{"id":3693,"date":"2026-09-26T12:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2026-09-26T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T12:57:57","slug":"grightmires-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/grightmires-pride\/","title":{"rendered":"Grightmire&#8217;s Pride Tomato: Growers&#8217; Reviews"},"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;3693&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;Share your rating&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Grightmire\\u0026#039;s Pride Tomato: Growers\\u0026#039; Reviews&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\">Share your rating<\/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): Grightmire&#8217;s Pride<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udf0d <strong>Origin:<\/strong> A famous heirloom originally from Yugoslavia. It was introduced to the North American heirloom tomato community by Fred Grightmire of Ohio, USA.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf3f <strong>Plant Habit:<\/strong> Indeterminate (tall), reaching up to 6.5 ft (2 m) in a greenhouse. It exhibits the classic oxheart &#8220;wispy&#8221; or weeping foliage (drooping leaves that hug the stem), which can sometimes make the plant look thirsty even when it&#8217;s perfectly healthy.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf45 <strong>Fruit Characteristics:<\/strong> Beautiful, slightly ribbed pink oxhearts. Typical weight is around 7-9 oz (200-250 g), though they can get larger under ideal conditions. The flesh is incredibly dense, meaty, and contains very few seeds.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc45 <strong>Flavor:<\/strong> Universally praised as a top-tier, 5\/5 tasting tomato. It has a rich, sweet, and juicy profile.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udcc8 <strong>Growing Traits:<\/strong> An early-to-mid season ripener. It performs well both in open ground and high tunnels, though it can drop blossoms during extreme temperature swings.<\/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\">S<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Sandr (Alexander) <span class=\"author-stats\">\ud83c\udf31 Vegetable Expert (339 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I loved this variety primarily for its beautiful fruit shape, a perfect slightly ribbed heart. The taste is a solid 5\/5. It&#8217;s hard to judge the yield this year because of the &#8220;summer winter&#8221; we had; several tiers of blossom clusters dropped completely, but that happened across the board, not just with this variety. The trusses that did set fruit were good, so it seems to be a productive variety overall. The listed weight was 14 oz (400 g), mine were 7-9 oz (200-250 g), and the listed height was 5 ft (1.5 m).<\/p>\n<p><small><em>Edited July 14, 2015 by Drosera<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/61483_380b73a11d426e41c74e8e81ed9639750ca26564.jpg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride pink oxheart tomato\" width=\"1131\" height=\"848\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/61485_23db8c85f59adde478ae1b0fdc386625e3f0a8cc.jpg\" alt=\"Meaty cross-section of Grightmire's Pride\" width=\"970\" height=\"727\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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 (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Sash, where did you grow it, in a greenhouse or out in the open ground? Beautiful slice \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">S<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Sandr (Alexander) <span class=\"author-stats\">\ud83c\udf31 Vegetable Expert (339 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>It grew in a greenhouse, but even there it was impossible to keep up with the weather. You open the doors, and at night in July it drops to 41\u00b0F (5\u00b0C). You close them, the sun comes out during the day and boom, it&#8217;s 122\u00b0F (50\u00b0C) in there. So unless you practically live next to your greenhouse, there were major problems this season. Beautiful cross-section, but the whole fruit itself is even prettier, it just has such perfect features.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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 (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Thanks, Sash! Yeah, you can tell the tomato is uniform, neat, looks like a perfectly bred aristocrat \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m starting to get the hang of spotting truly tasty tomatoes just by looking at their cross-section \ud83e\udd10 I have a couple of others with a similar flesh color, and they also have very few seeds, super tasty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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 (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>This year I planted Grightmire&#8217;s Pride from Natasha NatNik (original seeds from V. Redko) and Grightmire&#8217;s Pride from Sasha (seeds from A. Kulik). I thought they were the exact same variety, but they turned out differently. The ones from Kulik produced smaller fruits, denser, with a very high-quality appearance, extremely tasty and sweet. A wonderful variety, it&#8217;s definitely going on my grow list again. The ones from V. Redko threw larger fruits, but the taste was just average. Both were grown in open ground.<\/p>\n<p>Grightmire&#8217;s Pride (A. Kulik line):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074548.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074548.jpeg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride Kulik strain\" width=\"450\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074606.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074606.jpeg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride Kulik cross-section\" width=\"451\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grightmire&#8217;s Pride (V. Redko line, didn&#8217;t get a cross-section photo):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074416.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074416.jpeg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride Redko strain\" width=\"358\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074357.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074357.jpeg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride Redko on scale\" width=\"457\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074432.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/galleries\/102\/111-191215074432.jpeg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride Redko harvested\" width=\"498\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">I<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">ilja (Ilya) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (758 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Klinsky District, Moscow Region (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Excellent variety. In the hoop house, it reached up to 6.5 ft (2 m) tall. The fruits are heart-shaped, very tasty, sweet. Heavy yielder. The leaves hug the stem (classic wispy foliage).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/65533_ef261570396aca3f49044657ebf65222fc6d4a9b.jpg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride on the vine\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/65535_763be29e58d2e86227b723841196e6cb97f66e15.jpg\" alt=\"Harvest of Grightmire's Pride oxhearts\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/65537_580d2040ea12861c0dac054da76fb90c707c7287.jpg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride fruit sliced\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/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\">Elena Kameneva (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\ud83d\udd30 Beginner (26 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>It was the first one to ripen for me out in the open ground. We ate one little tomato yesterday. Turned out to be super tasty. Juicy, sweet.<\/p>\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\">pas-len4ik <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (603 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Very impressed! The heart isn&#8217;t huge, but incredibly tasty. So far, it&#8217;s the best tasting one this season. 5+!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">N<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">neLENTyayka (Elena) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (2,794 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Kemerovo (USDA Zone 3)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I grew it in 2020 in the greenhouse. It was mid-early, productive, and very tasty. Tall plant, about 6.5 ft (2 m). Fruits are large, pink, heart-shaped.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_04\/IMG_20190814_132044_1.jpg.78a33dc4e5e613746a997a6a464e0e51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_04\/IMG_20190814_132044_1.thumb.jpg.e19f1b4ab8b5838bc094b6547ca14f8d.jpg\" alt=\"Grightmire's Pride pink oxheart\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"editor-note\" style=\"background: #eef7ff; padding: 15px; border-left: 4px solid #2196F3; margin-top: 25px; font-size: 1.1em; border-radius: 4px;\"><strong>\ud83d\udc68\u200d\ud83c\udf3e Editor&#8217;s Note on Seed Strains:<\/strong><br \/>\nElenaN&#8217;s observation about getting two very different results from two different seed vendors is a classic challenge in the heirloom tomato world. Because open-pollinated tomatoes can sometimes cross-pollinate via bees, or simply mutate slightly over decades of being saved by different growers in different climates, distinct &#8220;strains&#8221; or &#8220;lines&#8221; of the same variety emerge.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the Kulik strain stayed truer to the dense, sweet, and meaty oxheart profile that Fred Grightmire originally introduced!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udccc Quick Summary (TL;DR): Grightmire&#8217;s Pride \ud83c\udf0d Origin: A famous heirloom originally from Yugoslavia. It was introduced to the North American heirloom tomato community by Fred Grightmire of Ohio, USA. \ud83c\udf3f Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), reaching up to 6.5 ft (2 m) in a greenhouse. 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