📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Graffiti Pink
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial European variety.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), but tends to be moderately sprawling and stays relatively manageable outdoors, reaching about 3.6 ft (1.1 m) in open ground. Regular leaf.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small, apple-sized round/oblate fruits. Visually stunning: they have a pink/rose base with distinct golden-yellow stripes.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Highly debated! Depending on the climate and soil, some growers report a juicy, incredibly sour tomato, while others report a meaty, somewhat mealy texture with a standard, pleasant tomato flavor.
- 📈 Growing Traits: Mid-season ripener. Has average yields. Several growers note it can be highly susceptible to Blossom End Rot (BER), while others had zero disease issues.
Graffiti Pink. Indeterminate, mid-season, sets fruit well, no diseases. Small, beautiful tomatoes, more juice than meat. I didn’t like the taste at all. Maybe in southern regions it gets sweet, but for me it turned out to be an absolute sour bomb 😞 Seeds were from Popenko.
Edited February 21, 2015 by Pomidoroved
Thanks for the heads up, I was just about to plant it.
Mine was also small and sour, definitely not my cup of tea.
Ksyusha (KsenaZ) gave me the Graffiti Pink seeds. I actually really liked the tomato: beautifully striped, looks like a ripe little apple. The taste wasn’t sour at all for me, just a standard good tomato flavor, and it’s not bad in canning jars either.
- External plant description: mid-late season variety, moderately sprawling, regular leaf (RL).
- Fruit set: no dropped blossoms, finished producing for the season.
- Bush height in open ground on 8/15: 3.6 ft (1.1 m).
- Trusses: 2-4 fruits each.
- Overall yield: average, leaning towards low.
- Fruit shape: oblate/flattened (although this specific one had a hint of a heart shape for some reason), pink color with golden stripes, beautiful.
- Firmness of ripe fruit: high, doesn’t crack.
- Taste: meaty, even a bit mealy/spongy, standard tomato flavor, sweetness is a 4 out of 5.
First impression: a tomato strictly for processing and canning. Cons: highly susceptible to BER, average taste.
Rating: Seedlings 4+, Bush 3, Fruit 4, Overall variety rating: 4/5.
It was great for me, absolutely no BER or any other diseases. But honestly, I wouldn’t plant it for processing or canning. The skin is too soft. Pink Vernissage has a much firmer skin. By the way, that is literally the only difference between the two varieties.
