Quick Summary: Abrikosovye ot Gulzhanat (Gulzhanat’s Apricot)
- 🌍 Origin: A rare amateur heirloom variety tracing back to a collector named Gulzhanat. The name translates directly to “Apricot from Gulzhanat.”
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and very tall (easily reaches the roof of a standard greenhouse). Despite its height, growers note it performs well even when planted on the outer side beds where the roof clearance is lower.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, oblate (flattened) beefsteaks with a beautiful, glowing apricot-orange color. The flesh is dense, buttery, and extremely juicy. They grow so large and firm that they are excellent for slicing or freezing.
- 👅 Flavor: A perfectly balanced flavor profile that sits right between sweet and acidic. Note: The very first fruits of the season tend to be the sweetest.
- 💡 Growing Quirks: Don’t give up on it early! This variety can be a slow starter—it may look unhappy or drop early blossoms, but it explodes with massive yields late in the season. It also exhibits “sequential ripening”: it will ripen 3 large tomatoes on a truss while keeping 2-3 smaller ovaries dormant. Once you pick the ripe ones, the dormant babies immediately start growing!
Abrikosovye ot Gulzhanat
Height goes right up to the greenhouse roof, but it can successfully be grown on the side beds. The fruits are oblate, orange-colored, meaty, with a buttery, juicy flesh. A balanced taste, right between sweetness and acidity. The first fruits were sweeter than the later ones, but the variety is still very tasty overall!!!
I highly recommend it!!!
Here is another one that surprised me at the end of the season: Abrikosovy from Gulzhanat.
All summer it ruined my mood with its appearance: it would drop its flowers, and I just didn’t like how the plant looked. I decided to just ignore it. And then, towards the end of the season, it came to its senses and set beautiful oblate beefsteaks, just absolutely huge and firm. I sent them all to the freezer for pizza. You could tell from the slices that they were quite large.
Abrikosovye ot Gulzhanat. I liked them very much – large, well-shaped, with a nice sweetness. And the color is indeed like an apricot.
It has one interesting quirk: it grows 3 large fruits on a truss, and keeps 2-3 ovaries dormant. As soon as you pick the ripe ones, the little dormant ones immediately start growing!
