Fox Nose | Liskin Nos (Orange Heart ) Tomato Review & Photos

Orange Heart (Fox Nose)

Verochka (Tomatinka) shared these seeds with me. Grew it in 2012. Easily the most indeterminate indet ever!!! It was the very first vine to hit the greenhouse roof, so I had to lower it. Honestly, doing that was a huge pain because the vine is so thick and robust (unlike a lot of wispy oxheart varieties), the main stem felt hard as a tree trunk. So after wrestling with it for a bit, I just bent it sideways instead of lowering it, too scared I’d snap the stem.

Just like the name implies, the fruits are bright yellow hearts (Vera mentioned hers were more orange). Inside the greenhouse they weren’t huge, maybe 8.8-10.5 oz (250-300 g), but I had one plant outside in the dirt that threw a heart well over 1.1 lbs (500 g). The yield wasn’t massive for me, but the tomatoes are so gorgeous you don’t even care about the yield numbers! Almost felt bad eating them 😆 Taste is decent, just a little lacking in juice.

Edited January 4, 2017 by Drosera

Yeah Olya, weirdly enough mine turned out yellow instead of orange this year too… And honestly I don’t get why my own seeds grow bigger tomatoes for everyone else! Didn’t get a single one over 8.8 oz (250 g) myself. 😳

Vera, yours looks totally orange to me ???

We all have different weather, 2011 and 2012 were pretty bad years for tomatoes here, especially outdoors.

Sveta, this is what mine looked like in 2011.

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Sveta, this is what mine looked like in 2011.

This one looks kinda pinkish 😊 ???

Olya, Vera, what’s the DTM on this one? Is it a late season?

Nope, more of a mid-season.

Orange Heart / from Olya (Belarus), huge thanks for such an awesome variety!

Indet, very tall vine, pretty sturdy, highly productive. The fruits are heart-shaped, orange, firm, meaty, and I absolutely loved the flavor. The photo shows the lower fruits, but the ones on the upper trusses were super pointed, with a real beak/nipple on them, totally looked like a Fox Nose.

Our Verochka shared these Orange Heart (Fox Nose) seeds with me 👍👍👍

Grew it in the greenhouse, wouldn’t say it got super tall, maybe up to 5.2 ft (1.6 m) max… Heavy, bushy vine with a huge potential for setting fruit… Pumped out tons of gorgeous heart-shaped fruits with that signature pointed tip. The tomatoes are firm, solid, and deep orange 😋 Perfectly balanced sweetness and juice 👍

Verochka, thank you!!! 🌺🌺🌺

Edited December 29, 2014 by Yaroslavna

I’m assuming “Fox Nose” is just a nickname 🤫
The official national registry lists it as Orange Heart.

Edited December 10, 2015 by Drosera

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I’m assuming “Fox Nose” is just a nickname 🤫
The official national registry lists it as Orange Heart.

Yep, exactly… Verunya just gave it that cute nickname 😊 That’s the fun name it had when I got the seeds 👍

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Is “Fox Nose” available in the US (just curious), what does it translate to in English (would love to track it down)?

Irina, I saw it being sold on eBay from Croatia, shipping worldwide apparently, listed as Fox Nose.

Edited July 14, 2015 by Drosera

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Irina, I saw it being sold on eBay from Croatia, shipping worldwide apparently, listed as Fox Nose.

😲😲😲

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😲😲😲

Verochka, it’s literally your Fox Nose.

I get that, I just don’t get how it made its way to Croatia and onto eBay under that name…

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I get that, I just don’t get how it made its way to Croatia and onto eBay under that name…

I bet there’s a Russian lady living there growing tomatoes and peppers…
And selling the seeds. The listing is actually written like this: Liskin Nos – Fox Nose.

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I bet there’s a Russian lady living there growing tomatoes and peppers…
And selling the seeds. The listing is actually written like this: Liskin Nos – Fox Nose.

That name has been floating around eBay for two years now, actually I think I saw it listed from Germany originally.

Extremely heavy yielder, super delicious variety. Bought it on eBay as Fox Nose. Here is how the vine looked on September 19.

