{"id":896,"date":"2026-08-26T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=896"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:20:00","slug":"raspberry-cigar-tomato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/raspberry-cigar-tomato\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Cigar (Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi) Paste Tomato Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<div class=\"kk-star-ratings kksr-auto kksr-align-left kksr-valign-top\"\n    data-payload='{&quot;align&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:&quot;896&quot;,&quot;slug&quot;:&quot;default&quot;,&quot;valign&quot;:&quot;top&quot;,&quot;ignore&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;reference&quot;:&quot;auto&quot;,&quot;class&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;count&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;legendonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;readonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;score&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;starsonly&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;best&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;gap&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;greet&quot;:&quot;Rate this&quot;,&quot;legend&quot;:&quot;0\\\/5 - (0 votes)&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;24&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Raspberry Cigar (Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi) Paste Tomato Review&quot;,&quot;width&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;_legend&quot;:&quot;{score}\\\/{best} - ({count} {votes})&quot;,&quot;font_factor&quot;:&quot;1.25&quot;}'>\n            \n<div class=\"kksr-stars\">\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-inactive\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"1\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"2\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"3\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"4\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" data-star=\"5\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    \n<div class=\"kksr-stars-active\" style=\"width: 0px;\">\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n            <div class=\"kksr-star\" style=\"padding-right: 5px\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"kksr-icon\" style=\"width: 24px; height: 24px;\"><\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n                \n\n<div class=\"kksr-legend\" style=\"font-size: 19.2px;\">\n            <span class=\"kksr-muted\">Rate this<\/span>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<h2>Quick Summary of Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi (Raspberry Cigar)<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\ud83c\udf0d <strong>Origin:<\/strong> A commercial Russian variety introduced by the &#8220;Aelita&#8221; seed company. The name translates to &#8220;Raspberry Cigar&#8221; (or Crimson Cigar), perfectly describing its shape and color. <em>Amazing seed saver fact from this thread: A grower successfully germinated seeds that had expired 13 years prior!<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf3f <strong>Plant Habit:<\/strong> The packet describes it as a regular determinate, but growers report it growing as a beautiful tree-type (rugose\/shtamb) bush. It reaches about 65-85 cm (2-2.8 ft) in height.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83c\udf45 <strong>Fruit Characteristics:<\/strong> Elongated, icicle or cigar-shaped pink\/raspberry tomatoes weighing 70-80 g (2.5-2.8 oz). <strong>Huge bonus:<\/strong> Unlike many elongated paste tomatoes, growers report it is highly resistant to Blossom End Rot (BER) and fruit cracking.<\/li>\n<li>\ud83d\udc45 <strong>Flavor &amp; Needs:<\/strong> While excellent for canning, fresh flavor depends heavily on soil nutrition. It has a high demand for Potassium; without it, the fruits can develop &#8220;yellow shoulders&#8221; and taste bland.<\/li>\n<li>\u23f3 <strong>Maturity:<\/strong> Advertised as mid-season, but in less-than-ideal summers, it performs as a late-season variety (taking up to 150 days from seed to ripe fruit).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"add-review-cta\" style=\"margin: 20px 0; padding: 15px; background: #f9f9f9; border-left: 4px solid #4CAF50; border-radius: 4px;\"><strong>\ud83c\udf45 Grown this variety?<\/strong> <a href=\"#wpdcom\">Click here to add your own photos and review below!<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Esme (Galina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (5,701 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The seeds were from Aelita. Stated characteristics:<\/p>\n<p>The bush turned out not regular, but tree-type (rugose\/shtamb), very beautiful. The height matched, but it seemed to me that the bushes (I had two) didn&#8217;t terminate; they could have kept growing upward.<\/p>\n<p>The yield is good, and, knock on wood, there was absolutely no blossom end rot, although other similar varieties had plenty of it.<\/p>\n<p>The variety is promised to be mid-season, but for me (outdoors in open ground) it turned out to be mid-late, closer to late-season.<\/p>\n<p>A noticeable drawback (besides not being early) is an increased need for potassium nutrition, which manifested in a rather bland taste and &#8220;yellow shoulders&#8221;, which almost no other variety had.<\/p>\n<p>But with such beauty and yield, there is a desire to keep working with it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60121_5653e9ed2a22a15260d52b25112db41956451efc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60121_5653e9ed2a22a15260d52b25112db41956451efc.jpg\" alt=\"Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi tree-type tomato plant loaded with fruit\" width=\"517\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60123_35870493d68f2ee4d72dc17f4f032e1259256373.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60123_35870493d68f2ee4d72dc17f4f032e1259256373.jpg\" alt=\"Back of Aelita seed packet for Raspberry Cigar tomato\" width=\"493\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background: #f1f1f1; padding: 10px; border-left: 3px solid #ccc; font-size: 0.9em; margin-bottom: 15px;\"><strong>Seed Packet Translation:<\/strong> &#8220;Tomato Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi (Raspberry Cigar). Mid-season variety for open and protected ground. Regular bush, 65\u201385 cm (2-2.8 ft) tall. The fruit has an elongated cigar shape; ripe fruit color is bright raspberry. Fruit weight 70\u201380 g (2.5-2.8 oz), excellent taste qualities, yield 6\u201310 kg\/m\u00b2. The variety is resistant to viruses and fruit cracking. Intended for salad purposes, including dietary nutrition, and making high-quality canned products.