Quick Summary of Tsao Fen
- 🌍 Origin: A collector’s variety sourced from Russian heirloom growers (originating from the Logunov collection). The name suggests Asian origins (often transliterated as Cao Fen or Tsao Fen).
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), reaching about 2 meters (6.5 ft) when grown in a greenhouse.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Medium-sized fruits, typically ranging from 100 g to 250 g (3.5–8.8 oz). They have a beautiful, almost transparent pale yellow color, and many develop a distinctive pink blush (cap) on the blossom end.
- 👅 Flavor: Very good, sweet taste with notably low acidity. Perfect for those who prefer mild, sweet tomatoes.
- ⏳ Maturity: Early to mid-early. Many growers note it as one of the very first to ripen in their gardens.
- 📈 Yield: Good productivity, known to set fruit especially heavily on the lower trusses.
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Seeds are from collector Logunov. The bush is indeterminate, up to 2 m (6.5 ft) in the greenhouse. Mid-early.
The yield is good, especially on the lower trusses. They are a transparent-yellow color, and a pink cap (blush) appears on the top of some of them.
Fruit size is medium, with some specimens reaching up to 250 g (8.8 oz). Good taste, low acidity.
Adding more photos:
It was my very earliest variety. Quite productive, but of course, not as heavy-yielding as Tanya’s. My weights were about 100 grams (3.5 oz), maybe a little more. Very tasty.
