{"id":5794,"date":"2026-10-19T15:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=5794"},"modified":"2026-10-19T15:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T15:49:35","slug":"moskovskiy-delikates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/moskovskiy-delikates\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Delicacy (Moskovskiy Delikates) Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Moscow Delicacy is an indeterminate paste-type<\/strong> tomato intended to produce dense, pepper-shaped fruits. Grower experiences are highly mixed: some praise its yield for canning, while others report sharp\/acidic flavors, late ripening, and rampant seed mix-ups from commercial vendors like Russian Garden. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3-7 Experience)<\/h2>\n
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Sweet (Svetlana) 8,792 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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Here is the description from the seed packet: Mid-season, super productive variety for greenhouses. Plants are indeterminate, 4.5-6 feet (140-180 cm) tall. Fruits are pepper-shaped, very dense, meaty, weighing up to 5.3 oz (150 g), and store well. They boast high sugar content and exquisite taste.<\/p>\n

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Meri 3,474 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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Mine were much longer in shape, looking like true pepper-shaped fruits. My seeds were from the Russian Garden company.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Meri wrote:<\/strong> Mine were much longer in shape, looking like true pepper-shaped fruits. My seeds were from the Russian Garden company.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Same here, I grew them from Russian Garden seeds and got long, pepper-shaped tomatoes.<\/p>\n

It was a fairly late variety for me, but it was productive and sweet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tatyana Kemerovo (Tatyana) 2,694 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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I also have a pack of seeds from Russian Garden. Bought them after reading all the rave reviews on another gardening forum.<\/p>\n

Meri, does it manage to ripen and turn red in the greenhouse for you before September 1st? Also, how many stems did you prune it to?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Aleksander (Alexander) 3,853 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udccd Malakhovka, Moscow region, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sweet wrote:<\/strong> Fruits are pepper-shaped, very dense, meaty, weighing up to 5.3 oz (150 g), and store well. They boast high sugar content and exquisite taste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mine turned out to be a complete bust – terrible yield and absolutely no flavor. I even threw the leftover seeds in the trash. Maybe this variety just needs a massive amount of sunshine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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ilja (Ilya) 758 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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Aleksander wrote:<\/strong> Mine turned out to be a complete bust – terrible yield and absolutely no flavor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In my greenhouse, Delicacy was actually really productive, but the flavor was a bit too sharp and acidic for my liking. I won’t be planting it again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\ud83d\udccd Western Siberia, Russia (USDA Zone 3-4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tatyana Kemerovo wrote:<\/strong> does it manage to ripen and turn red in the greenhouse for you before September 1st? Also, how many stems did you prune it to?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tatyana, it was definitely on the late side for me. The vast majority of the crop didn’t have time to turn red, so I had to harvest them green. I grew it to a single stem. The plant itself is very spindly and wispy, but it shot right up to the ceiling and set fruit really well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My Moscow Delicacy was sown on March 24th, sprouted on March 28th, and ripened by July 30th.<\/p>\n

Clusters held about 4-6 fruits each. It’s a fantastic tomato for canning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My Delicacy grew in the greenhouse and yielded really well. However, across different plants, I got two totally different shapes – some were pepper-shaped and others were just standard plum\/roma shapes. I wasn’t a fan of the taste for fresh eating, so I processed them all into sauce \ud83d\ude1e<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Marina H (Marina) 121 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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I’ve got some really strange plants growing. They are short, incredibly leafy and dense, with very tight internodes. They don’t look like indeterminate plants at all. They are throwing out a ton of flowers, and the first fruit that set is plum-shaped. I’m wondering if I got a seed mix-up? My seeds were from Russian Garden, bought them this past winter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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So weird. Mine is growing large, plum-shaped tomatoes that are just now starting to ripen, and it looks exactly like the very first photo posted in this thread. The clusters are full and heavy, but the tomatoes have absolutely nothing in common with the drawing on the seed packet!!!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Full Summary: Moscow Delicacy (Moskovskiy Delikates)<\/h2>\n