📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Italian Stallion
- 🌍 Origin: Heirloom tomato known for its incredible productivity. It also has a yellow sister variety known as Italian Stallion Giallo.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall vine). A true workhorse that sets fruit reliably without dropping blossoms, even when grown to 2 or 3 main stems.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red, dense, and very meaty with few seeds. The fun thing about this variety is that it throws different shapes on the same plant – you’ll see oval, plum, and oxheart-shaped fruits. Weights generally range from 5.3 to 10.5 oz (150-300 g).
- 👅 Flavor: Highly rated! Very sweet, rich, and delicious. Unlike many meaty paste-types, the flesh isn’t overly dry, making it great for fresh eating as well as processing.
Italian Stallion
Indeterminate. Indet. Red fruits that come in different shapes – oval, oxheart, or plum. They are very dense, meaty, and have very few seeds. Weight is usually between 5.3-10.5 oz (150-300 g). Extremely tasty!
Gorgeous variety, a mega heavy yielder, and incredibly tasty. I got my seeds from Lena Danko.
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Could anyone tell me what the days to maturity is on these? Is it early or late?
An absolute workhorse! A wonderful variety. It set 5 full trusses on the main stem by the time it hit 5 feet tall.. I ran it as a 3-stemmer. @Tatiana2305 🤠
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I really loved this variety. Super prolific. It grew in my sunniest spot and didn’t drop a single blossom. It was one of the first in the garden to start setting fruit and just kept going right through the end of September.
Tasty and sweet. What a champ! Tomato sizes started at 4.2 oz (120 g) and went up from there.
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It really is incredibly tasty. I just can’t seem to get a good yield out of it, though for some reason.
Italian Stallion
An excellent variety, it gets a permanent spot on my grow list every year! 👍 It has it all – taste, looks, and a great shelf life (the last ones lasted until early November on my enclosed unheated porch). The fruits are meaty, but definitely not dry. A very heavy yielder 🙌 I grow them in the greenhouse, pruned to 2 main stems.
By the way, there is a yellow version of this variety called Italian Stallion Giallo.
Svetlana mentions keeping tomatoes on her “loggia” until November. In Russia, a loggia is an enclosed, glassed-in balcony common in apartments. Because they are unheated but protected from direct frost, they act like a mini root cellar or cold room. Growers frequently use them to slowly ripen late green tomatoes or store firm, meaty varieties (like the Italian Stallion) deep into the fall!
