Salute to Victoria (Victoria's Salute)
Avg. 15 tomato seeds
£4.95
Salute to Victoria (Victoria's Salute)Tomato
Bred and selected by celebrated Russian breeder Sofia Saakova (Stavropol, Russia), Salute to Victoria (Салют Виктории / Salut Viktorii / Salute to Victoria / Victoria's Salute) is a flagship release in Saakova’s anthocyanin breeding line. Famous for serving as the parent line to derived selections like Vivat Victoria, it produces ornate, multicoloured heart shaped fruits with rich, dark pigmentation and a complex, smoky sweet flavour profile.
Breeder & Origin: Sofia Saakova, Stavropol, Russia
Parentage & Lineage: While the precise parental cross remains undisclosed by Saakova, it is documented as an authorial stabilised selection derived from her high anthocyanin and multicolour oxheart lines. It serves as the genetic foundation for Vivat Victoria (a wider, broad conical heart selection isolated directly from Victoria's Salute)
Fruit Shape: Elongated blunt nosed heart to tapered oxheart shape
Fruit Weight: 150g to 250g, with occasional specimens reaching up to 350g
Skin Colour: Deep brick red to dark mahogany burgundy base overlaid with olive green and gold vertical stripes, crowned by heavy indigo black anthocyanin shoulders
Flesh & Taste: Meaty, multi-locular interior with green seed cavities and few seeds. Delivers a deeply rich, smoky sweet black tomato flavour balanced by subtle fruity and spicy notes
Plant Habit: Indeterminate (vining)
Foliage Type: Regular leaf, stout and vigorous vines. Staking, caging or stringing required for support
Plant Height: 1.8m to 2.0m
Maturity: Mid-season, seed sowing to ripe fruit around 120 days
Yield & Resilience: High productivity; sets concentrated clusters that ripen nearly simultaneously across the vine. Performs exceptionally well under greenhouse glass as well as outdoor beds