Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-6 Experience)
Indeterminate vine, gets about 5-5.5 ft (1.5-1.7 m) tall outdoors. It’s a mid-season and really productive variety. Barely needs any suckering at all. The fruit are total stunners: yellow-orange with a pink blush, up to 3.5 oz (100 g), looking just like real apricots. They have a light peach fuzz on the skin, don’t split, and have a fantastic sweet, dessert-like flavor. Sets 5-7 fruits per truss. Very tough, disease-resistant plant too – mine even shrugged off a brief cold snap and some snow.
Edited November 4, 2016 by Drosera
Really liked this variety. Once the fruit are ripe, they are dead ringers for apricots. Honestly, if you set them on a plate blossom-end down, you’d never even guess they’re tomatoes.
Grew Marizol Magic in the greenhouse and it produced great. Tall vine, reached about 5 ft (1.5 m), mid-season. The fruit came out like large round cherries, yellow with a nice blush. Super tasty, juicy, and sweet with a real fruity flavor.
Mine grew tall in the greenhouse. Fruit size was kind of all over the place – early ones were on the smaller side like cherries, and later trusses sized up more like 1.5-2 oz (40-60 g) cocktail tomatoes, though those late ones didn’t have time to ripen on the vine. Very pretty yellow color with a lovely blush. They really do look just like apricots! Flavor on the ones I had to ripen indoors off the vine didn’t really blow me away.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: Indeterminate, mid-season vine reaching 5-5.5 ft (1.5-1.7 m) both outdoors and in a greenhouse. Lana_s_Kavkaza notes that it barely needs suckering, shows strong disease resistance, and even survived a brief cold snap and snow in USDA Zone 6.
- 🍑 Fruit: Round, slightly fuzzy, peach-skinned tomatoes in yellow-orange with a pink blush. Size ranges from large cherry and 1.5-2 oz (40-60 g) cocktail size up to 3.5 oz (100 g). All four growers remark on how much they look like real apricots.
- 📈 Yield: High. Sets 5-7 fruits per truss and produces heavily both in open ground and under cover.
- 👅 Taste: Vine-ripened fruits are praised as juicy, very sweet, and fruity with an excellent dessert flavor. However, Elena 62 notes that late-season fruits ripened off the vine indoors had underwhelming flavor.
- 📦 Storage & Cracking: Resistant to cracking according to Lana_s_Kavkaza.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Four growers, including gardeners in USDA Zone 6 (Stavropol Krai) and USDA Zone 4 (Moscow Region).
