📌 Quick Summary (TL;DR): Zore’s Big Red
- 🌍 Origin: A renowned heirloom variety. In Russian collections, it is often circulated under the translated name “Bolshoy Krasnyi Zora”.
- 🌿 Plant Habit: Indeterminate and tall. A notable feature of this specific strain grown by forum members is its Potato Leaf (PL) foliage, which is an interesting trait for an oxheart type.
- 🍅 Fruit Characteristics: Beautiful, large red oxhearts. Fruits can easily reach up to 500g (1.1 lbs). They are incredibly dense and meaty, with very few seeds inside the locules.
- 👅 Flavor: Sweet, aromatic, and very tasty. Highly recommended as a fresh slicing or salad tomato.
- ⏳ Maturity: Early season.
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Bolshoy Krasnyi Zora (Zore’s Big Red). Indeterminate with potato leaf (PL) foliage. The fruits are shaped like beautiful, meaty red hearts weighing up to 500g (1.1 lbs) with a very small amount of seeds. Sweet, and very tasty! I received it as seedlings from @Tatunya 👍
Edited September 24, 2021 by Svetikk
Early, tall, indeterminate variety. The fruits are large, meaty, have very few seeds, tasty, and aromatic. Excellent for fresh slicing / salad purpose.


