It is difficult to imagine a picturesque and fruitful vegetable garden without a tomato bush - sprawling, with branches heavy from ripe bright fruits.
If such tomatoes fall under the description of your dreams, then you should familiarize yourself with the variety "President F1".
- Description and characteristics of the variety
- The advantages and disadvantages of the variety
- Features of growing
- Care
- Watering
- Top dressing
- Diseases and pests
- Harvesting
Description and characteristics of the variety
Tomatoes "President" is an early high-yielding indeterminantny hybrid. Bushes of this variety are able to grow up to three meters in height. Of course, such a plant requires a regular garter. Due to the fact that one of the characteristics of this variety is a small foliage, the process of forming a bush will not be too time consuming. For the growth of the bush should be left one or two stems. Each plant has about eight fertile branches.
Also in the description of tomatoes "President" includes its large-fruited. Tomatoes of this variety can weigh up to 300 g. The ripe fruit has a bright red-orange color and a flat-rounded shape.
The advantages and disadvantages of the variety
In the description of tomatoes "President F1" there are many points that determine their merits.
- Good taste.
- High yield.
- Resistance to many diseases and pests.
- Skoroplodnost
- Universality of the use of fruits.
- Variety "President" perfectly tolerates sudden changes in temperature.
Features of growing
In order for the President variety to reveal all its positive characteristics, it will need light and fruitful soil. This variety of tomatoes is extremely capricious to the conditions of the soil.But at the same time, it is suitable both for greenhouse cultivation and for planting in open land.
For seedlings, plant the seeds about one and a half to two months before transplanting into the open ground. At the stage of seedlings should strictly adhere to the regime of temperature and humidity. The storage of seedlings should also be well lit and disinfected.
Care
After transplanting seedlings for the main care, it is necessary to water the plants regularly, weed weeds, loosen the soil and feed them.
Watering
The plant absorbs all the nutrients from the water, and its deficiency can have a detrimental effect on crop quality. When watering, use water with a salt content of 3-5 ms / cm and pour it directly to the bottom of the stem.
Top dressing
During the direct transplantation of bushes in open ground in the hole should be added ash, humus or superphosphate. Next, young plants can be fed infusion of mullein every ten days.
When watering, you can also use mineral and organic water-soluble fertilizers. Foliar application will also be useful for the harvest and the plant as a whole. You can also spray the leaves with a nutrient solution.
Diseases and pests
Despite the fact that tomatoes "President" are immune to many diseases, do not forget about the treatment of plants from pests. For example, in the case of keeping tomatoes in a greenhouse, a greenhouse whitefly may appear.
And when grown in open ground trouble can deliver slugs or spider mites. In the first case, to get rid of pests need to sprinkle the earth around the plant with red pepper. And in the second will help washing the soil with soapy water.
In turn, the "President" is absolutely resistant to such diseases as fusarium wilt and tobacco mosaic.
It needs careful protection against pathogenic fungi and late blight. But with greenhouse breeding, these misfortunes do not arise at all.
Harvesting
Fruits of approximately the same size are formed on each of the eight fruitful branches. With proper care and favorable conditions, the tomato variety “President F1” produces 5 kg per square meter. Ripe fruits can be harvested about two and a half months after planting the seeds. Tomatoes have a long shelf life and tolerate transportation.