Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Midnight Snack F1 is an indeterminate cocktail cherry hybrid developed by PanAmerican Seed (USA) and recognized as a 2019 All-America Selections (AAS) National Winner. The vigorous vines produce heavy clusters of ~1 oz (30 g) round cherries that ripen glossy red with an inky anthocyanin purple-black shoulder. Growers praise its exceptionally polite … Read more
🍅 Quick take: K 565-08 (and its long alphanumeric string) is a working title for a mid-late, compact tree-type (rugose) breeding line by Ukrainian breeder Maxim Gurin. Growing to only 1.5 ft (45 cm) tall, it produces beautiful, bright red tomatoes with a smudgy purple anthocyanin blush weighing up to 7 oz (200 g). Growers … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Gun Metal Grey is an eye-catching, mid-season tomato known for the unique metallic, dark grey anthocyanin blush* on its shoulders. While the plant stays relatively manageable at around 4 feet, it pumps out heavy, uniform clusters of medium-to-large slicers. Growers praise its perfectly balanced flavor that actually deepens and becomes richer as … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Shadow Boxing is a highly compact, rugose-leaf dwarf tomato bred by Tom Wagner, producing small anthocyanin fruits weighing roughly 2.5 oz (70 g). Because the seeds were released very early in the breeding process, growers here report extreme segregation in fruit shape (round vs. elongated plums) and color (heavy striping vs. … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Dwarf Gondwana Rose is a late-season anthocyanin dwarf from the Dwarf Tomato Project’s Gondwana series, bred by Patrina Nuske Small. It produces 3.5 oz (100 g) dark pink, round fruits with heavy purple shoulders on sturdy 4 ft (1.2 m) rugose plants. The grower here notes it has a complex, tart flavor … Read more
Quick Summary of Dark Galaxy 🌍 Origin: Originally bred in the USA by Brad Gates of Wild Boar Farms. He released this variety into the world at an early stage (F3/F4 generation), warning that it was slightly unstable. This forum thread is a fascinating deep-dive into how Russian growers stabilized different lines of it over … Read more
Quick Summary of Russkiy Kazak (Russian Cossack) 🌍 Origin: Originally a US-bred variety (likely by Tom Wagner) that became highly popular among Russian seed collectors (like V. Redko and V. Popenko) under the translated name “Russkiy Kazak”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Semi-determinate to indeterminate. Generally stays relatively compact, with most growers reporting a medium height of … Read more