📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Toffee (Iriska)
- 🌍 Origin: A natural cross between Amarillo Cherry and Everett’s Rusty Oxheart, discovered and stabilized by breeder Bill Jefferson. Also known in the Russian community under its translated name, Iriska.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indet. A highly productive plant that can be pruned to 2 or 3 stems. Typically reaches around 5.5 feet (1.7 m) in a greenhouse setting. Produces large clusters of 7-8 fruits.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful plum/paste tomatoes with a very unique golden-mustard color that develops a metallic bronze shine. Inside, the flesh has a pinkish blush. Fruits typically weigh between 1.8 to 2.5 oz (50-70 g).
- 👅 Flavor: The flesh is dense, juicy, and jelly-like with an excellent sweet-and-sour balance. Known for a texture that growers describe as “marmalade.”
Toffee (Iriska). Beautiful variety with an unusual fruit color. Indet, grew it in the greenhouse as a 2-stemmer. They are plum-shaped with a golden-mustard color and a metallic shine, weighing 1.8-2.5 oz (50-70 g).
The flesh is jelly-like, dense, juicy, with a bit of a pink blush inside, and has an excellent sweet and sour taste. This variety is the result of a natural cross between Amarillo Cherry and Everett’s Rusty Oxheart by Bill Jefferson. Seeds from @Yaroslavna 🌺
Good afternoon. Could you tell me how this tomato differs from Bronza (Amarillo Rusty Paste)? I assume you’ve probably tried growing both.
Tatiana77: Good afternoon. Could you tell me how this tomato differs from Bronza (Amarillo Rusty Paste)? I assume you’ve probably tried growing both.
I haven’t grown Bronza actually 🤷♀️ but they do look similar.
Toffee (Iriska). Seeds from @Svetikk 🤠
What a beauty!
Svetikk: Toffee (Iriska). Beautiful variety with an unusual fruit color. Indet, grew it in the greenhouse as a 2-stemmer. They are plum-shaped with a golden-mustard color and a metallic shine, weighing 1.8-2.5 oz (50-70 g)…
Thanks Svetik, the variety fully lives up to its description!
I’ve grown this variety for several seasons in a row, it’s very productive and ripens uniformly. It forms large clusters with up to 7-8 fruits on each. My tomatoes ended up being a bit bigger, even though I didn’t prune or thin the trusses at all. The bushes in the greenhouse are tall, up to 5.5 feet (1.7 m), and you can run them to 2 or 3 stems.
If you let them ripen fully on the vine, they are incredibly tasty. The flesh is thick, almost marmalade-like. They were absolutely fantastic canned in a sweet brine.
The fruits are also perfect for making sun-dried tomatoes, dehydrating, and freezing.
