Quick Summary of Yubileyniy Tarasenko (Tarasenko’s Jubilee)
- 🌍 Origin & Breeder Lore: A legendary variety bred by the famous Soviet amateur breeder Feodosiy Tarasenko. The name translates to “Tarasenko’s Jubilee”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: A tall, vigorous indeterminate that easily reaches 2 meters (6.5 ft). The defining feature of the Tarasenko lines is their Multiflora (Mega-Truss) genetics. A single truss blooms like a bouquet of lilacs, producing up to 50-300 flowers, though not all will set fruit.
- 🏗️ Support Required: Because the trusses get so incredibly heavy, standard tying is not enough. Growers joke that you need to pour concrete pillars for this variety! You must physically support the fruit trusses with crates, hooks, or slings to prevent them from snapping off the vine.
- 🍅 The Strain Controversy: As discussed in this thread, there is massive confusion in the commercial seed market. The true Yubileyniy Tarasenko should technically be round. However, most commercial seed packets (and private collections) circulate a version with a pointed “beak” or nipple. Purists argue that the beaked version is actually Gibrid-2 Tarasenko (Tarasenko Hybrid 2). Both are phenomenal multiflora types.
- 👅 Culinary Use: While good fresh, these 60-100g (2-3.5 oz) tomatoes are considered the absolute gold standard for whole-canning and cold fermentation (Russian pickling). Their density prevents them from becoming too salty or mushy even a year after canning.
Description from the seed packet:
A popular mid-season variety of amateur breeding. The plant is tall – up to 2 m (6.5 ft). The fruit truss is complex (multiflora); up to 50 fruits can ripen on a single truss. They are round-heart-shaped with a pointed conical tip, weighing 60g (2.1 oz). Average yield is 35 kg (77 lbs) from one plant, about 3 kg (6.6 lbs) per truss. Used fresh and for canning. Valued for its very high yield and excellent taste qualities of the fruits. It requires mandatory tying of the plants to a support, including individual trusses.
Photo author: Nadine
Photo author: forzicia
Quote by Sweet:
…It requires mandatory tying of the plants to a support, including individual trusses.
And tying up such trusses is soooo difficult. Gibrid-2 Tarasenko (Tarasenko Hybrid 2) has the exact same truss, and I really suffered trying to tie them up.
I drove stakes between the bushes with hooks screwed into them, and I tied the trusses to those hooks on the stakes, they stood there for me like they were on struts. It was a hassle, but the harvest was very big.
You practically need to pour concrete pillars into the ground just for this one 😄
Thank you ladies and gentlemen, you convinced me, I will plant it as a trial in 2015 and report back afterwards.
My darling! I plant it every year and can’t get enough of it!
Tell me, when is it best to sow it, I read that it takes a long time to sprout and is a bit late…
Quote by Zolushka:
Tell me, when is it best to sow it, I read that it takes a long time to sprout and is a bit late…
I planted Yubileyniy Tarasenko (from SeDek company) this year. A worthy variety. There were no problems with germination. It sprouted just like all the rest.
I also love it tenderly. Though, it doesn’t show its full potential for me yet. I must be doing something wrong myself.
It pops up fine for me if I let the seeds swell on a hot radiator for two-three days, having previously soaked them in Energen (a seed stimulator).
Hello, could you please tell me how many stems is best to train it to?
Regards, Natalya
Please share your experience – how many stems to lead it in, after how many trusses to top it? I am going to plant 2 roots in 1 planting hole.
Quote by Anyusha:
I am going to plant 2 roots in 1 planting hole.
You shouldn’t, the trusses are huge – they need a lot of light.
I led it in two stems this year, but stretched them a bit apart to the sides…. it didn’t show itself to its full potential.
I decided to try it in 1 stem next year.
I trained it to 1 stem, complex (multiflora) trusses, mid-season ripening. You need to actively feed it heavily for a full fruit set – for me, only the first truss set fully.
But otherwise – it’s a handsome beast 👍🙌
Yes, I put a crate under the first truss, and the following ones 😅, I tied to the neighboring plants.
The size is perfect for a canning jar.
Ladies and gentlemen, how does this variety ferment/pickle for you?
We recently opened a mixed jar, and a portion of the tomatoes (judging by the sharp little beak, it was Y.T.) didn’t ferment/salt through at all.
I was so upset(
Quote by Strekoza:
Ladies and gentlemen, how does this variety ferment/pickle for you?…
Mine fermented fine, I’ve already been eating it from the jar.
