Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko)

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Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko)
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	semi-det.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	pink
Fruit shape	heart
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated, heirloom
Country	Russia

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko) - sliced fruit. 2015-07-30.

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Indet., but relatively compact plant with wispy regular leaf foliage. Large pink heart shaped fruits, mostly blunt, but some are more pointy. 10-12 oz. Delicious flavor, meaty and juicy, not many seeds. (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)

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History

• Russian heirloom variety from Khilenko Family.
• 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.

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Russian name: Бычье Сердце (Хиленко)

The name means 'Bull's heart from Khilenko' in Russian.

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Description in Russian

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko) - ripe fruit. 2015-07-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko) - sliced fruit. 2015-07-26.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko) - sliced fruit. 2015-07-30.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Bychye Serdtse (Khilenko) - sliced fruit. 2015-07-30.

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