{"id":6547,"date":"2026-10-27T15:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2026-10-27T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T15:51:27","slug":"hartsack-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/hartsack-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartsack Yellow Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Hartsack Yellow is an indeterminate, mid-season bicolor beefsteak originating from the US. It is highly praised for being one of the earliest bicolors to ripen, producing gorgeous gold, orange, and pink fruits that rarely crack. Growers love its juicy texture and complex, balanced sweet flavor. An excellent, heavy-yielding slicer, though fruits picked green will ripen to a plain yellow rather than a true bicolor. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

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Indeterminate, mid-season, super productive and gorgeous variety. Out of all my bicolors, this was one of the first to ripen. Beefsteak fruits, a mix of gold, orange, and pink. Once they get overripe, they turn almost completely pink. Flavor is really good. Absolutely loved this one!<\/p>\n

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Elena, looks like a great one for folks who love a juicy, tasty tomato! How’s the shelf life? Also, do you know where it originally comes from and whose seeds you used? I’d probably call it Blush instead of Yellow… \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Zulfiya, the seeds were sent over from the States. As for storage, no clue. I juiced all my bicolors right away. But I wouldn’t say Hartsack goes bad fast.<\/p>\n

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ElenaN wrote:
\nIndeterminate, mid-season, super productive and gorgeous variety. Out of all my bicolors, this was one of the first to ripen. Beefsteak fruits, a mix of gold, orange, and pink. Once they get overripe, they turn almost completely pink. Flavor is really good. Absolutely loved this one!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Elena, what a stunner! \ud83d\udcdd<\/p>\n

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Gorgeous tomato \ud83d\udc4d. Looks like it doesn’t crack either. I really love that fruit shape, and tasty on top of that, man… an absolute dream \ud83d\ude42 \ud83d\ude33<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Ladies! I wouldn’t say the flavor will blow your mind, I’ve had better-tasting bicolors. But it really is very good, just a nice pleasant taste. The vine really stood out against everything else though\u2014super bright, heavy yielder, didn’t drop any blossoms…<\/p>\n

Svetlana! Good eye, the fruits don’t crack at all. Quick note for everyone \ud83d\udcdd \u2013 if you pull them green and ripen them indoors, they’ll just turn plain yellow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Elena, is the flavor more on the tart side, sweetish, or just straight tomatoey?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Vera! Nah, definitely not just tomatoey. Complex flavor, got some sweetness and just a TINY bit of tartness. I’d call it balanced. But you probably know \ud83d\ude09 I rarely give a variety a 5\/5. This year, out of my 500 plants (over 250 varieties), I only gave one single variety a solid 5 across the board.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Super showy plant, good flavor, juicy. Started ripening early. To me, the flavor didn’t really scream bicolor, just tasted like a really solid, delicious tomato. Here’s a pic from June 28. Didn’t drop a single truss (I had plenty of other varieties drop one or two). Hung on the vine forever without cracking. Early ones were smaller, then higher up they got about twice as big and flatter. Same vine a month later (we already ate the bottom ones \ud83d\ude42), photo from July 27.<\/p>\n

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One of my absolute favorites this season: gorgeous \ud83d\udc4d, delicious \ud83d\ude0b, and super productive \ud83d\ude4c. Seeds were from either Redko or Popenko \ud83d\ude02, orders arrived from both at the same time and I forgot to label whose I actually planted \ud83e\udd37\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n

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First ones to ripen were a bit smaller, but the rest were around 7 oz (200 g). Really dug that oblate shape \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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First fruit is starting to blush on Hartsack Yellow.<\/p>\n

All my other varieties are throwing massive fruits\u2014except this one. The ripening tomato looks like it’ll top out at maybe 1.7 to 2.8 oz (50-80 g).<\/p>\n

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Grew it this year. Seeds came from Nadezhda down in Volgograd (Nadin – huge thanks for the seeds \ud83d\ude4f). Only had one vine. Didn’t take any pictures this year.<\/p>\n

The tomatoes are gorgeous. Perfectly uniform. First trusses were about 5 oz (150 g), higher up they hit 8.8-10.5 oz (250-300 g). Tasty. Juicy. No cracking. \ud83d\udc4d<\/p>\n

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