Quick Summary of Sweet Kiss (Sladkiy Potseluy)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial Russian cherry variety produced by the Siberian Garden (SibSad) seed company. The name translates directly to “Sweet Kiss”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Highly adaptable. In open ground, it behaves as a robust semi-determinate, growing to about 80 cm (31 inches). However, inside a greenhouse, it grows much taller, easily reaching 1.2 to 1.5 meters (4-5 ft). It handles being pruned to multiple stems very well.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Dark red, round cherry tomatoes. They are small, typically weighing up to 20 grams (0.7 oz). The fruits are notable for being firm and dense, but not tough-skinned.
- 👅 Flavor & Culinary Use: True to its name, this variety is exceptionally sweet, making it a favorite fresh-eating treat for both kids and adults. Because the fruits are firm, they have a great shelf life and hold up beautifully in whole-fruit canning, especially in sweet pickling brines.
- 📈 Performance: Mid-season ripening. Growers praise it as a completely trouble-free variety that reliably ripens all of its trusses before the end of the season.
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Real Grower Reviews & Photos
Producer: Siberian Garden (SibSad).
Description from the seed packet:
A sweet cherry tomato for open ground and film shelters. Mid-season variety, plant height from 80 cm (31 inches) in open ground and up to 1.2 m (4 ft) in greenhouse conditions. Forms a large number of trusses with small, round, red fruits weighing up to 20 grams (0.7 oz). The tomatoes are very sweet to the taste, a tasty treat for kids and adults.
I have been planting it for 3 years, it grows completely trouble-free both outdoors in open ground and in the greenhouse. It perfectly matches the description. The fruits are firm, but not tough, dark red, tasty, and store very well.
How lovely! Look at that bush!
I grew Sweet Kiss in 2013, in the small greenhouse… back then I actually sent store-bought seed packets of this variety to many people on the forum as a gift.
Yes, it’s a trouble-free cherry, the tomatoes are firm and genuinely sweet… I absolutely loved them in preserves/canning, especially in a sweet pickling brine.
In the greenhouse, the bushes grow quite tall, up to 1.5 m (5 ft) and more. You can prune and form them into multiple stems, and all the trusses manage to ripen fully on the plant by the end of the season…
