Quick Summary of Red King
- 🌍 Origin: A highly reliable variety sourced from the collection of Russian tomato expert V.D. Popenko.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Mid-season and indeterminate (tall vining). It performs exceptionally well outdoors in the open ground, especially when pruned to two stems.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright red, perfectly round tomatoes weighing up to 150 g (5.3 oz). They are visually stunning because they grow perfectly uniform in size. Highly crack-resistant.
- 👅 Flavor & Usage: Sweet and flavorful. This is an excellent “all-purpose” tomato—perfect for fresh salads, slicing, and whole-fruit canning.
- 🛡️ Climate & Disease Resistance: An absolute workhorse! It sets fruit reliably regardless of the weather conditions and boasts very good resistance to the dreaded Late Blight (Phytophthora).
The seeds were from V.D. Popenko. Mid-season, tall (indeterminate), with a very good yield.
The fruits are perfectly round, all completely uniform in size, red, sweet, weighing up to 150 g (5.3 oz). They set fruit in absolutely any weather and do not crack. It is an all-purpose variety.
I grew it outdoors in the open ground and pruned it to two stems. It showed very good resistance to Late Blight (Phytophthora).
