Characteristics and description of the La La Fa tomato variety, its yield

Tomato La La Fa F1 belongs to the determinant species. It is characterized by an average ripening period and abundant fruiting. Among the advantages of the variety is the versatility of using small fruits.

Hybrid characteristics

The description and characteristics of the La La Fa tomato variety includes both the appearance of the fruit and the biological characteristics of the vegetable plant.

Since the tomato hybrid belongs to the first generation of crossed F1 varieties, the seeds of the variety must be purchased in specialized stores. They make a bush one and a half meters high, with a large number of brushes, well leafy. The first flower clusters appear on La La Fa tomatoes after six to seven leaves, and the subsequent ones with an interval of one or two leaves. The ripening period of a tomato is 100-115 days after the first shoots. Each brush pleases with five to six tomatoes.

Tomato fruits have a number of characteristics:

1. They have a rounded shape with a slight flattening.
2. The color of the dense skin is red.
3. The pulp is juicy, without voids, with four to six chambers for seeds.
4. The skins are resistant to cracking, so the tomatoes can be transported over long distances.
5. The fruits are very pleasant to the taste, and their aroma is truly tomato.
6. Red tomatoes remain fresh for a long time, without spoiling, without changing the taste.
7. Fruit weight reaches 130-160 grams.
8. For the winter, canned foods are prepared from tomato in marinade, brine. Tomatoes are also suitable for drying.

The yield of the tomato variety reaches three kilograms from one bush when grown correctly.

Secrets of growing, caring for a tomato

Like all determinant species, the La La Fa tomato variety is suitable for open and closed ground, depending on the climatic conditions of growth.

As usual, tomato seeds are planted at the end of March for seedlings. Be sure to select the purchased seed material, disinfect it in order to prevent diseases. The soil is also disinfected with a solution of potassium permanganate or boiling water.

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To obtain high-quality seedlings, careful care is required in the form of:

• timely moistening of the soil;
• making fertilizers of a mineral and organic nature;
• loosening the soil;
• maintaining a stable temperature and humidity in the room;
• ensuring optimal illumination.

Before planting in closed or open ground, the seedlings of the F1 hybrid are hardened for ten to fifteen days, taking out into the air. Tomatoes are planted at the end of April in a greenhouse, in the first decade of May - in open ground. For tomatoes, choose the southern sections of the garden, with a deep bed of groundwater.

The arrangement of tomato seedlings in a permanent place is the placement of up to four vegetable plants on one square meter. The high yield of tomato bushes depends on this.

In order for the bushes to develop well and bear fruit, they must:

• water moderately;
• feed every ten days, alternating mullein diluted in a 1: 5 ratio and mineral fertilizers - superphosphate, potassium salt, ammonium nitrate in an amount of fifteen to thirty grams per bucket of water;
• loosen the soil near the bushes after watering;
• spray with Bordeaux liquid for disease prevention.

Although the tomato variety belongs to the determinants, the abundance of fruit on the bushes can break the stems of the tomatoes. Therefore, they need a garter. It is carried out by driving pegs next to the plant. AND pinch tomatoes better when they are tied. And for the La La Fa tomato variety, this procedure is mandatory. The formation of a bush goes in two or three stems.

And when the tomatoes are tied, pinching will be more successful and faster.

How to tie up tomato bushes correctly

So that the plant does not die, its stem does not break, it is impossible to use a harsh thread, fishing line, wire as a garter. Strips of fabric three to four centimeters wide are ideal. If you want that the tomatoes have not lost their presentation, then you can purchase a plastic clip for the garter. It will last a long time, and it is convenient for her to tie up tomatoes.

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If stakes are driven in next to the stem, then they do it so as not to destroy the plant. Metal rods, trim fittings, and wooden slats are used as pegs. The stakes should not be short in length. They are well buried in the ground near tomatoes, exceeding the height of La La Fa tomatoes by twenty to thirty centimeters.

Some growers use specially made vertical supports - trellises. They are especially useful for growing tomatoes in a greenhouse. They construct it from posts, between which they stretch wire, mesh or stuff the slats. In this case, the stems, brushes of the tomato are directed upward along the support. Thanks to this design, it is convenient to water the plants, they do not fall to the ground, do not rot.

La La Fa tomatoes thrive when properly cared for and produce excellent yields.

Reviews of tomatoes

The F1 musical hybrid has only positive characteristics. From the reviews about tomato growers it is clear that the variety has a number of advantages:

1. The La La Fa variety is one of the best in terms of growing, unpretentious care.
2. Small tomatoes are used more often for canning. And in the jar, they retain the tomato flavor and aroma. And the fruits do not burst, keeping intact thanks to the dense skin.
3. Hybrid tomatoes are characterized by high resistance to most vegetable diseases. The plant does not lend itself to apical rot, fusarium.
4. The vegetable adapts well to the conditions of open ground, greenhouses.

But most of all, gardeners appreciate the La La Fa variety for the fact that it gives consistently high yields of fruits. The friendliness and duration of fruiting allows you to make many blanks from tasty and juicy tomatoes.