📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vnuchenka (Granddaughter)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial variety from the Russian seed company “Aelita”. The name affectionately translates to “Little Granddaughter”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (short bush). Marketed as a patio/container variety that grows to 20 inches (50 cm), but real-world growers note it can easily reach 28 inches (70 cm) when planted in the ground. It aggressively sprawls, so you’ll still need to stake it up.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Bright red, perfectly uniform cherry tomatoes weighing around 0.3-1.8 oz (10-50 g). The fruit holds incredibly well on the vine without dropping, making it a perfect variety for harvesting whole trusses at once.
- 👅 Flavor: Classic red cherry flavor. The fruits are very firm and tasty.
A variety from the Aelita seed company. The manufacturer’s brief description: Det (determinate), up to 20 inches (50 cm), 0.3-1.8 oz (10-50 g), requires no pruning. For balconies, windowsills (?), and planters. Not a trailing/hanging type.
20 inches on a windowsill? 😞 A planter, but not a trailing plant? 😞
We planted it outside in the open dirt, it hit 28 inches (70 cm), we didn’t prune the suckers at all. Good little cherry tomatoes, very firm and tasty. The bush sprawled out in every direction, so we had to tie it up to some sticks.
The trusses hold up to 12 cherries. The first ones to ripen hold onto the vine really well, waiting for the others to ripen up. You can confidently harvest them by clipping the whole truss. Ours turned out perfectly uniform, like they were calibrated in a factory.
“Granddaughter” sitting in my granddaughter’s hands.
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