Grandma Viney’s Yellow and Pink Tomato Real Grower Reviews

Grandma Viney’s Yellow and Pink. Indet, height 4-5 ft (1.2-1.5 meters), very productive, disease-resistant, beautiful. I pruned it to 1 main stem (but it can handle two), very few suckers. Very tasty, zero tartness, tastes like honey.

Edited January 17, 2015 by Drosera

Such beauties. What is its ripening season like?

Angelina! The tomato is incredibly beautiful 👍! It popped up in a lot of seed catalogs this year. Which breeder did you get your seeds from?

In the garden, it was ready by early July. Marina, I actually sent some to you 😉

ElenaN wrote:
Angelina! The tomato is incredibly beautiful 👍! It popped up in a lot of seed catalogs this year. Which breeder did you get your seeds from?

Huge thanks to Popenko for the seeds.

Mine weren’t quite as large grown outdoors, but they were very productive and absolutely delicious mmm 😋, juicy, sweet with a nice tang 👍. From a very young age, the plant constantly tried to push out tons of suckers. The color in the photos is a bit off because I used the camera flash.

Found a photo of the bush:

In Siberian greenhouse conditions, this turned out to be my absolute lowest-yielding variety. 😕

I grew it outdoors. It was one of the most delicious tomatoes this year (2014) 😋. And what a handsome fruit it is!!! 👍

Planted it in the greenhouse. Pruned to 2 main stems. Yield was average. The fruits are large, heavy. Sweet. The bush is very vigorous.

I liked it. 🙂

2015 Season:

The variety was a bit finicky for me in the greenhouse (there was some blossom drop and missed fruit sets). The tomatoes turned out juicy and sweet.

Grew it for the first time, in a polycarbonate greenhouse. A variety with great potential. The yield was decent, but it dropped blossoms during the heat wave. The fruits are very juicy, with a pleasant sweet-and-sour taste and a fruity aftertaste, lacking that classic “tomato” aroma. There were a lot of seeds in the medium-sized fruits, but very few in the large ones.

Edited August 2, 2020 by T@tk@

Greenhouse. Pruned to 1 and 2 stems. The bush is sturdy and dense. The leaves are broad, large, dense, sticking out sideways. The stems are thick. Responds well to feeding. The width of a 1-stem bush is at least 16 inches (40 cm). The density of the bush at the bottom is about 90%, at the top – 30…40%. Tasty, but the flavor leans towards a yellow tomato, with a tang. I don’t really like yellow tomatoes, so I’ll give it a 4.8 out of 5.

I prefer Oaxacan Jewel because the pink tomato flavor profile dominates, and it’s sweeter. Plus, the yield for Oaxacan was much higher for me. I only got about 4.4 lbs (2 kg) total from Grandma Viney. Seeds from V. Redko.

Very tasty, very beautiful, but the yield was average. It turned out to be a late-season producer for me. But then again, look at the summer we had… Basically all my tomatoes turned out late this year.

We’ve had this variety for 4 years now, lots of people love it for its sweetness, just for eating fresh.

Fruit set (and therefore yield) is average, highly dependent on the weather and probably on our growing techniques. It’s a mid-to-late season variety, a slow and steady producer. I have photos from October 22, harvested 6 tomatoes, not small ones either. The bush was under a low tunnel during a nice autumn. Out of 5 bicolor varieties, this one is permanently on our grow list (it’s denser) along with Burracker’s Favorite, which is quite productive. The others we only plant occasionally. Seeds were from the forum.

Rodebielesumer wrote:
We’ve had this variety for 4 years now… Out of 5 bicolor varieties, this one is permanently on our grow list (it’s denser) along with Burracker’s Favorite, which is quite productive.

It grew for me last year in a polycarbonate greenhouse right near the entrance. I live in the northwest of the Moscow region. It set fruit perfectly. It formed trusses of 3-4 fruits. Out of all the bicolors, I loved it the most for its taste, density, color pattern, and yield. It loves having room to roam, and you can easily let it grow to 3-4 main stems. The fruits were from 8.8 to 14 oz (250 to 400 g).

It was moderately productive for me, the fruits are sweet and juicy. It did drop some blossoms in the heat.

Very tasty, very beautiful. Yield is average, honestly leaning closer to low. It wasn’t early for me at all. It absolutely loves dropping blossoms from the heat or for basically any other reason. The fruits match the color and size of Nadezhda’s photos from Volgograd.

There are quite few seeds.

I noticed a curious thing – in years when the greenhouse is overrun by spider mites, Grandma Viney goes from being a blotchy tomato to… quite striped!! This might solve the mystery of the stripes in some of the photos.

I haven’t planted it in a while, so the photos are long gone. And in my opinion, Virginia Sweets is definitely more productive, but in terms of taste, Grandma Viney’s still wins out for me. I planted both varieties this year, I’ll keep an eye on them.

Large, beautiful, and very tasty. In terms of flavor, it’s one of my favorites this season.