📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Bolshoy Rozovyi Vernisazh (Large Pink Vernisage)
- 🌍 Origin: Part of the famous “Vernisage” series created by Ukrainian breeder Ruslan Dukhov. The name translates to “Large Pink Vernisage”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, mid-early maturity. It is a sprawling, sturdy, and highly vigorous plant. It is very forgiving—you can prune it to 2 stems for larger fruit, or let the suckers grow and run it to 4-5 leaders without sacrificing its incredible fruit set.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Stunning, perfectly round pink tomatoes with bold yellow stripes. Depending on pruning, they typically weigh 1.8–3.5 oz (50–100 g). Late-season fruits tend to get a little smaller. Pro Tip: They are best used as a fresh salad/cocktail tomato. If used for hot-water canning, the skins have a tendency to crack and split in the jars.
- 👅 Flavor: Meaty with a medium firmness. It has a good, solid tomato flavor, though some growers note it lacks a bit of extreme sweetness and juiciness.
Indeterminate variety. Outdoors in open ground, it reached about 5 ft (1.5 m) tall. The fruits are beautiful, round, pink with yellow stripes, weighing 1.8–2.1 oz (50–60 g), with a good flavor.
I left a few suckers on it, so it ended up growing with 4-5 stems/leaders, which didn’t stop it from setting fruit at all. I think if you prune it to 2 stems, the fruits would be larger (the description claims up to 3.5 oz / 100 g).
It’s a very heavy yielder and completely low-maintenance. I think the fruits are best intended for fresh eating (when I tried canning them, a few of them split/cracked in the jars). It’s a totally gorgeous variety, an absolute feast for the eyes!
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- Plant habit: Mid-early variety, a sprawling, sturdy, and vigorous indet.
- Fruit set: Didn’t skip any trusses, still producing fruit right now.
- Plant height: By Aug 5th – about 5 ft (1.5 m), by Sept 6th – 5.2 ft (1.6 m).
- Trusses: 5-6 fruits per cluster, dense and absolutely gorgeous.
- Overall yield: High.
- Fruit: Perfectly round, bright pink with yellow stripes, stunningly beautiful. The late-season ones get a bit smaller.
- Firmness of ripe fruit: Medium.
- Flavor: Meaty, sweetness is about a 4 out of 5, lacks just a little bit of juiciness.
First impression: A tasty, beautiful, all-purpose tomato. As for the downsides—I honestly expected it to be a bit sweeter. Rating for seedlings – 5, bush – 4+, fruit – 4, overall variety rating – a solid 4 out of 5.
