Siberian Troika (Sibirskaya Troyka) Tomato Review

Boys and girls!
Has anyone planted the Siberian Troika variety from SibSad?
Today my neighbor and friend asked me about this variety; she said she was told that the taste is very sweet with notes of strawberry.
Please share your impressions.

I planted it this year. Not particularly productive, slightly sweet taste…
It had some Blossom End Rot (BER). It is a bit late-season. It requires pruning up to the first truss, the height was probably about 60 centimeters (24 inches). It grew in the greenhouse.
Not a bad little tomato, but I won’t plant it again.
Unfortunately, I don’t have any photos.

I planted it this year in the greenhouse and in open ground. It turned out to be more productive for me in open ground, although I did have other varieties that yielded more.
In the seedling stage, it doesn’t get leggy like other varieties – it grows very sturdy and stout.
Tasty, sweet, but I can’t say anything about a strawberry flavor – I don’t remember details like that.
I will plant it again.
By the way, it seemed to me that it is very similar to the Petrusha-Gardener variety from SibSad. Just slightly larger.

I planted Siberian Troika for several years, before I put up a greenhouse and switched entirely to indeterminate varieties. This variety has a catch… the most important thing is that its flavor is not stable. In a warm and hot summer in open ground, it will yield well and be tasty and sweet. It’s a bit late, but in open ground, it can ripen fully on the bush. But in a rainy summer, it will be bland and watery. This has been verified not only by me but by all my gardening acquaintances.

I can’t speak for the strawberry taste, but when the weather is right, it truly is one of the sweetest tomatoes you can grow in open ground.
I didn’t plant it in the greenhouse, it’s a pity to waste greenhouse space on a determinate. It only resembles Petrusha-Gardener in shape, nothing else.

Description from the seed packet:
Mid-early variety, with a compact tree-type bush, up to 60 cm (24 inches) tall. The fruits are red, bright, regular pepper-shaped, and large. The first fruits are up to 15 cm (6 inches) long, weighing up to 350 g (12 oz). The taste and sweetness of the meaty fruits, which don’t even require salt when eaten fresh, can be called the “highlight” of this variety. Advantages include high yield (up to 5 kg / 11 lbs per plant) combined with a short bush type and high disease resistance. Practically requires no pruning.

Could you please tell me what distance apart to plant them from each other?

I have been growing Siberian Troika for a long time, almost 10 years now… A proven, reliable variety for our climate zone. It is not late-season at all – during this capricious summer, it remained true to its worthy qualities.

I grew it in open ground on beds – you can plant them at a distance of 40-45 cm (16-18 inches) apart, removing the lower suckers that come from the root.
The variety is disease-resistant – the foliage was strong and healthy all summer without any signs of illness… But, I tried to frequently dust the plants with wood ash, especially after rains and cold nights.

The fruits are large (especially the first ones), perfect pepper shape, the flesh is dense and tasty (I didn’t notice any strawberry flavor though). But the taste qualities of the fruits can easily be rated a 5 out of 5!

Seeds are from Siberian Garden (SibSad).
Good boy! It grew for me in a bucket (container) out in the open ground. It set several trusses early on. The largest ones were at the bottom, smaller towards the top. Very tasty! It ripened fully on the bush! Despite the fact that it grew outdoors and the weather was terrible all summer – freezing cold and non-stop rain. Plus I put the buckets in a not-so-great spot. But nevertheless, it produced. I will definitely plant it again next year and again in buckets.

The bush is not tall, but not overly short either, about 60 cm (24 inches). A sturdy little guy.
But there is something wrong with the fruit weight on the packet; my largest one on the scale was just under 100 grams (3.5 oz).
It didn’t catch any diseases. It was pulled up at the end of September.

A very worthy, tasty, and trouble-free variety. I had it last year, only 3 bushes and we ate them all, I couldn’t save any for pickling. Did anyone can them, how do they hold up?

It showed good results in open ground this year, I plan to plant a few bushes next year. Great for whole-fruit canning!

Planted it for the first year. It grew “at the feet” (under-planted) in the greenhouse, reached about 60-70 cm (24-27 inches). Sweet little torpedoes around 150-200g (5.3-7 oz). Meaty. It wasn’t very productive, I think it didn’t get enough light down there. I really liked the seedlings; they are very stout and don’t get leggy at all. I will repeat it, but in open ground next time. Maybe just a couple in the greenhouse “at the feet”.

I planted Troika in the greenhouse. The bush was about 1 meter (3 ft) tall. The yield turned out to be average. The fruits were tasty, sweet, and juicy-meaty.

I repeated it in 2016. In the greenhouse. The yield was very average, late, the tomatoes are meaty and tasty. It was partially hit by Blossom End Rot (the only ones in the entire greenhouse to get it), but it was the very last one to catch Cladosporium (Leaf Mold), toward the end of August.

I saved seeds, but I don’t plan to repeat it for now; I want more productive varieties. The bushes were about 80 cm (31 inches), powerful, wide, with dark green foliage. Compared to the heart-shaped varieties growing nearby, they looked like absolute monsters!