{"id":6029,"date":"2026-10-21T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T16:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=6029"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:24:53","slug":"orange-strawberry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/orange-strawberry\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange Strawberry Tomato Review & Photos (USA Heirloom)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Orange Strawberry is a vigorous, indeterminate<\/strong>, mid-to-late season<\/strong> heirloom known for producing massive, meaty, heart-shaped or oblate orange fruits with very few seeds. Originating in the US as a stray from a Pineapple tomato packet, it thrives on heavy potassium\/phosphorus feeding and sunshine, though it can be a sparse yielder in cooler zones. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Orange Strawberry<\/strong>
\nWe are also discussing the variety German Orange Strawberry<\/em> here.
\nDescription: A large-fruited orange tomato with a fruity flavor and very few seeds. The vine grows up to 13 feet (4 meters) tall and absolutely needs support. Fruits weigh 14-18 oz (400-500 g), provided you thin out the blossoms on the truss, of course. 75-80 days from transplant out into the ground to harvest.
\nI grew mine in the greenhouse. The first fruit was about 2.2 lbs (1 kg), the rest were around 10-14 oz (300-400 g). Pretty good yield. It’s one of the first ones we eat once they ripen. \ud83d\ude03
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And here is my Orange Strawberry. Still producing, today is October 19th, just picked a couple! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Lena! Your photos show a true strawberry (heart) shape. Were they all like that on the plant? I grew mine from English commercial seeds distributed to forum members by Larisa. Loved the variety! All specs match up, except my fruits (other than the very last one) were oblate, not hearts. Can I keep sharing seeds calling it a “strawberry”, or is some parent variety showing up?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Zulfiya, mine weren’t all hearts either, but about 90% were. The first couple weren’t, but then the rest looked like hearts. As for sharing the seeds, that’s up to you. If it’s a tasty and good variety, why not? \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nAnd here is my Orange Strawberry. Still producing, today is October 19th, just picked a couple! \ud83d\ude09<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good afternoon, Lena! Could you tell us where you grew it, what the yield and height were like, and how many stems you pruned it to? \ud83c\udf38 \ud83c\udf38<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Marisha, my Orange Strawberry grew outdoors in open ground. I pruned it to 2-3 stems. Yield was average, maybe even slightly below average. The plant got tall, about 6.5 feet (2 meters). Fruits were absolutely delicious. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Here’s my Orange Strawberry. Seeds from D. Gusev. Productive, tasty.<\/p>\n

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Yeah \ud83c\udf38, I really liked this one too. The vine is sturdy, doesn’t stretch out too much, and was well-behaved as a seedling. Definitely making the cut for my 2014 grow list!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nHere’s my Orange Strawberry. Seeds from D. Gusev. Productive, tasty.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mine was from Ruslan Dukhov. Very firm and meaty. The cross-section looked more like the one in the first post. Almost seedless. Delicious, no acidity. Mine was a low yielder due to bad care (planted too close together, didn’t pinch suckers in time). Guess I’ll try Gusev’s line this year. Thanks for the seeds, Lena! \ud83c\udf38 \ud83c\udf38 \ud83c\udf38<\/p>\n

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\nYeah, \ud83c\udf38, I really liked this one too. The vine is sturdy, doesn’t stretch out too much, and was well-behaved as a seedling. Definitely making the cut for my 2014 grow list!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Lenochka, I’m planting exactly 1 plant of every variety \ud83d\ude03, including Orange Strawberry. Going to start 2 seeds just in case, though!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nOrange Berry from Popenko’s catalog. He wrote the English name right, but the translation is wrong. Orange Berry (Orange Strawberry, USA). Tatiana Kouchnareva lists it as Orange Strawberry. It’s the same variety, an American heirloom, shape is closer to a heart. Gusev’s catalog has ‘German Orange Strawberry – old German variety of large tomatoes’ ???, shape is oblate-heart. Is this the exact same variety just circulating with the wrong name?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My beauties. This variety has become a favorite. Checked all the boxes for me.<\/p>\n

