Pink tomato varieties excel red on the content of mineral substances, vitamins, sugars and antioxidants. Pink Flamingo Tomatoes are pink, even among varietal relatives, is different excellent taste, beautiful fruits and long term fruiting.
Tomato variety "Pink flamingo" Included in the State Register in 2006. Originator and patent owner of the tomato variety “Pink flamingo” company “Search”.
Basic data
The grade is recommended for cultivation in personal subsidiary farms of the North Caucasian region in an open ground and greenhouses. According to gardeners brings a good harvest in the Central region of Russia, in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus. Seeds of tomato "Pink Flamingo" have passed the state certification of confirmation of the purity of the variety.
Pink Flamingo Tomato refers to varieties not a hybrid. Seeds collected from fruits from the second or third hand in the stage of full maturity, suitable for collecting and further planting.
Tomato "Pink flamingo" characteristic and description of the variety: mid-season variety, marketability of fruits comes on 110-115 days from the date of planting.Under good weather conditions the fruits ripen for 90-95 days. "Pink flamingo" characterized by a long period of fruit formation.
In temperate climates, crops are harvested until October. The bush is not limited in growth, indeterminate type, reaches up to two meters in height, is formed in 1-2 stems. Requires a strong support, garters for pegs or trellis.
The leaves are medium sized, carved, green. Articulated stem. The inflorescence is simple. Pink or raspberry fruit in the form of oval cream with mild ribbing and "nose".
Color saturation depends on growing conditions.. Unripe fruits are green in color and have a spot near the stem that disappears as they mature. Sometimes the color of the fruit is striped. The fruit contains from 4 to 6 seed chambers, with a small number of seeds.
Fruit weight 150-450 grams. The “first line” of tomatoes is larger, tied up later a little bit smaller - up to 200 grams. There are no small tomatoes on the "Pink Flamingo". The flesh is of medium density, juicy, with a pronounced tomato flavor. The juice content of dry matter is from 5.6% to 7%, total sugar - 2.6% -3.7%.
Average grade yieldaccording to the results of variety trials 23.0-35.0 t / ha. The share of commodity fruits is 65% - 85%.
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Pink Flamingo Tomato see below:
Way to use
"Pink flamingo" refers to table varieties. It has excellent taste. Fresh fruits are used to make salads, thick sauces.
Unlike many large-fruited pink varieties suitable for conservation in general and slices, as a winter snack snack. Tomato products, tomato juice have a delicate texture, harmonious sweetish taste, but lose products from red tomatoes in color richness.
Advantages and disadvantages
Tomato variety "Pink flamingo" be appreciated for good dosing and fruit preservation for a long time, under the right storage conditions - up to two months. Due to the density and elasticity of fruits and skins, tomatoes remain marketable for a long time, tolerate transportation well.
Disadvantages varieties can be attributed cracking tendency, demanding to temperature conditions, the average tolerance of drought.
Diseases and their prevention
Thanks to the "wild" parents used by breeders in breeding the variety, "Pink Flamingo" resistant to most fungal diseases, verticillosis, fusarium wilt.
Prone to vertex rot. When the first signs of the disease appear: rusty spots, blackening of the base of the fruit, the plants are immediately fed with phosphorus-potassium fertilizers, sprinkled with wood ash.
Growing tips
Sowing seeds for seedlings produced from mid-March to early April. On a constant place of a plant planted in the second decade of May.
Tomato variety "Pink Flamingo" demanding composition soil. For him suitable areas with a fertile layer of at least 30 centimeters with high aerobic performance.
Best of all, if in the previous season, legumes, carrots, onions, cabbage, and cucumbers grew on this place. Agronomists advised to land Tomatoes on plots with soils enriched with green manure plants:
- white mustard;
- Shrovetide radish;
- phacelia;
- lupine;
- Vicia;
- alfalfa.
Green manure can be sown in spring before transferring seedlings to open ground and grow together with tomatoes. Planting should be thick. The above-ground part of the green manure is regularly mown, preventing seed aging, and then used to mulch the soil around the bushes. Sideratov culture regularly change, do not plant the same species for more than two years.
During the vegetative period spend from 3 to 5 dressings. Two weeks after planting plants in an open ground ammonium and phosphate fertilizers are applied. During the season, fertilizing is repeated, reinforcing it with complex mineral fertilizers.
"Pink flamingo" feels good in thick landings, but for better illumination of ripening fruits, the bushes are planted according to the 40x70 centimeters scheme. Tomato demanding irrigation mode. So that the plants do not hurt they need to be watered with warm water. Watering early in the morning or at sunset.
Shrub form leaving one, rarely two main stem. Regular pasickingpinching removes excess ovaries. If 5-6 brushes are left on one plant, the fruits will be larger and mature earlier, and new ovaries will also be formed.
"Pink Flamingo" with all its demands on the soil, delicate irrigation and average yields love vegetable growers for great taste, aroma, presentation.
