Quick Summary of Khurma (Persimmon)
- 🌍 Origin: A legendary and highly commercialized Russian variety. The name translates to “Persimmon” because the true fruits resemble the persimmon fruit in color and shape.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Highly controversial! According to the Russian State Register, the true Khurma is a determinate (bush) plant. However, due to seed company mix-ups over the decades, growers report everything from 1 m (3 ft) determinate bushes to 2 m+ (6.5 ft) indeterminate vines.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: The “official” strain produces smooth, round or slightly flattened bright orange fruits. However, many growers (especially from the SibSad seed company) grow a heavily ribbed, flattened bi-color version with red marbling inside. Weight ranges from 150 g (5 oz) up to massive 1.2 kg (2.6 lbs) fruits depending on the strain.
- 👅 Flavor: Generally prized for a very sweet, fruity, slightly oily/meaty texture. However, off-types can sometimes lean towards acidic.
- ⚠️ Growing Tip: Russian orange varieties, including Khurma, are notoriously hungry for calcium. They are prone to Blossom End Rot (BER) if grown in acidic soil or if watering is inconsistent.
Seeds from Siberian Garden (SibSad), we have been growing it for several years. We liked the taste and yield from the very first year. Mid-season tomatoes, with a long fruiting period and great output. The color description is accurate, golden-orange fruits. Full ripening on the vine. The bush height is up to 1.5 m (5 ft), the yield is sufficient, more than 3 kg (6.6 lbs) per plant. The taste has more sweetness than acidity. I give it an overall unchanged taste rating for all the years we’ve grown it, and among yellow varieties, it’s 5 out of 5 stars.
Not the largest tomato by weight, out of the late ones.
What a beautiful Khurma you have! 👍
But mine from the “Poisk” seed company looks like this:
The first photos don’t look like Khurma at all. Oksana’s is closer to the truth.
My Khurma is also exactly like Oksana’s, yellow-orange.
Girls, the picture on the SibSad seed packet shows exactly the tomato that grew for me — flat, ribbed, golden-yellow. Every seed company has its own truth. We’ve had these seeds for a long time, about 6 years now.
Elena said:
Every seed company has its own truth.
I agree, but not to this extent! Only the color matches, and even that is questionable. Too bad I don’t have a photo, but my Khurma was round and more orange than golden.
It would be a nightmare if varieties were now divided by companies — Khurma from Poisk, Khurma from Aelita…. and they are all different. Wow…
Girls, I bought “Golden Queen” from SibSad — and the photo on the packet is identical to Elena’s Khurma packet… 😂😂😂
But my Golden Queen still didn’t turn out that ribbed… 😄
Take a look at the State Register of Breeding Achievements.
Originator – … “GISOK”
Determinate plant.
Fruit is flat-round, medium-ribbed.
Color of mature fruit is orange.
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The 4th photo in the 1st post looks like some kind of bi-color anyway 🤐
Yes, it is beautiful inside, with red marbling/streaks. Malakhitovaya Shkatulka (Malachite Box) is like that too, also a bicolor inside, maybe just for me. And it is still flat-round, just like on the packaging. Medium-ribbed doesn’t mean slightly ribbed. There are plenty of examples of slightly ribbed ones, almost all flat-round varieties. Counting the ribs on Khurma, I think there are fewer of them than on Gribnoye Lukoshko (Mushroom Basket), which is heavily ribbed.
Tomatoes from one bush, only the ones on the right are ripe, the ones on the left haven’t ripened yet. The sun and heat did a good job this year.
Oksana said:
But mine from the “Poisk” seed company looks like this:
Mine was exactly like that too, the seeds were from Poisk…
I also really liked Khurma. It grew exactly like Oksana’s, sweet with red streaks inside. The only issue is that it was the very first to get sick, but I will plant it again.
My Khurma was from Aelita. Both in the greenhouse and outdoors, it grew to 1.5 meters (5 ft). Delicious, sweet, and meaty.
Mine is exactly like amarant’s, I like it a lot.
Good variety, a slicer/fresh-eating type, beautiful. In terms of sweetness – medium.
My Khurma was from Poisk. I really liked both the taste and the yield; there were three times more tomatoes on the bush than usual.
I am very satisfied with this variety. It gives a stable and tasty harvest every year. From purchased seeds and from my first saved seeds, they grew as short bushes. Last season, from my own seeds, it grew into a two-meter (6.5 ft) tall vine with slightly larger fruits.
For me, this variety is a bit sensitive to the potassium/calcium content in the soil. This year there was slight chlorosis on the leaves (apart from Khurma, the only other one with the same issue was Volgogradskiy Skorospelyi). I watered it with wood ash tea.
Mine grew like Oksana’s. It stored well in storage, I like it. 🌺
Boys and girls, does anyone have Khurma (Persimmon) from Lena Leo from America… I at least need to know the height of the bush, so I don’t make a mistake when choosing where to plant it?
My Khurma is from “6 sotok” (Ukraine). Determinate, topped out naturally after 2 trusses, I grew it to three stems and kept an eye on a sucker to use as a replacement shoot. High yield, but one of the most acidic among the yellow-fruited ones in my collection. From 180 to 270 g (6 to 9.5 oz). From 6 to 10 tomatoes per truss. After 11 trusses, I topped the replacement shoot (removed all suckers).
