📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Dragotsennaya Zhemchuzhina (Precious Pearl)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial/heirloom variety. The name translates beautifully to “Precious Pearl”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, but stays relatively compact. Exhibits medium vigor and maxes out around 4 feet (1.2 m) tall by the end of the season. Mid-early maturity.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small, bright red, teardrop-shaped plum/cherry tomatoes. They grow in dense trusses of 6-7 fruits and have very firm skin.
- 👅 Flavor & Use: A standard, juicy tomato flavor. Sweetness is above average but not candylike. It’s a highly productive, reliable “workhorse” cherry tomato.
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Seeds from “Schastliviy Sad” (Happy Garden).
External plant description: Mid-early season variety, indeterminate, medium vigor.
Fruit set: No skipped trusses, it is still throwing out new flower clusters even now.
Height: By August 2nd it was about 3.6 feet (1.1 m) tall, and by September 6th it reached 4 feet (1.2 m).
Trusses: Very dense, 6-7 fruits per cluster.
Fruit: Red, teardrop-shaped plum/cherry.
Density of ripe fruit: High (very firm).
Flavor: Juicy, standard tomato flavor. I give the sweetness a 4 out of 5.
First impression: Just your average cherry tomato. It sets a ton of fruit, but they are quite small. My ratings: seedlings – 3, bush – 4-, fruit – 4, overall variety rating – 4-.
