Kazakhstan Yellow (Kazakhskiy Zheltyy) Tomato Review & Photos

KAZ. YELLOW

I got this variety (the name is just a working title) from our forum member Slava. Slava can jump in later and add its full name. The variety is indeterminate (though honestly, all my indeterminates just terminate wherever the greenhouse roof begins…). Extremely heavy yielder and very tasty. Bright yellow color. Mine came out in all different sizes, from 4 oz up to 12.5 oz (120 to 350 g). I really loved it! Slava, thank you!!! 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

It’s Kazakhstan Yellow – just a working title 😊

Tatiyanka1 wrote:

I got this variety (the name is just a working title) from our forum member Slava… Slava, thank you!!! 🙏

Tanya, it’s a working title for me too, I just made the name up myself. I sent it to Tomatinka to help identify it, but she didn’t plant it this year. Guess we’ll wait for next year. It’s been growing in my garden for about 25 years and I honestly don’t remember where it came from.

You are very welcome, but your beauties look a lot thicker and plumper than mine, coming from a rough-and-tumble Siberian miner like me. 🤣

Gorgeous!

Adding my photos of Kazakhstan Yellow 🙂

I’ll show off my Kazakhstan Yellow too 🤫 Really great variety, heavy yielder, and tasty.

Drosera wrote:

I’ll show off my Kazakhstan Yellow too 🤫

What a stunner! Who is the seed vendor? Or is it a working name? I want these beauties too.

I just keep admiring this variety, added it to my grow list for next year.

Thanks Tanechka (Tomatanya) 🙏

Slava shared some seeds of Kaz. Yellow with me at the Moscow meet-up in late March, so I originally put them aside for next year. But my curiosity won out, and I sowed them in early April. Planted them out in the dirt with only five true leaves (a tiny little seedling) on May 20th. But Slava’s protégé took off extremely fast and caught up to the other indeterminates. The plant is a very heavy yielder. The fruits are a beautiful yellow color, they almost look like glowing amber when the sun hits them. The taste is sweet. Mine had absolutely zero tang or acid to them. This is how Kaz. Yellow from Slava turned out for me.

I didn’t plant it this season, thought late March was too late to start seeds 😞 Slava, I promise I will plant your stunner in 2015.

Oh man, it is absolutely gorgeous. An absolute dream. 🙏

I’ll say it again – every single tomato needs to have a crimson red blush inside the flesh that you can’t see from the outside.

How tall does this beauty get?

Plena wrote:

How tall does this beauty get?

Mine definitely hit 5 feet (1.5 m) out in the dirt, and then I topped it.

Thanks, Galochka, 🙏 it’s on my plan, just need to figure out where to put it based on height.

Galina P. wrote:

Mine definitely hit 5 feet (1.5 m) out in the dirt, and then I topped it.

Galina, how and what do you tie your indeterminates to out in the open ground? My cherries are already over 3.3 feet (1 meter) tall, I’ve lowered them a bit, but I have no idea what to do with them next.

elena0508 wrote:

Galina, how and what do you tie your indeterminates to out in the open ground?

Lenochka, a lot of folks tie them to stakes. I tie mine to the low tunnel hoops.

Thanks to our Slava for this beauty! Gave me the seeds at the February meet-up. I only had one plant, about 5 feet (1.5 m) tall, it set 10 tomatoes weighing from 7 to 16 oz (200 to 450 g). The yield across all my tomatoes was pretty average this year, the 3rd and 4th trusses almost entirely aborted (I pruned everything to 1 stem). I couldn’t even wait for the pink blush to appear inside – we ate them up instantly even when they were slightly underripe. The biggest one did have the beginnings of a blush though 😉 Saved the seeds, this is my new favorite now!

Tasty, heavy yielder.

Wow, what a stunner! Nadezhda, where did you grow it? When did the first tomato ripen?

Ornella wrote:

Nadezhda, where did you grow it?

