{"id":5301,"date":"2026-10-13T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=5301"},"modified":"2026-10-13T18:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:18:49","slug":"lotaringian-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/lotaringian-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotaringian Beauty (Beauty Lottringa) Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Lotaringian Beauty (widely known as Beauty Lottringa) is a very tall, late-season indeterminate<\/strong> variety famous for its massive, heavily fluted, accordion-like shape. Available in red, orange, and pale yellow variants, it is an absolute stunner visually. However, growers consistently note that the fruits are mostly hollow inside with very little seed gel, and the flavor is quite bland. It is best treated as a classic “stuffing tomato” or an ornamental garden showpiece. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

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Lotaringian Beauty (Beauty Lottringa) from the catalog on the old forum.
\nTall indeterminate vine, but it ended up being mid-late for me. When the heat hit, it stalled out on the third truss and dropped some blossoms, but it still ended up being very productive overall!
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It set fruit a bit late for me too, but put out a ton of them. Ripened fairly uniformly, but the very first tomato got BER (blossom end rot), the rest ripened perfectly fine. My daughter absolutely loved this variety, she brought them to work to brag about the gorgeous tomatoes her mom grows \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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I planted it this year too, just one vine. It had really poor pollination for me, so the fruit set was pretty average. Wouldn’t say it was low, but a lot of them didn’t manage to ripen in time. It finally started setting fruit properly once the weather warmed up, and the early fruits were a bit wonky, even though I picked off all the megablooms.<\/p>\n

If I compare this variety to Salad Ribbed (from Petrov’s seeds), Beauty Lottringa is definitely more productive. If the weather conditions had been a little better for it, I think it would have been a Super Beauty.<\/p>\n

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I really liked this variety! Svetlana, thank you for the seeds! \ud83c\udf3b<\/p>\n

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I actually planted Salad Ribbed and Beauty Lottringa together. They are very similar, but Salad Ribbed didn’t give me any wonky, misshapen tomatoes. I’ve been saving seeds from it for six years now, always picking the most perfectly shaped ones. Some odd ones still slip through, of course, but very few.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gorgeous, massive, and heavy-yielding variety. Mine grew outdoors in the dirt with no cover. Super!<\/p>\n

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Seeds were from Batatovy Kushi. Indeterminate, late season, ribbed, productive (supposedly), red, sweet.
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It was a terribly ugly plant, it pushed out a massive cluster of suckers at every single leaf node, I got completely exhausted trying to prune it all. Barely had any blossoms. Very strange variety. And it tasted bland. It didn’t even get tall, maxed out around 5 ft (1.5 m).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The White\/Yellow version of Lotaringian Beauty. Also a super productive and fuss-free variety, just like the red one. This variety’s main purpose is to be an ornamental “gift” tomato \ud83d\ude04 Gusev’s Pomidom seed catalog also sells an orange version, though for some reason they put it in their “Yellow Room” category \ud83d\ude42 Has anyone grown that one?<\/p>\n

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\nGusev’s Pomidom seed catalog also sells an orange version… Has anyone grown that one?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I grew it:<\/p>\n

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And what did you think? Any major differences?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I only grew it for one season, and it was a really bad year. Late variety, didn’t set many fruits, maybe it just didn’t have time to get going \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f It is absolutely gorgeous, the flavor didn’t really impress me, but it wasn’t totally hollow\/empty tasting either. I’ll keep growing it just for the looks for now.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nI only grew it for one season, and it was a really bad year…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is it really that different in color from the white\/yellow one, like a true orange? Because my white one was practically stark white \ud83d\ude42 with just a very faint yellow tint at full ripeness.<\/p>\n

And by the way, I harvested three whole mushroom crates worth of tomatoes from just two vines of the white one. And that was grown outdoors in the dirt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nIs it really that different in color from the white\/yellow one, like a true orange?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The color in my photo is true to life. Just a slight orange tint to it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nI actually planted Salad Ribbed and Beauty Lottringa together. They are very similar, but Salad Ribbed didn’t give me any wonky, misshapen tomatoes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, I didn’t have any wonky tomatoes on Salad Ribbed either. But I grew them in different years, and the summer I grew Salad Ribbed was much better weather-wise, so I just blamed the misshapen fruits on the bad weather. And I completely agree, you definitely shouldn’t save seeds from the crooked, lumpy ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Orange Lotaringian Beauty is a truly bizarre beauty! Massive, bright yellow, accordion-shaped fruits.<\/p>\n

Yield was decent, but when you cut it open there are huge hollow cavities inside the ribs, very few seeds, and the flavor is completely nonexistent. Honestly, the only reason to grow this beauty is just for the looks, maybe just to show off to your gardening friends?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here is how mine turned out, grown outdoors in the dirt with no cover. Good yield.<\/p>\n

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Lotaringian Beauty is definitely a beauty. But it had low yields, for me at least anyway.<\/p>\n

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I grew Beauty Lottringa Orange, from France. Mid-season variety. It’s an analog to the standard Beauty Lottringa, but supposed to have a higher yield. Indet. The fruits are beefsteaks, oblate, heavily fluted\u2014it looks like they are made up of individual slices of different thicknesses. Bright yellow, meaty, with thin skin. The first ones weighed 1.1-1.3 lbs (500-600 g) and larger, while the later ones were 8.8-12.3 oz (250-350 g). The flesh is juicy, tender, sweet, with a fruity aftertaste. Despite its exotic look, it produces a high, stable yield, is unfussy to care for, and is resistant to diseases and poor growing conditions. Good for fresh eating and making juices.<\/p>\n

The yield was good, but I honestly didn’t like the flavor. The packet didn’t state the days to maturity, but mine only started turning yellow closer to autumn.<\/p>\n

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Found a photo from September 24, 2018. We had a really warm fall that year.<\/p>\n

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Grew it again in 2023 alongside Florentine Beauty. Very heavy yielder, had a long fruiting window. When you cut it open, there are hollow cavities inside, but the flavor is nice and sweet with very little acid. Looks absolutely great sliced on a platter.<\/p>\n

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But man, the plant pumped absolutely all of its energy into that one truss. I’ll probably have to wait another week for them to finish ripening.<\/p>\n

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I pulled that truss off yesterday.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t wait for it to fully ripen on the vine, there are still about five green tomatoes hanging on it that haven’t even sized up yet.<\/p>\n

The largest fruit on the truss came out to 1.38 lbs (628 g), and the smallest was 11.7 oz (333 g). Total weight of the truss: 5.95 lbs (2699 g).<\/p>\n

I sliced open the ripest one. All those beautiful ruffles and folds turned out to be completely hollow, and the taste is absolutely bland, with just a mild acidic bite in the very center.<\/p>\n

Oh well, let’s just say you don’t eat this one, it’s purely an ornamental for looking at.<\/p>\n

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Full Summary: Plant, Yield, Taste and Vigor<\/h2>\n