2012 Tatiana's tomatoes

[Tania]

Ira, thank you - I am so happy to hear that you had a success with my seeds. I know this summer has been a challenge both for us in PNW and the NYers.

More pictures are coming!

[Tania]

It is yellow, and it is blushing
Very nice flavor with an acidic/citrusy zing.

[Tania]

Another impressive Russian plum tomato. Krupnaya Slivka means 'Giant Plum' in Russian and it is giant indeed! Pretty good yields of large plums - they need strong support to hold all these fruits.

[Tania]

I am still trying to figure out if this tomato is identical to John Losasso's Low Acid Rosey. In any event, this one matured fruit earlier, and it is a nicely shaped red. Taste test is pending.

EDITED on Sept 7: Taste is balanced, and pretty good. But I wish I let the fruit to ripen a bit longer.

[Tania]

Got small red tomatoes from the plants, so it is obviously a seed mixup of some sort. A disappointment, as I now have to look again for correct seeds of Ohio Pink.

[Tania]

I think it is the same as Volovsko Srce, fruits are identical. Just a different spelling and a different seed source.

[Tania]

Another segregation line from SunGold F1 x Mom's cross, it is more advanced. I was selecting for orange fruits, but this one threw out some bright red cherries. Outstanding flavor, but wrong color

Two plants out of three produced red cherries and only 1 gave me what I was looking for, ripening just a couple of days later.

[Tania]

I was looking forward to tasting this one, as I was intrigued by the description provided by Blue Ribbon Tomatoes. Too bad, this fruit was almost fully rotten from the bottom, not edible. I have to wait for more fruits to ripen!

[Tania]

Another perfectly shaped and very productive small round red tomato.

[Tania]

This is a wrong one again, but a very interesting one! Looks like Green Zebra, but it has dark red stripes too, in addition to yellow stripes. Last year I grew Marz Green tomato from a different seed source, and never got a correct (small green) fruit either. So I am trying it from 2 different sources this year, and again getting some striped tomatoes. Looks like Marz Green was not entirely stable when the seeds were listed at SSE Yearbook, and it continues to throw some surprising segregations. Seeds saved for future growouts.

[Tania]

Perfectly shaped pink hearts, very lovely, and just a few days later than Volovsko Srce. Plants are more disease tolerant, they are still pretty healthy looking, after surviving the late blight outbreak in July. They are in my container garden that was hit pretty badly by blight.

[Tania]

This is one of the early tomatoes that I recommend to anyone who grows tomatoes in PNW. The reason is simple - it is a reliable early producer. I was not disappointed again this year, when I was doing some germination testing of the seeds from 2006 and did not have a heart to throw away the sprouts, although it was already late for me to start any tomatoes for this season. Plants were still in their 2" pots when I transplanted them into the open! ground at the end of June, and they caught up wonderfully and produced. I have a tray of ripe fruits now, and they are wonderful in salads, similar to Earl of Edgecombe in texture and flavor, maybe a tad more juicy. Anyway, enough 'marketing' . Fresh seeds are coming soon!

[Tapete]

Originally Posted by tania

firm flesh, nice flavor. Typical 'tough' russian ('tough' not in terms of fruit, but in terms of cold tolerance, don't get me wrong! )

Тут нечему смеяться

[Tapete]

When I imagined, I had to test them all for taste...
is it the tomatoeheaven or hell?

[Tania]

Tapete, I think I am in tomato heaven as far as the tasting goes. I am just so glad I got tomatoes this year! Last year was a complete disaster.

I am sure it'll come to hell when it is time to clean the garden