{"id":7135,"date":"2026-11-05T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=7135"},"modified":"2026-11-05T09:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T09:30:07","slug":"pink-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/pink-lemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Lemon Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Pink Lemon<\/strong> (Reinhard Kraft strain) is a mid-season, semi-compact indeterminate<\/strong> bicolor producing 8-10 oz (220-280 g) oblate beefsteaks. The golden-yellow skin develops a soft pink blush at the blossom end, revealing a dense interior marbled with a red central starburst. Growers praise its ability to hold high sugar levels even when grown on lean sandy soils or counter-ripened indoors, though it is frequently confused with an unrelated yellow multiflora sold under the same name in the US. Skip to the strain identity debate \u2193<\/a> | Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

Growers’ Notes and Field Trials (USDA Zones 4-5)<\/h2>\n
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Indeterminate, mid-season salad bicolor. Fruits are oblate, orange-yellow, developing a gentle pink blush on the skin as they fully ripen. Inside they show a vibrant red center core. Very aromatic, dense, and meaty.Outstanding flavor with plenty of sweetness. What really impressed me was that it held on to that lovely sweet flavor even in fruits that were picked early and counter-ripened indoors off the vine. Seeds came from a trading partner on the Prihoz gardening forum, originally sourced from Reinhard Kraft in Germany. Definitely a repeater for me.<\/p>\n

Did some research online and realized there are two completely different varieties circulating under this name: one is an elongated plum\/paste type, and then there is this true beefsteak.<\/p>\n

Edited January 17, 2016 by ElenaN<\/em><\/p>\n

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I would like to add that although the vine is indeterminate (continuous vine growth), it stays fairly polite in height. Inside my greenhouse, it stopped around 4.5 ft (1.4 m).Average fruit weight ran 8.5 oz (240 g), pulling about 5.3 lbs (2.4 kg) per vine. Fruity, sweet flavor. In fact, this was the very first bicolor in my patch that was genuinely sweet; many other bicolors turned out completely bland in my sandy soil.<\/p>\n

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Grew this variety for a second consecutive season. Flavor stayed purely sweet; personally, I missed having a little more acid kick to balance it out. The fruits themselves are stunning and top-tier quality. Ran it in the greenhouse.\"Pink<\/a>
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Grew mine in the greenhouse, topped out at 5 ft (1.5 m), no taller. Oblate, dense, handsome tomatoes. Indeterminate, mid-season.Flavor did not impress me at all: pretty insipid, lacking both sweetness and acid punch.<\/p>\n

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The Two “Pink Lemons”: German Bicolor Beefsteak vs. US Citrus Strain<\/h2>\n
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I have a completely different Pink Lemon in my garden. I purchased mine from an American seed house over at TomatoFest.Here is my harvest photo:<\/p>\n

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Most likely what you have there is Citrus Garden (Tsitrusovyi Sad). The pointed lemon fruit shape, color, and massive branched multiflora cluster match it to a tee, and there isn’t a hint of pink on it. Even the vendor catalog describes that one as pure yellow-orange.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Full Summary: Habit, Flavor Dynamics, and Strain Disambiguation<\/h2>\n