📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Green Honey
- 🌍 Origin: A US-bred variety that gained massive popularity among European and Russian growers through local seed catalogs.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. A true workhorse with an incredible harvest window, pumping out fruit right up until the first frost.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Cocktail-sized beauties weighing up to 2.1 oz (60 g). The flesh stays completely green, while the skin develops a gorgeous yellowish blush when fully ripe.
- 👅 Flavor: Super sweet, juicy, and very refreshing.
- 💡 Good to know: Frequently confused with the “Green Grape” variety due to some crazy translation errors on commercial seed packets, but Green Honey is a distinct, slightly larger, and much newer release.
Indet. Cocktail-sized, up to 2.1 oz (60 g). The skin gets this beautiful yellowish blush, but the flesh stays completely green inside. It’s absolutely gorgeous, almost looks like it’s glowing from the inside out. Super sweet flavor, too. It didn’t drop any blossoms for me, and the harvest window was super long. It just kept pumping out fruit right up until the first frost.
I saw these exact seeds being sold by the “Nash Sad” seed company in their heirloom line. But they translated it as “Green Grape” on the packet. We already have Green Grape in our database here.
Olvia (Olya) said:
I saw these exact seeds being sold by the “Nash Sad” seed company in their heirloom line. But they translated it as “Green Grape” on the packet. We already have Green Grape in our database here.
Olya, I highly doubt a single “grape” tomato would weigh 2 oz (60 g), don’t you think? 😉 That’s way too big for a grape variety.
Olvia (Olya) said:
I saw these exact seeds being sold by the “Nash Sad” seed company in their heirloom line. But they translated it as “Green Grape” on the packet. We already have Green Grape in our database here.
Well, the English word “Honey” obviously translates to honey, not grape. The seed company definitely screwed up their translation on the packet.
Agnija (Agniya) said:
Well, I just went to the “Nash Sad” website. It’s totally illiterate. BIACK SEA MAN, BIACK CHERRY, instead of Black… how do you like that?
Anyway, back to the topic. Copying this straight from their site: GREEN HONEY TOMATO (GREEN GRAPE). Weight 1.4 oz (40 g).
Where does it say “green grape” in Russian?
Yeah, I just read the Russian name and automatically translated it in my head, I didn’t even notice they had the English name typed out in brackets. But honestly, is the translation the real issue here? Who cares what language the names are in. The real question is: are Green Honey and Green Grape the same variety or two totally different ones? Because if it’s the exact same tomato, we shouldn’t be making a duplicate thread for it in the catalog.
Pretty sure they’re completely different tomatoes. Svetlana probably got her seeds from Popenko’s catalog. Plus, Green Grape is way smaller than Green Honey.
LenaV (Elena) said:
Pretty sure they’re completely different tomatoes. Svetlana probably got her seeds from Popenko’s catalog. Plus, Green Grape is way smaller than Green Honey.
Elena, you nailed it, my seeds are from Popenko. Here’s how he describes it in his catalog: “Green Honey (USA origin). Indet. Fruits are round, green, very sweet, weighing up to 2.1 oz (60 g).” And here’s the photo he uses:
Olvia (Olya) said:
I just translated it automatically in my head… The real question is: are these the same variety or two different ones? Because if it is already in our database, why make a duplicate thread.
Green Grape and Green Honey are definitely two separate varieties. Green Honey is a much newer release, I’m pretty sure it only hit the market a year or two ago if my memory serves me right.
Grew this in ’21 from Aelita seeds. Bought the seeds super late, around April 8-10th, but figured I’d plant them anyway just to see how they taste. I planted two per hole and pruned them to a single leader. They got to about 5 feet (1.5 m) tall and set 3 trusses each. Some ripened on the vine. The flavor is really nice and sweet. Pulled the rest green and they ripened up indoors beautifully, barely lost any flavor. We were eating the last of them in early November.
Grew Green Honey in the greenhouse back in ’21. It didn’t start ripening until closer to fall, which I actually loved because most of my other plants were already dying back by then. The flavor is sweet, juicy, and just really unique. Whenever I’m thirsty out in the garden, this is the tomato I crave! Grew it again outdoors in the dirt in ’22. We had a super hot summer, but the plant performed exactly the same. It earned a permanent spot in my garden rotation for sure.
If you’re wondering why the growers in this thread are arguing about translations, it all comes down to a notorious printing error by a Russian seed company called Nash Sad (Our Garden). They released a tomato under the Russian name “Zelenii Myod” (which literally translates to Green Honey), but they mistakenly printed the English translation as “Green Grape” right next to it on the packet!This sparked a massive debate among Russian heirloom collectors about whether they were just buying the classic American heirloom Green Grape rebranded, or if it was a completely distinct, newer variety called Green Honey. As the growers eventually figured out, Green Honey and Green Grape are indeed two entirely different tomatoes!
