Tomato Mathias: description and characteristics of the variety, reviews of summer residents with photos

Among the Dutch hybrids, there is one interesting and fruitful: tomato Matias f1. It is grown in a greenhouse, has excellent taste and high yield.

Characteristics of tomatoes and varieties

This is an indeterminate tall tomato bush designed for growing in a greenhouse. The bush is formed into one stem with the removal of all stepchildren. Foliage is average. Growth up to 2 meters in closed ground. In open areas below - up to 1.5 meters. About 115 days pass from germination to the beginning of fruiting - it belongs to medium-early varieties. The variety is almost in the first place in terms of productivity: up to 15 kilograms of fruits are removed from one square meter.

Description of fruits - flat-round, slightly ribbed, red, the weight of a ripe tomato reaches 180 grams, individual specimens up to 300 grams. The taste is excellent sweet, without sourness. When cut, the fetus has up to 5 cells with seeds. The pulp is juicy and dense; when ripe, there is no green spot near the stem. The variety is used universally - tomatoes are processed into juice and paste, summer salads are prepared from them, pickled as a whole.

The hybrid is resistant to Fusarium, Cladosporiosis, Verticillium, Root rot, TMV and Blossom rot. Breeder: Monsanto (Holland).

Hybrid qualities

A hybrid from crossing two varieties of tomatoes has the following characteristics:

Excellent taste.
Disease resistance.
Excellent commercial qualities.
Storage.
Transportability.
Great looking.
Easy care.

Due to its high commercial qualities, the hybrid is often used for cultivation in farms and vegetable factories. It is also in demand among gardeners.

Hybrid farming practices

Like other varieties and hybrids of tomatoes, Matias is grown in seedlings. To get an early harvest, the seeds are planted on seedlings in mid or early March (depending on the weather conditions of the region). After planting in fertile loose soil, containers with seedlings are covered with a film until the seeds germinate. As soon as the seeds hatch, the film is removed, and the plants continue to be grown in an open, warm and sunny place, maintaining a room temperature of 24-26 degrees.

Until two permanent leaves appear on the sprouts, the soil is watered by spraying.

After the appearance of the leaves, the seedlings dive into separate containers and grow up until the onset of warm weather conditions outside. Plants are transplanted into the greenhouse in May-June, it also depends on the temperature in the room. The optimal indicators are 22-25 degrees during the day and 16-20 at night.

Seedlings are planted in a checkerboard pattern with a distance between plants of 50 by 40 centimeters. One square meter produces 3-4 plants.

Plant care

After planting, the seedlings are constantly looked after for a quality and early harvest.

Garter plants. Produced immediately after planting and as it grows.
Staging. The variety is usually grown in one stem, so all stepchildren are removed. If you decide to grow in 2-3 stems, then leave a few stepchildren.
Loosening and watering. Immediately after watering, the soil under the bushes needs to be loosened so that the clod of earth above the roots does not retain moisture and air access.
Fertilizer. When growing tomatoes, they feed the soil and plant greens at least three times a season.
Harvest. To obtain a large number of ripe fruits, the crop is harvested immediately after ripening. Ripe fruits delay the growth of young tomatoes. Feeding characteristics: mineral and organic.

Overview Reviews

Among gardeners and professionals, there were many lovers of tomato Mathias, who left positive feedback on the cultivation and taste of tomato.

Nikolay: “Last year I decided to grow Matthias in two trunks, and I got a crop of 5 kilograms more, the fruits are beautiful, the pulp is juicy, there are no green blotches. The seeds are excellent for industrial cultivation, as they ripen together and give an excellent harvest of fruits that are almost the same in size and quality.”