Praise for Azoychka again

[tjg911]

I grew Azoychka in 2005 in a 5 gallon pail, 42 DTM and good taste for a yellow tomato. Of the 12 container plants that season, Azoychka and Wes (1st time for each) were the best tasting. I had Prue and Off the Vine Brandywine in pails and they were big disappoints, especially as they are 2 of my top favorites! So I figured that container grown tomatoes were not as good as garden grown. Wes was spectacular in the garden last year.
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So this year I wanted to see how Azoychka would do (as in how much better) grown in the garden. Well it took longer for the DTM at 51 days but the tomatoes are bigger, perhaps 33% bigger. The flavor is good tho I can't say any better than in 2005. Plant height is about the same, perhaps a bit more foliage.
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I am not fond of yellow tomatoes. My favorites are reds, pinks and a couple of golds all with strong flavor. There's no doubt Azoychka will not be my 1st pick in another 2+ weeks when those reds and pinks are in top form but I just think Azoychka is a top rate tomato, for a yellow tomato. Azoychka is so early it's a winner just on that count. The flavor is pretty darned good and considering this is the 1st good tasting tomato I have eaten since last September it is great!
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If you haven't tried Azoychka perhaps you should consider it. It's a real treat to get tomatoes this early in the season.
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Tom

[Hilde]

Mmmm, I am growing it for the first time this year, and can't wait to taste it. Thanks for sharing!

Hilde

[where_with_all]

I just had my first azoychka for the season last night. I grew it last year and thought it was a great early season tomato- better tasting thena other early season variaties.

Tasted great. I love that tomato

[nctomatoman]

Yup. I've been enjoying Azoychka since the mid 1990's.

Tom, wait until we get some of the new Dwarf varieties stabilized - there are some yellows in the Sneezy series that I bet you'd love!

[akgardengirl]

I know this has been discussed before but I did not find the post. What type of leaves does the real Azoychka have? I seem to have the fake one as it had potato foliage, was not early, and didn't produce but a couple of tiny tomatoes late in the season. I am hoping someone could provide a description of the real one.
Thanks,
Sue

[tjg911]

my seeds always have produced regular leafed plants. i am pretty certain that is the correct type.

tom

[Sherry_AK]

Oh, gosh, Sue ... were those the seeds I sent you a couple years ago?

This year I grew 3 Azoychka plants. One was from my own saved seeds and 2 were purchased seed from Victory. All were RL, and all produced at least a couple nice, big tomatoes. The seeds I sent you in '05 would have either been my saved seeds or the commercial seed from TGS (which would have been the parent of my saved seed).

I hope I didn't do this to you!

Sherry

[nctomatoman]

Indeterminate, Regular leaf, quite early, oblate, somewhat ribbed and ridged yellow fruit with pale yellow interiors - good yield, nice assertive, tart flavor - especially for a yellow!

[akgardengirl]

Sherry,
No, I didn't use your seeds this year and I didn't have any saved seeds from my own fruits last year, which would of been from your seed. Instead, I went with a different trade which had nice big seeds in a clear package. They looked the biggest so I went with those! I wanted to make sure since I don't keep records on the regular tomatoes I grow that I had the right seed. I saw another post somewhere where they said it was not potato leaf and that is what I had this season. How did yours do this season? Any production improvement? I don't know if I want to throw in the towel on this one or what. It didn't do well last year but it was outdoors all season. This year it was the wrong one!
Sue

[Sherry_AK]

Sue,

I only grow this one outdoors. I'm well pleased this year to have picked ripe fruit off any of the outdoor tomatoes! The plant from my own saved seed was much earlier than the other 2. First fruit picked was on 8/7. I've picked 4 tomatoes off that one so far (OK everybody, I know that's not a lot for most of the U.S.!); 5 oz, 5-7/8 oz, 5-3/4 oz and 4 oz. I'm happy with that and will continue to grow it. The first fruit from the Victory Seed plant was 9/1 and weighed 7-1/4 oz. The third plant has yet to give me a ripe one, because it's planted in a raised bed which is always iffy, but I just keep trying! There are a good number of green ones which will probably ripen when brought indoors.

As a separate note to Sue, I'm extremely pleased to report that my other raised beds have yielded at least a couple from Early Girl, Northern Exposure, Stupice and Siberian. This is the first year ever that I've had ripe tomatoes from a raised bed other than the one up against the south side of the greenhouse.

Sherry

[Andrey_BY]

Sad to admit we've almost forgot this wonderful non-commercial OP variety here in CIS. As I already mentioned before Azoychka is the wrong translated English name for this Russian variety (by Marina Danilenko, Russian friend of SSE). The right name is Azochka (this is a variation of the Russian female name Aza). The second original name for this variety is Zolotoy Barago.

It had been popular here in former USSR in 80s-90s... Now it's quite rare, but I'm working on the opposite