📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Gruzinskie (Georgian)
- 🌍 Origin: A fantastic heirloom originating from the country of Georgia (in the Caucasus region). The name literally translates to “Georgian”. Note: Because it’s a regional name, there are a few different strains circulating under this name.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). An incredibly vigorous and powerful plant. In a greenhouse, it can easily shoot up to 11.5 ft (3.5 m)! It doesn’t push too many suckers because it focuses all its energy on heavy fruit production.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Massive beefsteaks. Growers report that the plant doesn’t produce small fruits at all—every single tomato is typically over 8.8 oz (250 g), with many growing much larger. Depending on the strain, they can be red and slightly heart-shaped, or pink and flat-round.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season to mid-late. Uniquely, some growers note that the entire plant tends to ripen its heavy load of fruit almost all at once.
- 👅 Flavor: A classic, old-fashioned tomato flavor. Juicy, robust, with a perfect sweet-and-sour balance that isn’t bland or purely sugary.
Photo by: azure
Grower Reviews & Photos
Gruzinskie (Georgian). Super variety!!! I wanted to add a photo to the catalog but didn’t find it there!!!! I was so surprised because a variety like this deserves a front-row seat. Indet, it pushes suckers moderately, and I actually know why—it puts all its energy into pumping out tomatoes. It turned out incredibly productive for me. Grown in the greenhouse.
By weight, there was not a single tomato under 8.8 oz (250 g), my support strings almost snapped under the weight of the plant!
An unbelievable beauty! 😋 And just by looking at it, it seems like the fruits are absolutely massive!!! 🙌
Tanechka, where did you get the seeds from?
Is it an early or mid-season variety?
And how is the flavor?
I’ll answer everyone at once: the tomatoes are large, I actually wrote above that not a single one was *under* 8.8 oz (250 g). My seeds were from Marinochka (Sochi). The variety is not early; that photo is from August 10th and they were still green, it only started ripening in mid-August.
What really surprised me is that the entire bush ripened very quickly and all at the same time, I’ve never seen anything like it.
Taste-wise, it’s a classic red tomato, a good sweet-and-sour balance. I actually prefer that flavor profile, I only eat purely sweet tomatoes when I’m specifically in the mood for them.
@Tatiyanka1 wrote:
I’ll answer everyone at once: the tomatoes are large, I actually wrote above that not a single one was *under* 250 g… What really surprised me is that the entire bush ripened very quickly and all at the same time, I’ve never seen anything like it…
Oh I apologize, I misunderstood your variety description! In that case, my admiration knows no bounds! 🙌
Edited February 7, 2015 by Drosera
My Gruzinskie were a little different—pink, flat-round fruits, very neat shape, large, and meaty. Mid-season. The plant is massively vigorous; in a greenhouse, it can easily reach up to 11.5 ft (3.5 m).
It’s on my grow list for this year 🤫.
It grew in a moderately lit spot (the middle of the greenhouse). Turned out to be very productive and tasty. A good, robust tomato flavor, not bland at all. Very juicy. Mid-season maturity.
You might have noticed that Tatyana grew large red tomatoes, while Svetlana grew large pink flat-round tomatoes, yet they both call them “Gruzinskie”. Why does this happen? “Gruzinskie” literally just translates to “Georgian” (as in the country of Georgia, famous for its incredible food and agriculture). In the Russian heirloom world, it is very common for someone to go on vacation to Georgia, eat a fantastic local tomato, save the seeds, and bring them back home simply labeled “The Georgian Tomato”. Over decades, these seeds are passed from gardener to gardener. As a result, there are several different, incredible heirloom strains circulating under the exact same name.
