Characteristics and description of the Tarasenko jubilee tomato variety, its yield
The tomato of the Tarasenko jubilee variety was bred by F. Tarasenko in 1987 by crossing hybrids, including the San Morzano variety. Tarasenko named the variety in honor of the fact that he turned 75 years old. The variety is not included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of Russia. The Legend Tarasenko variety was also bred, in contrast to the Jubilee Tarasenko variety, it has elongated, oblong tomatoes, which have a spout at the end. The variety is tall, mid-season. The hybrid Tarasenko 6 was also bred.
Characteristics and description of the variety: indeterminate, mid-season, from the appearance of the first shoots to harvest, 120 - 180 days pass. The bushes are up to 2 m in height, and if you do not pinch the top of the main stem, then up to 3 m. Refers to liana-shaped tomatoes.
Description of bushes
The main stem is thick, powerful, but when it grows, it becomes unstable. Average leafiness. The leaves are large, dark green, wrinkled, without fluff. The foliage resembles that of a potato. The root is powerful, but does not grow in depth, but in width. One brush can contain up to 30 tomatoes.
The first inflorescence appears above 3-4 leaves, then inflorescences are formed every 2 leaves. From one bush harvested from 8 kg or more. In open ground, seedlings are planted in the south and in the central region of Russia. In Siberia, they are planted in greenhouses.
Description of fruits
Description of the Yubileiny Tarasenko variety tomatoes: the fruits are round, about 7 cm in diameter, have a small nose at the tip. With technical ripeness, tomatoes have an orange tint, unripe fruits are light green in color. When fully ripe, the tomatoes are scarlet.
On the first clusters, fruits weighing 100 - 150 g are formed, and then fruits weighing up to 80 g are poured. They do not grow at the same time: some tomatoes are already ripe, while others are just being tied. The fruit has 8 seed chambers. The taste of the pulp is pleasant, sweet and sour. The skin is firm. Tomatoes are stored at an air temperature of +16 - 20 ° C.
Usually, tomatoes are harvested still immature, they ripen during storage. Up to 8 kg of fruits are removed from the bush, up to 15 kg from 1 m².
The fruits are consumed fresh, put in salads, mashed potatoes, pastas, sauces, canned. Their skin does not burst during heat treatment. But do not squeeze out the juice, since the pulp is too dense.
Advantages and disadvantages
Among the main advantages of the variety are the following:
- the fruits are tasty, have a good presentation;
- transportable;
- the variety is resistant to drought, frost;
- has immunity to brown spot and late blight, is quite resistant to other diseases;
- has a high yield;
- tomatoes are stored for a long time and retain their consumer properties.
Minuses:
- when growing tomatoes, it is required to pinch, tie;
- you cannot squeeze juice out of them.
Sowing seeds
Tomato seeds of the Tarasenko jubilee variety are sown at the end of March, and the seedlings are planted in a permanent place after 60 days. If you want to plant seedlings in a greenhouse, you can sow the seeds 14 days earlier.
You can make your own soil by mixing 3 parts turf, 2 parts humus and 1 part wood ash. Warm up the soil in the oven for 1 hour at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Put the seeds in a bag and place for 15 minutes. in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Then you can treat the seeds with a growth stimulant Immunocytophyte.
When sowing, make an indent between the seeds in a box of 2 cm, deepen them by 2 cm, dusting with soil. Then pour warm, well-settled clean water from a spray bottle, cover with foil or glass, leave small holes for ventilation. Place the box in a warm room with an air temperature of +25 - 30 ° C.
When the first shoots come out, remove the cover, put the box on a light windowsill. When 2 true leaves appear, dive the seedlings in a 300 ml container. On days without the sun, illuminate the bushes with lamps.
For 14 days before transplanting seedlings to the site, harden them, first taking out 1 – 2 hours to the balcony, and then 3 hours – 4 hours.
Planting bushes in a permanent place
In autumn, scatter manure and complex mineral fertilizers on the ground, dig up the soil to the depth of a shovel. In the spring, pour the ground with a solution of potassium permanganate, dig it up again.
When 50-60 days have passed from sowing seeds, plant the seedlings in the ground. Dig staggered holes 30 cm deep, 15 cm wide, make an indent between the holes 70 cm.After that, pour hot water into the holes, then wait until the liquid cools. Plant by placing 1 sq. m 3 bushes. If the seedling is too elongated, then place it in the hole at an angle so that it lies. Then water each bush thoroughly.
Care
For the first week after planting seedlings on the site, do not water it. Then tie up the tomatoes. Drive in the pegs, keeping a distance of 3 m between the stakes, put stretchers at the top. Pull the wire in several rows between the pegs and tie the bushes. Loosen the soil the day after watering or rain. Leave 1 - 2 stems, cut off the rest. Tear off stepsons up to 4 cm every 10 days. Tear off 2 - 3 lower leaves every 10 days.
Water after the top layer of the earth has dried, pour warm and well-settled water under the root in the evening, trying not to get on the leaves. Water once every 10 to 14 days. Loosen the soil after watering and rains. Weed plantings 3-4 times per season.
To prevent fungal diseases, treat tomatoes 3 times per season with preparations with copper. Inspect the bushes from time to time, pull out weeds.
Feed the seedlings with nitrogen only until mid-summer. When 14 days have passed after planting the seedlings, then fertilize with phosphorus so that good roots grow and it starts growing. When the tomatoes bloom, feed with potassium.
To form the bushes correctly when they are 1.5 - 1.7 m high, pinch the top. In addition, pluck off the hands that have not set fruit. The first bunches can weigh up to 3 kg, so tie them up.
Since tomatoes ripen unevenly and at different times, they are removed immature: the fruits ripen after storage.
The most interesting reviews about the variety:
Andrey, Ufa:
“I planted seeds of the Tarasenko Jubilee tomato variety from the Sedek company. Seedlings were grown in the open field. I form bushes into one stem, I cut off the rest. I cover the seedlings with foil until June 25, and then remove it. Tomatoes are very tasty - they have a thin skin that does not crack when salted, the flesh is fleshy. "
Natalia, Kursk:
“Last year I grew Tarasenko Jubilee tomatoes.I drove the pegs between the bushes, screwed the hooks into them, and tied the brushes on the hooks, since the harvest was simply huge. "
Tomatoes require careful care, but planting this variety will yield a very large crop of delicious, delicious tomatoes.
