{"id":6050,"date":"2026-10-21T19:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=6050"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:39:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T19:39:25","slug":"olesya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/olesya\/","title":{"rendered":"Olesya Tomato Review & Photos: Siberian Orange Plum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Olesya<\/strong> is an indeterminate<\/strong> Siberian heirloom bred by Sibirskiy Sad, renowned for producing meaty, golden-orange elongated plum tomatoes packed with exceptional sweetness. Plants display classic feathery, weeping foliage that can look scrawny despite being healthy. While yield is notoriously light on single-stem setups, multi-leader pruning and leaving fruit to fully vine-ripen unlocks what several growers rate as the sweetest tomato of their season. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

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Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 4-5 Experience)<\/h2>\n

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Cherry (Olga) \u2b50 Pro Grower (6,822 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Olesya (Sibirskiy Sad). Grew this back in 2012 in the greenhouse. Indeterminate vine, topped out around 5.5 ft (170 cm), then stalled out completely. The growing tip shriveled up and I couldn’t get a second flush out of it.<\/p>\n

The plant itself looks pretty frail, slender stem, easy to train, wispy drooping foliage. The fruit is yellow-orange, shaped like a large elongated plum, pretty much a dead ringer for Golden Koenigsberg<\/a> (honestly, I could barely tell the two apart). The tomatoes are sugary, sweet, and have a genuinely delicious flavor.<\/p>\n

Yield was pretty mediocre, though. If I remember right, clusters sat about 5 leaves apart. Pruned to a single leader and ended up with only 3-4 trusses total. I think this one would do far better ran as a 2 or 3-stem plant.<\/p>\n

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There really is no difference between them \ud83d\ude42 And Southern Tan (Yuzhny Zagar) and Radunitsa are cut from that exact same cloth too.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Murka (Masha) \u2b50 Pro Grower (9,763 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Grew this one too. Outstanding flavor, super sweet, but the yield was definitely low.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Been growing Olesya for several years now from Agros seeds. Wonderful fruit, really sweet and meaty. Have to agree that it is a light producer. Also, if you try hot-pack canning them whole, the skins split right open.<\/p>\n

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Natalya79 (Natalya) \u2b50 Pro Grower (2,791 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Put this in during the 2021 season, seeds from Sibirskiy Sad. Kicking myself for only planting a single vine, it ended up being the sweetest tomato of my whole summer \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n

Ran it with 2 stems. Sturdy vine with delicate, weeping foliage. The key is you have to let them vine-ripen fully. Once the fruits turned full color, I left them hanging on the vine another 5 days. Trusses carried 5-7 tomatoes each.<\/p>\n

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