&#8221; <em>(Note the expiration date at the bottom: 12.2001!)<\/em><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60125_c74d84f1905fd3c593deb2415acabc641b8872c4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60125_c74d84f1905fd3c593deb2415acabc641b8872c4.jpg\" alt=\"Elongated pink tomatoes ripening on the vine\" width=\"541\" height=\"509\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60127_c0bdd522b543beff4a49333fdad6c6c524c5ebcb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60127_c0bdd522b543beff4a49333fdad6c6c524c5ebcb.jpg\" alt=\"Harvested Raspberry Cigar tomatoes showing yellow shoulders due to potassium deficiency\" width=\"426\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Esme (Galina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (5,701 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>More fruits:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60131_93e2b62631dbf70d54a0af19c1a07cb098693a3b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60131_93e2b62631dbf70d54a0af19c1a07cb098693a3b.jpg\" alt=\"Ripe elongated Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi tomatoes\" width=\"566\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60133_97be4cfa3563d446a6db777e7431645f6a08ece3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60133_97be4cfa3563d446a6db777e7431645f6a08ece3.jpg\" alt=\"Handful of freshly picked Raspberry Cigar paste tomatoes\" width=\"600\" height=\"508\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60135_662e3ffdff492e4fd57f745ad49fba2a8b4e4661.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/uploads\/newforum\/attachments01\/60135_662e3ffdff492e4fd57f745ad49fba2a8b4e4661.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful pink icicle shaped tomato\" width=\"521\" height=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">N<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Natella_14 (Nataliya) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (1,819 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Unknown<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I love these kinds of tomatoes for pickling\/canning. Did you try them yourself?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Esme (Galina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (5,701 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Only if they ended up in some marinated mix, but mostly I canned them in apple juice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">N<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Natella_14 (Nataliya) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (1,819 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Unknown<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Esme said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Only if they ended up in some marinated mix, but mostly I canned them in apple juice.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In juice &#8211; it&#8217;s very delicious, but the stomachs in our family can&#8217;t handle that delicacy \ud83d\ude14<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">B<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">borchanochka (Polina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (9,895 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Galina, please orient me, how late is it? When did you sow it and when did the 1st tomato ripen \ud83d\ude33 at least approximately, so I know where it&#8217;s better to plant it \ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Esme (Galina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (5,701 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>I soaked the seeds on March 6, they sprouted on March 18 (the seeds were valid until 12.2001, after all). I planted the seedlings outdoors in open ground on May 12.<\/p>\n<p>There were definitely no ripe ones in July, and I didn&#8217;t write down exactly when the first one ripened. Apparently, the mass ripening was already happening with other varieties, so I didn&#8217;t notice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">B<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">borchanochka (Polina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (9,895 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Esme said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I soaked the seeds on March 6&#8230; There were definitely no ripe ones in July&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Galya, so we should orient (roughly) around 150 days from sowing seeds to ripening, something like that?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">E<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">Esme (Galina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (5,701 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>Polenka, probably so. But keep in mind that the summer was mediocre at best.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"forum-post\">\n<div class=\"author-header\">\n<div class=\"forum-avatar\">B<\/div>\n<div class=\"author-meta\">\n<div class=\"author-name\">borchanochka (Polina) <span class=\"author-stats\">\u2b50 Pro Grower (9,895 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"author-geo\">\ud83d\udccd Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote><p><strong>Esme said:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Polenka, probably so. But keep in mind that the summer was mediocre at best.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Galya. Who knows &#8211; maybe after acclimatization the timeframe will be reduced, at least by 10 days, which is quite a significant time for the harvest \ud83c\udf3a<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick Summary of Sigarovidnyi Malinovyi (Raspberry Cigar) \ud83c\udf0d Origin: A commercial Russian variety introduced by the &#8220;Aelita&#8221; seed company. The name translates to &#8220;Raspberry Cigar&#8221; (or Crimson Cigar), perfectly describing its shape and color. 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