Yusupovskiye (Uzbekskie) Tomato Review: Giant Asian Heirloom

I planted Yusupovskiye for the first time, bought the seeds from V. Redko. Grew them in the greenhouse. I had two bushes, trained them to 3-4 stems. The height of the plant was about 1.80m (6 ft), the bush is vigorous, although there weren’t many suckers. The fruits are large (there were no small ones), meaty, tasty, but not very productive.

But to me they seemed very large and productive. I will definitely plant them next year.

Lana, I think they need to be given another chance. I don’t know how it is in your city of Izhevsk, but our summer was very extreme. Half the summer was terrifying heat, blossoms were dropping off despite everything. Well, and the second half of the summer, it just poured down completely. I was a smart girl 😄 I somehow felt it and planted my tomatoes on raised beds, so the harvest, except for the two lost first trusses, was more or less decent for this year. Especially since you say the tomatoes are tasty and all large. You have to give them a chance to show themselves. 😉

My Yusupovskiye had some kind of weird quirk 😲. I never figured out if it was a disease or just a trait of the variety 😲 The thing is, the fruits had an incredibly long fruit stem, about 10-12 centimeters (4-4.7 inches). The sepals were fused together and simultaneously fused with the receptacle. It looked like a virus, but this feature was noticed only on the Yusupovskiye and on all three bushes of this variety that grew in the greenhouse. At the same time, the fruits were very large, tasty, and generally productive. I saved seeds, but still haven’t decided if I will plant them 😕 Has anyone else observed the same feature in this variety? By the way, seeds are from Redko.

Anastasiya, I planted Yusupovskiye from Redko. I didn’t seem to have what you are describing. Overall I really liked the variety. Thin skin, not sour, quite productive.

I am also going to plant Yusupovskiye from Popenko for the first time. I’ve heard a lot of good things about them. Tell me, how did you guys prune/train them? It seems to me that 4 stems for such a variety is way too much…. Maybe 2 will be enough? And also, is the bush very sprawling or compact?

I planted Uzbekskie (Yusupovskiye) this year. The variety impressed me! The tomatoes are large, the variety is quite productive. The taste is good, tomatoey, not sour. My weight was about 600-700g (1.3-1.5 lbs). And they were this weight almost all over the bush, only in late autumn, in September, they became smaller.

Trained to two stems.

Ira, thank you. I will also train them to 2 stems.

I also trained them to two stems. I liked the variety very much. First of all because of the taste, not very productive, but the tomatoes were all large.

Seeds were from Redko.

Ira, it’s just a miracle! Ira, and are they bright red in color for you, exactly like in the photo? Is the color not distorted?

Mine were the color and shape like Lana’s.

Galya, in the photo they look slightly orange, or something… in reality they were redder, a classic red!

If it weren’t for the desire to try other interesting varieties, I would definitely plant them again! Maybe I’ll come back to this someday. When I get tired of experimenting.

Otherwise, a worthy variety both in taste and appearance.

A very worthy variety 👍😋 Large-fruited, quite productive. Grew in a polycarbonate greenhouse. Mid-season.

Grew my largest tomato this year.

Tomatoes of simply monstrous weight 🙈

600 grams (1.3 lbs) is just… for a warm-up…

The taste is good.. tomatoey.

The bush itself doesn’t shine with health for me. You need to tame the variety. The fruits are large, beautiful, but the plant itself is a bit sickly, although not thin-legged. In general, it behaves like a first-year plant, I will continue to grow it from my own saved seeds, but for now I’m just keeping an eye on it. I have a lot of giants this year and this one is not the best, although it is large-fruited, yes.

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The bush itself doesn’t shine with health for me. You need to tame the variety…

In my garden, Yusupovskiy is also noticeably lagging behind other giants. I think it’s a bit too cold for it.

Grew in the greenhouse, trained to 3 stems. Very productive, tasty. The fruits are large, heavy. It made it into my top list for yield.

A candidate for next year. I want to plant even 2 bushes. 👍👍

Grew it for the first time in 2015. In a glass greenhouse, trained to 2 stems. Strong trusses, set fruit well. Quite large fruits filled out in the heat. They took a long time to color up. As a result – they all ended up with white hard veins inside. I didn’t understand the taste. But the ones that I picked green in August counter-ripened well and had a good sweet-and-sour taste. Meaty and juicy at the same time. It makes sense to repeat.