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I grew German Orange Strawberry specifically, seeds from England.
\nHere are the specs: vigorous seedlings, fast growth. By 6 weeks you can see heavy fuzz on the leaves and stems (it’s velvety, so it looks a bit lighter green). The flower truss is gorgeous, lush, but points straight up… the whole vine is covered in bouquets. The plant limits its own fruit set. Cold tolerant. Sown in February, harvested from July 10th to mid-October. The fruits ripen beautifully on the counter indoors–out in the bright sun they ripen unevenly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bought seeds from Popenko (photo above). First year yielded average\u2014acclimation plus a bad summer. Extremely tasty: buttery, sweet but not bland, with very few tiny seeds. Probably one of the sweetest and prettiest in my collection. Will absolutely keep growing it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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German Orange Strawberry. Loved it, delicious, productive. Tall, you can let it grow to several stems. Fruit shapes were oblate and rounded-heart.<\/p>\n

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\nElfia, it seems they are sold as German Orange Strawberry (heart-shaped) and just Orange Strawberry (oblate)…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Studying the packet closer… looks like I got a 2-in-1 combo (a third variant). Like that monkey joke, where do I belong: with the German or the regular strawberry? \ud83d\ude42 Grew exactly like the picture.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Here is how my little strawberry turned out! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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My Orange Strawberry, seeds from our dear Leo. The plant in the photo is already half-picked. I definitely got around 25 fruits total. Even though I let it go to 4 stems, the fruits weren’t small.<\/p>\n

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Adding some of my photos of this wonderful tomato. \ud83d\ude0b Grew in the ground.<\/p>\n

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My Orange Strawberry from Kulik. I noticed it’s radically different from what’s on the forum. Liked the variety though: firm, juicy, with noticeable sweetness and decent yield. A candidate to grow again in 2015.<\/p>\n

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A miraculous, super productive, delicious variety! \ud83d\udc4d Grew it in the greenhouse on 2 stems. The stems were literally breaking under the weight of the meaty fruits–even the top trusses had fruits up to 1.3 lbs (600 g) \ud83d\ude1b Seeds from ElenaN \ud83c\udf38. Definitely growing it again!<\/p>\n

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My German Orange Strawberry – seeds from Kulik. Large-fruited, productive, tall vine, I’ve been growing it for several years straight indoors. Delicious, beautiful, wonderful variety!<\/p>\n

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Excellent variety. I want to plant it again this year, which I rarely do (repeating varieties I’ve already grown). Tasty, productive, and very pretty!<\/p>\n

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A bit about “German Orange Strawberry” (since it came up, I’ll copy my post from another thread here):
\nOrange Strawberry has absolutely nothing to do with the word “German” because it’s an American heirloom. Folks who register varieties in the US state that Orange Strawberry grew out of a packet of “Pineapple” tomato seeds at Marjorie Morris’s place in Indiana. But people who don’t know the variety’s history keep adding “German” because it sounds like “German Red Strawberry”, even though these two are NOT related.
\nTatiana, who is incredibly meticulous about variety history, points out the origin of Orange Strawberry on her site. The other weird names we see are just translation errors, like “Orange Berry” because “translators” saw “berry” in “Strawberry” but didn’t bother opening a dictionary to see it meant strawberry… Or they use “Orange Wild Strawberry” (Zemlyanika)… and add “German” to it.
\nFruit shape, taste, and maturity dates can vary because it gets to us through third parties. It acclimates, but over time it can also cross-pollinate or mutate. It depends on climate, care, seed quality, and seed-saving technique. You can ruin any gorgeous variety if you let it run down.
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If a variety “mutates” or “cross-pollinates”, it’s no longer the same variety, it’s something entirely different. Spontaneous mutations are quite rare, as is cross-pollination by another variety. And genotype changes don’t happen for the reasons you listed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I repeat. We established 2 years ago that the word “German” shouldn’t be in Orange Strawberry’s name. We included it in the title because some vendors sell it that way. As for how seeds of another variety ended up in a Pineapple packet, we can only guess. We get stuff growing out of packets that doesn’t match the label all the time\u2014we call it “mixed-up seeds” (off-type), not an “unstable variety”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I can tell you that my version of the strain gives extremely uniform, standard plants. The traits are very pronounced; you can’t confuse it with any other variety. All 6 plants I grew last season were ABSOLUTELY identical, almost reminded me of F1 hybrids with that level of uniformity. So I highly doubt it’s an unstable variety. It’s more likely that vendors are selling completely different lines, or just making mistakes–for example, one variant floating around is just a copy of Liskin Nos<\/a>, for instance.
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Yeah, the flowers are gorgeous \ud83d\ude42 But the trusses are kind of droopy. This is my first year growing Strawberry, and yesterday I tried to tie up the trusses (they are heavy) and couldn’t figure it out. How do you tie them?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The trusses are huge, but the plant will naturally abort the ones it can’t support. Once the fruitlets are about half an inch, loop a tie under them and anchor it UP to the crotch of the leaf branch above it.
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My surprise for 2015: this variety is lagging behind for me right now. Last year it bolted out of the gate, this year it’s so slow. The only difference is I sowed it 2 weeks later. Looks weaker than last year, trying to yellow its leaves while everything next to it is thriving… Don’t see a logical explanation yet. It’ll just be much later, can’t judge yield yet, only has tiny fruitlets. Doesn’t seem to be its year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I noticed that last year too: until the first fruits on the truss reach full size, the rest don’t develop.<\/p>\n

