Opalka Heirloom Paste Tomato
50 Seeds
Opalka is a little-known Polish heirloom that is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Vigorous, wispy vines produce excellent yields of large paste-type tomatoes. Fruit have an unusual shape, which often catches the attention of visitors and double-blossomed flowers sometimes produce tomatoes with an almost cartoon-like appearance. Besides being fun to look at, Opalka tomatoes are coreless, few-seeded, and larger than most other paste-types, making them a breeze to process. Just take a thin slice off the end to remove the stem scar, halve the remainder and process as desired. Very little work and very little waste. Harvests begin approximately 85 days from transplanting. Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.
Opalka is a little-known Polish heirloom that is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Vigorous, wispy vines produce excellent yields of large paste-type tomatoes. Fruit have an unusual shape, which often catches the attention of visitors and double-blossomed flowers sometimes produce tomatoes with an almost cartoon-like appearance. Besides being fun to look at, Opalka tomatoes are coreless, few-seeded, and larger than most other paste-types, making them a breeze to process. Just take a thin slice off the end to remove the stem scar, halve the remainder and process as desired. Very little work and very little waste. Harvests begin approximately 85 days from transplanting. Each packet contains a minimum of 50 seeds.
Customer Reviews
I had great success rate all around. I had 10/12 seeds germinate. My plants are super heavy producers. The slugs do like them so as soon as they blush with a little color I pick them. They have very little juice and seeds, with no core. This is my new favorite paste tomato.
First off, 98% germination rate was fantastic. I used a fairly heavy mix of compost to soil. I have a tremendous amount of organics in my soil. I plant in raised beds. These plants were Magnificent. Because I use only Chicken manure for fertilizer, the Nitrogen count is very high so my plants were 7'-8' tall. I use fly-ash heavily and ag-lime to balance my PH. The ash has a lot of K so the blossom production was incredible. I had perhaps 65 - 80 tomatoes per plant. They grew beautifully, that is until the blossom end rot started. That and pests would devastate these tomatoes. I literally had Olpalkas touching Italian Heirlooms, the Olpalkas would be hit hard, the Italians showed no signs of any trauma, at all.
The fruit was beautiful but stayed on the vine and took forever to ripen. big beautiful fruit and almost no yield because of end rot and pests. I started the BT on them early and maintained a regiment, but to no avail.
So, with all this being said, the plants were gorgeous, the fruit was gorgeous, the yield was horrible. I was disappointed, but I still feel this was something I was or was not doing right and I will definitely take another crack at the Olpalkas again.
Plants are growing great.
I only planted ten seeds and they all came up in 7 days. First time trying these.
Every seed I've planted has sprouted. I've never grown or eaten Opalka tomatoes, so I'm eager to see how they do.
Thresh Seed Company, I've been 100% pleased with every seed I've purchased from you. Thank you!
Thank you, Teresa! We're so happy you've had such success with your seeds-- with rates that high, we think some credit is due to the gardener as well!
