My PH from SibSad grew outdoors last year. Large pink fruits, yield was a 4, but the taste was non-existent 😔, bland and not sweet. After reading your comments, I will plant 1 bush this year to repeat it, maybe it will turn out tasty 😋.
Akteno said:
…I will plant 1 bush this year to repeat it, maybe it will turn out tasty 😋.
And I decided to give Pink Honey one last chance too. It disappointed me last year.
Jina said:
And I decided to give Pink Honey one last chance too. It disappointed me last year.
I didn’t give Pink Honey a chance this year… I planted it last year (SibSad), the fruits were large, but there were a lot of megablooms, and consequently very ugly fruits… but I did like the yield and taste…
I don’t care if they are ugly or not, any tasty tomato is good in a salad.
Serg said:
I didn’t give Pink Honey a chance this year…
I really, really wanted it, I probably expected too much. It grew outdoors, in June it was cool and rainy, in August there was a heatwave. I didn’t like the taste at all, bland and starchy. I’ll try to rehabilitate its good name. 🙄
I planted PH for 2 years — in 2013 and 2014, both times outdoors and in the greenhouse. So in 2013, it was more successful outdoors; in the greenhouse, it started off somewhat late, but then caught up and showed a decent yield.
In 2014, everything was the exact opposite — in the greenhouse, it was simply wonderful, very productive and quite tasty, a solid 4 out of 5. For me, there is no question of whether to plant PH or not — definitely plant it, both in the greenhouse and outdoors. Maybe later other varieties will displace it, but I don’t believe that yet. I like it.
Either Valya (vali) or Slava (LLL) brought it to our forum meetup 😳
The description is compiled from our site (I made a spreadsheet when planning varieties): Indeterminate (wispy/flimsy bush type), early, oblate (flat-round), large, productive, fruit color is pink, tasty, fruits must be tied up.
Grew in the greenhouse. It was handed to me very small. While I was carrying it home from the forum meetup, I apparently gave it a slight frostbite, and at home, like a fool, I watered it — thinking I’d warm it up with warm water. As a result, Pink Honey survived, but remained very thin and small. It was even scary planting it in the greenhouse.
As a result, it started setting fruit very late. By the end of the season, there were many not-so-large fruits hanging. Tasty, juicy, sweet. Tall, about 2 meters (6.5 ft), flimsy bush. The fruits absolutely must be tied up, the branches tear off from the main stem. It got very sick 😔 Couldn’t withstand Gray Mold (Botrytis) at all. The fruits fell to the ground unripe. I will plant it again, but not next year, not until I completely defeat Gray Mold.
I am growing Pink Honey from Sib. Sad for the first time this year.
Very large and very gnarly/ugly fruits. The largest is 1790g (3.9 lbs)!
Could it be an off-type/wrong seeds (peresort)?
Mila693 said:
Very large and very gnarly/ugly fruits… Could it be an off-type?
Could this fruit be from the first megablooms on the truss? Or are all the fruits like this?
Mila, if it is red, and not raspberry-pink — it is definitely an off-type / crossed seeds.
Edited July 12, 2016 by Zulfiya
Mila693 said:
Very large and very gnarly/ugly fruits… Could it be an off-type?
That is not Pink Honey. I grew it last year. Even from a megabloom, you won’t get a fruit shape like that. And the color… I liked the variety, tasty, quite productive, I will repeat it eventually.
Zulfiya said:
If it is red, and not raspberry-pink — it is definitely an off-type.
The camera might distort the color (if it’s like mine).
Tiffany said:
That is not Pink Honey… Even from a megabloom, you won’t get a fruit shape like that.
What if several flowers fused together? The weight is enormous! I removed mine (megablooms), only one with a more or less decent shape remained, but it’s still quite a freak, I’ll have to take a photo of it.
Ira, that’s why I wrote “if”, many cameras and monitors don’t convey the exact shade.
Zulfiya said:
Ira, that’s why I wrote “if”, many cameras and monitors don’t convey the exact shade.
Agreed. The color of Pink Honey is hard to capture with a camera, maybe that’s why in the description it is stated as “deep pink with a moiré tint”? What does a “moiré tint” even mean in this case? Is it when it looks red to us one moment, and raspberry-colored the next?
