Heat of Burning Coals (Zhar Goryashchie Ugli) Tomato Review

Zhar – Goryashchie Ugli. Tanya (Tanika) shared the seeds with me. The taste has a nice little tang, I’d rate it 4.5 out of 5. The variety is mid-early, indeterminate, 5.2 ft (1.6 m) tall. A very vigorous bush. I grew 2 plants outdoors in the open ground. Unfortunately, I left my scale at the dacha, so I don’t know the exact weight.

Edited August 6, 2014 by Pomidoroved (Admin)

I really liked the variety 👍. My seeds were from Ruslan Sirotin. The flavor is very pleasant, a sweet-and-sour velvety taste. Meaty and juicy. Outdoors, my plants only reached 3.6 ft (1.1 m). It sets fruit incredibly well. If it hadn’t frozen almost to death in the spring, I definitely would have harvested a full bucket per plant 😳

My average tomato weight was 8.4 oz (238 g). The largest was 12.3 oz (348 g). You have to admit, for such an anomalously cold and bad year in the Urals, the result is not bad at all. I’m definitely keeping this variety on my grow list. It does have one small sin, though – it’s prone to cracking. But then again, we had a ridiculous amount of rain this year.

Here is mine:

Mine were probably from Tanika too. I loved the variety. Very large fruits, high yield. Grew outdoors, pruned to 2 main stems.

I am absolutely thrilled with this variety, my seeds were from Brizhan.

Edited March 15, 2019 by Pomidoroved (Admin)

And I’m jumping for joy over this one too! 💃💃💃 Super variety!!! 😍 Grown outdoors.

I liked it too, very tasty.

Redko actually sells a completely different variety under this exact name 🙂

Andrey_K wrote:
Redko actually sells a completely different variety under this exact name 🙂

Yeah, I saw that too and got scared, I don’t need that one. My seeds are from Angelina for the 2015 season.

Height was about 4.6 ft (1.4 m). Average yield, average taste.

Just clarifying for accuracy. If anyone is wondering, I bought my Zhar Goryashchie Ugli seeds from Ruslan Sirotin. It looks exactly like Tamara’s (Drakonka’s) in the photos.

Mine are also originally from Sirotin, passed down through 3 different growers’ hands 🙂

The variety from Tamara (Drakonka), I liked it:

Pani Tomat wrote:
The variety from Tamara (Drakonka), I liked it:

What is it called? It looks exactly like my Dalnevostochnyi (Far Eastern)! Oh, I just saw the title of the thread… 😆 I was too busy admiring the beauty to read… 👏👏👏 Gorgeous!

Edited August 23, 2015 by Drosera

Tamarochka shared her seeds with me too 🎩 Only mine wasn’t mid-early, it acted more like a mid-late variety. It took a long time to get going, and then, completely unexpectedly, it set a massive amount of rather large tomatoes. A very pleasant surprise! The bush was about 6 ft (1.8 m) tall 👍

Svetochka (Svetlyachok-plus) shared seeds of this variety with me, for which I am hugely grateful! It was early, productive, and I loved the flavor – tender, sweet, with a barely noticeable tang. It had only one flaw – it was prone to cracking. Planning to grow it again in 2016.

This variety showed a tendency to crack for me too, but at the same time, I absolutely loved its excellent taste and yield. In the greenhouse, it grew to about 6.5 ft (2 meters) tall. Sweet fruits.

My plant turned out to be very productive too. The taste is exactly as Tamara describes – with a nice tang. Seeds were from Tanika.

Tomatanya wrote:
My plant turned out to be very productive too. The taste is exactly as Tamara describes – with a nice tang. Seeds were from Tanika.

What was the weight, and is the skin thick?

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I don’t remember about the skin, probably regular. And the weight is visible on the scale in the photo 🎩

Tomatanya wrote:
I don’t remember about the skin, probably regular. And the weight is visible on the scale in the photo 🎩

I can’t see it, my computer is acting up, it won’t enlarge the photo for some reason…

Fruits were 7-10.5 oz (200-300 g).

I grew one bush. It was nearly 6.5 ft (2 m) tall, pruned to a single stem. It turned out very productive and large-fruited, I even had to tie some of the trusses to the neighboring bush for extra support. Loved the taste, juicy, sweet, with thin skin. Seeds from Ilya Korolev (ilja).

Hey everyone! I’m growing this variety again, not just 3 bushes this time, but more: it’s a very worthy variety! If it didn’t suffer from blossom drop in the extreme heat (so far, only De Barao has proven to be bulletproof against both heat and diseases for me), it would be absolutely priceless!

I got my seeds from Ilya Korolev, here is his description:

Tall (6.5 ft / 2 meters), productive mid-season tomato variety. Fruits are large, oblate, red, juicy, and meaty. Excellent taste, sweet.

Another absolutely magnificent tomato. Just blazing large fruits on a tall, vigorous bush. Very beautiful! It completely justifies its name. Early. Very tasty! Sweet with a slight tang. However, I didn’t slice it into salads. I tried it once with cucumbers, onions, and garlic, and I just couldn’t eat it. The flavor combo was off, it was too sweet to pair with raw onions and garlic. But paired with quick-pickled (lightly salted) cucumbers, it’s quite good. And it’s even better just eaten on its own.

The color rendering on the photos with the scale is wrong. I had to artificially brighten the photo so you could read the weight display. The true color is visible in the photos on the bush and on the table.

The largest tomato I grew this season is ZGU (Zhar Goryashchie Ugli) from Angelina.

Edited October 4, 2018 by Shevyachok

I’m planting this variety for the 2nd year because I really liked both the yield and the taste. But last year the tomatoes were large and extra-large, whereas this year they didn’t size up as much. The taste, however, remained excellent.

An excellent variety, a relatively short indet, early season, grew in the greenhouse pruned to 2 main stems, very productive 👋 The tomatoes are red, excellent taste, the weight for me reached up to 12.3 oz (350 g).

Seeds are from Masha @Murka 🙏

Edited September 24, 2019 by Svetikk

Yulya wrote:
…magnificent tomato. Just blazing large fruits… Very beautiful! Totally justifies its name. Early. Very tasty! Sweet with a slight tang.

I’ll add – it grew and set fruit perfectly pruned to 2 stems in my eastern garden bed. It is prone to cracking, though.

Zhenya @Jina, thank you! 🙏

Girls, I bought seeds of this variety, but the picture on the packet shows anthocyanin (purple) shoulders. The packet is from Siberian Garden (SibSad). But all of your photos just show regular red tomatoes. Did I buy the wrong thing? In the seedling stage, it was the only one that sprouted with a purple stem.

Edited April 1, 2021 by Luganochka

You bought a different variety. Siberian Garden’s packet says “Zhar-Ugli”, and this thread is about the variety “Zhar Goryashchie Ugli”. These are two completely different varieties with similar names.

Understood, thanks.

My Zhar Goryashchie Ugli is from Tatyana @Tanika.

I’ve had the seeds sitting around for a long time, but only planted them this year. Worthy, large fruits, but the variety didn’t reach its full potential for me on the first try, it only yielded about 7.7 lbs (3.5 kg) per plant.

I’ll analyze my mistakes, and hopefully, the result will be better next time, but for now, here it is: