Babushkino Bychie Serdtse

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Babushkino Bychie Serdtse
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	heart
Fruit size	medium
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated, heirloom
Country	Russia

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Babushkino Bychye Serdtse - sliced fruit. 2015-08-19.

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Indet. plants with regular leaf foliage. Pink hearts, some doubles and blunt hearts, 8-12 oz. Very juicy and meaty. Delicious rich flavor. (15 seeds / packet)

Seed source:

Aleksey Kulik, Ukraine 15 / Natalia Khilenko, Armavir, Russia 14

Year grown: 2015

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

History

Russian heirloom variety from Khilenko Family. The name means 'Grandma's Bull's Heart' in Russian.
The seeds were sent to Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds in 2014 by Aleksey Kulik, Ukraine 15, who received them from Natalia Khilenko of Armavir, Russia. Mrs. Khilenko and her family have been growing many native Russian heirlooms for many years, and she shared seeds from her seed collection with Aleksey Kulik, a Ukrainian seed vendor.
Introduced commercially by Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds in 2016.

Russian name: Бабушкино бычье сердце

The name means 'Grandma's Bull's Heart' in Russian.

Description in Russian

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Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Babushkino Bychye Serdtse - ripe fruit. 2015-08-19.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Babushkino Bychye Serdtse - sliced fruit. 2015-08-19.