📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Mr. Underwood’s Pink German Giant
- 🌍 Origin: A fantastic heirloom variety originating from the USA, tracing back to German roots.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Grows to about 5.6 ft (1.7 m) in a greenhouse. Known for being a very reliable setter that doesn’t drop blossoms or skip trusses.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful, smooth pink beefsteaks. They are surprisingly uniform and blemish-free for a giant heirloom, typically weighing in at 7 to 12.3 oz (200–350 g).
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season.
- 👅 Flavor: A classic, pronounced sweet-and-sour tomato flavor. Several growers note that the flavor profile actually improves and gets much richer later in the season as fall approaches.
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Grower Reviews & Photos
Mr. Underwood’s Pink German Giant. Mid-season indeterminate variety, reached a height of 5.6 ft (1.7 meters) in the greenhouse. The fruits are pink, beautiful, very uniform, and without any blemishes, weighing 7-12.3 oz (200-350 g).
At first, the taste didn’t really impress me, but later on, at the beginning of fall, the flavor turned out to be incredibly good. It set about 2-4 fruits per cluster, but it didn’t skip a single truss.
Edited November 3, 2014 by Pomidoroved
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It turned out average in both taste and yield for me.
Large, productive. The taste this year is better than last year, very pronounced, sweet-and-sour profile:
One of the most productive among the large-fruited tomatoes.
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👨🌾 Editor’s Note on “Late Season Flavor”:
Elena makes a great observation in the very first post: the early summer fruits tasted a bit bland, but the ones she picked in early fall were delicious! Many heirloom beefsteaks display this exact behavior. During the peak heat of mid-summer, plants often push too much water into the fruit, diluting the flavor. As fall approaches and the night temperatures drop, the ripening process slows down significantly. This allows the plant more time to concentrate complex sugars and acids in the fruit, resulting in a much richer, bolder tomato flavor!
Elena makes a great observation in the very first post: the early summer fruits tasted a bit bland, but the ones she picked in early fall were delicious! Many heirloom beefsteaks display this exact behavior. During the peak heat of mid-summer, plants often push too much water into the fruit, diluting the flavor. As fall approaches and the night temperatures drop, the ripening process slows down significantly. This allows the plant more time to concentrate complex sugars and acids in the fruit, resulting in a much richer, bolder tomato flavor!
