📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vosymerka (Number Eight)
- 🌍 Origin: A rare Russian collector’s variety. The name “Vosymerka” translates to “Number Eight” or “Figure Eight”. In this thread, seeds were sourced from the well-known Russian tomato collector V. Monakhova.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall) and mid-season. It showed great resilience and high productivity even when grown completely outdoors in the open dirt in a cooler climate (Zone 4).
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Large, bright red tomatoes with a very distinct shape. They are oxhearts, but with prominent ribbing along the shoulders, making them incredibly beautiful and unique visually.
- 👅 Flavor: Classified as a “slicer” (meant for fresh eating). It delivers a solid, classic, old-fashioned red tomato flavor.
🍅 Grown this variety? Click here to add your own photos and review below!
Indeterminate mid-season slicing variety. Grew it out in the open dirt, showed a really good yield. The fruits are red colored, large, beautiful ribbed hearts, of very good quality. The taste is your standard, classic tomato flavor. Seeds were from V. Monakhova.
