📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Pineapple (Ananas)
- 🌍 Origin: The world-famous classic heirloom bicolor beefsteak, originally from the USA, but highly popular and widely grown in Russia under the translated name “Ananas”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), regular leaf (RL). It has proven to be relatively resistant to tomato leaf mold (Cladosporium).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Massive, flat-round beefsteaks. The skin is a beautiful yellow-orange with a prominent red blush (cap) and red streaks radiating down the sides. Fruits easily reach 450-800g (1-1.7 lbs).
- 👅 Flavor & Yield: Renowned for its incredibly complex, sweet, tropical flavor. The yield is typically average, as the plant channels its energy into producing fewer, but absolutely giant fruits.
- ⚠️ Grower’s Note: To get the largest and most perfectly shaped fruits, growers highly recommend pruning to two main stems, thinning the trusses, and pinching off any early fused megablossoms.
Indeterminate, regular leaf (RL), flat-round fruits. Yellow-orange with a red cap and red streaks radiating down. Weight is about 450-600g (1-1.3 lbs).
I grew it in a greenhouse. In terms of ripening time, it is closer to mid-season. The yield was just average.
A truly awesome variety. In southern regions, it develops an absolutely unique, unmatched flavor. Highly recommend it 👍
It’s best pruned to two main stems, and you should thin the trusses (remove excess fruit). Be sure to pinch off any fused megablossoms too.
Here is the “Pineapple” that grew for me this year:
The seeds were from a Spanish producer (ROCALBA). It’s a mid-season tomato, indeterminate, very tasty, and beautiful. There aren’t very many fruits on the bush, but the ones that do grow are huge! The tomato in the photo weighs 800 grams (1.76 lbs)!
This year I grew “Pineapple Bicolor” from a local seed catalog. As far as I understand, it is the exact same variety. It didn’t grow particularly huge for me, but it was very tasty. Although I am not in a southern region, this summer blessed us with wonderful warmth. I grew it for the first time, so I can’t compare it to previous years, but I really, really liked the variety.
By the way, for me, it proved to be relatively resistant to tomato leaf mold (Cladosporium).
