Yamal 200 Tomato: Real Grower Reviews

Description from the seed packet:
Ultra-early (95-100 days from germination to fruiting) variety for outdoor cultivation. The plant is a stocky tree-type (rugose) dwarf, compact, 30-40 cm (12-16 inches) tall. The fruits are red, oblate (flat-round), slightly ribbed, very tasty. Fruit weight up to 200 g (7 oz). Requires no pruning/suckering. Valued for high early yield, especially in the first ten days of harvesting, before the mass outbreak of Late Blight (Phytophthora). Resistant to blossom end rot and root rot. Universal usage.

Photo author: MADanilich

I planted Yamal quite a long time ago. It was not ultra-early, the fruits didn’t reach 200g. Otherwise, it corresponds to the description.

Planted it in 2014. I accidentally forgot that it was a dwarf and planted the seedling next to the tall varieties. It was a scrawny runt before transplanting. Then it became a sturdy, thick little guy, the leaves were loooong. It bloomed in August 😲 Later than all the other tomatoes. Fruits started to set. There were few of them and they were not flattened like in the pictures, but in the shape of little pumpkins, slightly ribbed. It was outdoors, so it didn’t have time to ripen on the bush. In general, I didn’t understand this “ultra-early” variety 😲 Or did I ruin it in its infancy and that’s why it fell so far behind?
Moreover, the rest of the varieties fruited normally.

Here, I uploaded photos.
Seedling (The shadow over it is from tall cherry tomatoes).
On the bed.
Fruits.

I don’t remember it when ripe. Or the taste. Seeds were from Gavrish company.

Planted it on the windowsill.
I counted on it being a dwarf, but as a result, the plant shot up to more than a meter (3.2 ft) tall.
For some reason, the fruits on each branch are of a different shape.
A few had Blossom End Rot (BER), non-bacterial.
This didn’t happen with other varieties.

Quote by mishkind:
Planted it on the windowsill. I counted on it being a dwarf, but as a result, the plant shot up to more than a meter… A few had Blossom End Rot.

That is NOT “Yamal-200″…. some kind of fake garbage! 😄😄 Excuse me!

For me, these are my MAIN early tomatoes; the next ones in terms of earliness and versatility are “Aurora”. They are more productive.

Colleagues, I am completely confused by the two Yamals… 😄

There is Yamal and there is Yamal-200. I understand that these are different tomatoes? I bought Yamal-200. On the packet the description says: fruits are round, smooth, weighing up to 70 g (2.5 oz). Seeds from “Dom Semyan”, St. Petersburg.

I looked in the State Register, and there the mass is stated as up to 90 g (3.1 oz), fruit is oblate, medium-ribbed.. 😕

I hope that there is actually Yamal-200 in the packet, and they just didn’t have the appropriate picture at the printing house, so they slapped on whatever they had.. 😄

Yamal 200 from Gavrish, sown on 14.03.13, transplanted outdoors on 12.05.13, picked the first fruit on June 27th. The bush is about 30 cm (12 inches) tall, the fruits are definitely not 200g, maybe 70g (2.5 oz) exactly. In the photo, Yamal is lying next to the crate, on the table.

So it justified its claimed early ripening. And how did it taste? When did it finish its growing cycle?

The taste was on the sour side, but hey, it’s the very first one, and that’s joyful 😄
And it grew all summer long.

Irin, such a tiny thing, but resilient and prolific! 😄
I’ll forgive an early tomato anything, that’s true. The main thing – as long as it’s not bitter! 😄
The only question is, what exactly is in my packet from Dom Semyan..
Or should I buy Yamal-200 from Gavrish after all?

Irin, I know why yours is so noble: You are a compatriot of the original breeder! Kozak is from the Stupino district..

Veronika, I didn’t even know such details. Thank you, it will be doubly pleasant to grow it now! 😄

To each their own, but I like “Yamal-200”. Its fruit weight averaged 100 gr (3.5 oz) this year. About 30-40% of them were 150-200 gr (5.3-7 oz). It’s a sin to complain about the yield for such an early variety. I grow it in the greenhouse.

I wonder, what if you put it under a frost blanket or plastic film? My greenhouse is completely dedicated to tall indeterminate varieties.

Its earliness is based on the “Otradny” variety. The combination of ultra-earliness and a 200g (7 oz) fruit is impossible, that’s a lie. Judging by what people describe in this thread – the variety hardly exists as such, and they sell all sorts of wild mixes in the seed packets.

At a Moscow region meetup, a kind person slipped a packet into the seed exchange box. Thank you very much, it grew in the greenhouse, a handsome guy, heavily loaded with fruit.

In terms of weight, mine matches Gavrish’s claimed characteristics “productive, up to 200 g”, about 70% reached the stated weight.
“Short, unpretentious”, “compact, up to 50 cm tall” – yes.
“Ultra-early” – well, absolutely not, in my conditions it was closer to mid-late. And this is in the greenhouse.
“Requires no pruning” – that is untrue. (It required some maintenance).

No BER or Late Blight yet, but I stepped up my agricultural techniques this year.
The taste is average of average, nothing special so to speak.
P.S.: it seems like everyone has different Yamals. Or not Yamals at all.

Quote by MADanilich:
I like “Yamal-200”

+1
Suitable for my conditions, productive.

Quote by mishkind:
Planted it on the windowsill. I counted on it being a dwarf, but as a result, the plant shot up to more than a meter…

Mikhail, that is NOT “Yamal 200”. You were scammed. Yamal has a fibrous root system and the fruits are good for processing/canning. Weighing up to two hundred grams – those are the first fruits, later on they are like “standard 180 gr +/- 10 gr” (6.3 oz).

Yamal 200
Early-ripening tomato with a good tomato flavor. Not sour. The bushes were simply covered with plum-shaped fruits.