Virginia Sweets Tomato Reviews

I really liked the variety itself. Beautiful, sweet, and rather large fruits (for scale, I used a standard tea saucer in the photo). These little tomatoes grew in my greenhouse. The bushes were quite vigorous, tall, about 2 m (6.5 ft). The yield was average.

Ooooh! What a delicious-looking cross-section 😋. I’m definitely going to order this miracle from someone 📝.

I also love the look of this tomato. I’ve been eyeing it for 2 years now, but I haven’t mustered the courage to plant it yet.

Virginia Sweets. My seeds came from Ukraine. Very productive, 4 fruits per truss, the taste is sweet with zero acidity.

😲😲😲 Do tomatoes like this really exist? 😲😲😲

Angelina, what is its ripening time/maturity for you?

Gulya:
Angelina, what is its ripening time/maturity for you?

In the open ground outdoors, early July.

And I got an off-type (incorrect seeds) from Popenko… 😢

I planted Virginia Sweets. On the first truss, there were two soooo huge tomatoes. But after that, there was almost nothing, maybe three more medium-sized fruits total.

Delicious, but low-yielding for me.

The seeds were from V. Redko’s collection. I didn’t save my own seeds, and I probably won’t plant it again.

I will repeat this variety again this year. Even though it wasn’t super productive, that was due to my own growing mistakes 😊 Other than that, it’s a very tasty, beautiful little tomato. Seeds were from Popenko.

Mine were the same: quite large, uniform. In the open ground, they turned out mid-late. In Siberia, it’s better to grow them in a greenhouse so more clusters have time to ripen… Very beautiful, tasty, sweet. I will definitely plant it again.

This is how mine turned out.

Very tasty and beautiful. Thank you so much, Angelina! 🌸

July 10th

My favorite yummy treat 😍 503 g (1.1 lbs).

It’s gorgeous, of course! But I only got three tomatoes off the entire plant—one large (in the photo) and two smaller ones. It was my lowest-yielding variety this year, though to be fair, you shouldn’t judge a variety based on just one plant.

Delicious, though!

A very sweet little tomato.

This is how Virginia Sweets grew for me this year.

Productive and tasty variety. In this year it was my second attempt growing this beautiful and delicious plant. 👍😋

I can say that in 2013, this variety completely failed for me. There was only one tomato on the bush weighing about 650 g (1.4 lbs) and one other very tiny one. I saved seeds from that large fruit. The result of planting those saved seeds is in the photo. Maybe the seeds just needed to acclimatize to my garden… 😉

Dear tomato lovers, it hurts my sensitive ears 🙈 to hear the language butchered like this. If you are going to translate the English name into Russian, please speak proper Russian.

People keep writing it as “Сладости Вирджинии” (which grammatically means “The sweets belonging to a woman named Virginia”). Virginia is either a woman’s name or the name of a US State. Just in case anyone didn’t know!

My version

The tomato is tasty, but there weren’t enough of them on the bush… though I’m not an expert at growing tomatoes + this year there was brutal heat and drought. Grew in the greenhouse.

Mine came to me named “Virginia Candies” (Конфеты Вирджинии). Probably translation inaccuracies. I got the seeds through a swap.

• Bush habit: Medium-tall, spreading, moderately vigorous.
• Fruit set: No skipped clusters, the last fruits ripen perfectly on the vine.
• Height: In open ground by August 6th – 1.3m (4.2 ft).
• Clusters: 2-3 fruits per cluster. Weight 250-350 g (9-12 oz), first fruit was 400 g (14 oz).
• Total yield: Average.
• Fruit: The first one was an odd shape, the rest were flattened bicolors, orange-pink.
• Density of ripe fruit: Low (soft).
• Taste: Meaty, delicious, balanced. Sweetness gets a solid 5/5.

First impression: A large tomato for salads and processing.
Rating: Seedlings – 5, Bush – 4, Fruit – 5, Overall variety rating – 5-.

It grew in a great sunny spot. The variety is late for us here. The yield is low, the fruits are beautiful, large, uniform, and delicious. But every single tomato developed a crack, meaning it split right at the moment of ripening, which is why I don’t even have a photo of a whole intact fruit. I kept waiting for the next one to ripen so I could photograph it. Alas, for me, this is a dealbreaker. Other varieties grew right next to it, but only this one cracked. I don’t plan to plant it again because I have other bicolor varieties that ripen earlier and don’t crack.

A very tasty and productive little tomato. Both in the greenhouse and in the open ground. Not early — it started ripening around August 5th, and I picked the last ones in early October.

Mine turned out very, very late. I had already ripped everything else out of the greenhouse—it was the only one left standing with green fruits, along with De Barao and Cherry Ira. Only the first cluster ripened on the plant, I picked the rest green. Average yield, but the taste — 👍. Next year I’ll try planting the seeds earlier…

Is the Virginia Sweets variety similar to German Strawberry? Mine has a combination of orange and yellow coloring on the fruit, but the photos aren’t showing up in this thread for me.

