The "Copper River" tomato variety was sent to me from Kazakhstan. I've always grown the most common tomatoes—pink and red. Then I got a yellow, very sweet tomato, the "Buyan Yellow."
But multicolor tomatoes (bicolors, multicolors) with two or three different colors held no interest for me. When I received an envelope with a multitude of unfamiliar seed varieties, I wanted to know what these tomatoes looked like.
Here's what I found on the internet about the Copper River variety.
Description:
- The variety is semi-determinate, which means that after forming 10-12 clusters, the bush stops growing.
Medium-sized - the height of the bush outdoors is from 0.8 m, in a greenhouse up to 1.5 m. - Mid-season - ripens in 100-112 days from germination.
- A cluster produces 3-5 fruits weighing 200 to 400 g. The fruits have a tricolor coloring—pink, emerald, and brown. The flesh is sweet, and the skin does not crack.
- The variety is cold-resistant, hardy, tolerates heat well, and is resistant to many bacterial and fungal diseases.
In the spring, I sowed seeds for seedlings. There were only five of them, and unlike other seeds, they germinated very poorly. The sprouts were weak. I somehow managed to select two sprouts and transplanted them into separate cups.
At the end of April I planted one bush in the greenhouse, and the second one in the garden at the end of May.
The bushes transplanted to the open air developed well, there were many inflorescences, but not all of them set; there were 2-4 tomatoes on the brushes both in the greenhouse and outside.
They began to ripen in mid-August. The fruits varied in shape, some flattened and round, others ribbed, and even a single bush bore both.
On the street bush, some tomatoes were deformed, but in the greenhouse there were no deformed fruits.
Perhaps their shape was affected by adverse weather conditions. Some tomatoes cracked outside, most likely due to excess moisture.
Ripe tomatoes from Copper River are green-brown with a copper tint, and the shoulders of the fruit are green.
The fruits varied in weight: some were large, over 400 grams, and some were not so large.
The tomatoes have juicy flesh, a multicolored emerald and raspberry hue. This is what they look like when cut.
This photo shows a comparison with the Happy Captain tomato, which has more green, while the Copper River tomato is predominantly pink, with green only at the edges.
The tomato tastes sweet and the flesh is juicy.
I collected seeds from the largest and best tomato.
Next year I'll plant a couple of tomatoes of the Copper River variety.