{"id":6529,"date":"2026-10-27T15:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:15:47","slug":"helsing-junction-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/helsing-junction-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Helsing Junction Blues Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Helsing Junction Blues is an indeterminate, mid-early anthocyanin cherry tomato bred by Tom Wagner. The vines are sprawling, highly vigorous, and crank out massive clusters of firm, perfectly round blue-to-red fruits. Growers love its disease resistance and heavy yields, noting that while the skin can be a bit thick, the flavor is a solid, slightly spicy classic tomato. They make fantastic “pocket candy” for garden snacking and look stunning pickled in jars. 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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Seeds from Kulik (Ukraine).<\/p>\n

Plant description: Mid-early, sprawling, super strong and vigorous indeterminate vine.
\nFruit set: doesn’t skip a beat, just keeps pushing out trusses and is still fruiting.
\nHeight by early August was about 6 ft (1.8m), and by Sept 6 it hit 6.5 ft (2m) out in the dirt.
\nTrusses hold 6-8 tomatoes, super dense and insanely pretty.
\nOverall yield: extremely high.<\/p>\n

The fruit: perfectly round, inky dark fading into bright red at the tip. Absolutely gorgeous.
\nFirmness of the ripe fruit is high.
\nFlavor: balanced, classic tomato taste, sweetness is maybe a 4 out of 5.<\/p>\n

First impression: insanely beautiful and heavy producer, but strictly a canning\/pickling tomato for me. Seedling gets a 5, vine gets a 5++, fruit gets a 4 (only because the flavor is pretty standard), overall a 5. A favorite!<\/p>\n

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Flavor is solid, got that interesting little note you always get with the antho blues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Grew Helsing Blue (forgive me for butchering the beautiful name \ud83d\ude0a) for the first time this year. Charmed me right from the start when it began setting fruit. Sturdy vine, incredibly stiff tough main stem, and it pushed out fruit clusters after every single leaf! Set great both in the greenhouse and out in the dirt. We were still picking from the greenhouse right up until late October. Shrugged off all diseases. These little tomatoes look absolutely gorgeous in pickling jars mixed with other cherries and cocktails. Definitely going on the favorites list… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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Here are my Helsing Junction Blues. Vine is strong, sturdy, disease-free, gets real tall. Flavor is actually pretty good on these little guys, got some spicy notes to it, but the skin is on the thicker side. Basically cherries for the soul and for garden eye-candy. Seeds came from France.<\/p>\n

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I really loved this one, both for the yield and the flavor. Barely noticeable tartness, real berry-like, we just ate ’em straight like pocket candy. Hit about 5.5 ft (1.7m) in the greenhouse, but didn’t even reach 3 ft (1m) outdoors (grew that one from a rooted sucker). I only pruned a few leaves and eventually topped the suckers at the end of the season. Grew as a big sprawling plant in the corner of the greenhouse, but the foliage is wispy and the leaves are small, so it didn’t shade things out too bad. Every single tomato ripened up, even the ones I picked green colored up indoors without losing their flavor. The ones grown outdoors got way darker blue and sweeter. A new favorite \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alena wrote:
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Named after a town in the US called Helsing Junction.<\/p>\n

Literally means “Blues from Helsing Junction”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Full Summary: Helsing Junction Blues<\/h2>\n