Tomato Novice: reviews, description, cultivation
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The article presents a tomato Novice: reviews, description of the variety, growing rules.
Most tomato varieties are rightfully in demand and have been popular for decades. Tomato Novice belongs to this list of varieties. Scientists from Volgograd bred the variety. Tomato variety Novichok has unpretentiousness and high yield. Having chosen this tomato plant, you will always have salads straight from the garden and canned tomatoes on your table.
Tomato Novice: description and characteristics of the variety
Tomato Novice: photo of the variety
The variety is not a newbie, as its name is, it has long been listed in the state register of the Lower Volga region. It is grown in open soil or temporarily under a film in adjoining territories and on large plantations where harvesting equipment is used.
Tomato bush Newcomer firm, determinant, mid-early maturity. The ripening period of the fruits is 110-127 days after the shoots have appeared.
The height is limited by the tassel of the flower. Usually plant growth is 50-80 cm. The foliage covers the tomatoes to a medium extent. The leaves are medium-sized, colored deep green. The first flower cluster appears above the sixth or seventh leaf. In the future, inflorescences are formed with an interval of 1-2 leaves. The brush ties 5-6 tomatoes, there are practically no barren flowers.
Tomato variety Beginner forms a small number of stepchildren, they are located at the bottom of the stem.
Tomato Newbie: Fruit Description
Tomato Novice: photo of the variety
Tomatoes in the form of plums, elongated ovals. The fruit has 3-5 chambers. Red or pink tomatoes. There are no specks.
Tomato variety Novichok has a pink coloration, but the characteristic features are the same as that of Novichok, which has red tomatoes.
What is the reason for the different color? Various manufacturers. The variety "pink Novichok tomato" is produced by Poisk, "Novichok Deluxe pink tomato" by Gavrish.
The surface of Novichok tomatoes is flat and smooth. The inner contents are plump, red or pink in color. Tomatoes have a pleasant taste, slightly sour, in general, they have a pronounced tomato taste.
The average weight of the fruit is 75-100 g. The peel is strong, does not burst, even if the tomatoes are overripe.
How the fruits are used.
Tomato variety Novice produces high yields. A kind of universal purpose. Small tomatoes are pickled and pickled. Tomatoes remain intact even when exposed to high temperatures. Tomatoes are used for salads and for eating from a bush. If you want to keep fresh tomatoes, then they just need to wither.
Tomatoes Newbie: the pros and cons of the variety
Tomatoes Newbie: photo of the variety
Advantages.
- Mid-early maturity, tomatoes ripen at the same time. Consequently, the harvest is carried out at the same time.
- The bush is small, there are few stepsons, this makes it easier to carry out the grooming procedures.
- The garter is optional, but the middle stanchions won't be redundant.
- A generous and regular harvest. One bush gives more than 2 kg of tomatoes. There are 12-14 kg of fruits per square.
- Tomatoes are well transported and stored for a long time. All qualities remain completely.
- Tomatoes are universal for their intended purpose.
- Bushes are not afraid of cold and dry periods. Due to these features, tomatoes are grown everywhere in the Russian territory in open beds, in greenhouses, hotbeds.
- Possesses unpretentiousness to care.It is also immune to nightshade diseases.
- The qualities and characteristics of the variety remain intact if you prepare the seeds yourself.
Cons not available. The farmers did not see them. The yield of a tomato beginner will be high if you take very good care of the plants.
Dignified characteristics of the variety, unpretentious growth and development, mechanization of harvesting contribute to the cultivation of the variety on large plantations for sale. Plus, harvesting is done from all plants at the same time.
All about seedlings
Tomato variety Novice is unpretentious and easy to grow. Agrotechnical techniques of our variety are identical to those of other varieties.
The descriptive description indicates that the variety is grown as a seedling type. Seeds are sown 60-65 days before the plant is sent to live in a permanent place.
How to Prepare Tomato Seeds Beginner.
Prepare a 5% salt composition (dissolve 0.5 tsp salt in 0.5 tbsp water). Dip the seeds into this solution for 15 minutes. If the seeds are ready for life, then they will sink to the bottom. We work with them. Then they need to be rinsed and dried.
