Quick Summary of Sibirskiy Malakhit (Siberian Malachite)
- 🌍 Origin: A well-known commercial variety from Siberian Garden (SibSad).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate. In open ground, it usually reaches 1.2-1.4 meters (4-4.5 ft), and slightly taller in greenhouses. The bush is regular, not overly spreading. Growers note it exhibits excellent disease resistance (particularly against leaf mold / Cladosporium).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful cocktail-sized tomatoes (up to 150g / 5 oz) growing in clusters of 4 to 10 fruits. When ripe, they are yellow/amber with distinct dark green stripes. Note: Some older seed lineages produce fruits that stay pure emerald green even when fully ripe.
- 👅 Flavor & Usage: A classic, good tomato flavor with a nice touch of acidity. The flesh is dense but can become soft/mealy if overripe. Excellent for fresh eating and highly recommended for allergy sufferers and diabetics.
- 🥫 Processing: Opinions on canning vary. Some praise it because the thick skin prevents cracking in the jar and looks beautiful, while others find the internal texture becomes too soft when pickled whole.
– External description of the bush: mid-sized variety, not spreading, regular.
– Fruit setting – without skips.
– Bush height in open ground on August 10 – 1.2m (4 ft), by September 6 – 1.4m (4.6 ft).
– Trusses – 2-4 fruits each.
– Overall yield – average, it really took off after August 15.
– Fruit: round, yellow with green stripes, beautiful.
– Density of ripe fruit – high.
– Taste – ordinary, classic, thick skin, and inside – a bit mealy/cottony, sweetness is a 4- out of 5.
First impression: a beautiful tomato for canning. It doesn’t crack in the jar, looks beautiful.
Seedling rating – 5, bush – 4, fruit – 4, overall variety rating – 4.
A productive little striped one 👍
Quote by gggalina:
A productive little striped one 👍
I also grew it in 2015. Looks beautiful and the taste is good! 😋
Edited February 9, 2016 by Drosera
A productive striped one. It’s not perfectly round and smooth, but somewhat faceted. And Siberian Malachite is a twin of Green Zebra. I compared them. 😳
I really liked this variety, planted 3 bushes in open ground, trained to 2 stems, didn’t get sick, productive.
The taste is very good with some acidity, and it stored for a long time.
I gave half the harvest to a friend, he is a diabetic and allergy sufferer, and he liked them.
This year I will plant more, also in open ground.
Beautiful.
Grew in the garden, height 1.2 -1.4m (4-4.5 ft).
Taste when fresh is good, but in whole-fruit canning — I didn’t like it, it becomes too soft.
I grew it this year. Seeds were from SibSad.
I really liked the tomatoes for their taste and beauty ❤️
Grew in the greenhouse. Bush height was 1.3 – 1.5 m (4.2-5 ft).
Yield was small, about 2 kg (4.4 lbs), mostly trained to 1 stem.
It has such even, beautiful trusses of up to 10 fruits.
At first they grew too vegetatively (too much nitrogen), there were a lot of suckers, but at the end of July they got going. And they were almost completely unaffected by Cladosporium / Leaf Mold (the only ones in the greenhouse to resist it).
The largest tomato was about 150 g (5.3 oz).
Grew it in 2015, liked them, they were sweet and cute. The trusses were full, didn’t drop blossoms. Seeds from SibSad.
I’ve been growing my Malachite for a long time, since 2010… I got the seeds from A.I. Kulik.
It seems mine is slightly different — the fruits never turned yellow, they stay the same emerald green after picking, even when they are completely overripe…
The bushes are not tall, compact, not higher than 1 meter (3.2 ft) even in the greenhouse.
The fruits when ripe have a very pleasant, tart taste with a little sweetness, the flesh is thick, jelly-like.
Little beauties, productive, left a bit too long on the bush, sunny-colored, they were a bit on the soft side. Seeds from the Urals from Verochka.
