Quick Summary of Sibiryak
- 🌍 Origin: A renowned variety bred by P.Ya. Saraev, a legendary Soviet breeder famous for creating extremely cold-tolerant tomatoes. The name “Sibiryak” translates to “Siberian” (a person from Siberia).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (bush). The plant is compact and small, making it ideal for open ground or container growing.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Red, dense, and surprisingly uniform. The first trusses produce perfectly “calibrated” fruits weighing around 130-140g (4.6-5 oz).
- 👅 Flavor: A classic tomato flavor with a distinct, pleasant sweetness.
- ⏳ Maturity: Very early season. Growers report ripe fruits in about 94 days from sprouting, making it one of the first varieties to ripen outdoors, even in cold climates like the Urals.
A variety bred by P.Ya. Saraev.
Determinate, very early with large, dense red fruits. The fruits on the first truss turned out calibrated (uniform) (132, 137, 137, 133, 136, etc. grams / approx. 4.7 oz). The taste is tomatoey with sweetness.
It was the very first of the open-ground varieties to start ripening.
In mid-July.
In the Middle Urals.
Outdoors in open ground without cover.
(Only under floating row cover for a few days in early June, during light frosts).
One of last year’s favorites. Repeating it this year.
Seeds were sent by Galya (gggalina) 🌺
The bush is small, so the yield is not high, but for early ones, you don’t need more. It ripened at the same time as Saraevskiy No. 1, but turned out sweeter in taste.
Edited October 16, 2019 by Bylinka
On 10/16/2019 at 2:49 PM, Bylinka said:
The bush is small, so the yield is not high, but for early ones, you don’t need more. It ripened at the same time as Saraevskiy No. 1, but turned out sweeter in taste.
Lena, when did you sow them for seedlings?
On 1/7/2020 at 9:54 AM, Petrofka said:
Lena, when did you sow them for seedlings?
On the eighteenth of March. May was cold, I planted them out on 18.05 (May 18), usually I plant out in the first ten days of May. Picked the first tomatoes on 28.06 (June 28).
I don’t have a greenhouse, everything is in open ground, so I don’t sow early, otherwise they will get leggy by May. I sow dets/indets (determinates/indeterminates) on the same date. For the early ones, my only privilege is potting them up into a larger volume in a timely manner, then they don’t stall in growth, sometimes they even manage to start blooming. I don’t spoil indets like that) until planting out they live in half-liter (17 oz) cups)))
On 1/7/2020 at 9:29 PM, Bylinka said:
On the eighteenth of March. May was cold, I planted them out on 18.05 (May 18), usually I plant out in the first ten days of May. Picked the first tomatoes on 28.06 (June 28).
With sowing on 18.03, moving them to their permanent spot on 18.05, and first ripe ones on 28.06, these are not early — these are mid-season. 13+30+31+30+28 = 132 — minus approx. 5 days for sprouting — minus 10-14 days for pricking out and transplanting leaves 117-113 days. Mid-season.
Early ones with such a planting schedule should start from mid-July — around the 20s of July.
On 1/8/2020 at 10:10 AM, Oksana Evgenievna said:
With sowing on 18.03, moving them to their permanent spot on 18.05, and first ripe ones on 28.06, these are not early — these are mid-season. 13+30+31+30+28 = 132 — minus approx. 5 days for sprouting — minus 10-14 days for pricking out and transplanting leaves 117-113 days. Mid-season.
Early ones with such a planting schedule should start from mid-July — around the 20s of July.
From sprouting on March 24 to the first ripe ones on June 28 is 94 days. Plus they suffered for two extra weeks in May before planting out. Actually, they should have been ready by mid-June.
My mid-season ones started in the first ten days of July)))
Edited January 8, 2020 by Bylinka
On 1/8/2020 at 10:10 AM, Oksana Evgenievna said:
With sowing on 18.03, moving them to their permanent spot on 18.05, and first ripe ones on 28.06, these are not early — these are mid-season. 13+30+31+30+28 = 132 — minus approx. 5 days for sprouting — minus 10-14 days for pricking out and transplanting leaves 117-113 days. Mid-season.
Early ones with such a planting schedule should start from mid-July — around the 20s of July.
Your calculation comes out to JuLy 28th, not JuNe.
On 1/8/2020 at 3:41 PM, Petrofka said:
Your calculation comes out to JuLy 28th, not JuNe.
Sorry, for some reason my brain jumped to the end of July. Then yes, it is very early.