Grew it in the greenhouse – the first one was ready on July 20th.

I grew it in open ground. It turned out tasty, productive, the pink blushes inside were small but they were there. However, it ripened almost last out of all my varieties, only at the end of August. Much later than the bi-colors and tri-colors.

And here is my Kaz. Yellow 🙂 Grew in the greenhouse on 2 stems. Early, heavy yielder, and tasty variety 👍 The fruits aren’t huge, around 7 oz (200 g), and on a vertical slice you can sometimes see the pink blush.

First year growing it. Grew in the greenhouse.

Tasty, heavy yielder. I’ll be repeating it.

I didn’t like it. Won’t be repeating it for now.

Planted it for the first time too (seeds from Slava), absolutely loved it: tasty, heavy yielder, on the earlier side. I am definitely planting it next season.

Because of the heat in the greenhouse, a lot of my blossoms dropped. The ones that did set grew out large, but overall the yield was pretty low. I agree that they are early and tasty though.

Grew out in the dirt for me, was one of the earliest to ripen. Productive, tasty, sweet, and it had that signature pink blush inside. I’ll repeat it in a year or so. Thanks to Lyuda (Ovechka) for the seeds, and of course to Slava.

Delicious!!! 😋 It went straight onto my grow list (for next year) as soon as I sliced it open. 👍 The yield surprised me too 😲 Plus it’s early. A wonderful variety. 👏 Seeds are from the forum.

My favorite of the 2016 season. The tastiest, sweetest, and heavy yielder. The blush was visible when sliced. I’m planting more of these next year, one plant is just not enough for such a fantastic variety.

What is the plant structure like? Will it do okay if I plant 2 to a hole?

Aglaya, I think it’s better to plant 2 to a hole only for plants with a generative growth habit (like most oxhearts). They honestly don’t care if they are crowded or not. Kazakhstan Yellow doesn’t fall into that category.

Elena_A wrote:

Kazakhstan Yellow doesn’t fall into that category.

Thanks, got it.

I’m also very happy with Kazakhstan Yellow. The blush wasn’t present in every fruit. Yield in the hoop house was excellent. The fruits were tasty and sweet. They cracked a little bit because of overwatering.

Dear forum members! Most of you are saying this variety is early. When did you sow the seeds? February or March? (I’m making my planting schedule for Feb-March right now). Thanks! 🙂

I sowed them around March 8th.

Anyuta wrote:

When did you sow the seeds? February or March?

I sowed Kaz. Yellow on April 10th (!), planted it out in the dirt in late May. Started ripening in late July.

Ilya, Galina, thank you! 📝

Anyuta wrote:

When did you sow the seeds? February or March?

I sowed mine on March 16th. Moved it to its permanent spot by transplanting it from the open ground (I put my greenhouse up late). First ones ripened July 27th, I think they would have been earlier, but they were delayed by the transplant shock. 🙂

I am definitely planting it next season!!!

I have 4 seedlings growing. 3 are short with regular leaves, and 1 (the very first to pop up) is tall with a potato leaf. 🤔 Off-type?

I grew it last year, my plants had regular leaves.

And for me, it was the only one out of 36 sown varieties/hybrids that didn’t germinate. 😞 Waited a whole month, but alas. I really wanted to grow it in my garden.

Irina_N wrote:

…1 is tall with a potato leaf. 🤔 Off-type?

Kazakh Yellow is a stable, reliable variety, Slava (LLL) has had it for many years, year after year.

A stray seed probably just ended up in your seedling cup, or earlier, in the seed packet.

Rare yield for open ground, the plant was literally breaking under the weight 👍 and most importantly – it’s early. The base spoiled a little bit.

garnet wrote:

The base spoiled a little bit.

Anything can spoil 🙂

LLL wrote:

Anything can spoil 🙂

Hey there! 🙏 Yours flowered first, I’m putting it in the dirt for good tomorrow.

o-lya-lya wrote:

Yours flowered first, I’m putting it in the dirt for good tomorrow.

