Description of the tomato variety Spring of the North, its cultivation and yield
Tomato Spring of the North F1 belongs to hybrids. Description of the variety - it is determinant. That is, the main stems stop growing after the flowers are laid. The stems are 40-60 cm high and have medium-sized green leaves. The variety is early maturing. From the first shoots to harvest, it takes 95-105 days.
Attention! In 2011, the variety was included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements. It is advised to grow it in unheated film greenhouses.
Fruit characteristics - pink, flat-round, with small ribs, the number of chambers with seeds is 4-6. Tomatoes taste great, the weight of one is 180-200 g. Tomatoes are put in salads. The maximum harvest is up to 17 kg of tomatoes from 1 m². Reviews of tomatoes are positive, people like the keeping quality of the fruits, that is, they do not crack.
Pros and cons
The advantages of this variety:
- excellent yield, 7.9-8.1 kg are harvested from 1 m²;
- the fruits are delicious;
- they are transportable, as they have dense, fleshy and non-cracking flesh;
- the variety is resistant to verticillium;
- it is suitable for industrial cultivation.
Some of the cons:
Since the variety is classified as a hybrid, it cannot be grown from self-collected seeds.
Getting seedlings from seeds
Growing begins with sowing seeds in early March in a container with soil. If you want to grow tomatoes on an industrial scale, then spring planting of seeds in a greenhouse is recommended.
For 12-15 days before placing the bushes in open ground, they are hardened. At the age of 60-65 days, the bushes are transplanted to an open area or to a greenhouse.
Protection from pests and diseases
Before planting, the seedlings are treated with Bordeaux liquid, Hom, Zineb.
Transplanting
Find a well-warmed area with light soil. Areas should be protected from winds. These are places on the slopes from the south and southwest.
Plant the plants with a 50 cm margin, place 7-9 bushes per 1 m².
The bushes need to be protected from return frosts in the spring. To do this, you can cover the seedlings with foil. When it gets colder at night, light smoke bombs, fumigate with manure.
If the tomatoes are planted in a large area, then you can protect them at temperatures close to 0 ° C by sprinkling. Use 50-70 m³ of water per hectare. Be sure to loosen the soil, water, feed the tomatoes.
If it is pretty cool in spring, then you should not water the bushes abundantly, as water lowers the temperature of the earth by 1-4 ° C, because of this, the fruits will become worse to set.
So that the buds do not fall off, and the fruits grow and ripen faster, the first 2-3 brushes are sprayed with a highly diluted herbicide 2,4-D, dissolving 10 mg per 1 liter of clean water. The variety needs pinching. They regularly loosen the aisles, weed weeds.
Ripening fruits
For ripening tomatoes are plucked, when they are still white-green, the stalks are removed. Next, the fruits are laid out in 2-3 layers in boxes. The boxes are placed in a room with an air temperature of 20-22 ° C, with a relative humidity of 85%.
With the help of devices RA-21, RA-22, ADS-1, "Kievlyanin", tomatoes are sprayed with ethylene gas, which passes through the gas outlet pipe.
Indoor windows are opened once every 24 hours. Consume 0.5 liters of gas per 1 m³ of the internal volume of the room. Such tomatoes ripen in 3-5 days, while without processing they would ripen in 12-15 days.
