📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Vodopad (Waterfall)
- 🌍 Origin: A highly productive commercial variety from the Russian seed company “Aelita”, officially entered into the Russian State Register in 2001. The name perfectly translates to “Waterfall”, describing how the massive flower trusses cascade down the plant.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), but generally medium-height compared to wilder cherry varieties. It is specifically bred to excel in unheated hoop houses and film greenhouses.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Tiny, yellow-orange cherry tomatoes (around 0.5-0.6 oz / 15-18 g). The shape ranges from oval/egg-shaped to slight little pears. The most notable feature is its “complex trusses” (multiflora habit), which produce dozens of fruits per cluster.
- 👅 Flavor & Uses: Very sweet, juicy, and flavorful. Because they hold their shape well, they are considered excellent for whole-canning or pickling in small jars. They also have a great shelf life after picking.
Vodopad (Waterfall) #9908096. Original breeder: Agrofirma Aelita LLC. The tomato variety was entered into the Russian State Register in 2001 for home garden plots, household, and small farm use under film greenhouses/hoop houses.
Official description: Early ripening variety, fruits begin to ripen 100-110 days after full germination. The plant is indeterminate, medium height, with medium foliage. Leaves are medium-sized and green. The inflorescence is complex (multiflora); the first truss forms above the 9-10th leaf, and subsequent ones form every leaf or more. The fruit is egg-shaped and smooth. Unripe fruits are green with a dark green shoulder near the stem; ripe fruits are bright orange, weighing 0.5-0.6 oz (15-18 g). Taste qualities are good. Marketable yield is 1.3-1.6 lbs/sq ft (6.4-8 kg/sq m). The value of the variety lies in its earliness, abundant production of uniquely colored fruits, and suitability for whole-canning.
Seeds were from Irina58 🙌
Cherry Vodopad (Waterfall) — Grew it in a film greenhouse pruned to 2 main stems, indet (indeterminate), loads of massive trusses 🍅. Not every single blossom set fruit, but for a cherry, the yield is incredibly good, and it keeps fruiting for a very long time! 👍
I harvested a small washbasin full of tomatoes from just a single bush 😋. The fruits are sweet 😋, juicy, and store reasonably well on the counter. Yellow-orange, oval or pear-shaped, up to 0.5 oz (15 g).