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Same here…
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What’s most interesting is that after reading about the “variants” of this variety (with and without ‘German’ attached), I planted my own seeds and Kulik’s. Mine say “German OS”, his say “OS”. Both are growing side by side and are ABSOLUTELY identical plants\u2014foliage color, temperature reaction, and BOTH are acting this exact way this year. You can’t mix this variety up, it looks specific.
\nSo the conclusion is\u2014it’s the same variety. I’ll compare the fruits later, but climate probably affects their development differently, hence the discrepancies…
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Thanks, Alena\u2014got it! Like pulling them UP\u2014I kept trying to tie them at the base. I have 4 trusses fully set, big already, about to ripen\u2014but the next ones set and are still walnut-sized (growing slowly). It’s my tallest plant though, already running along the greenhouse roof. Some leaf tips are yellowing (I trim them)\u2014only on Strawberry and Monomakh’s Hat. But the Strawberry plant out in the ground only set 6 fruits\u2014blooms heavily but refuses to set (probably not meant for outdoors). \ud83c\udf38<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course it’s the exact same variety ))) That’s been written and rewritten across so many forums… In my climate, it’s a late girl… and this year too… just won’t get moving, but the blooming trusses are gorgeous, fit for a show ))) I topped it after the 6th truss, couldn’t hope for more than that anyway… let it focus on reproduction and finishing what it has.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s possible that in a less-than-ideal climate this is strictly a greenhouse variety. I also noticed leaf issues this year (yellowing followed by necrosis) while neighboring varieties are fine. Gave it ashes and potassium fertilizer… gave it calcium… no difference. Don’t remember how it was last time, I grew too many tomatoes back then and didn’t have time to monitor the leaves on every single plant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Orange Strawberry and my Orange Heart (Fox Nose) are different varieties. I’ve been tracking catalogs for a long time, and I’ve grown Orange Heart for a long time. Original seeds. Orange Strawberry is growing this year. Fruits are oblate. I know there are two versions. But if the heart-shaped one is the exact same as Orange Heart, then someone probably just renamed it OS at their own discretion. IMHO.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\nOrange Strawberry and my Orange Heart (Fox Nose) are different varieties…<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am growing 2 types of OStrawberry and OHeart.
\nOStrawberry has thick fuzz, sturdy velvety vine, leaves and flower trusses pointing strictly upward\u2014very distinct, looks most similar to Slankard’s.
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Verochka, I’m growing all three: Orange Strawberry, German Orange Strawberry, and Fox Nose (Orange Heart). The first two are identical (maybe German is slightly more heart-shaped), but Fox Nose is a totally different variety, you can’t confuse it. It has a pointy tip \ud83d\ude03 And flavor-wise, Fox Nose is the absolute tastiest to me! \ud83d\ude0b<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Crazy productive variety. Didn’t drop trusses, huge fruits and lots of them\u2014more than 16 so far, with egg-sized ones still hanging up top. Seeds from Svetikk.
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Here is my beauty.. \ud83d\ude03 The plant is interesting, different from most hearts. The stem is sturdy, leaves don’t droop like typical wispy hearts, they point straight out horizontally. The leaf itself is kind of short. It’s a very tidy, compact vine… Huge thanks to Lorochka-Larek for the seeds! \ud83c\udf38<\/p>\n

