Orange Minsk Heart

General Info
Seed Availability

Orange Minsk Heart
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	orange
Fruit shape	heart
Fruit size	large
Fruit type	slicer
Variety type	open-pollinated
Country	Belarus, USA

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - sliced fruit. 2014-09-20.

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Indet., slightly wispy plants with regular leaf foliage. Fruits are orange, large, and variable shapes - some are typical hearts, and some resemble beefsteak. 6-10 oz. Small seed chambers. Delicious sweet flavor. (15 seeds / packet)

Seed source:

Carolyn Male of Salem, New York (NY MA C) 13 / Jim Frick of Delaware / Andrey Baranovski of Minsk, Belarus (BELR BA A)

Year grown: 2014

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

History

Jim Frick of Delaware ('bigdaddy') grew Orange Minsk tomato in 2010, and he observed two shapes on the same plants - hearts and beefsteaks (see [1]). He saved seeds from heart-shaped fruits and sent it to Carolyn Male. In the subsequent growouts, this shape variation appeared to be stable.
Carolyn distributed seeds to Tomatoville members in her annual seed offer in January 2013.
First offered in the Seed Savers 2013 Yearbook by Carolyn Male of Salem, New York (NY MA C), who was given the seed by Jim Frick of Delaware in 2011.

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Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - baby fruit. 2014-06-27.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - ripening fruit. 2014-08-12.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - ripe fruit. 2014-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - ripe fruit. 2014-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - ripe fruit. 2014-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - ripe fruit. 2014-09-20. 2014-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - sliced fruit. 2014-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - sliced fruit. 2014-08-26.
Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Orange Minsk Heart - sliced fruit. 2014-09-20.