The value of tomatoes in our daily diet is difficult to overestimate. They are tasty, healthy, based on them you can cook a wide variety of dishes.
Each gardener tries to pick up those varieties that bring a big crop, easily take root, are quite hardy and unpretentious.
It is to such varieties refers "Aphrodite F1". And if we take into account in the description that the name of this variety was given for good reason, and it really bears fruit beautifully, then the tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" is an almost universal variety.
- Appearance and description of the ultra early variety
- Characteristics of the fruit
- The advantages and disadvantages of the variety
- Ways to use
- Agrotechnology
- Seed preparation
- Landing
- Care and watering
- Pests and diseases
- Conditions for maximum fruiting
Appearance and description of the ultra early variety
Tomato "Aphrodite F1" in appearance during fruiting is the real goddess of beauty. This hybrid is a very early variety, it is characteristic of a friendly and early ripening of the crop.
The vegetation period from the time of planting the seedlings until the fruits appear is 70-80 days, sometimes up to 100 days (this period depends on the climatic and weather conditions of the area in which the tomatoes are grown). The variety of tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" is determinant, the average height of its bushes is 50-70 cm in open ground, but under favorable conditions and high-quality care, for example, in a greenhouse, it can reach higher sizes.
These plants do not need to be staved. Tomatoes are characterized by the presence of quite lush foliage, consisting of large green leaves.
The inflorescence of these plants is simple, having 6-8 fruits. The first brush is formed over a 5-6 sheet, then - through a single sheet or even without separation by a single sheet. Garter to the support for this variety of tomatoes is desirable.
The level of yield of the Aphrodite F1 variety with proper care is considerable: under greenhouse conditions, it is possible to harvest from 14 to 17 kg of tomatoes from 1 square meter. m, on open ground, these figures range from 8 to 10 kg.
Characteristics of the fruit
With proper observance of all the principles of cultivation of these plants, after 70 days you can get mature and usable fruits. When characterizing the fruits of tomatoes "Aphrodite F1", it should be noted that they have fleshy flesh, dense and fairly thick skin.
When ripe, their smooth, glossy surface acquires a bright rich red color; the fruits do not have the spots typical of most tomatoes in the stem of a yellowish-green color.
The level of dry matter content in fruits is not more than 5%. They have an excellent, as for early varieties, slightly sweetish taste characteristic of most varieties of tomatoes.
Tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" is characterized by a symmetrical regular round shape. Each fruit has an average weight of 100 to 115 g, but this figure can go up to 170 g. Tomatoes of this variety are not characterized by cracking, they are well preserved, compared to other varieties, and are quite suitable for transportation over long distances.
The advantages and disadvantages of the variety
Like every variety, tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" have their advantages and disadvantages.
To the advantages and positive aspects of tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" when describing them should include:
- fast ripening;
- "harmonious" fruiting;
- almost the same appearance of the fruit in terms of mass and shape on one hand and a bush;
- high level of preservation and keeping quality of ripe fruits;
- good transportability;
- resistance to a complex of the main diseases characteristic of tomatoes;
- excellent, compared with other early varieties, the taste characteristics of the fruit;
- no cracking tendency;
- opportunity not stepchild.
- demands on the garter;
- the need to form plants;
- whimsical to weather conditions.
Ways to use
Tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" are recommended for growing in large farms and greenhouses for sale, as their fruits have a sufficiently high commercial quality. Grade "Aphrodite F1" - versatile tomatoes for diverse uses.
These tomatoes have shown themselves to be excellent in canning whole and in processed form, they are used in salads and consumed fresh. They can be successfully salted and get the most delicious addition to various dishes.
Agrotechnology
Tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" are recommended for growing in open soil and in greenhouses for obtaining early quality tomatoes.
The easiest way to do this is to grow these plants in open beds in the open air. This variety is quite picky about weather conditions and the required temperature regime.
Plants respond well to the introduction of mineral fertilizers, periodic loosening of the soil in order to improve the aeration process. Shrubs are also desirable to tie up.
Seed preparation
Harvesting seeds for the next planting season is necessary after the harvest has been harvested. For this purpose, healthy fruits are required from the second or third hand with characteristicthe right appearance at the stage of final maturity, but so that the fruit does not show signs of deacidification.
