Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)
Seeds from V. Redko. Medium-tall vine, fruits run from 14 oz up to 2.2 lbs (400 g – 1 kg), orange color. Outstanding salad variety. Incomparable taste, the flesh just melts in your mouth. For me it was early, reached about 4.5-5 ft (1.4-1.6 m) tall, heavy yielder. All the fruits were perfectly round, beautiful globes. Honestly, the flavor seemed a little on the bland side to me, very few seeds, the first trusses had practically none at all. This one in the pic grew from a megabloom.
Edited January 29, 2015 by Drosera
Tanya, your Apricot turned out looking absolutely incredible!!!! Mine looks way more basic. And honestly, I expected more out of the taste too.
Galya, that is such an interesting shape on yours 👍, mine were all perfectly round globes. 8) Did yours come from a megabloom by any chance?
Yeah Tanya, looks like mine came from megablooms. Yours are absolute beauties!
Here’s mine. Taste didn’t really blow me away either, but it was definitely productive. Might just be that it didn’t get enough sunshine in my garden this year 🙄.
Deliiciiousss.. 😋 Tomochka-Drakonka – huge thanks for the seeds! 🌸
Edited November 26, 2015 by Drosera
Hey folks, where did you grow this variety?
On 11/26/2015, Lyubov. said:
Hey folks, where did you grow this variety?
I grew it both outside in the dirt and in the greenhouse. The greenhouse one was way more productive and the fruits got bigger. It ended up being one of my earliest ripeners, set fruit beautifully — just totally buried in tomatoes, the whole vine was dripping with these gorgeous orange globes, every single truss was full. Tried to take pictures from every angle, but just couldn’t capture how magnificent it really looked: either I’m a garbage photographer or my camera lens just doesn’t have a wide enough angle. Every single person who walked into my greenhouse walked out with one of these tomatoes “for seed saving.” Beautiful, tasty, and productive, a truly worthy variety.
Plant it every single year. Earliest one I’ve got, super tasty 😋
Summer Apricot. Very first to bloom and ripen in the greenhouse, extremely heavy yielder, tastes great.
Hey folks, how many stems do you prune this down to?
I stick to two max 😳.
I let mine run to 4 stems.
I kept mine at 3 stems.
Really loved Summer Apricot. Productive, with beautiful and super tasty fruits. The tomatoes were meaty with very few seeds. The vine itself has a pretty spindly habit, hit about 5 ft (1.5 m) tall in the greenhouse. Definitely caught some fruity notes in the flavor profile.
Guys, are Summer Cider and Summer Apricot related by any chance???
On 12/28/2015, tomatinka said:
Guys, are Summer Cider and Summer Apricot related by any chance???
Vera, the leaf types are different. Summer Cider is supposed to be potato leaf, but Apricot definitely has regular foliage.
Really like this variety, plant it every year. For some reason, a few of my vines topped themselves early last summer though. Flesh is tasty and sweet. It’s got a permanent spot in our garden!
I was absolutely thrilled with it last year. Early, tasty, and beautiful. Sowed saved seeds from it this year — it gave me two trusses and then completely stalled out. The taste ended up being super generic, and it didn’t ripen until the second wave of harvests. Maybe the freezing cold summer is to blame?
One of my absolute favorite varieties. Very heavy yielder and gets ripe pretty early. Good, pleasant flavor.
Liked this variety. Fruits have a brilliant bright color, look beautiful, and taste pretty good. Grew outside in the dirt (just like all my other tomatoes, since I don’t have a greenhouse).
Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Storage
- 🌿 Plant: A moderately tall indeterminate vine with a rather spindly/wispy habit and regular leaf foliage. It usually tops out around 4.5-5 ft (1.4-1.5 m) in a greenhouse. Produces gorgeous, perfectly round, bright orange beefsteaks that typically range from 14 oz to a massive 2.2 lbs (400 g – 1 kg). Under environmental stress, the plant may terminate early.
- 📈 Yield: Exceptionally high, especially for an early-season beefsteak. Growers report vines becoming completely loaded with fruit, performing best when pruned to 2-4 main stems.
- 👅 Taste: Dense, meaty, and nearly seedless flesh that melts in the mouth. It is generally praised as a top-tier sweet and fruity slicer, though a few growers noted the flavor can wash out and become bland if the weather is too cold, cloudy, or rainy.
- 📦 Hardiness: Performs exceptionally well in greenhouses, giving its heaviest yields there, but also reliably produces outside in the dirt. Highly susceptible to producing gnarly, ribbed fruit if grown from a megabloom (fasciated blossom).
