Heirloom Tomato Varieties & Reviews | Tomat-Pomidor
Honest reviews of global tomato varieties from a 15-year-old growers community.
🍅 Quick take: Datlo is an extremely disease-resistant, high-yielding yellow cherry tomato. Growers praise its sweet flavor, long shelf life, and ability to set fruit in both heat and cold right up until the first frost. It produces chubby, barrel-shaped little cherries that outperform many other varieties in the greenhouse. Full summary ↓ Growers’ Notes … Read more
🍅 Quick take: Summer Sun F1 is a legendary, patented Israeli commercial hybrid bred by Hazera Genetics, famous for once selling at a wholesale price of $350,000 per kilogram of seed. It is an incredibly vigorous indeterminate vine that produces glowing, amber-yellow cherry tomatoes with off-the-charts sugar levels. In this mega-thread, growers not only review … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Golden Sweet 🌍 Origin: A popular commercial yellow grape/cherry tomato variety widely grown for its reliability and sweetness. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall/vine). A vigorous grower that requires tall staking or a trellis. Known to be highly productive even in less-than-ideal outdoor conditions. 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright yellow-gold, oval or grape-shaped … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Zolotaya Kaplya (Golden Drop) 🌍 Origin: A commercial variety from the ASK seed company (Novosibirsk, Russia). It is frequently confused with the famous “Medovaya Kaplya” (Honey Drop), but experienced growers insist they are distinct genetic lines. 🌿 Plant Habit: Classified as a semi-determinate. The packet claims it stays around 28-40 inches … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vishnya Zholtaya (Yellow Cherry) 🌍 Origin: A very popular commercial Russian cherry variety, often distributed by the “Gavrish” seed company. The name directly translates to “Yellow Cherry”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and incredibly vigorous. Growers warn that if not strictly pruned, it will pump out excessive foliage and turn into a … Read more
📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vishnya Krasnaya (Red Cherry) & Vishnya Zholtaya (Yellow Cherry) 🌍 Origin: Popular Russian commercial cherry varieties. “Vishnya” translates directly to “Cherry” in Russian, hence “Red Cherry” and “Yellow Cherry”. 🌿 Plant Habit: Very vigorous, sprawling indeterminate plants. They require ample space and staking. One grower noted that they can take up … Read more
📌 Quick Summary: Barry’s Crazy Cherry – What Growers Report 🌱 Plant: Indeterminate. Seedlings stay short, grow slowly and don’t stretch, so several growers suggest sowing early (one sowed on February 22, another says February would have been fine). Height varies: about 80 cm (31 in) outdoors near Poltava, and up to 2 m (6.5 … Read more