{"id":476,"date":"2026-08-21T15:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=476"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:06:22","slug":"sergeant-marley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/sergeant-marley\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergeant Marley 2020 Tomato Review &#038; Photos"},"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;476&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;Sergeant Marley 2020 Tomato Review \\u0026amp; Photos&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<h2>Quick Summary of Serzhant Marli 2020 (Sergeant Marley 2020)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udf0d <strong>Origin:<\/strong> A highly sought-after, highly productive anthocyanin variety, extremely popular among Russian and Eastern European collectors.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf3f <strong>Plant Habit:<\/strong> Indeterminate (tall), mostly grown in greenhouses. It is a &#8220;heavy feeder&#8221; but puts its energy directly into fruit production rather than suffering from excessive vegetative growth (it doesn&#8217;t go &#8220;all to leaves&#8221;). Extremely heavy yielder with massive clusters. The fruit stems are strong enough to hold giant tomatoes without individual support.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf45 <strong>Fruit Characteristics:<\/strong> Giant beefsteaks! Fruits grow in clusters of up to 5, with individual tomatoes easily reaching over 600g (1.3+ lbs). They are bright red\/dark pink with a beautiful, fine dusting of dark purple anthocyanin on the shoulders. Towards the end of the season, the fruits naturally become a bit smaller.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc45 <strong>Flavor:<\/strong> Superb! It has the rich, complex flavor typical of dark tomatoes, featuring a perfect balance of sweetness and mild acidity. Very meaty with few seeds.<\/li>\n<li>\u26a0\ufe0f <strong>Growing Tip:<\/strong> Like many large, thin-skinned beefsteaks, it is prone to cracking at the shoulders if subjected to inconsistent, heavy watering (often the case for &#8220;weekend gardeners&#8221;). However, the cracks scar\/heal over nicely and do not rot.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\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\">swetlanna (Svetlana) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (3,085 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Kaluga, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Seeds from Angelina (Domashniy Pomidor).<\/p>\n<p>It amazed me with its yield. There are clusters of 5 fruits weighing 610g (1.34 lbs) each! You walk into the greenhouse and your jaw just drops \ud83d\ude2e. They hold perfectly on their stems, I didn&#8217;t even have to tie or support the individual tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Very tasty, like all dark-skinned varieties. It is not completely dark, of course, it just has blue shoulders, but the taste is excellent. The only &#8220;BUT&#8221; is that the shoulders cracked on mine\u2014apparently, I watered them too much.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, thank you to Angelinochka.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_08\/IMG_20210724_131440.jpg.6432d1b54fd0b5b6d88fcdab4743cfa3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_08\/IMG_20210724_131440.thumb.jpg.5ebf09228f80ec417352e92f806a34af.jpg\" alt=\"Massive cluster of Sergeant Marley 2020 tomatoes on the vine\" width=\"273\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_08\/753385030_IMG_20210805_123933-.jpg.98cc38bc33cf70e83bf654601b215e52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_08\/577154374_IMG_20210805_123933-.thumb.jpg.205d79c10d961edcb37e64e6d919237c.jpg\" alt=\"Giant 600g Serzhant Marli 2020 tomato on a scale\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_08\/IMG_20210805_123654.jpg.07e259fcdca21061592a9cf95682c5e0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2021_08\/IMG_20210805_123654.thumb.jpg.59f967551d19ab57fd4e82a26d70d668.jpg\" alt=\"Meaty cross-section of Sergeant Marley tomato showing few seeds\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/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\">Natalya79 (Natalia) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (2,714 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Tula Region, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Excellent variety. The tomatoes are large, beautiful, and meaty, with a magnificent balance of sweetness and acidity.<br \/>\nThere are few seeds. It is unpretentious in growing. But it loves to eat (a heavy feeder), yet it doesn&#8217;t get &#8220;fat&#8221; (it pushes fruit rather than excessive vegetative foliage). It grew in a greenhouse. The fruits crack near the stem from heavy watering, but they don&#8217;t rot\u2014they scar and heal over. I watered them once a week because I am a weekend gardener.<\/p>\n<p>Huge thanks to Khasib @guzel103 for the seeds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_09\/IMG_4574.jpeg.674c546660afdace385ada60f321ba7d.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_09\/IMG_4574.thumb.jpeg.0dfd6243f68ff56ffc0e704ec18bafb0.jpeg\" alt=\"Healed cracking on the shoulders of Sergeant Marley tomato\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_09\/IMG_4575.jpeg.4dfdafedeebed479ccfa128a7db7fc8d.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_09\/IMG_4575.thumb.jpeg.c26004429313aaead9ceaa093f5b5a75.jpeg\" alt=\"Beautiful red and blue Serzhant Marli tomato\" width=\"262\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/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\">Natalya79 (Natalia) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (2,714 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Tula Region, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I liked the variety very much; towards the end of the season, the tomatoes were a bit smaller. The bush is very productive.<\/p>\n<p>The anthocyanin looks like a fine dusting, it looks absolutely superb.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_11\/IMG_4598.jpeg.cb0337ac714bf9d6a7b138852975364b.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_11\/IMG_4598.thumb.jpeg.1f17f5a9c4e5443e7eff04e059bd0632.jpeg\" alt=\"Anthocyanin dusting on the top of the tomato\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_11\/IMG_4905.jpeg.8eaf7a10fa4645ae5546440379722f30.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/monthly_2025_11\/IMG_4905.thumb.jpeg.cfea95eab5f7eae75b44fd9321cd7fcb.jpeg\" alt=\"Harvest of Sergeant Marley 2020 tomatoes\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Summary of Serzhant Marli 2020 (Sergeant Marley 2020) \ud83c\udf0d Origin: A highly sought-after, highly productive anthocyanin variety, extremely popular among Russian and Eastern European collectors. \ud83c\udf3f Plant Habit: Indeterminate (tall), mostly grown in greenhouses. 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