Quick Summary of Berkeley Tie Dye Pink
- 🌍 Origin: A well-known American variety (by Brad Gates) that is highly popular among Russian and Eastern European collectors.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, moderately vigorous, reaching about 5-5.5 ft (1.5-1.7 m) in height. Russian growers recommend pruning it to 2 stems for best results. It doesn’t produce an overwhelming amount of suckers.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Oblate beefsteaks with striking dark pink/crimson skin and metallic green/bronze stripes. Weight typically ranges from 7 to 14 oz (200-400 g).
- 👅 Flavor: Highly weather-dependent. In a good year, it has a complex, sweet flavor with a fruity tartness. However, during poor, cold summers, it can lose its flavor profile.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season, though some growers note it shifts to mid-late depending on the climate. Yields often peak toward the end of summer or early autumn.
A moderately indeterminate, mid-season variety of foreign origin. The bush is sturdy, about 5-5.5 ft (1.5-1.7 m) tall. The fruits are dark pink with dark green stripes, large, from 7 to 14 oz (200 to 400 g), and the yield is good. However, the taste didn’t turn out well for me this past summer.
My Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye.
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye sliced on the right:
Quote from Tomatanya:
A moderately indeterminate, mid-season variety of foreign origin. The bush is sturdy, about 5-5.5 ft (1.5-1.7 m) tall. The fruits are dark pink with dark green stripes, large, from 7 to 14 oz (200 to 400 g), and the yield is good. However, the taste didn’t turn out well for me this past summer.
Could you please tell me how many stems you pruned this variety to?
To two stems.
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To two stems.
Thanks! I’ll go prune my suckers. And was it early for you, or..?
A tasty variety, grew in a polycarbonate greenhouse, slightly shaded by neighboring bushes. It doesn’t overgrow with suckers too much. Mid-season. The yield was moderate at the beginning of summer, but by autumn, the yield was much higher. Maybe it doesn’t like the heat?
My Pink 🙂
Grew in a greenhouse, a vigorous indeterminate. The fruits are oblate, dark crimson colored with bronze stripes, weight 10-14 oz (300-400g), very productive.
My Pink Berkeley Tie Dye. Tall, productive, and tasty.
In the greenhouse, it turned out to be mid-season, productive, and about 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall. The fruits were very beautiful, large, sweet with a fruity tartness.
My Berkeley TD Pink didn’t surprise me with its flavor this year, I would even say it had no taste at all. Grew in a greenhouse, pruned to 2 stems. There were no large fruits, the average weight was 7 oz (200g). Ripened closer to late season.
