🍅 Quick take: Lariska’s Heart (Lariskino Serdtse) is an indeterminate, early-producing pink oxheart that sets beautiful, firm fruits weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g). Growers praise it for its dense, sweet, nearly seedless flesh and its impressive ability to set fruit consistently all the way up the vine. Full summary ↓
Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)
Lariska’s Heart (Lariskino Serdtse).
Indet vine, I grew it in the greenhouse pruned to 2 stems. Very productive variety. The tomatoes are gorgeous pink hearts weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g), nice and firm, with very few seeds. Delicious! Seeds came from Masha-Murka. 👍
Really loved this variety. Fruits are medium-sized, and the flesh is dense and sweet. The very first fruits off the vine have hardly any seeds, and the plant set fruit all the way up to the top.
Edited November 6, 2024 by OlyaSashina
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For me, it’s been one of the very first to ripen two years in a row now.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, and Taste
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate vine. Does very well in greenhouses when pruned to 2 main stems. Growers report excellent fruit set from the bottom trusses all the way up to the top of the plant.
- 📈 Yield & Earliness: Highly productive. Multiple growers note its earliness, with one grower stating it was her earliest ripening variety two years in a row.
- 👅 Taste & Appearance: Produces classic pink oxhearts weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g). The flesh is notably dense, sweet, and firm, making for a very meaty slice. It is practically seedless, especially the very first tomatoes off the bottom trusses.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Growers in the Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kursk regions (USDA Zones 4-5), an area with relatively short summers, confirming its status as a reliable early producer for northern gardens.
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👨🌾 Editor’s Note: The Name
The original Russian name is Lariskino Serdtse. “Lariska” is an affectionate, folksy nickname for the common name Larisa, so the variety literally translates to Lariska’s Heart. Like many Eastern European oxhearts, it shines as an early, meaty, low-seed slicer.
The original Russian name is Lariskino Serdtse. “Lariska” is an affectionate, folksy nickname for the common name Larisa, so the variety literally translates to Lariska’s Heart. Like many Eastern European oxhearts, it shines as an early, meaty, low-seed slicer.