Still confused on what the actual correct name is ???
I got it as Fox Nose… grew it in the greenhouse, very productive and delicious 😋

Oksana, Larisa, your pointy-tipped version can absolutely go by Fox Nose. Not all tomatoes from the commercial Poisk brand Orange Heart packets had that sharp point.

Quote from cat2008:
Still confused on what the actual correct name is ???
I got it as Fox Nose…

Oksana, the “correct” name is Orange Heart. Vera (tomatinka) just jokingly called it Fox Nose.

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Oksana, Larisa, your pointy-tipped version can absolutely go by Fox Nose. Not all tomatoes from the commercial Poisk brand Orange Heart packets had that sharp point.

Zulfiya, I actually have Orange Heart from Poisk… but I’ve totally lost the desire to plant commercial seeds, thinking about tossing all store-bought packs from my stash 😆

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Oksana, the “correct” name is Orange Heart. Vera (tomatinka) just jokingly called it Fox Nose.

Svetlana, guess I posted the pics in the right thread then 😆 too lazy to re-label them now, already wrote out tags for over half a thousand varieties this season 😫 I’ll fix it next time 😳

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Oksana, Larisa, your pointy-tipped version can absolutely go by Fox Nose. Not all tomatoes from the commercial Poisk brand Orange Heart packets had that sharp point.

Zulya, mine vary in width I guess, some are chubby and some are almost icicle-shaped, but they all have that sharp point.

Grew Orange Heart from Demetra Siberia and from Verochka (Tomatinka), totally different shapes. Demetra’s were heart-shaped with no pronounced point, huge first truss, around 1.3-1.7 lbs (600-800 g). Orange Heart from Tomatinka had a sharp point and weighed around 7 oz (200 g).

Olya, my original seeds were Orange Heart from Poisk, breeder’s edition. Been growing them since 2009.

Absolutely loved it! Even in this super hot year with lots of blossom drop, it still managed to set a ton of fruit. Sweet, meaty, and buttery 😋👍

Got this variety from Larisa labeled as Fox Nose. Super productive, orange fruits with a pointed tip (all fruits were elongated). Average weight 8.8-12 oz (250-350 g). Amazing taste. Produced until I literally ripped the vines out of the greenhouse. Excellent shelf life. One of my favorites.

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Olya, my original seeds were Orange Heart from Poisk, breeder’s edition. Been growing them since 2009.

Vera, your Fox Nose was easily my husband’s favorite this year flavor-wise 🌺

I am in love with this tomato 😘 It’s my favorite color and favorite size 👍 Beautiful and delicious. Mine is more yellow-orange than red-orange. Tall vine, meaty, sweet, yield wasn’t super high though. But they aren’t all grown up yet. Found a pic 😊

Edited September 12, 2017 by Irina_N

Quote from Tiffany:
Got this variety from Larisa labeled as Fox Nose. Super productive, orange fruits with a pointed tip (all fruits were elongated). Average weight 8.8-12 oz (250-350 g). Amazing taste. Produced until I literally ripped the vines out of the greenhouse. Excellent shelf life. One of my favorites.

Yulya, thanks for the seeds! 😘 Agree with everything you said. Awesome tomato, my 2017 favorite among the orange ones. Huge stunners, pushing over a pound (500 g) each. Absolutely delicious! 👍

Seeds from Redko. Super tasty and meaty. Even in this incredibly rainy summer, the yield was above average. Definitely growing it again.

Seeds from alexandra_21. One of my latest tomatoes this season. Had to pull them all green. Ripened up perfectly indoors on the counter, didn’t lose that buttery texture or sweet taste. The “fox nose” was definitely obvious on these.

Edited October 26, 2018 by Shevyachok

Tanyusha Senchukova shared Fox Nose with me, huge thanks to her. Planted them outdoors and they really bummed me out at first. Everything else was setting fruit or already ripening, and these were just doing nothing. Picked the very first fruits on Aug 19. By September they finally kicked into gear and set a ton of fruit, just ran out of time to ripen. Note to self: very late season… definitely growing it again though, such a gorgeous and unique shape!