Better do it the day after tomorrow 🎩

My first Kaz. Yellow tomato ripened, around 12.5 oz (350 g), absolutely delicious, growing outdoors.

Wonderful variety. One of the best out of everything I’ve grown and tasted. Gets a permanent spot in my garden beds.

Very tasty and productive tomato. It grew almost to the roof in the greenhouse, didn’t push too many suckers either. The fruits are oblate, sweetish, meaty, and juicy, weighing about 9-10.5 oz (250-300 g). My family really loved it for its taste and thin skin. Slava, thanks for the seeds!

I planted it this year too. Grew 2 to a hole. Heavy yielder, but not early for me. Beautiful, and it had the internal blush… but if you blink, it gets overripe, goes soft, and becomes almost transparent and watery.

elena0508 wrote:

…weighing about 9-10.5 oz (250-300 g)…

You’re welcome, but yours are a bit on the small side. 🙂 Mine crossed the 1.1 lb (500 g) mark last year. 🎩

Slava, 🎩 how did Kaz. Yellow differ this year?

Zulfiya wrote:

Slava, 🎩 how did Kaz. Yellow differ this year?

This year it turned striped. 🙂

Slav, it’s just that kind of year))) My biggest one was around 1.1 lbs (500 g) too.

The perfect yellow – that’s how I’d like to describe it 👍 It was one of the earliest to ripen, beautiful, tasty, quite productive.

In my conditions, the flavor turned out pretty basic, it lost to Honey Salvation (Medovyi Spas) and Mennonite, Apricot Brandywine.

Thanks to Elya (elja1968) for the seeds.

Turned out to be a heavy yielder, average tomato weight 9-10.5 oz (250-300 g). The internal blushes didn’t appear right away, the fruits on the lower trusses had no blush at all 🙂

Rich tomato flavor. Height in the greenhouse was around 5.5 feet (1.7 m).

Not too aggressive, didn’t get overgrown with a ton of suckers.

In my opinion and to my taste, yellow tomatoes usually have too mild of a flavor. But this one turned out to be really tasty! And productive. Quite early. The pink blush didn’t show up immediately. It wasn’t there on the first few tomatoes. Strong, tall plant. It fruited until the end of the season, I was picking green ones in September. Ripened perfectly indoors on the counter. Seeds from Olya Zolushka. Thanks to her! 🙏

For me, it’s the tastiest out of all the yellows I’ve planted so far. Ripens up great indoors on the counter. I will absolutely be repeating it.

I remember this as a very sweet tomato. The plant didn’t get sick, gave an average yield, but the fruits were large and uniform. The internal blush did show up, even if it was small! For the first year growing it, it’s fantastic, it gets a permanent spot on my grow list!

Good stable variety, productive. Pure bright yellow fruits with tender, juicy flesh. Great for salads and juice. Awarded the high honor of “permanent resident” 🙂.

A favorite variety since childhood! Performs really well in both the greenhouse and open ground.

Insanely productive, just loaded with fruit 🙌 with a rich flavor 😋 didn’t get sick at all – what more could you ask for from a tomato!

Did I really just find my absolute favorite?!!!! 😘 I used to grow a similar tomato for several years, out in the dirt under row covers, originally from a packet named Lemon Giant (not the modern Giant Lemon). It was always the first to ripen, a tender fruit, thin skin, bursts easily, the flavor is also delicate—some might call it mild. I grew it for about 10 years from my own saved seeds, but then I lost it(( When the first bicolors hit the market here, I would say, “Pfft, I already have those.” Sigh, I’m going to have to order this one…

I was refreshing my seed stock. A good, worthy tomato. The flesh is quite dense and juicy, makes a great companion to red tomatoes in a salad to get a full spectrum of flavor.

The flavor is characteristically yellow, a little bit on the mild side, but it pairs really well with others in a salad.