Zolotye Gory Medeo (Golden Mountains of Medeo) Tomato Review

Hello everyone. I want to introduce a variety I obtained through crossing and careful fruit selection. I won’t say what I crossed with what, and I certainly won’t write it down. That stays a secret. But I’ll tell you a little bit about the variety itself.

It’s an indet. Very tall. Outdoors in the dirt, it grew over 6.5 feet (2 m). Pruned to two stems. By the fifth truss, fruits weighing over 1.1 lbs (500 g) managed to fully ripen. There were 10 fruits total. The largest of them was 1.8 lbs (840 g). The smallest ripe one was 1 lb (450 g). The shape is dome-like, not heart-shaped. Later on, when all the ripe fruits were picked, another 7 smaller fruits grew but didn’t have time to ripen before the season ended.

In the greenhouse, the results were definitely worse. The fruits weighed less, and the flavor profile was pretty neutral. Outdoors, the taste is excellent: sweet with a distinct fruity aftertaste. And one more little detail: when the sun hits the fruit more directly, it gets redder and sweeter. It transports very well and has a great shelf life. Can sit fully ripe in the fridge for three weeks. I have some seeds, but not many.

Vitaly, you are awesome 😮 🎩 👏
The fruits are absolute beauties 👍 this is my favorite coloring 😉
Sign me up to test them out and adapt them to northern climates 😉

Sinyer (Vitaliy) said:
I want to introduce a variety I obtained through crossing and careful fruit selection. I won’t say what I crossed with what, and I certainly won’t write it down. That stays a secret.

How old is your variety? How consistently does it produce fruits that look like the ones in the picture?

AlexanderS (Alexander) said:
Vitaly, you are awesome 😮 🎩 👏 Sign me up to test them out…

Alexander, you’re exaggerating 😂 Awesome, sure 😂 Just busting my tail working in the garden like always.

Shelkovnitsa said:
How old is your variety? How consistently does it produce fruits that look like the ones in the picture?

Right now, this variety is in its third year. I planted ten bushes this year. Five in the greenhouse and five outdoors. All five outdoor bushes showed pretty much the exact same result. The greenhouse ones looked the same but were smaller in size and had a much more neutral taste. Still tasty, though. Almost zero acidity.

Absolutely beautiful! Just gorgeous! If you ever want to test it in a wet, damp climate, let me know… 😊
Words can’t describe how pretty it is. The shape looks exactly like the onion domes of an orthodox church.

I grew this one this year. It’s a heavy yielder, just like Zailiyskiy Alatau. Mine actually turned out looking very similar to each other. They are growing in different greenhouses, and the people I sold seedlings to also ended up with bicolors.
Golden Mountains of Medeo. Zailiyskiy Alatau.

Ovechka (Lyudmila) said:
I grew this one this year. It’s a heavy yielder, just like Zailiyskiy Alatau. Mine actually turned out looking very similar to each other…

Lyuda, Golden Mountains are Golden Mountains. But that Zailiyskiy you have isn’t the right variety. That one is also Golden Mountains. One of my relatives must have played a cruel joke on me.

Vitaliy, so far my Golden Mountains of Medeo and Zailiyskiy Alatau don’t look exactly alike. I’ll keep taking pictures of the fruits and weighing them. I’ll take pictures of the bushes too 📝

Ovechka (Lyudmila) said:
Vitaliy, so far my Golden Mountains of Medeo and Zailiyskiy Alatau don’t look exactly alike. I’ll keep taking pictures of the fruits and weighing them.

Lyuda, there is no way a solid raspberry-colored variety magically turns into a bicolor. Especially on all 20 fruits picked from three different bushes. That’s just impossible. However, I did find some spilled seeds inside my seed box [meaning they got mixed up].

Belka (Elena) said:
Absolutely beautiful! Just gorgeous! If you ever want to test it in a wet, damp climate, let me know…

Elena did manage to test it in the wet Moscow climate! I got my seeds from her in 2018 with the highest recommendations 🙏
A heavy-yielding, beautiful, and delicious variety, I really loved it 👍

My Golden Mountains of Medeo grew in a year where we basically skipped summer entirely. Tasty, beautiful tomatoes. Photo is from July 28th.
I only managed to dig out about 10 seeds from the ripe fruits. The bottom trusses had absolutely no seeds at all.
Right now the plants look like this:
I wonder, if I manage to save seeds from tomatoes that ripened indoors off the vine, will they be viable?

Is this variety mid-late? Late? What’s the timing like? For example, compared to German Orange Strawberry?

Nata N. (Natalya) said:
Is this variety mid-late? Late? What’s the timing like? For example, compared to German Orange Strawberry?

They have the exact same timing. Mid-season, but since they set fruit so well all the way up the vine, the last fruits from the very top will have to be picked green and brought inside to ripen off the vine on the counter 😊

Found a photo of my ripe Golden Mountains of Medeo fruits. Since we basically had zero summer this year, the plant only pumped out a real harvest in September. Because of that, almost all the tomatoes we ate were ripened indoors off the vine. But they still turned out tasty and very pretty.

Incredibly beautiful tomatoes! Just look at that meaty cross-section 😂

In 2019, I grew one bush outdoors in the dirt. They ripened off the vine indoors. But they had these really interesting folds, were very sweet, and I specifically noted how firm the meat was!
This year I planted a bush in the greenhouse. It wasn’t sprawling, honestly a bit spindly, and I pruned it to two stems. I wouldn’t call it late, more like mid-season. I dreamed of making sun-dried tomatoes out of it—and I did it!!!

During this difficult summer, it was one of my best. Didn’t drop a single blossom.

Golden Mountains of Medeo. Grew this wonderful variety from Vitaliy Alifirov (Almaty) again.

So beautiful! So delicious! Absolute love at first bite! 😘
Big thanks to Olga Kalugina for the seeds 🥰