📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vspyshka (Flash)
- 🌍 Origin: A commercial Russian variety. The name translates to “Flash” or “Outburst”, which perfectly describes how fast it grows and sets fruit.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Determinate (short bush), usually topping out around 20 inches (50 cm). It stays short but loves to sprawl, throwing out a ton of suckers.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Nice, uniform, round pinkish-red tomatoes. They have a really good weight to them for an early variety.
- 👅 Flavor: Early tomatoes are notorious for being watery or tart, but not this one. It’s got a sweet, meaty flesh with that classic “sparkling” sugary texture when you crack it open.
- 💡 Editor’s Note: You’ll see growers in this thread talking about “SeDeK” (a Russian seed company) and getting “off-types” or wrong seeds. This is a running joke and a common headache among Russian heirloom growers. But in Vspyshka’s case, even the mixed-up seeds turned out to be heavy-yielding, delicious early maters!
Vspyshka. Started my seeds from this packet here:
Sowed ’em back in February to get a jump on the season. Pulled the first ripe ones on July 2nd. Grew them out in the greenhouse. Honestly, I figured they would just dump their first load of fruit all at once, and then I’d pull the plants to clear up some space so they wouldn’t get in the way of my indets (indeterminate plants). But no such luck! Vspyshka just kept pumping out tomatoes right up until frost. The main stem topped itself in the summer, but it just pushed out new suckers and kept right on fruiting on those.
Here is what she looked like in my garden:
Even though SeDeK totally messed up the seeds (classic off-type), I’m actually really happy with them. The tomatoes were early, got decent size to ’em, and taste darn good for an early mater. Not tart or watery at all. Actually, when you crack one open, the flesh is sugary and sparkly, on the sweeter side. The plant got about 20 inches (50 cm) tall in the greenhouse, and the bush spread out pretty wide.
Edited January 29, 2015 by Drosera
And here’s my Vspyshka, also from SeDeK. I really liked ’em. The flesh is pink, real juicy, and sweet.
Grew mine from SeDeK too. Turned out exactly like Yuri’s. Nice, uniform little maters, I’m a sucker for tomatoes like this. Real tasty.
It’s a short plant. Almost acts like a tree-type (rugose) dwarf. I actually bought the seeds expecting a true tree-type. But it likes to sprawl out a bit more. It pushes way more suckers than your typical tree-type would.