Virginia Sweets tomatoes have a flattened-round shape. Mine were giant buns weighing 700-800g (1.5 – 1.75 lbs)!

I liked the variety very much 😋. Seeds were from Drakonka. Toma, thank you 🌸

For me this season, this was the tastiest and one of the most productive tomatoes. Under conditions of severe greenhouse overheating (it reached up to +50C / 122F in June!), when most tomatoes dropped their blossoms, Virginia Sweets produced an excellent harvest due to its later flowering. The tomato proved to be late and sweet. All fruits were the same size, perfect shape, weighing 400-600 grams (14 oz – 1.3 lbs). I planted several other bicolors, visually they all look almost identical, but this one surpassed them all in both taste and yield.

For me too, this was one of the sweetest and tastiest tomatoes of the past season. If I wasn’t on a mission to try all the new varieties, it would be one of my first candidates to repeat. It excels in everything: Beauty, size, and taste. The yield in terms of piece count was average. But in terms of “kilograms,” it was one of the leaders.

Very tasty! It was low-yielding for me. But I will definitely repeat it, just for its wonderful taste.

This is the beauty that grew for me. A huge thank you to Nadezhda (Nadine) for the seeds! 🌸

Sweet, delicious! Picked the first fruit on July 31st. The yield was low to average (different on different bushes), but I will definitely plant it again — because of the magnificent (for me 🎩) taste.

Here are the beautiful Virginia Sweets that grew for me this year. True, there weren’t very many of them, but enough to understand that this variety deserves to be planted again. I liked the taste a lot, it grew in the greenhouse, but it ripened quite late.

Friends, anyone who has planted bicolors. Please tell me, is the Virginia Sweets variety similar to Burracker’s Favorite or Orange German Strawberry (the flattened one)? I’m doubting whether to plant it or not…

But Orange Strawberry is not a bicolor at all…

TatianaSh:
But Orange Strawberry is not a bicolor at all…

Perhaps we are talking about a different variety… I have seeds from Holland with a picture, and it grew exactly the same tomato — orange with a bright red blush at the bottom. The variety is named Orange German Strawberry.

But nobody answered the main question. Whoever has planted Burracker’s Favorites and Virginia Sweets — please give me a comparison.

Planted on March 22, 2018 – 2 plants. Sprouted March 25-28. Transplanted to the greenhouse on May 7th. Late. I picked the first one on August 13th. The yield is low. The taste is excellent. This was my second attempt. I will definitely plant it next year.

Lena-28:

Sweet, delicious! … The yield was low to average, but I will definitely plant it again — because of the magnificent taste.

If you’ve decided to keep this on your permanent grow list, I’ll share a tip from my experience. Under my conditions, it needed a LOT of sunny space. You absolutely cannot let it be shaded by other plants, and you can’t plant it densely. When the fruits start to color up, cut back on watering as much as possible—then the sweetness will be much more intense. You also need to find that perfect ripening stage when it is the most delicious but not overripe (there is a specific window where its flavor bouquet is at its absolute peak). As it acclimatizes to your region, the yield should increase.

Virginia Sweets was the sweetest, very large tomato for me this year! It easily takes 1st place out of all 150 varieties I grew. And out of the yellow/bicolors, it is unequivocally 1st place.

The name speaks for itself, and it is accurate — a very sweet, simply indecently sweet tomato)) without any acidity or tart nuances. Well, at least that’s how it turned out this year. I found it delicious, I love sweet tomatoes 😋, I couldn’t even imagine they could taste like this. Though I suspect a flavor this purely sweet won’t appeal to everyone.

Timing — definitely late. Yield — left a lot to be desired (only a few tomatoes per bush).
But sliced open — what a handsome guy! 👍

Sweet, beautiful, large-fruited variety. A little bit late.

For me here in Novosibirsk, Siberia, in a closed greenhouse, one megabloom (fused blossom) produced a single giant tomato the size of four average ones. So far, there are no others on the bush. It doesn’t seem late, though. Sweet, no acidity, beautiful bicolor.

Grew in the open ground. Height 1.5 m (5 ft), sturdy bush. Endured the heat well. For me, it was mid-season. Average weight 350 g (12 oz). Very tasty, juicy, sweet. One of the tastiest among those I grew this year. Productive.

My Virginia Sweets.

Seeds from the Great Sveta, I planted it for the first year.

I was specifically looking for the most striped variation out of all of them… and I found it.

I loved it. Taste-wise, it’s probably closest to the “top-tier” bicolor beefsteaks, like Big Rainbow or Grandma Viney’s Yellow and Pink, but it’s more productive.

The taste is very careful but rich. Right up there with the very best representatives of yellow beefsteaks with a pink blush (pink tie) at the bottom. Yes, it is worth repeating.

Color-wise, it’s a bicolor, but with a quite developed striped pattern. It fruited right up until the frost.

On the left in the photo is Cherokee Green Gold, just FYI – and on the right is Virginia Sweets. In terms of flavor, Virginia completely smoked the Cherokee. Honestly, she beat out every other beefsteak I grew last year…