Malinovoe Chudo

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Malinovoe Chudo
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	beefsteak
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated, commercial
Country	Russia

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Malinovoe Chudo - ripe fruit. 2013-10-17.

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Indet. but compact plants with dense regular leaf foliage. Pink boat-shaped oblate fruits are 6-12 oz, with meaty flesh and excellent sweet flavor. (very limited, 12 seeds / packet)

Seed source:

Elena Abolmasova, Staten Island, New York 13 / Lidia Gansen, Moscow region, Russia

Year grown: 2013

Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)

These were dark pinkish red beefsteaks, about a pound each. A few were quite large. They were soft-fleshed. They could be quite sweet (the sweetest tomato I've tried at this size), but a smaller one I had was bitter. Most were sweet, but not super sweet. Production was decent. They were prone to catfacing. They didn't have much hang time—they were crowded; so, some were overripe by the time I found them. I grew seeds from two sources, but they faired the same and looked/tasted the same.

Seed source:

Barbee of tomatoville.com (I received them on 3 Mar 2016; the ancestral seed was from Carolyn Male) and doublehelixfarms.com (purchased 1 Jan 2016 under the name Raspberry Miracle)

Year grown: 2016

Location: New Plymouth, Idaho

History

Russian commercial variety.
Introduced commercially in North America by Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds in 2014.

Also known as

Raspberry Miracle

Russian name: Малиновое чудо

The name can be translated as 'Raspberry-pink wonder', 'Raspberry Miracle', or 'Dark pink wonder' from Russian.

Description in Russian

"Cорт среднеспелый, индетерминантный, салатный. Плоды плоско-округлые, цвет малиново-красный, весом 400-600 г, до 1000 г, мясистые, среднеребристые, вкусные. Высота куста 150-200 см."