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Old January 28, 2010   #15
GunnarSK
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Originally Posted by Andrey_BY View Post
As far I know Superior Seeds is not the originator of most the varieties they offer :wink:

There were times before 1991 when USSR and SFRY (Socialistic Federal Republic of Yugosvalia), two Slavic brothers, made friendship very tight so I'm not confused at all that this company are still offering some Russian varieties

Fruit of Volov'e Serdte is usually much bigger than fruit from Bytch'e Sedtse. Also the shape of Volov'e Serdte is a wide true conical and fruit of Bytch'e Serdte is a common heart shaped which is not so wide. More to say Bytch'e Serdtse usually bears a true large fruits (300-500 g) only on the first and second truss and can bear you a lot of irregular and smaller fruits on the other trusses (50-200 g). Fruits of Volov'e Serdtse are more standard large oxhearts :wink:

I know about Italian variety Cuore de Bue (or something like that) which is performing very similar to our Bytch'e Serdtse, but it's really difficult now to say who was the first with one of them (Russia or Italy)
I have (and have grown) seeds of Bawole Serce from PNOS Ożarów Mazowiecki, and Carolyn told that the variety is the same as Sertse Buivola (PNOS O.M. has a Russian text on the packet which says Serdtse Buibola, but the "Buibola" looks like an error). Some of the Polish vendors also mention "Cuor di Bue" as an alternative name along with the fruit type "Oxheart", and they are not quite clear in describing the colour (red, pink, pinkish red or reddish pink), but I guess I can settle that by looking at the epidermis.
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