{"id":2321,"date":"2026-09-12T19:43:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=2321"},"modified":"2026-09-12T19:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T19:43:37","slug":"carmellas-yellow-stripes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/carmellas-yellow-stripes\/","title":{"rendered":"Carmella&#8217;s Yellow Stripes Tomato Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-top\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;2321&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Carmella\\u0026#039;s Yellow Stripes Tomato Review&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\">Rate this<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"tldr-box\" style=\"background: #f4f9f4; padding: 20px; border-left: 5px solid #4CAF50; margin-bottom: 30px; border-radius: 4px;\">\n<h3>\ud83d\udccc Quick Summary (TL;DR): Carmella&#8217;s Yellow Stripes<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udf0d <strong>Origin:<\/strong> A beautiful striped bicolor heirloom variety.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf3f <strong>Plant Habit:<\/strong> Indeterminate (tall). Produces sturdy, beautiful seedlings. Interestingly, growers report variations in leaf type\u2014some plants display a Potato Leaf (PL) trait.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf45 <strong>Fruit Characteristics:<\/strong> Large beefsteaks weighing 300-400 g (10.5-14 oz). The skin and flesh are stunning: pinkish-red marbled with yellow stripes and swirls.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc45 <strong>Flavor:<\/strong> Highly rated, very sweet and tasty, typical of quality bicolor heirlooms.<\/li>\n<li>\u26a0\ufe0f <strong>Growing Note:<\/strong> Can be quite finicky regarding fruit set. Several growers experienced blossom drop or delayed fruit set on the lower trusses, often finally setting fruit much later in the season.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"add-review-cta\" style=\"margin: 20px 0; padding: 15px; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; border-radius: 4px;\"><strong>\ud83c\udf45 Grown this variety?<\/strong> <a href=\"#wpdcom\">Click here to add your own photos and review below!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">ElenaN (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (28,513 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Kostroma, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Indeterminate, mid-season variety, bicolor. The bush is sturdy and looks beautiful as a seedling. Mine grew with potato leaves (PL). Tatiana&#8217;s TOMATObase doesn&#8217;t specify the leaf type for this one.<\/p>\n<p>The fruits are pinkish-red with yellow streaks and stripes, weighing 300-400 g (10.5-14 oz), very tasty and sweet. It grew outdoors in open ground, but the yield was below average for me. My seeds were from V. Redko.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-images\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/156\/111-171216115516.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/156\/111-171216115516.jpeg\" alt=\"Carmella's Yellow Stripes bicolor heirloom tomato on the vine\" width=\"453\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/156\/111-171216115504.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/156\/111-171216115504.jpeg\" alt=\"Sliced Carmella's Yellow Stripes tomato showing sweet interior\" width=\"449\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">P<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">PanIrina (Irina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (1,208 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Nizhny Novgorod Region (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>My seeds were from Popenko. This is the only variety that completely failed for me this year. I planted two bushes, they flowered, but didn&#8217;t set a single fruit \ud83d\ude1e<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">A<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Anela (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (3,216 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Kazan, Tatarstan (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Seeds from Popenko. I liked the variety, but I don&#8217;t remember what type of leaf it had \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-images\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/161\/13349-260117014634.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/161\/thumb_13349-260117014634.jpeg\" alt=\"Carmella's Yellow Stripes large red and yellow tomato\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/154\/13349-011216031332.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/154\/thumb_13349-011216031332.jpeg\" alt=\"Harvested Carmella's Yellow Stripes tomatoes\" width=\"160\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">D<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Danko (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (10,117 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>PanIrina wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My seeds were from Popenko. This is the only variety that completely failed for me this year. I planted two bushes, they flowered, but didn&#8217;t set a single fruit \ud83d\ude1e<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ira, exactly the same here. It grew in the greenhouse. I got mad and pulled it out at the end of July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">A<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Anela (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (3,216 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Kazan, Tatarstan (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Danko wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ira, exactly the same here. It grew in the greenhouse. I got mad and pulled it out at the end of July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lena, for me, it was the very last one to set fruit. Do you remember what the leaf type was? I just remembered: the first trusses either didn&#8217;t form any fruit at all or dropped the blossoms. What you see in my photos actually grew from the second trusses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udccc Quick Summary (TL;DR): Carmella&#8217;s Yellow Stripes \ud83c\udf0d Origin: A beautiful striped bicolor heirloom variety. \ud83c\udf3f Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall). Produces sturdy, beautiful seedlings. Interestingly, growers report variations in leaf type\u2014some plants display a Potato Leaf (PL) trait. \ud83c\udf45 Fruit Characteristics: Large beefsteaks weighing 300-400 g (10.5-14 oz). The skin and flesh are stunning: pinkish-red &#8230; <a title=\"Carmella&#8217;s Yellow Stripes Tomato Review\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/carmellas-yellow-stripes\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Carmella&#8217;s Yellow Stripes Tomato Review\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,1,61],"tags":[72,11,33,49,15,71],"class_list":["post-2321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicolor","category-beefsteak-large-slicers","category-orange-and-yellow-tomatoes","tag-greenhouse-tomato","tag-huge-tomato","tag-indeterminate","tag-open-ground","tag-sweet-flavor","tag-sweet-tomato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}