I grow the Tarasenko family specifically for cold fermentation/pickling, they turn out the absolute most delicious. Many other varieties end up too salty, but these are delicious even after a year. This year some of them ended up in the vinegar marinades, also excellent. Apparently, you have a small amount of salt in your recipe, so the varieties that fermented first are the ones that would have been way too salty with a standard, classic amount of salt (1 tablespoon with a small mound per 1-liter jar).
Dear forum members, I wanted to correct you a little bit. In this thread, practically everyone is discussing a variety that looks more like Gibrid-2 Tarasenko (Tarasenko Hybrid 2), and not Yubileyniy T. The fruits of Yubileyniy are ROUND. For those who are interested – [link to another forum thread].
Quote by Elena_Ch:
…The fruits of Yubileyniy are ROUND…
Yes, this Yubileyniy is one-to-one identical to Hybrid 2 Tarasenko. And I also grew an oblate Yubileyniy this year, which had fruits weighing 200-300g (7-10.5 oz), but for some reason, there were very few of them.
Quote by elena1984:
…I also grew an oblate Yubileyniy this year, which had fruits weighing 200-300g…
Lenochka, maybe you had Gibrid-6 Tarasenko (Hybrid 6)? But in any case – the fruits of Yubileyniy absolutely cannot have a beak/nipple. That is a clear mislabel/off-type (peresort).
Quote by Elena_Ch:
The fruits of Yubileyniy are ROUND.
Well, on my Yubileyniy Tarasenko, they grew both round AND with a beak… 😄
Quote by nimoff:
Well, on my Yubileyniy Tarasenko, they grew both round AND with a beak… 😄
I read once that any variety with round fruits can also produce ones with beaks – it’s a sign of heavy, enhanced feeding/fertilization.
Quote by Elena_Ch:
…But in any case – the fruits of Yubileyniy absolutely cannot have a beak/nipple. That is a clear mislabel.
Honestly, there is so much confusion with Yubileyniy. On SeDek’s seed packet, it’s drawn just like Gibrid 2 Tarasenko. Gibrid 6 Tarasenko didn’t stand out to me at all, I’d have to dig up my notes to see what grew there. But the one with the beak, I think it’s not Yubileyniy, but Gibrid 2, they are identical. But the second Yubileyniy I got from Lenochka Danko was round-shaped and heavier in weight, but the truss was not a fan (multiflora) shape.
Quote by nimoff:
Well, on my Yubileyniy Tarasenko
Your Yubileyniy looks very similar to the description of the variety by the breeder F.M. Tarasenko himself. Dry those seeds 😄
Quote by Elena_Ch:
Your Yubileyniy looks very similar to the description of the variety by the breeder F.M. Tarasenko himself.
Len, but the truss is not very fan-shaped (multiflora) in the author’s photo above.
Quote by elena1984:
Len, but the truss is not very fan-shaped (multiflora) in the author’s photo above.
Lena, you can see in the photo that not all the little fruits set.
Quote by Elena_Ch:
Lena, you can see in the photo that not all the little fruits set.
I can see that, but the truss isn’t that big anyway. I had approximately the same truss on the round Yubileyniy Tarasenko, but in theory, the truss should be much bigger.
Quote by elena1984:
Len, but the truss is not very fan-shaped (multiflora) in the author’s photo above.
Here is the kind of truss it was. The potential was huge, but in the end – zilch/squat 🙈
And here is how many fruits actually resulted.
The photo shows Tarasenko 2…. In the magazine “Priusadebnoe Khozyaystvo” (Household Farming) from either 1990 or 1991, there was an article by the breeder about Yubileyniy Tarasenko…. it was written that on each truss there are up to 300!!! flowers… and fruits weighing up to 100 grams (3.5 oz)….
I managed to get my hands on a dozen seeds by chance… tested it, everything was exactly right…. the first truss bloomed like a bouquet of lilacs… True, back then I was just starting to grow tomatoes…. didn’t really know how to grow them properly… only about a dozen tomatoes set on the truss… well, and a year later I lost the seeds…
I have a question:- size-wise, are Tarasenko’s fruits larger than Slavyanka? Or what?
Quote by Maresa:
I have a question:- size-wise, are Tarasenko’s fruits larger than Slavyanka? Or what?
Larger, and by a decent amount.
Thank you very much!
