📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Banan Oranzhevyi (Orange Banana)
- 🌍 Origin: A popular commercial Russian variety (widely distributed by seed companies like Gavrish and Aelita). The name translates to “Orange Banana”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Mostly indeterminate (growing over 6.5 ft / 2 m in greenhouses), though some growers report shorter determinate strains. It has a characteristic “weeping” or wispy foliage that tends to droop downwards.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Elongated, icicle or banana-shaped orange paste tomatoes. They grow in clusters of up to 8 fruits. The flesh is dense and very meaty.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: Slightly sweet and very tasty. It is an absolutely fantastic variety for canning and processing.
- ⚠️ Grower’s Note: Like many elongated paste varieties, it is susceptible to Blossom End Rot (BER) early in the season or on acidic soils. Keep watering consistent and ensure adequate calcium levels!
The seeds were from the Gavrish company. In the greenhouse, the variety grew over 2 meters (6.5+ ft) tall and was very productive. The trusses had up to 8 small, quite meaty fruits. The taste is slightly sweet. It can be affected by Blossom End Rot (BER) on acidic soils.
Ilya, a friend of mine grew these little tomatoes from that same packet.
I grew Banan Oranzhevyi from the Aelita seed company. It was a short determinate plant, up to 1 m (3.3 ft), pruned to 2 stems. Early and sweet.
Lena, yours looks a lot like Pertsevidnyi Polosatyi (Striped Pepper-shaped).
elena0508:
Ilya, a friend of mine grew these little tomatoes from that same packet.
They look very much like the Banan Pestryi (Variegated Banana) variety 🙂 My Bananas turned out to have exactly the same diverse shapes 😆
Sveta, that Pestryi Banan (Variegated Banana) is cute 👍 I want to plant about 3 bushes of this orange one.
elena0508:
Ilya, a friend of mine grew these little tomatoes from that same packet.
Your friend got lucky 🙂
I planted it this year. It suffered badly from BER (Blossom End Rot), but when it started to ripen, I decided I’ll definitely repeat this beauty next year with some proper BER prevention measures.
Banan Oranzhevyi. Excellent little tomato — productive, quite tasty, perfect for canning, if not for one BUT: the bush has drooping (weeping) foliage. No matter how much you trim the leaves, they just keep touching the ground.
Seeds from @Nadija (Nadia). For some reason, I really wanted this variety, but it wouldn’t yield to me for several years—the seeds simply wouldn’t sprout. This year, it sprouted from the very last seed I had.
The first fruit on the first truss was almost round, so I thought it was a cross or off-type. But the rest grew like little bananas. Grown outdoors in open ground.
The variety turned out to be heavy-yielding and tasty. The fruits are meaty and sweet.
Edited September 29, 2020 by Katrinka
I have been planting this variety for several years. Tasty, heavy yielder.
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