BTW, grew Orange Heart from Aelita back in 2014 and got nothing like this. (Still have seeds, will retest more carefully this year). Honestly we should move Fox Nose to the “F” (L) section of the catalog, kinda hard to find it under Orange Heart 😁

Like we are talking about different varieties… My Fox Nose was a mid-season with a long harvest window, varying degrees of pointiness on the large yellow-orange fruits, and an incredible ability to counter-ripen and store without losing flavor. First ripe one picked July 12, ate the last ones in late October after hauling them all the way to Moscow.

Grew in the greenhouse, south side, pruned to 3 stems, set fruit very well. Sweet, meaty slicer with very few seeds.

Edited December 21, 2018 by Mama Antona

Growing it for the third year in a row (and will definitely keep growing it!) 👍. Nothing but pros–fantastic taste 😋, beautiful fruits, heavy yield in the greenhouse grown to two stems, long harvest window, and the late season ones store really well. Huge, vigorous vine, I actually tie the top (which still holds large hearts) straight to the greenhouse frame under the roof.

The fruits are just one solid piece of sweet meat with barely any seeds. I stopped putting it in salads, it’s just too sweet 😁 I eat them straight up like fruit.

Pics from different years:

Super tasty, grew them in the greenhouse.

Fox Nose is a favorite! Gorgeous, one of my earliest and extremely productive!

Grew in the greenhouse. Color is more yellow than orange.

Seeds were from Sveta – Mama Antona.

Loved that this variety threw a super healthy and robust vine. Flowered right up until the freeze.

The fruits are large, extremely sweet, and meaty.

Grew Fox Nose in 2018. And grew Pointed Orange Oxheart 3 times. Honestly don’t even know which one I like better 😁

Fox Nose.

Pointed Orange Oxheart in 2016, 2017, 2018. Throws a lot of different shaped fruits on the same vine.

Read that it was a pretty late variety so I started the seeds early, and the little jerk is already setting buds, even though it has to stay indoors for another month and a half… totally miscalculated, turns out it’s not that late after all, in my conditions it acts more like a mid-season.

Grew it again, deliciously sweet and productive variety – a total favorite 😋😘

Easily my favorite among the orange varieties, I am obsessed with that buttery flesh.

Taste! Beauty! Yield! These traits totally changed how I feel about orange tomatoes, never used to like them. Thanks to the forum ladies for showing me a whole new flavor profile!!!! Photo is from Sept 21.

Hey pros, can you tell me if this variety is much different from Yellow Scallops (Zheltye Grebeshki)… Looking at the descriptions and honestly can’t find a big difference.

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Hey pros, can you tell me if this variety is much different from Yellow Scallops (Zheltye Grebeshki)… Looking at the descriptions and honestly can’t find a big difference.

Definitely different! Yellow Scallops are true yellow (not orange), fruits are smaller, they’re flattened elegant little hearts and not nearly as meaty. Just compare them:

Got it, thanks. Svetikk, I assume you grew both. Which one did you like better flavor-wise?

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Got it, thanks. Svetikk, I assume you grew both. Which one did you like better flavor-wise?

Both are favorites because of how pretty they are, taste, and reliable yield every year. But Fox Nose gets an A+++ for flavor (superb!) when ripened on the vine in a warm greenhouse, while Yellow Scallops gets a solid A (excellent).

Makes sense, thanks again. Tough choice 😢 …guess I’ll have to plant both and see for myself. Will definitely report back with the results.. 😋

How did this one slip past me??? Going to go dig through my seed stash to see if anyone sent it to me, I absolutely love orange ones!

Got this one sent to me from Belarus by Nadyusha, huge thanks to her!

Unbelievably tasty and beautiful variety! And a heavy yielder too! Just awesome!

My seeds were from Poisk / Demetra. Definitely NOT Fox Nose, it’s some completely different variety.

Edited March 8, 2022 by Natalya79

Grew it in a 5.2-gallon (20 L) bucket. Color is straight fire, delicious, taste is hard to describe though. Can’t really judge the yield since I grew it in a bucket.

Orange Heart (Fox Nose) – indet.
Bright, large fruits. Dense, buttery flesh. Great flavor, not bland at all.
Heavy yielder. The vine got way too heavy, snapped the twine, and collapsed. Had to retie it by the top.