Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3-4 Experience)
Indet, mid-to-late season. The vine is powerful, but squat and stocky, with really wide foliage. I grew it in an awful, shady corner where a bunch of my other varieties didn’t produce squat, but this one surprised me with a solid yield.
The fruits are large, oblate beefsteaks, yellow with a nice pink blush in the center. The flavor is really good. It’s totally low-maintenance – one of the very few that didn’t drop its clusters during our extreme heat waves and cold snaps. Seeds were from Vera Monakhova.
The flavor is really good for a yellow tomato, very well-balanced. But mine ended up being a super light producer (it dropped blossoms like crazy), so I just yanked the plant in early August.
I think it might do a lot better grown outdoors in the dirt.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Flaws
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, mid-late season. Has a unique “stocky” or “squat” growth habit with wide foliage, making it way more compact than your typical sprawling indet vines.
- 📈 Yield: Hit or miss. One grower found it incredibly bulletproof, producing well even in deep shade and wild temp swings. Another struggled heavily with blossom drop and culled the plant early.
- 👅 Taste & Texture: Excellent, well-balanced flavor. Unlike a lot of pure yellow tomatoes that can taste blandly sweet, this one has enough acidic tang to balance it out.
- 🍅 Fruit Size & Appearance: Large, oblate beefsteaks. The skin and outer flesh are yellow, but cutting into it reveals a distinct pink blush or core (a classic bicolor trait).
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