{"id":6115,"date":"2026-10-22T16:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2026-10-22T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T16:06:56","slug":"otets-gorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/otets-gorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Father Goriot (Otets Gorio) Tomato Review: Large Pink Oxhearts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Father Goriot<\/em> (Otets Gorio) is a mid-season<\/strong> indeterminate variety that produces large, heavy, pinkish-raspberry oxhearts. The vines are known for being rugged and low-maintenance, though they perform best when pruned to two stems to support the massive fruits. Flavor reviews are highly dependent on the weather\u2014during hot, sunny summers it gets sweet, but in rainy or shaded conditions, the fruits can become quite bland and washed out. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

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Mid-season variety. The vine got to about 2.3 ft (0.7 m) tall outdoors. Very low-maintenance, grew right in the middle of the bed in heavy shade. It was a heavy yielder, didn’t drop a single blossom truss, and produced large pink-raspberry oxhearts. The flavor fluctuated from pretty bland to just a standard tomato taste.<\/p>\n

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Lena, maybe if you hit it with some heavy fertilizer, the flavor would get richer \ud83d\ude1b Got your seeds from Kulik, right? I was browsing his site today and this one really caught my eye \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Lyudmila, that’s entirely possible. The catalog claims it has a sweet flavor. But the fact that my vine barely saw any sun and grew almost in total darkness probably played a huge part too. I literally had to chop the leaves off the plants in front of it just to get a picture \ud83e\udd10 \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n

Overall, the variety is an absolute workhorse and super low-maintenance. I could easily send you some seeds, but speaking from experience, anyone who goes digging into that catalog is a goner \ud83d\ude1b I spent two hours down that rabbit hole myself yesterday morning \ud83d\udcdd \ud83d\udcdd \ud83d\udcdd \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Overall, the variety is an absolute workhorse and super low-maintenance…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did you have to prune the suckers on this one, or can you just let it go wild?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Irish, I definitely pruned mine. The fruits are large and really heavy, so pruning to two stems is probably the sweet spot for this variety.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Bland flavor, definitely won’t be growing it again. Took forever to ripen.<\/p>\n

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Grew this one outdoors. Ended up being a really low yielder during our cold summer, only pulled about 4 tomatoes off it, but they were pretty large. Flavor was just standard for oxhearts.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My 2015 harvest.<\/p>\n

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Lana said:<\/strong><\/p>\n

My 2015 harvest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such a brief description! ))) I’m always looking for reports on flavor, yields, disease resistance… Could you share a bit more detail on what you thought of the variety?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It’s an average yielder, hit about 5 ft (1.5 m) tall. The fruits are large, beautiful, meaty oxhearts. Hard to judge the taste since our summer was so rainy and cool, but I’d call it a classic tomato flavor, maybe just a little washed out and bland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Thanks! Did you grow it outdoors or in the greenhouse? How many stems did you prune it to? If it was just a bit bland, that means it definitely has the potential to get sweet with better weather )))<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pruned the vine to two stems, grew it in a glass greenhouse. I think the variety definitely has potential. Since the seed line comes from Ukraine, it probably just didn’t get enough sunshine up here to sweeten up. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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