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Tomatoes of simply monstrous weight 🙈
600 grams is just… for a warm-up…

Andrey is right – there were absolutely no small fruits, not even medium-weight ones! I grew them from seeds sent to me by girls from Siberia!
Strong, tall plants with vigorous foliage 🙌 I trained them to 2 and 3 stems (I had several bushes) – they easily withstood the load of large fruits. The taste is worthy! I would rate it 4+ (for me, a 5 is when sweetness dominates the taste) 📝

Really liked the variety 👍
Not much foliage, it didn’t rush strongly upwards, the tomatoes are large even on the upper trusses (in the second photo), it was less affected by leaf mold (Cladosporium) than the others. Definitely not early.
You take a tomato in your hands – and your soul rejoices, heavy, beautiful, meaty, true tomato flavor 😋
I am increasing its planting in 2016.

I’ve been growing it for 2 years now, the second year it was much more productive. In the blazing sun, the fruits ripen faster, but the taste can suffer. It’s better to provide shade.

Yusupovskiy. Indet bush. I liked it as a seedling – such a sturdy little guy…. 🙌 Set 4 tiers by the end of summer. A bit late… Taste is with a slight tartness. A solid variety 👍 even though it wasn’t super productive for me… conclusion – it needs to be acclimated to our climate.

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Yusupovskiy. Indet bush. I liked it as a seedling – such a sturdy little guy…. 🙌 Set 4 tiers by the end of summer. A bit late… Taste is with a slight tartness…

Mine was sweet in the greenhouse. Liked it very much. Tasty, tender and very juicy. It’s a pity that it’s late. Last year’s cold August didn’t let it fruit to its full potential.

A compatriot from Tashkent, Svetlana Zhumabayeva, shared seeds with me. It’s a short-growing Uzbek Pink variety, grows slowly, the bush is sturdy, looks like a Dwarf project tomato, the leaves are rugose (wrinkled), covers the fruits well from the scorching sun. Shade-tolerant. The fruits are pink, oblate, up to 100g (3.5 oz), walls are thick and dense, good for pickling and fresh eating. Doesn’t drop blossoms, sets fruit well in the heat. You can start the seeds 2-3 weeks earlier. Height indoors up to 70 cm (27 inches), outdoors up to 50-60 cm (20-23 inches). The ripening time turned out to be closer to late, but it grew in the shade for me.

In the 2016 season, Yusupovskiye again pleased me with the chic taste of the fruits. In the greenhouse, the yield turned out much better than in the open ground in the 2015 season. Apparently, it’s a bit too cold for it without a greenhouse in the Moscow region.

And for me this year, the yield in 1 stem in the polycarbonate greenhouse was below average – 7 pieces of half a kilo (1.1 lbs) each. 5 colored up on the bush. 2 counter-ripened well. The taste is very good just like in 2015. There were a few hard white veins. But the heat in the greenhouse was over 50C (122F)! Maybe I’ll plant it again someday.

The “Uzbek” didn’t like the cold St. Petersburg summer) One tomato was quite large (about 400 grams / 14 oz) and a couple of small ones… That’s the entire harvest from the bush(( Someday I might repeat it, but not next season. I had varieties of the same size, but more productive.

I dreamed of this variety for a long time. Thanks to Olga ivolga, she sent me seeds. This year 2 roots are growing. For me, this variety is behaving strangely, it blooms, little belly-buttons hang there, a month later they started to swell. Growing very slowly. Training to 3 stems.

The bush today is no more than 1.5 meters (4.9 ft). I certainly know they are late. Maybe they will suddenly rush to swell and ripen. I’m waiting for large tomatoes, if there are 10 pcs per bush, I will be happy.

Purchased seeds at a regional exhibition. A little packet… Samara seeds. Trained to one stem.

My mania – if I see a seed, I plant it (same thing with oaks, chestnuts, pines), sometimes it bears “FRUIT”: I worked on a construction site, next to us was a crew from Uzbekistan, they treated us to Tomatoes. How they transported them, I don’t know, said they call them Uzbekskie, but I hadn’t seen such sizes on the market. Naturally, I pilfered some seeds, planted them, I remember the bush wasn’t tall, tomatoes were large, though not 1kg (2.2 lbs). The next year seeds were left, I planted them and that was it… got little peas, and I hadn’t saved any seeds from the previous year 😢