Growers’ Notes and Photos
Description right off the seed packet: Early season. Fruits ripen 105 days after full emergence in extended cultivation, and 90-100 days in spring-summer planting. The plant is superdeterminate, with sparse foliage and light branching. The first truss sets above the 7th-9th leaf, and subsequent trusses set without any separating leaves or just 1 leaf between them, often forming up to 3 trusses simultaneously in a single internode. About 7 fruits per truss. The 4 ft (1.2 m) bush produces 12-15 trusses total. The fruit is round, slightly ribbed with a green shoulder. Unripe fruits are green, mature ones are red. Fruit weight up to 6 oz (180 g). Good flavor. Photo credit: cat2008.
Hey y’all, has anyone here actually grown this tomato? I’m thinking about planting it this year, just wondering if it’s really worth it…
Tatka said:
Hey y’all, has anyone here actually grown this tomato? I’m thinking about planting it this year, just wondering if it’s really worth it…
I grew this hybrid in the greenhouse, and I’m gonna plant a couple bushes outdoors this year. The bush stays pretty short, around 3.3 ft (1 m). My fruits were on the smaller side, about 3.5-4 oz (100-120 g), so it definitely didn’t hit that 6 oz (180 g) mark from the label. But they were heavy yielders, super early, and stayed completely disease-free right until the end of the season. Flavor is perfectly decent for an F1 hybrid. It’s basically my go-to canning variety. My seeds were from Aelita-Agro.
Olya is going outdoors for me this season. I’ll throw some row cover over them until June, we’ll see how the harvest turns out 😉
It’s a really good hybrid, I’ve grown it for several years and it has never let me down. Great harvest, no disease issues, and perfectly uniform 4 oz (120 g) fruits. Hit about 4 ft (1.2 m) tall in the greenhouse.
My harvest was absolutely massive in 2015. I put the seedlings out on May 9th with zero frost cover. Hit them with some fertilizer and laid down a really thick layer of hay mulch around the roots. Grown in a raised bed. My only regret is that I didn’t get many ripe ones–late blight moved in, so I had to pull them all green and just pickled them up in jars. Definitely planting it again this year.
I really liked this hybrid. The tomatoes are incredibly uniform and identical. Firm and moderately juicy.
Despite an absolutely extreme summer, it put out a great yield.
As for the taste-just your standard, classic tomato flavor.
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste, and Use
- 🌿 Plant Habit: A reliable, early-season “superdeterminate” hybrid. The bushes generally stay around 3.3 to 4 ft (1-1.2 m) tall. It features sparse foliage and unique genetics that allow it to aggressively set multiple flower trusses without vegetative leaves in between them.
- 📈 Yield & Resistance: Olya F1 is a heavy-yielding workhorse. Growers rave about its bomb-proof reliability—even in extreme summer heat or rainy, blight-prone conditions, it stays healthy and pumps out fruit. Note: Expect highly uniform 3.5-4 oz (100-120 g) tomatoes, not the 6 oz (180 g) size claimed by commercial seed packets.
- 👅 Taste & Application: It offers a standard, old-school tomato flavor—nothing gourmet, but perfectly good for an F1 hybrid. Because the fruits are round, firm, identical, and somewhat small, it is highly prized as a top-tier canning and pickling tomato.
