Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3-6 Experience)
Longhorn (USA).
Tall vine, early season. The fruits are elongated hearts, purple-pink in color with olive shoulders, weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g). They are dense and practically seedless. The flesh is purplish-red, sweet, and incredibly tasty. Grew it in the greenhouse on the southeast side, very productive. Thank you to Lyudmila (@Ovechka) for the seedling! 🌺🌺🌺
Edited September 11, 2017 by Drosera
Seeds came from Angelina. Here is her description:
Super productive, elongated heart-shaped, purple tomato. Surprisingly juicy, meaty, almost seedless with a spicy flavor and complex aroma. Ripens in about 70 days. Tall vine, indet, very delicious variety!
And everything she wrote is absolutely true. It was just out of this world. A tall vine loaded with trusses of massive tomatoes. I had to stake it up extra hard so it wouldn’t collapse. I accidentally snapped off a branch with these tomatoes on it. And these aren’t even the biggest ones. Extremely delicious, almost fruity.
I completely fell in love with this variety! Productive, delicious 😋 This is just one single truss! Seeds from Angelina.
Excellent variety! I had read some reviews saying the flavor was lacking, but mine turned out delicious and highly productive.
Edited January 7, 2020 by Katrinka
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Mine was productive, but totally flavorless. I probably didn’t feed it well enough.
Mine was incredibly tasty! I’m absolutely planting it again this season!
Ogorod Larionovykh said:
Mine was incredibly tasty! I’m absolutely planting it again this season!
Same here. 😋
Mine are doing super well, they are still hanging right under the greenhouse roof even now, with zero signs of Late Blight. Absolute beauties.
Longhorn
Really loved it! Tasty, which is the most important thing for me, and productive! It was a mid-season variety in my greenhouse.
Seeds from Svetlana @Vkusnyashechka. Thank you! 🌺
Planted it in 2021. Very delicious, turned out to be mid-early for me. I’ll definitely repeat it.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, and Taste
- 🌿 Plant: A vigorous, tall indeterminate vine. It is noted for robust health and good resistance to Late Blight, keeping its foliage green and setting fruit all the way up to the greenhouse roof late into the season. Heavy trusses may require extra support.
- 📈 Yield: Extremely productive. Most growers classify it as an early-to-mid-season variety (around 70 days). It sets massive clusters of fruit, often forcing growers to stake the branches heavily to prevent them from snapping under the weight.
- 👅 Taste & Appearance: Produces visually striking, elongated hearts in a deep purple-pink/magenta hue, often displaying olive-green shoulders. Weighing up to 10.5 oz (300 g), the flesh is dense, purplish-red, and practically seedless. The flavor is widely praised as being complex, sweet, spicy, and “fruity,” though as with many heirlooms, a lack of proper feeding can result in bland fruit.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Grown successfully across multiple demanding climates, from Siberia (Kemerovo, Novosibirsk) to the Moscow Region (USDA Zones 3-4). Its ability to thrive in these short-season areas speaks to its reliability and earliness.
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