Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3 & 11 Experience)
Pink Zebra.
Origin is presumably British Columbia, Canada. Indeterminate with regular foliage. Mid-season maturity, heavy yielder, an exclusive variety with an exceptionally flashy striped skin.
Tall vine topping out around 6.5 ft (2 m) with dense, heavy foliage. The fruits are flat-round, firm, deep carmine-rose with dense olive-green striping, weighing 5.3 to 8.8 oz (150-250 g). Excellent resistance to splitting and cracking.
Tomatoes picked green finish ripening indoors on the counter flawlessly and store for a remarkably long time. The flesh is dense with generous seed cavities. Good flavor with a solid, pleasant balance of sweetness and acidity.
Edited December 26, 2018 by Drosera
Pink Zebra.
Grew it in 2022 inside the greenhouse. Leaned mid-late for me. Attractive fruits in a muted dusky-rose color.
It truly does store exceptionally well without softening up, but the flavor just did not impress me. Or maybe I simply failed to appreciate its subtlety.
Full Summary: Plant Architecture, Fruit Traits, Storage and Flavor
- 🌿 Growth Habit & Architecture: Indeterminate vine climbing to 6.5 ft (2 m). Unlike sparse or wispy varieties, Pink Zebra produces a dense, vigorous blanket of regular foliage that requires deliberate pruning and trellising to maintain good internal airflow.
- 📈 Yield & Maturity: Mid-season to mid-late maturity. Highly productive under greenhouse cover, setting dependable clusters of medium slicers weighing 5.3 to 8.8 oz (150-250 g). Complete resistance to skin cracking even during temperature swings.
- 👅 Fruit Anatomy & Flavor Profile: Oblate beefsteaks displaying a dusky, muted carmine-rose background patterned with dark green tiger striping. The flesh is dense with spacious seed locules. Flavor is classic and balanced, though it leans milder than high-sugar anthocyanin or black heirlooms.
- 📦 Shelf Life & Counter-Ripening: Outstanding storage ability. Fruits picked green or at breaker stage color up evenly indoors without shriveling or turning mealy, holding firm at room temperature for several weeks.
- 🌎 Who Reviewed It: Grown in the subtropical climate of the Canary Islands (USDA Zone 11) and the short-season continental conditions of Western Siberia (Kemerovo, USDA Zone 3).
