Tomato, Uralskiy Ranniy (Organic)
Solanum lycopersicum. 50 days. Det. Dwarf.
Unique, super early dwarf plants are very well-suited for container culture. Red, 2-4 oz, mini-beefsteak shaped fruit are juicy with good flavor. Consistently one of our earliest tomatoes to ripen in the field. Uralskiy Ranniy is extremely easy to grow and produces high yields – especially for such small plants. A Russian commercial variety, when translated means “Early from Ural.” In 2009 it was introduced commercially to North America by the wonderful seed company, Victory Seeds, located in Molalla, Oregon. Originally sent from Belarus by seed collector Andrey Baranovski of Minsk.
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Sow indoors in flats with good potting soil as early as February, but no later than April. Keep warm and well-watered. Up pot seedlings into 4” pots once they have two true leaves. Transplant into the garden once danger of frost has passed.
Seed Saving
Collect seeds from ripe fruit by squeezing into a jar and add 25% more water. Wait a few days for mold to form. When seeds sink and gel-sac is gone, stir, add water, then decant and rinse to clean. Dry thoroughly. Tomatoes are mostly self-pollinating; isolation is not usually needed for seeds to be true to type.
Kim Koch (verified owner) –
Where did you grow this variety? Oregon
I’ve grown these for 3 years and they are fantastic! I live 1 mile up the Nehalem River from the coast and Nehalem Or. I’ve got an unusually warm spot, but tomatoes are always difficult here. These are stout, dense and bushy plants that produce piles! They are small to medium, good slicers and ever better for soup or sauce. I look forward to tomato soup from these every year. They even did well last year, 2019, with little sun and cool temps all summer! Get’em!
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cynara c –
Where did you grow this variety? Washington
Grew in the garden. These were slower to start ripening than expected for such an early variety. I did relocate two of my three plants in late August and the one that got better deep watering continued to produce fruits until now (the first week of October). But all three plants behaved as an indeterminate. Fine by me. Fruit size varied from cherry size to small slicer and flavor varied from sweet-n-wow to meh. Will probably try again next year as when the flavor is great, it is great, and the fact that the one plant did so well after relocation at a suboptimal time suggests it’s a hardy variety. (The third plant that was not relocated was in a 5 gallon container and produced accordingly – less than the others.)
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Lorena Elliott (verified owner) –
Where did you grow this variety? Oregon
We love the flavor and size of Uralskiy Ranniy and have grown them in containers for the past three years in Monmouth, OR. Great small slicers on top of pizza!
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