Quick Summary of Yuzhnaya Korona (Southern Crown)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial/heirloom variety traded among Eastern European collectors. The name translates to “Southern Crown”.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Visually stunning. They produce large, round, red fruits that are slightly corrugated (ribbed/ruffled) at the shoulders.
- ⏳ Yield: Exceptionally high. Growers note that the fruiting is “super abundant,” making it a heavy producer for the garden.
- 👅 Flavor Profile & Culinary Use: This is a polarizing variety regarding taste. While its physical traits are outstanding, some growers report a bland, “soft cardboard” texture when eaten fresh. However, as is often the case with heavy-yielding, milder tomatoes, they can make absolutely excellent, sweet tomato juice and sauce when processed.
- 💡 Growing Note: Tomato flavor is highly dependent on summer weather. A cold, rainy, or excessively hot season can wash out the complex sugars in a tomato, turning a normally good variety bland.
Super abundant fruiting, beautiful, large, round, slightly corrugated (ribbed) red fruits, but there is simply no taste 😐. It feels like you are eating soft cardboard. It is a huge shame that with such excellent physical traits it turns out like this 😞. Seeds were from Ruslan Sirotin.
Girls, are there any other opinions about this variety? Or does everyone agree about the taste 📝
Quote by Svetlyachok-plyus:
Super abundant fruiting, beautiful, large, round, slightly corrugated (ribbed) red fruits, but there is simply no taste 😐. It feels like you are eating soft cardboard…
Maybe if they sit on the counter for a while the taste will appear. 😞 With my tomatoes this year, there is just no taste at all. I made juice, drinking it right now. Good, sweet tomato juice. 😳😳😳 What is up with that.
