Puzata Khata (Pot-Bellied Hut) Tomato Review & Photos

Initially—seeds from the Aelita company.

Official Description: Early ripening (87-92 days from emergence to fruit ripening), high-yielding variety with a long fruiting period, for open ground and film shelters. Fruits are wide pear-shaped, ribbed, meaty, very tasty, weighing up to 300g (10.5 oz). The color of ripe fruits is red. Indispensable for fresh consumption and all types of processing. The fruits retain their commercial qualities perfectly after picking and during transportation.

They were sown on May 20, began to ripen on September 7 (an experiment with late planting). Grew outdoors. The bush is powerful, tall. Not many fruits, but they are large. I couldn’t fully evaluate the variety’s potential due to the late planting.

The fruit is large, meaty, without acidity. I liked it, I will plant it again next year.

Planted it for the first time this year. Very productive, late, takes a long time to ripen. Huge orange-red tomatoes (up to 800g / 1.7 lbs, there were no small ones at all) and lots of them.

Interesting appearance—pleated/ribbed. Inside the cavities there is empty space (which isn’t great), the skin and flesh are dense, not watery. The taste is quite mediocre (although compared to ‘Wonder of the World’, it’s good), but it stored for a very long time. This summer was very cold (essentially we didn’t even have a summer), so I will plant a couple of bushes again—maybe it will be tastier, but I have my doubts.

Katyusha, here is my report: this is how your/my “Puzata Khata” turned out. Actually, it is a late variety, they only just started ripening.

But Galina surprised me—I can’t even imagine fruits up to 800g on this variety. Mine are small, about 120-150g (4-5 oz). Shaped like a little pouch, quite uniform on the truss.

I had 300g (10.5 oz) fruits last year. I didn’t plant it this year; I replaced it with ‘Sto Pudov’ (100 Poods).

Katya, and how was it? Did you find any differences? In my opinion, they are exactly the same variety. :-[

Tomatinka said:
Did you find any differences? In my opinion, they are exactly the same variety.

Vera, to truly compare, you need to plant two plants side by side, not in different years.

My Sto Pudov (2014) doesn’t look like my Puzata Khata (2013). Puzata Khata grew during a rainy, cold September; it produced large cracked tomatoes with a decent but slightly bland taste. Sto Pudov grew in the baking heat, and I only got 5 fruits of 100g each, but they were very tasty.

Tomatinka said:
Did you find any differences?

Ver, it seems to me they are different. In my observations, the Puzata Khata bush is much more powerful and taller. And the fruits of Sto Pudov are more cube-shaped, while Puzata Khata looks as if it was slightly pulled from the top, making it more refined at the stem (like a pear).

I carefully compared the two varieties again, this time cut open and by taste. Taste-wise, both have a sweetness—practically indistinguishable. But I did find a difference: My Sto Pudov has dark flesh, closer to a burgundy color (though the outside is red), while Puzata Khata has red flesh that matches its skin.

Galya-64 said:
I can’t even imagine fruits up to 800g on this variety. Mine are small, about 120-150g.

I don’t know why they swole up so much for me in 2013; the weight clearly did not match the variety description. I can only say this—they stayed green for a very long time and kept gaining weight. I only pick fully colored tomatoes from the bush, so I ended up picking them pale pink right before the frost when I was clearing the greenhouse. We ate them even later—the skin was thick and they just wouldn’t turn red.

Last year, my Puzata Khata wasn’t “pot-bellied” at all—just 300g. I’ll plant it again though, because it stores well.

Grew it in 2014. Outdoors. Picked green to ripen indoors on August 31. We “choked” on them (as my husband said, because there were so many, but they were delicious!!!) until early December. I will plant it again!

A good variety. I grew ‘Sto Pudov’, and I liked ‘Puzata Khata’ better. The yield is higher, and the fruit mass is larger.

Grew in a greenhouse, led into 3 stems. Tall, mid-late, productive. The taste is ordinary classic tomato, nothing fancy. Due to its yield and unpretentiousness, it is on my planting list for next year.

Puzata Khata was earlier for me than Iceberg and Belmonte, and better in taste and yield. Belmonte often gave me somewhat hollow fruits.

I grew “Puzata Khata” last year, and planted “Sto Pudov” for comparison—both from commercial seed packets… Puzata Khata proved to be a highly productive, mid-season variety. The bushes were simply dripping with large, pear-shaped fruits! Sto Pudov turned out to be an unremarkable, wimpy bush with just a few small fruits (I didn’t even take a photo). Growing conditions, care, and feeding for both varieties were exactly the same.

Mine had almost no hollow cavities at the beginning of summer, but they did in August. But that was most likely because I treated the blossoms with a biological fruit-set spray, otherwise they wouldn’t set fruit at all in the 42°C (107°F) heat.

I used store-bought seeds. Grew both in the greenhouse and outdoors. The yield is absolutely crazy in both places! The taste is mediocre. I used it all for ketchup. Very large fruits from 300 to 600g (10 – 21 oz). Even outdoors there were specimens around 700g (1.5 lbs). Late. Started picking at the end of August.

Grew in an old greenhouse in the middle row. Reached about 2m (6.5 ft). Very happy with the harvest. There were a lot of fruits. The first ones were completely seedless. Then they wouldn’t ripen for a long time. Picked them green in September—some ripened indoors, the brown ones went into sauce. The tomatoes are firm, I missed the tomato aroma a bit. But I will plant it again.

I’ll leave a report on Puzata Khata too. Planted it for the first time. As they say, the best things are right under our noses, but we look up at the sky… Store-bought seeds, planted on a whim. Looks like it turned out to be the true strain!

In my conditions, it was one of the earliest. I am delighted with the variety. Lots of fruit, not sickly, and for me, it was sweeeeet! Now it’s permanently on my grow list. Sowed March 8, went into the greenhouse April 14. Tall plant, right up to the greenhouse roof, with a powerful stem.

Someone asked why there are no ribs visible on my sliced photo. That’s because there was no hollow space! It was solid tomato meat.

I grow 1-2 bushes every year. Mid-late, powerful tall bush. This year I specifically counted—I picked 30 tomatoes off one bush. Of course, not all at once, gradually as they ripened. The tomatoes are large, without hollows, solid meat, tasty, without yellow shoulders. They store well.

My 73-year-old neighbor planted her entire greenhouse with Puzata Khata this year. Since this variety is late, she waited a long time for the first tomatoes, but then, when her Puzata Khata started ripening, she didn’t know what to do with the harvest. She supplied tomatoes to all the neighbors at the dacha and in the city. I consider Puzata Khata a very successful variety from the Aelita company. It has a permanent place in my garden.

We’ve been planting Aelita’s Puzata Khata for about 6 years. In 2019, I started experimenting with it: pruned it to 1 stem, 2, 3, and let some grow wild. The best result is 2 stems. The tomatoes are almost all identical, from 300 to 500g (10.5 – 17.5 oz), without hollows. Bush is 150cm (5 ft). The lower trusses had to be tied up. The summer was rainy, but they didn’t crack. There’s no acidity, all 8 bushes went into making juice.

Planted in 2020 in the greenhouse. I loved the variety. We ate the first fruits in early July, the yield was off the charts. The taste had sweetness. Inside, there were no hollows.

A true workhorse. I plant a couple of bushes every season. Tasty, meaty, classic flavor.