📌 Quick Summary: Val’s Green Striped
- 🌍 Origin: A rare green-striped tomato, originally introduced by Val McMurray of British Columbia, Canada.
- 🌱 Plant Habit: An indeterminate vine, highly productive, growing up to 5 ft (1.5m) tall in a greenhouse. Best pruned to 2 stems.
- 🍅 Fruit & Yield: Small to medium round fruits weighing 2.5 to 4 oz (70-120g). The color is green with subtle yellow/gold stripes near the shoulders when fully ripe. Very heavy bloomer and fruit setter.
- 👅 Flavor Profile: Unique and delicious! Growers consistently compare the flavor to a kiwi or sweet marmalade. It is incredibly juicy and sweet, lacking harsh acidity.
- 💪 Growing Tips: The skin is firm and highly crack-resistant. It boasts a very long, extended fruiting season and keeps extremely well after harvest.
A tomato that tastes like a kiwi! Seeds from V. Redko.
Grew it in the greenhouse, planted two bushes, and pruned them to two stems each. They grew about 5 feet (1.5 meters) tall and were highly productive. The color is green, and the top (shoulders) have slight yellow stripes. Weight is around 2.5 to 4.2 oz (70-120 grams).
It’s a tomato with a twist—delicious, very juicy, and not acidic. The skin does not crack, and the fruiting period is very stretched out (extended harvest). I really loved the taste of this tomato, even though I normally prefer massive, sweet, meaty beefsteaks. I will absolutely be growing it again in 2014.
Tanyusha, I have a very similar unidentified variety (grown from Chinese seeds) that I’ve been trying to put a name to. Your description matches my tomatoes perfectly.
Could you take a look at my photo and see if they look visually identical? 😳
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Lyubushka, yes, I really think that’s it! I forgot to mention in my review that the bush is absolutely covered in blossoms, and consequently, loaded with fruit. They are so good you just want to keep eating them like snacks. We are finishing up the very last ones right now.
Tatyana21 said:
Lyubushka, yes, I really think that’s it!
Tanyushik, thank you! 🌺 I will officially label it under this name now.
And the taste really is fantastic. The way it felt to me, it literally tasted like sweet marmalade. 😋
For anyone I’ve mailed these seeds to in the past under “Unknown Green,” please note that it is most likely Val’s Green Striped! 😉
Lyubushka, I am so glad your mystery tomato finally found its true name!
I grew Siberian Malachite and Green Zebra, and I assumed this one would look just like those two. It doesn’t differ wildly from them, but it turned out so incredibly vibrant and bright that you just can’t take your eyes off it!
Just an update—over the years of saving seeds from it, the stripes have almost completely disappeared for me.
