Quick Summary of Podsinskoye Chudo (Podsinee Miracle)
- 🌍 Origin: A legendary Siberian heirloom from the village of Podsinee, near Minusinsk (a region famous for its giant tomatoes). The name translates to “Podsinee Miracle”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, very tall. Important diagnostic trait: This variety has classic “wispy” or “weeping willow” foliage. The leaves are light/emerald green, and the stem is thin and droopy. Do not panic if the seedling looks frail or wilted—this is its natural growth habit! It also tends to have long internodes (large spaces between fruit clusters).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Giant pink/red elongated plums or blunt hearts. The first fruits can be massive, reaching up to 900 g (2 lbs), while later fruits are smaller and more pepper-shaped.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Extremely highly rated. The flesh is dense and meaty, yet very juicy. It develops a rich, sweet flavor with almost no acidity, even in cold and rainy summers.
- 💡 Pro Tips for Growing: Due to its thin structure, it does best in full sun. Warning: Like many large elongated tomatoes, it is highly susceptible to Blossom End Rot (BER). Growers recommend a strict watering schedule and extra calcium feedings. Despite this flaw, it is beloved for its incredible taste.
Podsinskoye Chudo (Podsinee Miracle)
Seeds from Natalya Shcherbinina. Indeterminate, tall slicing variety. The structure of the bush is thin, so I planted this variety in a sunny spot, without shading. And I fed it more often than other varieties. As a result, it showed a fairly decent yield. I sowed the seeds in March.
The fruits are very large red plums, meaty, very juicy :niam: , sweet even in this cold, rainy summer (my fruits had absolutely no acidity). The average weight of the fruits is 300…350 gr (10.5 – 12.3 oz). I will definitely repeat it — I liked the variety.
And a photo in the seedling stage:
I also planted Podsinee Miracle. I found out about it from Natasha Shcherbinina, but my seeds are from Tatyana Ryabikova.
I planted 1 bush, started seedlings in March. It grew in a plastic tunnel greenhouse.
I liked the variety and the tomatoes grew exactly as it was written in the variety description.
A tall bush, large fruits, I had to tie them up.
In the ground they had just started to turn red when I had to pick them. I was afraid of late blight (Phytophthora)… but God spared us. This year I will plant several bushes.
Podsinee Miracle. The real deal :hat:. When ripe – rich pink.
In the seedling stage – you will recognize it immediately – emerald green color :-*, cannot be confused with anyone else.
Very susceptible to vershinka (Blossom End Rot), but if you take proper measures – everything is ok :hey:.
A sucker taken from the bush at the end of June produced 2 full-fledged clusters in mid-September.
Alena, what a beauty! :yep:
Alena Andreeva wrote:
Very susceptible to vershinka, but if you take proper measures – everything is ok :hey:.
Alyona, what measures did you take? :mail: Good size! :appl: