Yellow Vernissage Tomato Review

An indeterminate yellow striped tomato, very similar to Huan U, Tzu By U (Violet Jasper), etc. The fruits are small and round. The color is pale yellow, they almost look translucent!

The taste is sweet and delicate. The tomato itself is very juicy with large seeds. The skin is quite thick and doesn’t peel off easily, so you just have to munch it with the skin on. It grew right next to my Pink Vernissage, and I definitely liked the Yellow one better-it turned out sweeter.

I grew mine in a container, pruned to 2 stems. Ruslan Dukhov writes in his catalog that he bred the entire Vernissage series himself (maybe he bred this one directly from Huan U! 😄).

The timeline of my Yellow Vernissage: Sown on March 8, transplanted into its final pot on May 7, the first truss bloomed around May 28, we ate the first ripe tomato on August 4, and I picked the very last 2 tomatoes on January 20!

A very worthy variety, actually, an incredible series! 👍 I personally didn’t like Huan U at all compared to this.

Yes! I really loved this variety. Delicious and productive! Thank you, Vera, for the seeds! 🌺

Katya, did you try growing the Black Vernissage?

tomatinka said:
Katya, did you try growing the Black Vernissage?

No, Vera, I haven’t grown that one yet. There are still so many varieties I haven’t tried… 😅

I grew the Yellow, the Pink, and Tzu By U. This year I am re-growing the Yellow and Tzu By U, but outdoors in the ground. We’ll see what happens. Growing in pots is a guarantee that I’ll at least eat *some* tomatoes, whereas planting outdoors here is always a crapshoot.

I received my Vernissage seeds from Katya (the author of the first post), who noted that you have to “munch them with the skin on” – thank you! They really are crunchy; this is only the second variety we’ve ever grown that audibly crunches when you chew it. WOW!

I planted 2 bushes outdoors. I didn’t sucker (prune) them at all, I just let them sprawl and run wild since I had the space. They spread out to about 3 feet (1 meter) wide and grew 6.5 ft (2 meters) tall. Photo taken on August 29.

Here is today’s harvest from those 2 outdoor bushes. I cut 20 full trusses off just one plant! The autumn rains have started, so it’s time to clear out the outdoor beds.

Here is my breakdown of the variety:
– Plant Habit: Early, powerful, sprawling indeterminate vine. Produces a lot of suckers.
– Fruit Set: Perfect, absolutely zero blossom drop.
– Height: By July 26th it was 5.2 ft (1.6m). Stayed around there through September.
– Trusses: Dense clusters, 4-5 tomatoes per truss.
– Fruit: Yellow with green stripes, very beautiful, perfectly uniform. The late-season ones get a bit smaller.
– Density: Medium firmness when ripe.
– Flavor: Juicy, distinct tomato flavor, sweetness rating 4 out of 5.

First impression: a beautiful fruit for canning.
Overall rating for the seedling vigor: 5/5. Bush: 4/5. Fruit: 4.5/5. Overall variety score: 4/5.

I really loved this entire series! 👍 Tasty, beautiful, very convenient size, and they hang well on the vine without dropping. It set fruit on every single truss without skipping a beat. All the Vernissage varieties have earned a permanent spot on my must-grow list!

Yellow Vernissage showed excellent yields in my greenhouse. It was mid-season and grew up to 6.5 ft (2 meters) tall. The fruits were incredibly juicy and sweet.

My love for cocktail tomatoes actually grew out of this Vernissage series. They are just incredibly reliable varieties. Visually, they look like Huan U. But Huan U eventually ripens into a plain yellow, whereas Vernissage keeps its beautiful stripes. Sets fruit tirelessly in any weather.

Very productive, fruits all the way up until the first frost. Taste-wise, they didn’t seem very sweet to me.

I grew Yellow Vernissage this year. Planted 2 bushes in the greenhouse, pruned each to 2 stems. And that was very hard to manage! It has insane growth vigor—the bush gets incredibly wide and tall. My yield was average, maybe leaning towards good.

The fruits have medium-thick skin, but when I tried to use them for canning, they split and burst immediately in the jars. For me, the taste was mealy and bland. Honestly, I don’t understand the purpose of this variety, I won’t be growing it again.

Mine apparently underwent genetic segregation (mutated) this year. The plant was really stressed, and the weather was terrible. Next year I’ll have to sow from this batch alongside my older seeds to compare.