The fruit is cut lengthwise to open the seed sinuses, then the seeds are carefully removed and placed in a warm place for fermentation for a couple of days.
Then they must be washed with water and decomposed to dry. When the drying process is finally completed, the seeds are poured into sachets of paper, pre-pereterev fingers, and determined to save in a place with a low temperature and a sufficient level of dryness.
When preparing for planting, you need to choose healthy, without any damage, dried seeds of the same size.
After 7 days, it is already possible to understand whether the germination energy of the seeds has been laid: the germination rate of less than 50% is considered low.
It would be worthwhile to conduct seed coating - the process by which seeds are enveloped in nutrient mixtures with adhesive properties.
As an adhesive, a solution of polyacrylamide (a couple of grams per 10 liters of water), an aqueous solution of fresh mullein (one to seven or ten) or serum is used. They add various mineral components or combined fertilizers.
This method will help the seeds to obtain the necessary nutrients that may not be in the soil. Immediately before planting, the seeds need to be heated for several hours at a temperature of from 50 to 60 ° C. After that, they need to be germinated at + 20 ... +25 ° C in gauze or other fabric on a saucer with a duration of 2-3 days. At the very beginning of the germination of seeds they need to harden.
To do this, they are placed in a refrigerator at a temperature of + 1 ... +3 ° C for 19 hours, then the seeds are removed and kept at room temperature for about 5 hours. Such procedures need to be done 6 days.
In this case, the seeds must be constantly wet.An important point is also the soaking of seeds before sowing.
Landing
A few days before the planned date of planting seeds for seedlings, it is necessary to bring into the room for warming up the nutrient soil mixture stored in severe frost, which must be prepared in the fall.
After complete melting, you can add a special purchase of the soil, as well as ash. Mix everything thoroughly. After that, in early March, seeds can be sown into the soil to a depth of approximately 1 cm, but not more than two. In the pits put seeds and sprinkle with earth. First, you can put the seeds of seeds on the soil surface, and then push them to a depth of 1 cm and sprinkle with earth. After sowing the seeds must be watered.
On average, shoots of tomatoes need up to one week. After the normal germination of plants, they need to dive. Seedlings systematically need to be watered.
Until mid-May, seedlings are planted in the greenhouse, here the grade "Aphrodite F1" develops better. With the advent of stable warm weather, tomatoes can be planted in open ground.
Before planting seedlings, they dig up the soil, additionally fertilize them with mineral and organic substances, mix, loosen and moisten.
On 1 square. m of land in order to achieve excellent results of development and yield should be placed no more than 9 bushes of tomatoes at a distance of half a meter from one another. Otherwise, the plants will not develop enough and the harvest will not be pleased with their generosity.
Care and watering
Caring for tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" is no different from the care of other varieties of tomatoes. He also needs to be regularly and sufficiently watered and systematically loosen the earth around, removing weeds, to accelerate the development of plants and obtain a more abundant harvest.
Also, do not forget to feed the tomatoes, process the necessary means to combat pests and diseases, although this variety is exposed to all sorts of diseases to a much lesser extent than some other varieties of tomatoes.
But there are some features in the care of tomatoes "Aphrodite F1": they need to be constantly formed, tied up in a timely manner. They practically do not need stading.
Pests and diseases
Tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" is characterized by a rather high resistance to various diseases caused by fungi and bacteria. This plant shows a fairly durable immunity to such diseases. But he is "loved" by the Colorado potato beetle, therefore, it is better to plant such tomatoes away from the potatoes, while additionally processing them with special means.
Conditions for maximum fruiting
With one hectare of open ground planted with tomatoes "Aphrodite F1", you can collect up to 100 tons of ripe tomatoes. In greenhouse conditions, this figure ranges from 14 to 17 kg of fruit per 1 square. m
But all these indicators are possible only with high-quality selection and storage of seeds, when planting seedlings in a nutritious soil on time, with proper regular care of the bushes.
Tomatoes "Aphrodite F1" absolutely correspond to their name if they fall into the hands of an intelligent and competent gardener.
In addition to their magnificent appearance, they will delight the owner with the absence of any special problems during cultivation, a fast “friendly” harvest and excellent taste characteristics of the fruit.