📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Scotsdale Road
- 🌍 Origin: A stunning novelty anthocyanin (blue/black) variety. Like many modern antho lines, its exact lineage is often compared to Brad Gates’ creations due to the distinct color patterns.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. The vines are notably thin and wispy, reaching about 5.5 feet (1.7m) in a greenhouse setting. Yields are generally considered average.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Medium-to-large oblate beefsteaks with plump shoulders. The base color is a glowing, pearlescent pink, topped with heavy, dark purple anthocyanin splashing on the shoulders where the sun hits them.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Very well-balanced. It has a sweet profile backed by a pleasant, mild tartness.
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I absolutely loved this variety for the stunning beauty of its fruits: they are oblate, with plump shoulders, pearlescent-pink, looking like they are glowing from the inside, with an anthocyanin splash. The flavor is very good, balanced, sweet with a little tartness. Height in the greenhouse was up to 5.5 feet (1.7 meters), the vines are thin, and my yield in the first year was average. I’ll be growing it again for its beauty and taste))
Looks a lot like Amethyst Jewel, and Sophia’s Purple Apple too…
A very fancy-looking tomato (photo from September 19).
Tatyana makes a great observation comparing Scotsdale Road to Amethyst Jewel and Sophia’s Purple Apple. If you grow a lot of anthocyanin (blue/black) tomatoes, you’ll notice many of them look strikingly similar to each other!
The anthocyanin pigment in tomatoes is highly light-sensitive. It only develops on the parts of the fruit’s skin that are directly exposed to UV rays from the sun. Because most beefsteaks hang downwards, the sun naturally beats down on their “shoulders”, creating that signature dark purple/black crown while the bottom half ripens to its natural base color (in this case, pearlescent pink). Because this UV reaction is so dominant, many pink-base antho varieties end up looking like identical twins until you actually taste them! To get the darkest, most dramatic shoulders on your Scotsdale Road tomatoes, make sure to prune away any leaves shading the fruit trusses.
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