Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zone 4 Experience)
Mid-season indeterminate variety, vigorous plant, regular leaf. Fruits are pointed large red plum-hearts, meaty, juicy, few seeds, very sweet, absolutely no acid. Good yield, grew it in the greenhouse.
Edited April 14, 2017 by ElenaN
Gritsyk. Read a few good reviews, decided to plant this variety and didn’t regret it. Indet, grew in the greenhouse to 2 stems, fruits are large (up to 1.1 lbs / 500 g) red plum-hearts with a little beak, meaty, absolutely delicious! 👍 😋
Very few seeds 🤦♀️
I totally agree, very tasty! True sweet tomato flavor, meaty chubby giant plums. Excellent rich taste, not a hint of blandness. The variety is highly productive, handled our crazy weather swings, intense heat, and wind really well (to be fair it grew in partial shade – a prime spot in our conditions). Mid-season. Grew it in 2020 outdoors in the dirt, the plant is sturdy and strong, but not overly aggressive, so it’s well-adapted for outdoors. Height outdoors… hard to say, mine wasn’t pruned to 2 stems, more like 5, and it reached maybe 4 ft (1.3 m). Normal foliage – not a see-through wispy plant, but not a dwarf either. Seeds were from Lena Danko, I saved my own, planning to repeat it next year with 3-4 plants right away, loved it that much. I’ll plant Yablochnyi Lipetskiy (Lipetsk Apple) right next to it in the same amount.
By the way, I had no issues with the seeds – normal amount in the fruit: not too many, but not too few either.
Edited December 5, 2020 by Oksana Evgenyevna
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste, and Adaptability
- 🌿 Plant: Mid-season indeterminate with regular foliage. The vines are sturdy, strong, and well-behaved. Highly adaptable to stressful weather; one grower noted it withstood intense heat swings and high winds outdoors. Reaches around 4 ft (1.3 m) when multi-stemmed outside, and taller when pruned in a greenhouse.
- 📈 Yield: Excellent and reliable production across both greenhouse and outdoor environments.
- 👅 Taste & Appearance: Striking, large red fruits shaped like plump, pointed hearts or jumbo plums, frequently maxing out around 1.1 lbs (500 g). The flavor is universally praised as exceptionally sweet, rich, and completely devoid of acidity. The flesh is very dense, meaty, and juicy.
- 🌱 Seed Saving: The fruits have extremely dense flesh and very small seed cavities. While one grower found seed saving frustrating due to the low seed count, another noted a normal, manageable amount in their harvest.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Three growers, gardening in Central Russia and Kazakhstan (USDA Zone 4 equivalents).
