📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vashe Blagorodie (Your Honor)
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian commercial variety. The name translates to “Your Honor” or “Your Excellency”. Seeds are mostly distributed by the company Siberian Garden (SibSad) and independent breeders like Terentiev.
- 🌿 Plant Habit (Warning – highly variable!): Growers in this thread report wild variations depending on the seed batch. Some got a tall, vigorous indeterminate pushing 6.5 ft (2 m). Others got a stout, compact tree-type (rugose) dwarf that topped out at 2.3 ft (0.7 m) and didn’t even need staking!
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Typically large, oblate pink or red beefsteaks with slight ribbing at the shoulders. Weights usually range from 7-14 oz (200-400 g), though some vendor descriptions promise giants up to 2.2 lbs (1 kg).
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: It’s a classic slicer. The inside features very tender, sweet flesh with that “sparkling” sugary texture. However, multiple growers note that the skin can be on the thicker, tougher side, making it highly crack-resistant.
- 💡 Editor’s Note: If you buy seeds for this variety, be prepared for some genetic diversity. You might get a tall pink beefsteak, or you might get a short red one. Either way, growers agree it produces a very solid, reliable yield!
Seeds were from SibSad. Grew it in the greenhouse, indet (indeterminate), tall. The bush isn’t flimsy, I’d call it medium vigor. Mid-season, large-fruited, and it pushed big maters even on the upper trusses. Fruits are pink, oblate (flat-round), ribbed at the base. Sweet taste, very tender flesh. Even with our cold, rainy summer, the yield was really good.
Edited March 15, 2019 by Pomidoroved
Beautiful mater!!! 🙌 And what’s the weight of a single fruit?
Meri, is it mostly a slicer… not really for whole canning?
Galina P. wrote:
Beautiful mater!!! 🙌 And what’s the weight of a single fruit?
I don’t have a scale so I didn’t weigh them, but roughly between 7 and 14 oz (200-400 g).
Verunya wrote:
Meri, is it mostly a slicer… not really for whole canning?
Definitely a fresh slicer. Won’t work for canning, it’s way too big and the flesh is too tender.
Grew it three years ago, seeds from SibSad. What I remember really loving about it: behaves fantastic as seedlings. Sturdy, stocky, and healthy! It’s a tree-type (rugose dwarf). Out in the dirt they didn’t get taller than 2.3 ft (0.7 m) with a ridiculously strong main stem, didn’t even require staking despite a pretty impressive harvest. But the taste seemed a bit tart to me, though maybe the summer just lacked sunshine (can’t remember exactly).
My tomato of this variety is from Terentiev. Here is his description: “A new variety with very large fruits, plant height 4-4.5 ft (1.2-1.4 m). The first fruits can reach up to 2.2 lbs (1 kg). They are pink, firm, but the flesh is tender and sugary on the break. Crack resistant, long fruiting window. Yield is around 13 lbs (6 kg) per bush.”
Now, my first truss obviously didn’t produce any 2.2 lb (1 kg) monsters, but in every other regard (taste, yield, and looks), this tomato completely satisfied me. Will definitely plant it again!
Grew it out in the open dirt, height was about 5 feet (1.5 m). It will obviously grow taller in a greenhouse, but the bush is compact.
I definitely didn’t get trusses like that. It’s a good variety, tasty, but I don’t really love its skin, it’s a bit on the tough side.
Seeds from SibSad. Tall bush up to 6.5 ft (2 m), set fruit pretty well despite the intense heat. The fruits are round, slightly elongated, red, smooth, and pretty. Dense flesh, tough skin. Normal classic tomato taste, not sour. There are definitely tastier varieties out there for fresh salads, but this one will do just fine for sauce and tomato products.
