{"id":5804,"date":"2026-10-19T16:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=5804"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:12:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:12:53","slug":"mandarinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/mandarinka\/","title":{"rendered":"Mandarinka Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Mandarin (Mandarinka) is an orange<\/strong>, cocktail-sized indeterminate<\/strong> tomato marketed for its heavy clusters and early ripening. However, grower consensus is highly critical: most find it bland, watery, prone to splitting during canning, and failing to meet the yields promised by commercial seed vendors. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

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Drosera (Svetlana) 5,414 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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This is an indeterminate, I can’t say the exact height but it was somewhere around 5.2-5.5 feet (1.6-1.7 m). It produces in clusters and yields reasonably well. Even though the packet claims it’s early, I would definitely classify it as mid-season: my first fruits didn’t start ripening until mid-August.<\/p>\n

The tomatoes weigh about 3.5 oz (100 g), which is a bit too large for whole canning, though if you try hard enough you can cram them into a jar. Despite the nice orange color, the flavor is nothing super – I’d give it a C-minus. The plant has an unusual growth habit where the leaves sit at a very sharp angle to the main stem. On the bright side, it is practically immune to Leaf Mold. My seeds were from Aelita.<\/p>\n


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I grew Mandarin last season from Gavrish seeds. They grew looking exactly like the picture on the packet\u2014cute little round balls. However, they maxed out at 1.8 oz (50 g); not a single one reached the promised 3.5 oz (100 g). There are definitely a lot of them on the bush, but they fell way short of the claimed 10-11 lbs (4.5-5 kg) per plant yield. I’d say I got half of that at best.<\/p>\n

They certainly made the greenhouse look pretty, but the taste was a letdown. They didn’t store well, and the skins totally split open when I tried canning them.<\/p>\n

I definitely won’t be growing them again. Nothing to write home about. \ud83d\udcdd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I grew it two years ago as well. The fruits were tiny, the flavor was completely ordinary, and the overall yield was low. I also decided never to bother with it again. My seeds were from SeDeK.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tatyen (Tatyana) 63 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We didn’t like Mandarin either. No taste, no aroma whatsoever. And they behaved terribly in the pickling brine. I am unequivocally not sowing this one again. \ud83d\ude15<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Planted it in 2015. Mid-season, reached about 6 feet (1.8 m) tall. Pruned to one stem, I got 22 fruits that just had a very plain flavor with a little acidic bite. Growing it outdoors gave me the exact same yield, though they started ripening earlier and were slightly larger. I just wasn’t inspired by it! \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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CUCSA (Larisa) 7,263 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
\ud83d\udccd Lipetsk, Russia (USDA Zone 5)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mandarin totally underwhelmed me. I planted it in 2015 from Gavrish seeds. I know 2015 was a rough year for tomatoes, but compared to the other varieties I grew that season, this one was just too small (under 1.8 oz \/ 50 g), tasteless, and watery. Won’t be planting it again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Podmoskvichka (Natalya) 694 Posts<\/span><\/div>\n
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I actually liked Mandarin! During this cold “non-summer” we had, it ripened earlier than anything else. The bush was compact, and the fruits were very neat, weighing about 1.8 oz (50 g). Taste is subjective; I happen to prefer sweeter, milder tomatoes, and my husband and son couldn’t stop praising it. They specifically requested that I grow it again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\ud83d\udccd Orenburg, Russia (USDA Zone 4)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I grew it in the greenhouse this year from Gavrish seeds. It was a weird year, and my greenhouse tomatoes ripened later than my outdoor ones, but still: this is absolutely not an early variety. It was the very last one to ripen out of everything I grew indoors and out. The little tomatoes were uniform, about 1.2 oz (35 g), but to me they looked yellow, not orange (when I hear “orange”, I think of carrots or tangerines).<\/p>\n

The flavor is completely ordinary. Overall, totally unimpressive. The only reason I’d give it any points at all is because it was the very last ripe tomato I had in storage at the end of the season–when you have absolutely no other fresh tomatoes left to eat, it suddenly tastes pretty good. I might give it a second chance just because of how awful the weather was this summer, but definitely not next year. I’ll only sow it again if I happen to have extra space. \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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