Quick Summary of Utrennyaya Rosa (Morning Dew)
- 🌍 Origin: A popular Russian variety. Interestingly, there are two distinct variations circulating among growers under this name: a commercial red/pink oxheart (sold by companies like Poisk and Aelita) and a dark, brick-red/brown oxheart (distributed by collectors like Kulik and Syrai, often referred to as “Morning Dew Black”).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Outdoors in open ground, it typically grows to about 1.2 m (4 ft). In a greenhouse, it can easily reach 1.6 – 1.8 m (5.2 – 6 ft). Known for its excellent health and extended fruiting period, often surviving and producing until the first frosts.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Classic heart-shaped (oxheart) tomatoes. Depending on the strain, they are either bright red/pink or a stunning dark brick-red. Weights usually range from 120-200 g (4.2-7 oz), though some greenhouse specimens can reach over 400 g (14 oz). The flesh is very dense and meaty.
- 👅 Flavor: Well-balanced classic tomato flavor with both sweetness and a refreshing tang. Rated 4 to 5 stars by most growers.
- ⏳ Maturity & Yield: Mid-season to late. It is a heavy yielder that doesn’t quit. Growers particularly note its “long-playing” nature, keeping its leaves healthy and ripening fruit late into autumn.
Well, what can I say… Excellent variety, indet (outdoors 1.2 m / 4 ft). Very productive. Beautiful little hearts cover the bush. The fruits are dense, meaty, with a good balanced taste (they have everything, both sweetness and tanginess). In a greenhouse, a larger weight is possible; outdoors my tomatoes were from 120 to 200 g (4.2 to 7 oz), but there were many of them. I led the plant in 3 stems.
And more:
The seeds were from Syrai (Tamara Semenovna shared from her order with me 🌺 ). He has this variety with dark flesh. Indet, strong, long-playing productive variety with good health 👍 The first fruits began to ripen in mid-July along with the other varieties. Now almost all the other varieties have finished fruiting and the bushes are pulled out, but Zarya (Dawn) still has green trusses of not-so-small fruits hanging at the top and completely healthy leaves 🙂 The fruits are dense, brick-red in color, store well, taste is a 4.
Svetlana, whose seeds of Morning Dew did you have? Because I’ve had a packet from “Poisk” lying around for about two years now, and I’m still debating whether to plant it 😕
And I also have a packet from Poisk – next year I want to try it outdoors in the open ground..
My seeds were also from “Poisk”.
I planted it this year from Syrai, they turned out dark-dark red, almost like not completely black oblate hearts, and the flesh is darker.
And I had ones from “Poisk” – these are pink round, very firm fruits. They will be good for slicing into winter salads. I can’t find a photo unfortunately. But the variety is completely different from the previous one.
My “Poisk” seeds came from Svetlana.
Svetikk said:
…Now almost all the other varieties have finished fruiting and the bushes are pulled out, but Zarya (Dawn) still has green trusses of not-so-small fruits hanging at the top…
“At dawn (zarya) through the morning dew I ran into the garden, there I planted tomatoes…” Svetlana, there must be a mistake here, the variety Zarya is mentioned. And your photos are wonderful as always, the tomatoes next to the plate, I also took my latest photos with tomatoes like that, thank you.
Girls! And I have this kind of Morning Dew from Alexey Kulik. I can’t find a photo of it ripe yet. It was productive, the fruits are large.
Elena, most likely Kulik has a different Morning Dew, you know, like amateur breeding. They just share the same name and that’s it.. My tomato fully matches the description on the packet, which I am very happy about 👍.
Yes, Svetlana, definitely different, I knew from the start that it would be dark, it is described like that by him. We just call it – Morning Dew Black.
I have morning dew like Svetlana’s (from the same packet). Dark red with a slight brick tint. They were strong plants, productive with an extended fruiting period, 100-120 g (3.5-4.2 oz), quite tasty, a 4 rating.
I had Morning Dew from Aelita.
Tomato Utrennyaya Rosa (Morning Dew) – Seed Packet Translation
Mid-early variety (115-118 days from emergence to the start of ripening), indeterminate, for fresh eating (slicing/salad purposes). The fruits are large, weighing 200-250 g (7-8.8 oz), oval-shaped, red in color. The variety is highly responsive to fertilizers, requires abundant watering, and is highly resistant to major tomato diseases. Average yield is 27.0-29.0 kg/m² (approx. 5.5-6 lbs/sq ft).
Cultivation (Agrotechnics): Tomatoes require good, fertile soil. The best crop predecessors are cabbage, legumes, and annual grasses. Before sowing, seeds are treated in a potassium permanganate solution, then washed with clean water and soaked until they swell. Seedlings are potted up at the 1-2 true leaf stage. For feeding, a special complex water-soluble mineral fertilizer is recommended (containing an NPK complex enriched with a wide spectrum of microelements), providing the necessary nutrition for vegetable crops.
Seedlings are transplanted into the ground at the age of 55-70 days, when the danger of frost has passed. Planting spacing is 70×40 cm (27×16 inches). As the plants grow, side shoots (suckers) are removed, and the main stem is pinched off (topped) above the 9th or 10th fruit truss. Water the plants with warm water after sunset. Feeding and soil loosening are carried out throughout the entire growing season.
Beautiful, yield is normal, but for such a beautiful tomato (I remember, last year I wrote exactly this in my diary) the taste could have been better, it turned out not bad, but just an ordinary tomato taste):
Morning Dew (Kulik)
Productive, fruits are beautiful, large, meaty, of unusual coloring.
419 g (14.8 oz):
The fruits are dark brick-red, super-beautiful hearts, pleasant to hold in your hands, an even cone, flesh with a pink core, 150-200g (5.3-7 oz). Up to 1.2 m (4 ft) in the open ground, taller indoors, up to 1.6-1.8 m (5.2-6 ft), mid-season. Fruited right up until the frost.
