📌 Quick Summary: Koreyskiy Dlinnoplodniy (Korean Long)
- 🌍 Origin: An heirloom variety known in Russian collector circles. The name translates to “Korean Long-Fruited” (or simply Korean Long).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). The plant features a delicate, wispy “weeping” foliage structure common to many elongated/oxheart types. It easily reaches 5.5 to 6 feet (1.6-1.8 m) in a greenhouse. Requires tying up.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Highly unusual, elongated cylindrical fruits with a gracefully curved “beak” on the end. They are a beautiful raspberry-pink color. Average weight is around 7 to 9 oz (200-250 g), though early fruits can push 14 oz (400 g) and look more like hearts. They have dense, meaty flesh with very few seeds.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: Excellent, sweet flavor. Because they are practically all meat and very dense, they cut “like sausage” and are fantastic for fresh slicing, freezing, and sauces. Pro Tip: They hold up incredibly well in storage and can produce late into the fall.
KOREAN LONG. A very beautiful variety that forms fruits of a rather unusual shape—elongated-cylindrical with a gracefully curved little beak. The tomatoes are a raspberry-pink color, quite dense, resistant to cracking, and have a superb flavor. The average fruit weight is 7 to 9 oz (200-250 g), though the very first fruits can have more of an elongated-heart shape and weigh up to 14 oz (400 g). The plant height is 5.2 to 6 feet (1.6-1.8 m). Among the variety’s merits, one can definitely list its high yield and long fruiting period.
An amazingly beautiful, heavy-yielding variety! I’ve been growing it for many years, usually in a greenhouse… I prune it to 2-3 stems. The fruits surprise you with their graceful shape—an elegant, curved little beak on elongated, varnished-looking raspberry-colored fruits…
Mine ended up in some bad potting soil when I planted the seedlings. I planted out a sickly, stunted little seedling. All the others eventually caught up despite the delay, but this one didn’t. It was an extremely sickly plant for me, it caught diseases before anything else. It was the only variety in the entire greenhouse that got hit with BER (Blossom End Rot). Only 1 fruit actually ripened, I had to throw all the rest away.
The plant itself is tender, with airy wispy foliage, it takes up very little space.
Grew it outdoors in open ground, direct-sowed it on May 15th, and it started ripening in mid-August. I liked the variety, it’s beautiful, has perfectly uniform fruits, and a good flavor.
My Korean Long. Very beautiful tomatoes 👍, low maintenance, grew outdoors in open ground.
Loved the variety, grew it in open ground and in the greenhouse. Tasty, unusual, and beautiful.
I really liked this variety too – tasty, a heavy yielder, and gorgeous! 👍 A huge thank you to Tanechka-Tatianka for the seeds! 🙏
Here is an example of my terrible photography skills. 😳 The tomato is actually a bright raspberry color in real life. 😋
Who was it that wrote “WOW!” about this variety in the rating thread? Thank you, kind person! 🎩 I planted it purely because of that review. Now I’m going to plant it every single year. Honestly, it was a bit too hot for it in my brand new polycarbonate greenhouse (it gets over 104°F/40°C in the sun in there!) – it rolled up all its leaves. A skinny little plant, modest, and looked totally sickly in the seedling stage. I thought nothing would come of it. But nope, it survived and produced a very decent crop. I really loved the taste, and it’s so dense. Barely any seeds, just pure meat. It slices like sausage, you can’t even see any seeds.
I really loved it too! But it seems like it has a twin out there! 😳 Teschin Yazyk (Mother-in-Law’s Tongue). 😳 Whoever has planted both, give us your opinion.
And what’s the ripening time on this one? When should I sow it for seedlings?
This year, Korean Long was exceptionally productive, fruiting lasted right up into September… Practically all the fruits ripened fully on the vines (I grew them in the greenhouse). During the hottest part of the summer, I completely removed the side panels from the greenhouse…
I really loved it too! But it seems like it has a twin out there! 😳 Teschin Yazyk (Mother-in-Law’s Tongue). 😳 Whoever has planted both, give us your opinion.
I completely agree. For me, these two varieties are absolute twins! Though I read somewhere that Mother-in-Law’s Tongue is supposed to be more red in color. Mine were both raspberry-pink. And they are completely identical in taste.
Repeated it – this variety is a favorite 👍 I pruned it to 3-4 stems in the greenhouse.
I liked the variety, there are barely any seeds inside the fruit. Make sure you plant it away from the walkway, the fruits snap off the stems very easily.
In the greenhouse, Korean Long turned out to be a heavy yielder, reaching about 5.5 feet (1.7 m) tall.
A very tasty 😋 long-fruiting variety. A tall indet, grew in the greenhouse pruned to 2 stems. I had to bend the stems horizontally under the roof, picked the last fruits in October, and they stored quite well. Almost entirely seedless. Pink fruits weighing up to 7 oz (200 g). Seeds were from Yaroslavna 🙏
Repeated it this year, beautiful, tasty, heavy yielder.
Grew it in a polycarbonate greenhouse.
Pink, tasty. Average yield. Stores very well.
User Lana_s_Kavkaza gives a fantastic tip in this thread: plant this variety away from high-traffic walkways! Because Korean Long produces long, heavy, dense fruits on wispy vines, the fruits are notorious for snapping cleanly off the stem at the joint (the knuckle) if you accidentally bump into them while walking past.Additionally, you’ll see growers praising this tomato because it “slices like sausage.” This is the ultimate compliment for a paste tomato! It means the cell walls are so thick, and the seed cavities so small and dry, that when you cut it horizontally, it holds together perfectly in a solid, meaty slice without collapsing into a puddle of juice and seeds on the cutting board.