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Extreme heat can make the skin thick. My very first fruit had normal skin, then it thickened up. It turned out to be a late-season ripener for me, but set a lot of fruit by late July. Grew in the greenhouse in partial shade, maybe that’s why it was late, but the leaves and fruits didn’t scorch, ripening beautifully on the vine.<\/p>\n

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Sveta, it really did bake heavily for 1.5 months, and the first 2 that ripened in July were normal. I didn’t know heat affects skin thickness. I still have a lot of green ones, and it’s cool now, so I’ll see what happens. Thanks, I was almost ready to give up on it because of the thick skin \ud83c\udf38<\/p>\n

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\n– Fruit: bright orange, perfect heart shape, very pretty, tapers heavily at the bottom.
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\n– Taste: very intense, tasty, sweetish with noticeable acidity, firm, juicy, sweetness is a 4\/5.
\nInitial impression: a tasty and beautiful slicing tomato. Seedling grade: 3\/5, Plant grade: 3\/5, Fruit grade: 5\/5, Overall: 4.5\/5.
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In my climate it’s not particularly juicy either, mainly because it has almost no seed cavities where the tomato gel usually accumulates. But the tradeoff is they have amazing shelf life and don’t lose flavor when ripened indoors on the counter. Everything depends on your goals for growing them. I felt OS had more acidity, which carries the flavor when counter-ripening, compared to something like Honey Spas, which gets bland if it sits too long. What were your impressions?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Been planting Strawberry for three years now, still failing. Year one it was very late, lots of green ones didn’t size up. Year two I got exactly one fruit per plant. Giving it one last chance this year, seeds are from various sources.
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I think it’s better to use your own acclimated seeds. My first year from purchased seeds, I got two tomatoes per plant. Second year: 5 full trusses, though two had to ripen on the counter indoors. First truss died a hero’s death due to extreme temp swings. It produced in two waves: gave up 3 trusses basically at once, and then the rest started sizing up. But I topped it myself after the 6th truss.
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Absolute favorite of this summer\u2014German Orange Strawberry! The tastiest, most productive, just the absolute best \ud83d\udc4d
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First time growing this. Loved it. Sweet, beautiful, productive. Pruned to 2 stems and it pumped out about 10 gorgeous deep yellow fruits weighing 7-14 oz (200-400 g), zero cracking. Ranks 3rd for taste this year behind Striped Chocolate and Amethyst Jewel. Definitely planting it again next year. Only set 1 fruit on the 4th\/5th levels, but that’s likely the weather’s fault. Other big beefsteaks did even worse.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I agree! Still hanging in the greenhouse covered in tomatoes. Liked the regular Strawberry a lot less.
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Very nice variety. Meaty sweet hearts. Not massive, but extremely productive. Set fruit and grew in the greenhouse until the deep freeze. We had already stopped watering it and it just kept trying and trying. Will grow it again!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Mine only set a few random huge fruits all season long. The vine itself grew at least 13 feet (4 meters) tall \ud83d\ude2e Pruned to a single stem. The flavor is top notch \ud83d\udc4d \u2014 sweet, buttery tomatoes. \ud83d\ude0b But next year I’ll plant other varieties with this shape, like Fox Nose, Orange Oxheart, or Yellow Scallops.
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Did you feed it with Potassium-Phosphorus? It’s highly responsive. Phosphorus pushes more flowers per truss, and Potassium sizes up the fruit. Try different pruning styles for your climate (1 stem vs 2 stems), you might see a difference. I ran it single-stem this year. Managed to set 6 full trusses, plus two half-trusses for indoor ripening.
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Mine was pretty productive this year, even though it dropped the first truss from the crazy heat. Absolutely loved the taste, sweet and meaty \ud83d\udc4d \ud83d\ude0b.
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Heart varieties always amaze me. \ud83d\ude33 How does something so weird grow? \ud83d\ude2e Beautiful!!! Didn’t notice much sweetness, and yield was small, but it grew in the shade in the greenhouse, plus we basically had no summer. A huge one grew from a megabloom and hogged all the energy until I pulled it to let the others grow. But a negative experience is still an experience. I want to try a ton of hearts next year, kind of obsessed with them now. \ud83d\ude03
