Quick Summary of Slavyanka (Slavic Woman)
- 🌍 Origin: A highly popular Russian commercial/heirloom variety (originally distributed by GISOK seeds). The name translates beautifully to “Slavic Woman” or “Slavic Girl”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate, tall, and highly vigorous. Growers note that it can grow massive (“like a baobab tree”) and will keep setting fruit relentlessly from the bottom all the way to the greenhouse ceiling. Performs exceptionally well both indoors and in the open ground.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Small pink elongated plums (paste type) with a distinct little beak (nipple) at the blossom end. They typically weigh 70-90 grams (2.5-3.2 oz). They do not crack when canned whole.
- 👅 Flavor: A classic, sweet pink tomato flavor. While many paste tomatoes are dry and only good for cooking, Slavyanka is juicy and sweet enough for fresh snacking and salads.
- ⏳ Culinary Use: Truly a universal tomato. Incredible for fresh eating, sun-drying, and considered top-tier for whole-fruit canning and pickling.
An indeterminate, tall variety for universal use. The bush has medium foliage. The fruits are small pink plums with a little beak, weighing 70-90 g (2.5-3.2 oz). They are tasty, sweet, and perfect for a quick snack, salads, or outstanding in canning.
They ripen very well off the vine indoors. When ripening indoors, they develop a deep, solid color inside (no hard white cores) and retain a very good taste and sweetness. As for drawbacks, I would say there’s a relatively small number of fruits per cluster, but in every other aspect—this is my absolute favorite small-fruited variety.
I grew it in two stems, but next time I might try three or four. In 2017, I plan to plant 5-6 bushes, partly specifically for long-term storage. I got my seeds from Tatiana 🌸
Photos of the clusters from Oleg (Rudik):
Slavyanka. Seeds from Galina. 🌸 A classic pickling/canning variety. The taste is without frills, but definitely not bland. Very heavy yielder! 🤩 I won’t take up greenhouse space with it anymore, I’ll evict it to the open ground outdoors.
Seeds from GISOK company (TomAgros). I absolutely loved this variety! It turned out to be a twin of my favorite “Topklipsa” from Redko’s collection. Grew it in the greenhouse in 3 stems. Excellent yield, long continuous fruiting, and great taste!
My husband told me not to plant anything else except Slavyanka. I’m going to sow my entire outdoor garden with Slavyanka this year. It is incredibly delicious both fresh and pickled/canned.
I grew it this year, seeds from Elena. Had 2 bushes in a dark corner of the greenhouse. I planted early-consumption cucumbers right next to them. Because of this, my Slavyanka put on too much vegetative growth (got “fat” from all the nitrogen), because I was regularly feeding the cucumbers.
The first fruits were massive, up to 97 g (3.4 oz), and then they returned to normal size. Good classic tomato taste, I ended up sun-drying all of them. I don’t have photos of the red ones.
I’m honestly starting to feel ashamed of constantly raving about every variety, but I can only speak about Slavyanka in superlatives. I had two bushes. One was planted from a rooted top cutting, and the other from the original roots (because I topped the seedling in the spring). They rooted very quickly, got stronger, started growing, and turned into two literal baobab trees!
Each bush grew into several stems, setting fruit with the persistence of a maniac from the bottom all the way to the top. They reached the greenhouse ceiling and just kept setting fruit up there too. Most delicious! Sweetest!
My seeds are from our Svetikk.
Could someone tell me, please? I’ve been agonizing over this question since summer. My Slavyanka and my Royal De Barao (De Barao Tsar) — the one from collectors with a little beak and a deep pink-raspberry color — turned out to be absolutely identical. Does anyone see a difference between them?
Luba51:
Does anyone see a difference between them?
Royal De Barao (De Barao Tsar) is larger and more elongated.
Borisovna:
Royal De Barao (De Barao Tsar) is larger and more elongated.
The larger one is from Aelita seeds. Collectors call that one “Giant”, while they call this pink one with a beak “Royal” (Tsar). On Tomatland, the photo also looks exactly like Slavyanka… it’s such a mess with all these De Barao varieties.
Aelita registered their larger red one without a beak in the State Register.
The only thing I can confidently confirm is that this pink-raspberry tomato with a beak — whether you call it Slavyanka or Royal De Barao — is an incredibly delicious thing, both raw and in jars. Just amazing…
An excellent variety with a classic pink-tomato taste. Very tasty, suitable for all types of processing, and it doesn’t crack or burst in canning jars. We also happily ate it fresh.
