Large Pink (Rozovye Krupnye) Tomato Review: Giant Russian Heirloom

Rozovye Krupnye (Large Pink) – I planted seeds this past season saved from 2002. I just really, really love them. I couldn’t find anything on the Internet under this name. But in one of my tomato books, I found a picture exactly like it. Mine looked exactly like that. Though this year there were practically no deformed fruits grown from megablooms (fasciated flowers). Those are usually the biggest ones.

I think the variety is mid-season, not late—by the first ten days of July, the tomatoes were already quite large on the bushes. They don’t even fit in one hand 😄 The trusses were full and set fruit without skipping any.

They started ripening at the end of July. And by early August, the entire bottom truss was ripe. The tomatoes are quite large, ranging from 300 to 700 grams (10.5 oz to 1.5 lbs). The flesh is juicy, deep pink, tasty, and has a crumbly/sparkling texture 😄. I saved seeds from the first trusses in mid-August. And they kept ripening all through September.

The bush is tall, but the leaves don’t make the bush too dense. Nevertheless, I have to prune them so the fruits get illuminated by the sun. By September, the stems were already directed along the upper trellises, and the tomatoes were just hanging down from the roof. I’ve been planting this variety for a long time, every single year.

Ninul, when do you sow them for seedlings? 🌸

Ninulia, thank you so much for such a wonderful tomato! 🌸🌸🌸 I’m thinking of sowing it around February 20th, will that be okay? Or should I do it earlier?

Ninulia, a huge thank you from me too! 🌸 I liked it very much! 👍

Ninulia, did you try growing it outdoors in open ground?

o-lya-lya / trofi wrote:
When do you sow them for seedlings? I’m thinking around February 20th, will that be okay?

Last season I sowed them exactly around the 20th of February. They got a bit overgrown; I wanted to transplant them into the greenhouse at least by late April… but I only managed to do it in early May. So, the 20th of February will be fine.

Amira-12 wrote:
A huge thank you from me too! I liked it very much!

Raechka, grow it in good health, and to everyone else I sent it to, grow it in good health too, and I hope yours turn out just as good! Or even bigger than mine! They used to be bigger on my old peat plot than they are here in the village on black soil (chernozem)… but I’m still learning how to grow here… figuring out the agricultural techniques 😄

Katrinka wrote:
Ninulia, did you try growing it outdoors in open ground?

Katyusha, I tried growing it outdoors at my previous summer house, but since it’s not an early variety, it couldn’t show its full potential. But your summers are much warmer, so I think it will show its potential outdoors for you. Just make sure to sow the seedlings early, like you do for all indeterminates.

Productive, tasty, large, and for me, it was among the early ripeners. The bush is medium-sized and healthy.

I also want to thank Ninulia. It grew well both outdoors and in the greenhouse. In the greenhouse, of course, it felt much better in our climate—the tomatoes themselves were larger, and there were more of them on the bush. Outdoors, I just picked the last ones today, unfortunately still green. I will definitely plant it again, but earlier, because March is too late for it…

This is the “Large Pink” from Ninulia that grew in my garden. 🙂 Thank you!!! 🌸

I liked the variety very much, thank you, Ninulia! 🌸
Grew in the greenhouse trained to 2 stems, mid-season, productive. My fruits were up to 300g (10.5 oz)—but there were a lot of them, and incredibly delicious! 😋 Juicy, but despite that, the ripe ones store quite well if you don’t mess with them 😄

The variety is simply wonderful!!! The seeds were originally Ninulia’s, but SvetikK shared them with me. 🙂 Girls, a huge THANK YOU!!!
The tomatoes are tasty, meaty, I would even say “pure meat,” gigantic, in a word—SUPER!!! Grew outdoors in open ground.

Mine are from Ninulia. Beautiful, large, and tasty tomatoes. Thank you, Ninulia.

I liked this little tomato 👍 This year it was the sweetest, most sugary one, just like in childhood straight from grandma’s garden 💖. I agree with all the other descriptions the girls gave—spot on. Ninulechka, thank you! 🌸

2015 Season:

Large Pink (Rozovaya krupnaya). In this cold and rainy summer, it was the sweetest, tastiest tomato. Thank you to Svetikk for the seeds and to Ninulia for preserving such an amazing old variety 🌸

From Ninulia.
Composite description from our forum (I made a spreadsheet before sowing): Indeterminate (wispy/spindly plant habit), mid-season, oblate with pronounced ribs near the stem, large (300-700g), productive, red (bright pink flesh), tasty, firm skin (good shelf life).

Grew in the greenhouse. Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo of it ripe or weighed, so you’ll have to take my word for it 😊
The bush is wispy in the sense that it isn’t heavily leafed. But the stem itself is very sturdy! It took a long time to set anything, just flowers and tiny fruit nubs hanging there. Then they suddenly started growing rapidly, and it produced a ton of large fruits. Very tasty! Very large (they were larger than the Tamara variety, which came out to 200 grams for me). It fruited not in big clusters, but one or two fruits at a time, however, on every single branch without skipping. Very tall, twisted all along the ceiling.

kalinka-malinka wrote:
Indeterminate (wispy plant habit), mid-season, oblate with pronounced ribs near the stem, large (300-700g), productive, red (bright pink flesh), tasty, firm skin (good shelf life).

I second every single word of this, a delicious tomato! 💖

I am endlessly grateful to Ninulia for this variety 💖👍. It performed very well even outdoors in open ground. The bush was heavily loaded, almost no megablooms/fasciated flowers. And the tomato itself is very tasty 😋 meaty and sweet.

Growing this variety for the first time this year. One of the best ones I have. Waiting for it to ripen.

A huge thank you to our Ninulia for preserving such an amazing variety in every respect 👏👏

I grew it in 2014 and I want to repeat it so badly! The fruits are so tasty, so large (even very large)! In our region, the variety proved to be surprisingly productive, with a massive potential for fruit set ))

It responds very well to good care and balanced feeding throughout the growing season. It’s advisable to grow it in a greenhouse, trained to 1-2 stems, with mandatory tying of each fruit truss to prevent them from snapping—because the fruits are absolutely massive! Juicy, meaty, very tasty! Thank you, Ninochka! 💖

I liked this variety very much. It just so happened that because of a neighboring bush, I overlooked it, and it split into 6 (!) stems. I tied it to two stakes and thought it would only produce pea-sized tomatoes. The exact opposite happened—the bush managed to set large, perfectly even tomatoes. Next time I’ll pay closer attention to it, and I’m sure I’ll get an even better result. For now, I’m sharing this variety in gift envelopes with newbies.

Repeated this variety with the classic taste and aroma of large pink tomatoes. Yield didn’t let me down again. Indeterminate, grew in the greenhouse trained to 2 stems.

One of the most promising newbies in my greenhouse. Sets fruit well, even though more than half the varieties this year refuse to set fruit at all. Granted, summer hasn’t really started yet, the nights are very cold. It’s a pity I only have one bush. I will definitely save seeds. Thank you, Ninulia!

Hooray! Large Pink from Ninulia is very tasty, with an excellent balance of acidity and sweetness (sweetness slightly predominates), the flavor is bright and rich in tomato taste. The tomato is not watery, although it is very juicy. The taste of childhood! Definitely going on the permanent grow list (a keeper)! Saving seeds…

Rozovye Krupnye (From Ninulia) – indeterminate. A variety from family heirlooms. Mid-season. The fruits are dark raspberry, large 300+ grams (10.5+ oz). The flesh is dense, juicy, a “meaty” variety. The taste is wonderful. This variety is on permanent residency for me.