of the season. Seeds from Natalya Dryzhakova.

Anela wrote:
I loved this variety. It was early, productive, and had potato leaves. Very sweet…

Thank you Elena! 🌺 You are totally right, it is a genuinely remarkable variety! When I grew it for the first time back in 2012, I kept walking into the greenhouse just to admire the bushes. They stood about 5 ft (1.5 m) tall, gorgeous plants with large potato leaves, completely hung with these small orange “lanterns” 🙌👍. The yield was just staggering! And the taste of the fruits is flawless of course – an aromatic, gel-like flesh with strong fruity notes 😋😋.

I actually didn’t like it. (I had the Potato Leaf version).

Yes, it’s productive. But honestly, the only interesting things about it are the fun coloration and the unusual, slightly plum-like texture that people mentioned. The flavor felt empty to me, just vaguely sweet with some light “fruity notes”, and it has zero shelf life.

My Medal has regular leaves (RL). The fruits are flat-round, yellow with a red-orange cap, weighing 12 – 17.6 oz (350-500 g). The bush turned out very productive. I grew it in the greenhouse.

My Gold Medal had regular leaves. It was extremely beautiful, but the taste was totally bland. I won’t be planting it again.

Planted this for the first time this year and I really liked it. Here is my video review.

Here is my medal. I have the one that is a large bicolor. I absolutely loved the flavor. I will definitely repeat this one. I grew it from seeds I got from Kulik, dug them out of my very old seed stash.