Are Russian Rose Tomatoes Orange?

Dutch · October 7, 2011

I thought I was growing two Russian Rose plants, but the tomatoes appear to be quite orange in color. I’m guessing these seeds were mislabeled. I grew quite a few yellow/orange and I’ve included pictures of some of the large ones, but none of them look similar to the miss labeled Russian Rose.

**carolyn137** · October 7, 2011

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Originally Posted by Dutch

I thought I was growing two Russian Rose plants, but the tomatoes appear to be quite orange in color. I’m guessing these seeds were mislabeled. I grew quite a few yellow/orange and I’ve included pictures of some of the large ones, but none of them look similar to the miss labeled Russian Rose.

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com:88/wiki/Russian_Rose

Above is Tania's page for Russian Rose.

And I looked in several SSE YEarbooks and all who list it list it in the PInk/Purple section and say it's pink.

So the Tomatofest seeds are wrong. And in the past there have been some problems with wrong seed from Tomatofest, not that that's unusual for any source for OP varieties, but perhaps a bit more than others.

You can check the thread in the Seed and Plant Source Forum and take a look at the Tomatofest thread if you wish. Right now I can't remember if there's just one thread or more than one so take a look around at the threads in that Forum.

Bama mater · October 7, 2011

I purchased Russian Rose seed several years back from Totally Tomatoes and have grown them every year since and they always produce med - large pink great tasting fruit and production has been very good also.

Dutch · October 8, 2011

My packet of Russian Rose seeds was not mislabeled by TomatoFest. I made a mistake. I miss read my notes. The garden plot that most my tomatoes are in this year is 50’x60’. There are nine rows with 30 plants each. The plants that were in question were at the beginning of row four. Row four took two sheet of paper to denote. Generally when I start a second page, I write row 4 continued. Well I didn’t write that on the top of the second page of row four and I transposed the two pages. TomatoFest did not make a mistake in this instance. My apologies.
Dutch

October 7, 2011	#3
Bama mater Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Huntsville, AL Posts: 269	I purchased Russian Rose seed several years back from Totally Tomatoes and have grown them every year since and they always produce med - large pink great tasting fruit and production has been very good also.

October 8, 2011	#4
Dutch Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: S.E. Wisconsin Zone 5b Posts: 1,831	My packet of Russian Rose seeds was not mislabeled by TomatoFest. I made a mistake. I miss read my notes. The garden plot that most my tomatoes are in this year is 50’x60’. There are nine rows with 30 plants each. The plants that were in question were at the beginning of row four. Row four took two sheet of paper to denote. Generally when I start a second page, I write row 4 continued. Well I didn’t write that on the top of the second page of row four and I transposed the two pages. TomatoFest did not make a mistake in this instance. My apologies. Dutch