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Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)
Seeds from Kulik (Ukraine).
Plant description: Mid-early, sprawling, super strong and vigorous indeterminate vine.
Fruit set: doesn’t skip a beat, just keeps pushing out trusses and is still fruiting.
Height by early August was about 6 ft (1.8m), and by Sept 6 it hit 6.5 ft (2m) out in the dirt.
Trusses hold 6-8 tomatoes, super dense and insanely pretty.
Overall yield: extremely high.
The fruit: perfectly round, inky dark fading into bright red at the tip. Absolutely gorgeous.
Firmness of the ripe fruit is high.
Flavor: balanced, classic tomato taste, sweetness is maybe a 4 out of 5.
First impression: insanely beautiful and heavy producer, but strictly a canning/pickling tomato for me. Seedling gets a 5, vine gets a 5++, fruit gets a 4 (only because the flavor is pretty standard), overall a 5. A favorite!
Edited September 18, 2015 by Drosera
Flavor is solid, got that interesting little note you always get with the antho blues.
Grew Helsing Blue (forgive me for butchering the beautiful name 😊) for the first time this year. Charmed me right from the start when it began setting fruit. Sturdy vine, incredibly stiff tough main stem, and it pushed out fruit clusters after every single leaf! Set great both in the greenhouse and out in the dirt. We were still picking from the greenhouse right up until late October. Shrugged off all diseases. These little tomatoes look absolutely gorgeous in pickling jars mixed with other cherries and cocktails. Definitely going on the favorites list… 🙂
What a cutie!!! Is there really no sweetness to it at all?
Here are my Helsing Junction Blues. Vine is strong, sturdy, disease-free, gets real tall. Flavor is actually pretty good on these little guys, got some spicy notes to it, but the skin is on the thicker side. Basically cherries for the soul and for garden eye-candy. Seeds came from France.
I really loved this one, both for the yield and the flavor. Barely noticeable tartness, real berry-like, we just ate ’em straight like pocket candy. Hit about 5.5 ft (1.7m) in the greenhouse, but didn’t even reach 3 ft (1m) outdoors (grew that one from a rooted sucker). I only pruned a few leaves and eventually topped the suckers at the end of the season. Grew as a big sprawling plant in the corner of the greenhouse, but the foliage is wispy and the leaves are small, so it didn’t shade things out too bad. Every single tomato ripened up, even the ones I picked green colored up indoors without losing their flavor. The ones grown outdoors got way darker blue and sweeter. A new favorite 👍
Alena wrote:
Why does the photo label have a totally different name than the thread title? Heising jungti on blues
Edited December 2, 2017 by Drosera
Guessing they just ran out of space on the paper tag. If you move the ‘on’ up to the top line, it spells the right thing.
Named after a town in the US called Helsing Junction.
Literally means “Blues from Helsing Junction”.
Full Summary: Helsing Junction Blues
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, mid-early vine. Extremely vigorous and sprawling with stiff, tough main stems, yet the foliage itself is somewhat wispy with small leaves. Highly disease resistant. Easily reaches 6.5 ft (2m) outdoors.
- 📈 Yield: Phenomenal. Produces dense clusters of 6-8 fruits after every single leaf and just keeps going right up until late fall frosts.
- 👅 Taste: Classic tomato flavor with spicy/berry notes typical of anthocyanin varieties. Sweetness improves significantly when grown outdoors in direct sun. Eaten fresh like “pocket candy” by some, while others prefer it strictly for canning.
- 📦 Storage: Firm with a slightly thick skin. Excellent for pickling whole. Even unripe green fruits picked before frost will ripen well on the counter without losing flavor.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: 6 growers across Russia (including Zones 4-6) shared their results.
