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Huang Se Chieh

A tray of seedlings, some large and some small.

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Huang Se Chieh

Origin: Peiping, China

USDA/ARS-GRIN
PI 92853

A transplant grows well in dappled shade.
First Flower Buds
Row View: 5/30/2008

There is a problem with one of the plants. The top half is wilting.

It is surrounded by healthy plants. If it doesn't recover it will be culled.
Eight days later--the transplant is still failing to thrive.

The failing transplant is removed with a shovel.

The stem is rubbery.

Flower Cluster
First 'Greenie'.
Row View: 6/21/2008

Greenie?
 'Greenie' is a descriptive term used by online tomato enthusiasts to describe immature fruit.

Roots and stem.

View of stem damage.

Problem

Southern Blight
aka Stem Rot
Sclerotium rolfsii

Short Term Control:
Use of fungicide.

End of Season Control:
Soil Solarization.

Developing Fruit Cluster: 7/02/2008
Row View: 7/02/2008
Developing Fruit Cluster: 8/04/2008
Row View: 8/04/2008

Gold-skinned fruits showing a red blush: 8/15/2008

More fruits on the same plant.
Clear-skinned fruits: 8/15/2008
One fruit shows some concentric cracking.
Side-by-side comparison of the two types of Huang Se Chieh: 8/15/2008
The moon-yellow fruits also have a pink blush.
Slightly different appearance but exactly the same taste.

What's that sideways crack
on the top of
the tomato?

'Cracking' can occur during hot and rainy weather following a dry period; the inside of the tomato grows faster than the outside causing the tomato to crack.

Learn More:

Cracking Photos at
UC Davis.

Heat Stress on Vegetables at ACES.

Skin Color

One of the Huang Se Chieh plants has fruits with gold skins, all the rest of the plants have fruits with clear skin giving them a pale, moon-yellow color. The golden-skinned plant grew only one large fruit seen here in the photos, all the rest were similar in size to the moon-yellow tomatoes.

Learn More:

Tomato Color
at Victory Seeds.

This tasty Chinese tomato suprised us when one of the plants ripened with gold-skin, all the rest were clear skin and a pretty pale, moon-yellow. Fruits are two to three inches and develop a rose blush when fully ripe. Huang Se Chieh, 'Gold' or 'Moon Yellow', are both fine fresh or cooked