📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vasilina
- 🌍 Origin: A Russian/Ukrainian collector’s variety. In this thread, one of the seed sources is the well-known Ukrainian breeder and collector Aleksey Kulik. The name “Vasilina” is a traditional Slavic female name.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Out in the open ground, it reached about 4 feet (1.2 m), but will grow taller in a greenhouse. Generally a mid-season variety.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, oblate (flat-round) beefsteaks. There is some variation in the seed lines: some growers get classic red fruits, while seeds sourced from Kulik produce large raspberry-pink fruits weighing 10.5-14 oz (300-400 g).
- 👅 Flavor & Texture: The red version has a classic, old-fashioned tomato flavor. The pink version, however, is praised for being incredibly sweet and meaty, with that sought-after granular (“sparkling”) texture in the flesh. Rated by one grower as one of the best-tasting tomatoes of the year!
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Tall plant. Out in the open ground it reached 4 feet (1.2 m). The tomatoes are oblate (flat-round), red, and very aromatic. The taste is your classic, old-fashioned tomato flavor.
Edited April 5, 2019 by Pomidoroved
My Vasilina was from Kulik. Indet (indeterminate), average yield, mid-season maturity. The fruits were 10.5-14 oz (300-400 g), raspberry-pink, meaty, with a granular/sparkling flesh texture, and very sweet. One of the absolute tastiest tomatoes I grew this year.
