Quick Summary of Chainaya Roza (Tea Rose)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial variety from the Russian seed company “Siberian Garden” (SibSad). The name translates to “Tea Rose,” hinting at its delicate pink color.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Highly variable depending on the seed batch. Some growers report a tall indeterminate plant reaching 1.7 m (5.5 ft), while others describe a compact determinate bush stopping at 70–100 cm (2.3–3.3 ft). Prone to blossom drop in some conditions.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Perfectly round, smooth fruits. The true strain is supposed to have a beautiful, delicate pearlescent-pink color without green shoulders. Sizes reported vary wildly, from small 60 g (2 oz) cocktails to larger 200–500 g (7–17.5 oz) fruits.
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: Reviews are very mixed. A few growers found it meaty, bouncy, and tasty. However, many reported a bland or sour flavor (“yucky”), concluding that it is better grown as an ornamental plant because the clusters look like beautiful hanging toys.
- ⏳ Maturity: Mid-season.
Variety from SibSad (Siberian Garden). The bush is neat, beautiful, set only 2 trusses. The fruits were not large, delicate pink color, without a green spot at the stem, the skin is thin, but the fruit itself is bouncy, tasty, and meaty. I liked it.
A seed seller gave it to me as a gift at an exhibition. I will plant it next year. 😘
She said it is beautiful, the fruits hang like Christmas toys.
I didn’t like it. The fruits are smaller than stated on the packet, 60-70 grams (2-2.5 oz) at best, pale pink, with a large “bottom” (blossom scar), and low yield. Of everything written on the packet, only the pearlescent-pink color and the taste were present.
I grew it in 2015. Here is from the description:
Indeterminate, mid-season, fruits are not large, round, 150-250 grams (5.3-8.8 oz). The color is delicate pink, the flesh is a more saturated color. Taste has a bit of tang/acidity.
In 2016 it grew in the greenhouse. The bush really is beautiful. 👏 There are many fruits. 👍 Only the color didn’t work out for me—it was far from both pink and coral. It was red. Does this mean it’s a mislabeled seed/cross? 😲 No photos, unfortunately.
Is it a determinate or indeterminate? What is its height?
Mine was 1.7 m (5.5 ft). 🍅
Quote from Valichka:
Variety from SibSad… The bush is neat, beautiful… bouncy, tasty, and meaty. I liked it.
Valya, good day to you. My Tea Rose also turned out to be a meaty beauty! But the bush was 70-80 cm (2.3-2.6 ft), not an indeterminate at all, as they write here. I wonder, what kind of bush did you have?
My Chainaya Roza has a dark fruit. I bought the seeds a very long time ago in a store, and I’ve been saving my own seeds. I hadn’t planted this variety for a few years, but this year, after a long break, it is pleasing me with its fruits again.
Roza Chainaya (Tea Rose)
It didn’t work out for me. It sat in a royal spot—right across from the entrance. And it stubbornly dropped its blossoms. The tomatoes are absolutely round, size from 200 to 500 g (7-17.5 oz). The taste is ordinary. If it had worked out, a garland of such round tomatoes would have looked wonderful. Alas.
And the spot for this variety was very good, sunny. Besides the beautiful color of the fruits, it didn’t please me with anything else. Bush height up to 1 m (3.3 ft), 3 trusses with 6 small tomatoes each.
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Quote from Ovechka:
A seed seller gave it to me as a gift at an exhibition… She said it is beautiful, the fruits hang like Christmas toys.
I will quote myself. I grew it in 2018 (SibSad seeds). The fruits hung like pearlescent-pink toys. It was some kind of tasteless, yucky muck. I threw everything away, didn’t even use them for juice. It grew on the sunny side of the greenhouse.