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Elena, is yours German Orange Strawberry? Were all the tomatoes those elongated hearts? Planting it for the first time in 2017, but my packet says they are oblate. Now I’m sitting here wondering if I bought the right thing or not. \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Tasty\u2014yes, very! As for productive… Well, my pointy-beaked one was a low yielder the first year, but she redeemed herself this season! \ud83d\ude09 \ud83d\ude03<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My oblate Strawberry actually threw these heart-shaped fruits on the upper trusses this year. Saved seeds from them, we’ll see what grows out of them next season.
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Svetlana, what beauties! \ud83d\udc4d Definitely planting it!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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All my tomatoes were elongated like that. The very first one came from a megabloom and was massive, a wider, rounder heart, but still elongated. The color is extremely orange. My camera is old and my eyesight is shot, so the photos aren’t great. \ud83d\ude22 I always admire you folks’ photos on the forum. You guys are awesome. \ud83d\udc4d \ud83d\udc4f Make sure to pick that first fruit right away. I want to try the oblate one too. My seeds came from a forum member. Where are yours from?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I had this one too. A stunner. Has a pearlescent glow. Cuts like butter. To my taste, it was the best tomato of this cold summer. Growing it again! Yield wasn’t top tier, but two vines were enough for us. Failed completely outdoors in open ground\u2014the fruits were small and just split open from the constant rain. So this one is strictly a greenhouse resident.
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Grew it for the first time. Reached about 6.5 feet (2 meters) in the greenhouse. Showed solid yield. Mid-to-late season ripener for me. Fruits were extremely tasty, meaty, and sweet.
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Grew this variety two years in a row. Tasty, sweet, meaty beauties, good yield. Making the grow list again \ud83d\ude0b
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My Orange Strawberry. Growing it for three years now, originally from Redko, seeds via Aliya. Sown right at the beginning of March, grows under low hoops outdoors in open ground. Tasty, sweet, average yield. Planting it again this year!
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Excellent variety! Beautiful, productive, tasty. Extremely happy with it. The vines are absolute monsters in the greenhouse, but it’s worth it. Practically zero seeds inside.
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Completely blew me away this year! I was debating whether to plant it again\u2014it tasted great last year, but the vine was so wimpy, looked like it was growing on its last breath, and only gave me 2-3 late fruits.
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Grew it this year\u2014absolutely super, incredibly tasty. Even the rooted suckers I stuck out in the garden managed to grow a few tomatoes.
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Orange Berry (that’s what Popenko calls it). Grown it for 5 seasons, very worthy variety, especially flavor-wise. This year every single fruit was huge, 14 oz (400g) and up. Pulled the last ones recently, absolute monsters. Meaty, buttery, incredibly sweet as always, and always very few seeds inside.
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I have German Orange Strawberry from Ilya Korolev. Extremely productive right from the first year I grew it. This year is my third time growing it. Mid-to-late season.
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Grew OS here in Aktobe, seeds from Lidiya Ganzen. Grew it both in the poly greenhouse and outdoors in open ground. Seedlings started Feb 26 for the greenhouse, and March 21-22 for outdoors. In the greenhouse, I got my first fruits mid-July. Outdoors it completely failed, nothing properly ripened, maybe picked a couple in September.
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\nFruits were strict hearts, slightly scalloped\/flattened, truly looking like a strawberry (the tip isn’t always sharp, sometimes it just tapers and flattens out). Absolutely zero cracking, even when overwatered.
