Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Karl 🌍 Origin: A rare Eastern European heirloom passed around by private collectors. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). An absolute beast of a plant. Growers report it easily reaching 8-10 feet (2.5-3 m) with the most massive root system they’ve ever seen. It pushes suckers very aggressively, so stay on top … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Volshebny Kaskad F1 (Magic Cascade) 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial F1 hybrid cherry tomato. The name beautifully translates to “Magic Cascade”, referring to its long, cascading trusses of red cherries. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and incredibly vigorous. Growers warn that this plant turns into a massive “space hog” and will easily … Read more
Quick Summary of Yupiter (Jupiter) 🌍 Origin: A fantastic heirloom/commercial variety traded among collectors under the name Yupiter (Jupiter). 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and extremely vigorous. Growers note that it develops very thick, strong stems that naturally want to bifurcate and branch out into multiple leaders. If not pruned strictly, it will easily turn your … Read more
Quick Summary of Exotic Fruit 🌍 Origin: A vigorously growing heirloom variety traded in Eastern European collections under the English name “Exotic Fruit”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (vining) and very powerful. The plants are highly vigorous and respond very well to multi-stem pruning. Growers successfully train them to 3 or even 4 stems without sacrificing … Read more
Quick Summary of Sladkiy Kesidi (Sweet Casady) 🌍 Origin: A very popular elongated striped variety. Known globally as “Sweet Casady” (originally bred by Tom Wagner), it is widely grown and traded among Russian and Eastern European collectors under the translated name “Sladkiy Kesidi”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and extremely vigorous! Growers describe the foliage as … Read more