The first generation hybrids are characterized by good yield, endurance, and disease resistance.
All these qualities are inherent in the snowfall variety. It is suitable for open or closed ground, does not require excessive care, but requires constant crazing bushes.
Tomato Snowfall f1 variety description
Tomato Snowfall F1 - Late-ripening high-yielding hybrid of the first generation. Indeterminate shrub, up to 2 m. The plant is moderately sprawling, with abundant green mass, requiring mandatory formation.
Leaves are small, simple. Fruits ripen with brushes of 8-10 pieces. Productivity is good, you can collect at least 4-5 kg of selected tomatoes from a bush.
Tomatoes of medium size, weighing 80-130 g. The shape is flat-rounded, with slight ribbing at the stem. The color of ripe tomatoes is rich red. The skin is thin, well protecting the fruit from cracking.
The flesh is moderately dense, juicy, fleshy, with a small amount of seeds. Taste is pleasant, saturated, sweetish, aroma is delicate. High sugar content makes tomatoes ideal for baby food and cooking various dishes.
Origin and Application
Tomato Variety Snowfall bred by Russian breeders, suitable for different regions. Depending on the climatic conditions, it is possible to grow in a greenhouse, a greenhouse, or in open beds. Harvested tomatoes are well kept, transportation is possible.
Tomatoes Snowfall f1 delicious fresh, suitable for making salads, soups, side dishes, mashed potatoes, sauces. Small strong tomatoes are suitable for whole canning. Ripe tomatoes make a delicious juice, which you can drink freshly squeezed or procure for the future.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main merits of a grade:
- tasty and beautiful fruits;
- good yield;
- harvested tomatoes are well kept;
- disease resistance.
Among deficiencies It may be noted the need for constant pinching.
Another minus - inability to collect seeds for subsequent planting, tomatoes grown from them will not have the qualities of a mother plant.
A photo
In the photo you can see varieties of snowfall tomatoes f1:
Features of growing
Seeds are sown on seedlings in the second half of March. The soil should be nutritious and light, consisting of a mixture of garden or turf land with humus. You can add a little washed river sand to the substrate.
Seeds are sown with a depth of 1-1.5 cm, sprayed with water and covered with a film. Perhaps planting seeds in individual peat pots, in this case, do not need a pick of young plants.
After the appearance of the first pair of true leaves, the seedlings are swooping and then fed liquid complex fertilizer. A week before transplanting young tomatoes begin to harden. They are taken out to the balcony or veranda, first for several hours and then for the whole day.
Seedlings are transplanted to the greenhouse in the second half of May; it can be moved to open beds closer to the beginning of June. On 1 square. m is located no more than 3 bushes, immediately after transplantation begins the formation of plants.
Ideal - keeping the bush in 1-2 stems, with the constant removal of stepsons.It is convenient to tie tall bushes to the trellis; as the fruit ripens, branches with fruits are attached to it. During the planting season, 3-4 times feed up with a full complex fertilizer, which can be alternated with a diluted mullein.
Diseases and pests: prevention and control methods
Like other hybrids, the tomato snowfall is resistant to the main diseases of the nightshade. He is almost not affected by mosaics, Fusarium, Verticillus. From the epidemic of phytophthora, tomatoes will save abundant sprays of copper-containing drugs. The affected parts of plants are quickly destroyed.
Snowfall - promising, unpretentious and fruitful hybrid. By planting several bushes in your garden, you can collect fruit from mid-summer to the end of the season.
