{"id":6406,"date":"2026-10-26T16:06:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:06:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:06:38","slug":"great-white-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/great-white-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Great White Purple Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Great White Purple (also circulated as Great White Blues*<\/a>) is an indeterminate<\/strong>, mid-season anthocyanin variety resulting from a cross between Great White and OSU Blue by German breeder Reinhard Kraft<\/strong>. It produces beautiful yellow-white fruits heavily splashed with purple\/black shoulders. Growers rave about its vigorous, highly productive vines and its sweet, fruity flavor that lacks acidity once fully ripe. The dark coloring is highly dependent on sun exposure. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3a – 7b)<\/h2>\n
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A cross between the Great White beefsteak and OSU blue. The vine reached up to 5 ft (1.5 m), grew it under plastic, pulled over 6.6 lbs (3 kg). The biggest fruit was 6.9 oz (196 g), the fruits get smaller as the season goes on. The vine lasted a long time, right up to the end of October. The flavor is like all white varieties, might not be for everyone. We weren’t crazy about it at first, but then they turned out perfectly sweet, even after ripening indoors, you can’t detect any acidity. I give it a 4 out of 5. Brought some to work, everyone was blown away by the taste. Have to add that the taste testers were folks who only eat store-bought tomatoes. And we’re already totally spoiled by our organic home-grown ones. We’ve become real homegrown tomato snobs.<\/p>\n

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Alisa, I trained it to 3 leaders from the bottom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Very interesting variety! Definitely planting this in 2016, totally caught my eye! \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I grew Great White Purple under a poly roof with a shade net pulled over it, so mine didn’t turn out quite as bright. After I took the shade net off, more dark coloring showed up on the unripe fruits. Grew three vines from three seeds in different beds to see how it would do in full sun vs a shadier spot. The darkest ones were on the east side, in the middle bed (where direct sun only hit at sunset) they were the yellowest. The vine is vigorous, grew up to 6 ft (1.8-1.9 m), gorgeous, didn’t drop a single blossom, all trusses were full, started ripening in early July and there are still fruits hanging. (Granted they are in the greenhouse now, we screwed the poly panels onto the sides, pulling them out tomorrow). Flavor is delicate, sweet. I’ll plant it again just for the looks. When there’s a lot of ripe fruit, it literally looks like a Christmas tree.<\/p>\n

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This variety was the discovery of the season for me. Absolutely fell in love with it. Five stars across the board. \ud83d\ude18 \ud83d\ude18 \ud83d\ude18 Thanks so much to you Elena and to Alenka. \ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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My seeds are from Vera (tomatinka), I just asked her for some blue varieties and she picked out amazing ones based on her taste. The vine was tidy, bottom fruits were big, the top ones got smaller. A very beautiful tomato, unusual color combo, yellow inside, not very many seeds.<\/p>\n

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In 2019 I planted 1 vine from Sveta @Mama Antona (thanks for sharing, Sveta!).<\/p>\n

In the greenhouse it was over 6.5 ft (2 m), produced small round yellow-purple tomatoes all the way to the top. Beautiful! And productive!<\/p>\n

Really loved the flavor – sweet, kinda fruity!<\/p>\n

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Great White Blues is a stunner! As for the taste… that darker one is tastier, and the little yellow ones taste like grass, probably overripe.<\/p>\n

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Look at this completely different coloring on the exact same truss.<\/p>\n

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