Then dip the seeds of the tomato Novice in a pink solution of potassium permanganate for 20 minutes, then rinse the seeds again with water.
Thus, we disinfected the seeds. The disease-causing spores are definitely dead. With the help of these solutions, stimulation of future seedlings occurred, the seeds were saturated.
Tomato seeds Novice can be sown dry or germinated. For germination, the treated seeds must be wrapped in a damp cloth or left warm. As soon as the white roots hatch, the seedlings are immediately placed in the soil.
To prevent damage to tender sprouts, take tomato seeds Novice with tweezers.
How to prepare the soil and containers.
It is necessary to prepare the soil in advance, 5 days before sowing. Most farmers use ready-made store-bought soil for seedlings. If you prepare the soil yourself, then it should contain turf, compost fertilizer or humus, sand. Plus we add wood ash to this composition. Fresh manure does not need to be added anywhere, otherwise accelerated green mass collection will begin. Plus, manure contains a lot of viruses.
Seedlings are grown in wooden or plastic boxes, in containers. They are filled with soil compounds and spilled with hot water with potassium permanganate.
Sowing seeds.
Sowing tomato seeds A beginner should be carried out in a moist soil with an interval of 2-3 cm. The seeds are deepened by 1 cm. A film material is covered on top of the container so that the seedlings emerge faster. When shoots appear, remove the film.
Seedling care, planting
- Before the shoots appear, temperature conditions of 21-24 degrees are needed. Then it needs to be lowered by 3 days: at night 8-10 degrees, in the daytime - 15-16 degrees. The light level should be good. Otherwise, the seedlings will stretch and become fragile.
- Watering is carried out at a time when the surface soil layer has dried. It is necessary to transplant tomatoes when 2-3 true leaves have appeared. It is necessary. When diving, pinch the center root lightly to stimulate the development of a strong, sturdy root system.
- When the beginner tomato seedlings are grown, they do not need to be fed as long as the soil has been fertilized when planting. You can spray the tomatoes with a wood ash solution. Watering should be in moderation so that water stagnation does not occur.
For uniform development of tomatoes, rotate the container with seedlings all the time. - For 10 days before planting in a permanent place, hardening of seedlings on the street is required. Hardening procedures are carried out so that there is a gradual increase in the presence of tomatoes in the open air.
- Tomatoes are planted Novice, looking at the climate of the territory, but repeated frosts should definitely have already passed the region.In greenhouse conditions, disembarkation is carried out in the last days of May, on open ridges or under a film temporarily - in the second decade of June.
Tomatoes are planted at 7 pcs / 1 m2 in a checkerboard pattern.
Agrotechnical techniques: watering, fertilization, soil loosening, disease prevention. The care is simple and pleasant.
Pink tomato Newbie: reviews of gardeners about the variety
Margarita, 46 years old, Crimea: “Right off the bat, a variety of tomato. Beginner, I advise everyone for planting! Because the variety gives a great harvest, tomatoes can be used both fresh and for harvesting. Tomato seeds A newcomer from the store has all sprung up. The growth of tomatoes is active, all ripen at the same time. "
Svetlana, 33 years old, Moscow region: “Tomatoes are my weak point. Every year I plant new species. 2 years ago I bought seeds of the variety "Pink Novichok". I was satisfied. Unpretentious tomato, gorgeous taste. Strong immunity to diseases. Grown in open soil. Kindred fell ill with late blight, but the Novice tomato doesn’t care! So take it, you won't regret it! "
Nikolay, 56 years old, Irkutsk: “I was on vacation with my relatives, I noticed they had bushes, all in tomatoes! This is how I got acquainted with the Novice tomato variety. I took one seedling, collected the seeds. The quality of the variety remained intact. A small bush, no support is needed. But I do a garter on the trellis so that there is no lowering of the lower brushes with tomatoes on the ground. Productivity of tomato Novice is regular, generous. The whole family is very fond of the variety ”.
Tomato Newbie: video about the variety