\nJust a breathtakingly beautiful tomato, the color is neon orange, practically glowing. Skin thickness was perfect\u2014firm but thin enough. Taste is a 5+++. Meaty, seedless, slightly buttery, perfectly juicy, flawlessly sweet but not cloying, balanced and intense. Family voted it the best tasting tomato of 2018. We just devoured it plain, sliced with no salt\/sugar\/dressing. Phenomenal tomato.But outdoors it totally failed for us (transplanted mid-May). We had 2.5 weeks of warm weather with cold nights, then four freezing weeks up to mid-June, nights dropping to 55-60F (13-16C), which is freezing for June here. And insane winds 5 days a week. Then brutal heat, 90-95F (32-35C) daily. Nights started dropping back to 55F in mid-August. We have a bone-dry climate, can easily go 6 weeks without rain. Hose watering in the trenches.
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Here is a photo of an OS from a megabloom (you can see it looks like two fruits fused together). This was the only misshapen one, but it was huge. Picked July 17. The color in the photo is pretty accurate, though in real life it literally glows. The rest of the fruits were proper “strawberry shape” and smaller, I didn’t get any 1.3 lb (500-600g) monsters sadly. It has a crack because it grew in the crotch of two branches and got stuck; I had to pry it out and bruised it.
\nI actually picked one fruit earlier but rushed it\u2014it was bright yellow but tasted totally ordinary, not mind-blowing like everyone said. I got upset, gave up on the plant, and ignored it for a week. Then I noticed this stuck, crazy-orange one and worried it was overripe and would rot and infect the plant. So I dug it out. Felt it\u2014wasn’t overripe at all, felt dense and nicely firm. Decided to taste it instead of tossing it. It was SO good… Long story short, you have to pick OS when it turns “neon orange” and looks like it’s about to turn to mush, it gets this semi-translucent glow, almost like a matte opal.
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My absolute favorite among orange varieties. Grew it 5 years in a row. Firmly on my “Love Forever” top list \ud83d\udc8b
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Growing in the greenhouse right now. This year I have OS from Zolushka and OS from my saved seeds (originally Ganzen). Zolushka’s plant is much sturdier and the fruits are more oblate. Yield for both is currently average. Fruits are mostly huge. These aren’t the first ones. Picked today, July 23, 2019.
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My seeds are from Svetik. This variety amazed me, shocked me, and made me fall completely in love! Tall, though not super aggressive vine, more of a medium build. Tomatoes are massive, beautiful, and sooooo delicious! Very!
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Originally seeds were from Royal Seeds. It’s a domestic company but they repack US seeds. Now I’m using my own saved seed. Massive, incredibly tall vine. This year it set four trusses without dropping a single blossom. All tomatoes are huge, four per truss. Pruned to two stems. Buttery flesh, spectacular taste.
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Grew the oblate Orange Strawberry in the greenhouse in 2019 (seeds from Lena, thank you!).
\nMid-to-late ripener, but we were already picking and eating ripe fruits by late August. Very tasty, sweet stunner. Large fruits. Vine is tall and aggressive.
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My absolute favorite yellow-orange variety, been growing it since 2015. Last year I grew Orange Strawberry, German Orange Strawberry, Orange Heart (Fox Nose), and Orange Wild Strawberry (Zemlyanika from Yaroslavna, sent to me under that name) all side-by-side.
\nThis is from 2019. Almost never produces anything under 7 oz (200g); usually 9-18 oz (250-500g). Regular Orange Strawberry remains my top favorite. Don’t have a photo of the German one, my camera broke and I only realized later. The German one looked similar, some fruits were slightly more elongated, but otherwise identical to regular Orange Strawberry.
\nThe Zemlyanika from Yaroslavna is closer to Fox Nose: fruits have a drawn-out beak, but it’s juicier. Fox Nose turns out slightly drier\/meatier for me.
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Nadezhda! Orange Strawberry was in my very first seed order from you after I registered on the forum. I’ve planted it every year since. Yes, it’s a mid-season ripener, but that’s a good thing\u2014productive, tasty, great shelf life! It’s the absolute favorite of my daughter-in-law and son-in-law, they prefer yellow tomatoes (my actual son and daughter won’t eat fresh tomatoes \ud83d\ude03). Thank you, I always think of you! \ud83d\ude4f<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\nVera, could you tell me where you bought the seeds for your oblate Orange Strawberry?<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Didn’t see this message, sorry! Someone sent them to me. To my shame, I don’t remember who.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Growing it for the first time this year, oblate version. Thanks to Anatoly @Astero for the seeds.
\nMassive vine, large fruits, tasty, buttery. The texture and color look just like a mango. Husband and I devoured it in one sitting. Usually he couldn’t care less about yellow\/orange tomatoes, only eats red ones, but with this one he asked, “Is there more? Don’t eat it without me!” \ud83d\ude42
