Belye Nochi

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Belye Nochi
Maturity	early
Growth habit	det.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	red
Fruit shape	globe
Fruit size	small
Fruit type	salad, canner
Variety type	commercial, open-pollinated
Country	Russia

Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - sliced ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.

B.C KO T

Early, compact det. plants with regular foliage, sets fruit early even in our cold spring weather, very productive, fruit sets all at once. Produces small round red slightly flattened globes about 1-2 oz, which are firm and meaty and have full tomato flavor. Green fruits have beautiful dark green shoulders that disappear when they turn red. Large seeds. In 2009, it ripened at the end of June, which is very early for our zone.

Seed source:

BELR BA A 05 (Andrey Baranovski of Minsk, Belarus) / Russian CV Biotechnika, St. Peterburg

Year grown: 2005 (crop failure), 2009

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

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TX AN S

60-65 days, a.k.a. White Nights, semi-det., regular leaf plants, medium size fruit, good flavor for an early variety, Russian, from St. Petersburg.

Source 

BELR BA A 06 (Andrey Baranovski of Minsk, Belarus)

Year: 2007

Location: Bastrop, Texas

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GERM SC K

Round red tomato, indet., regular leaf

Source 

B.C KO T

Year: 2011

Location: Quitzdorf am See, Germany

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Russian name: Белые ночи.

The name means 'White nights' in Russian and refers to the white nights typical to the St. Petersburg area in summer time.

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History

• Russian commercial variety from St. Petersburg.
• Andrey Baranovski of Minsk, Belarus distributed the seed for this tomato in 2004 via Garden Web seed exchange under the translated name White Nights. Several SSE members picked it up and listed it in the Seed Savers Yearbook as a red medium size tomato. Later Andrey introduces it in Seed Savers 2007 Yearbook as Belye Nochi and lists it as 55-60 days, early, det. plant with a good yield of dark raspberry pink meaty 60-80 g round fruits, good keeper, rather cold tolerant, from Russian CV Bioteknika, St. Peterburg, which is consistent with the descriptions that some Russian seed vendors provide for this tomato.

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Also known as

• White Nights
• Belje Notschi (alternative spelling)

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Picture Gallery

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - seedlings. 2009-02-07

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Belje Notschi - flower. June 7, 2011.

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  Olena Tsygankova, Alberta. Belye Nochi - plant. 2012-07-25.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - fruit set. 2009-06-06

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - fruit set. 2009-06-06

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  Olena Tsygankova, Alberta. Belye Nochi - green fruit. 2012-07-25.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Belje Notschi - baby fruit. June 28, 2011.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - green fruit. 2009-06-27

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - green fruit. 2009-06-27

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - ripening fruit. 2009-06-27

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. August 5, 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. August 5, 2011.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. August 20, 2011.

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  Klaus-Peter Schurz (GERM SC K). Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. August 20, 2011.

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  Patty Brown, Ohio. Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. 2012-07-15. Posted with the owner's permission.

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  Patty Brown, Ohio. Belye Nochi - ripe fruit. 2012-07-15. Posted with the owner's permission.

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  Tatiana Kouchnareva (B.C KO T). Belye Nochi - sliced ripe fruit. 2009-07-11.

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  Susan Anderson (TX AN S): Belye Nochi. 2007

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
2018		.	.
2017		.	.
2016		.	.
2015		.	.
2014	J&L Gardens Seed - new	.	.
2013	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds - sold out for 2013	.	.
2012	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds	1	0
2011	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds	2 (as White Nights)	1
2010	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds	2 (as White Nights) + 1 (red) + 1 (pink)	.
2009	Tatiana's TOMATObase Seeds	2	.
2008		1	.
2007		1	.

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