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Orange Strawberry (oblate and heart-shaped). My favorite among orange tomatoes, I repeat it almost every year. Gives the largest fruits out of any similar variety, yield is superb, and enough has been said about the taste \ud83d\ude0b
\nThe vine in the photo managed to set 28 fruits in a year where terrible weather made many other varieties drop their blossoms.
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My absolute favorite variety. Original seeds from Svetikk \ud83d\ude4f, I’ve been saving seeds and replanting it for about 5 years!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Orange Strawberry oblate, seeds from Svetikk. Grew it outdoors in open ground, pruned to 2 stems, tied to a 6.5ft (2m) rebar stake. Even in this abnormally hot summer, it turned out quite productive: the vine had 7 perfectly uniform, bright orange fruits weighing around 14-18 oz (400-500g). Tasty, meaty, few seeds. Mid-season ripener, all of them ripened on the vine. A rare combo for a large orange beefsteak\u2014uniform large fruits plus high yield. Didn’t catch a single disease. Super variety! Svetlana, thanks for the seeds \ud83d\ude4f<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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OS 2021 update. Grew 1 “model” plant, original seeds from Lidiya Ganzen, repeating it for the 3rd or 4th year. I have 2 variations of OS. One is from Lidiya: extremely tall, weeping\/wispy habit with long thin leaves. Fruits are always strict pointed hearts or blunt hearts. The second is from Olya Zolushka: much sturdier, aggressive vine with thick regular foliage. First trusses are oblate, upper trusses are elongated hearts like Fox Nose.
\nIn 2021, I only grew the “model” version. We are in our second summer of insane heat, so there was massive blossom drop, but OS sized up the ones that stuck to massive proportions. I didn’t get a single fruit under 1.1 lbs (500g) all year! Didn’t have a ton of them\u2014counted 10 at first, turned out to be 12. But they were heavy. Taste, as expected, is phenomenal. Nothing in town compares. Gave almost all of them away as gifts so people could taste what a real tomato is supposed to be like.
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Pretty sure I saved seeds from that 1.5 lb (673g) one, liked its shape better.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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My absolute favorite among orange varieties. Got it in my very first seed mail from dear Svetikk, plant it at least every 2 years now. Planted Svetikk’s original seeds again this year since I gave all my saved ones away.
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This variety completely disappointed me. Productive, but absolutely tasteless. Just totally bland. Juiced the whole batch and called it a day. \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f
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Excellent variety, especially if you give the seeds to a rookie gardener ))))) They are guaranteed to be blown away by the size, color, and taste! \ud83d\ude42
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OS is one of the most sun-dependent varieties out there. You really have to plant it in full, blasting sun. At the same time, it hates extreme heat (drops blossoms and taste suffers). But since it’s mid-late\/late, usually by the time it’s coloring up and building sugars, the crazy 90F-100F (32-38C) heatwaves are over, so mostly you just lose yield when it tries to set fruit mid-summer. It easily makes up for the lower count with massive fruit sizes.
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My favorite! Permanent resident in the garden! Keeping me happy for the third season now.
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\nI only had two plants across two greenhouses, and they are literally still ripening today. (Photo posted in December).
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If the flavor is lacking sugar, first and foremost it’s about how much sun the plant got. Then, those sugars need to be shipped from the leaves into the fruits. That requires cooler nights (so the assimilates go into the fruit instead of being burned off via respiration). You also need plenty of potassium, since that’s what transports the sugar. And lastly, during the ripening phase, you have to strictly rein in your watering (crop steering)\u2014otherwise you pump the fruit full of water and dilute whatever sugar is there. As someone correctly pointed out above, OS should never be unsweet. If potassium levels are right and everything else is dialed in, you’ll know from slicing it: there will be practically zero white, tasteless hard cores inside.
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