Tomato Merchant: description of the variety, its advantages and cultivation with a photo

Every season summer residents update the arsenal of cultivated tomato varieties with new specimens. Preference is given to undemanding care and productive tomatoes. This is exactly what the Merchant's tomato is.

Variety description

Merchant f1 is suitable for growing both in open ground and in greenhouse conditions. Fruits can be eaten fresh, processed, canned.

The variety belongs to early ripening, from the emergence of seedlings to the ripening of the first tomato, 90-95 days pass. Plant height reaches 80 centimeters. The bush is determinant. The leaves are large and dark green in color. On one brush, 5-6 tomatoes can form.

Fruits are smooth, rounded, slightly flattened. Pulp of medium density. At maturity they have a rich red color. The number of seed nests is from 4 to 6. The mass of one tomato reaches 250 grams. As evidenced by numerous reviews of gardeners, the fruits have excellent taste characteristics.

In the open field, the yield per square meter is up to 17 kg of mature tomatoes, in greenhouse conditions this figure is slightly reduced - up to 15 kilograms.

The description of the variety indicates that it is characterized by increased resistance to verticillium, as well as to Fusarium wilt.

Main benefits of the variety

Those who planted the Merchant's wife on their plot managed to appreciate a number of advantages inherent in this particular variety. These include:

• resistance to the most common diseases;
• high temperature resistance;
• possibility of early harvest;
• friendly fruit ripening;
• excellent keeping quality and transportability;
• does not require pinching.

Most of those who tried to grow the Kupchikha tomato variety on an industrial scale noted that the crop after harvesting can retain its commercial and taste qualities for up to a month and a half.

Features of cultivation

The characteristic of the variety suggests that in order to obtain an earlier harvest, seedlings are recommended to be sown as early as March. Germinate seeds at a temperature of 20-22 ° C. In the process of growth, seedlings need complex feeding, which is carried out 2-3 times. A week before it is planned to plant tomatoes in open ground, they begin to harden.

In order to grow a good crop from this variety, you need to pick up a bed with light and fertile soil rich in nutrients. You can use places where legumes, carrots, cucumbers, onions, etc. used to grow. 3-4 bushes are placed per square meter. When the fruits begin to form, it is recommended to make complex mineral dressings. Loosening and timely removal of weeds are required throughout the entire growth period.

Tomatoes need stable watering, however, high humidity adversely affects the condition of the bushes. You should be guided by how much the topsoil dries out. Water the plants after sunset. Better if the water is warm.

As a preventive measure, you can treat the soil with ashes, and spray the tomatoes themselves with Bordeaux mixture.

Those summer residents who personally grew Merchant's wife were satisfied with the result. One woman said that she planted only a few bushes on the advice of a neighbor for the sake of experiment. As a result, the harvest was enough not only for fresh salads, but also for making small preparations for the winter. Compared to another variety that she had been cultivating in the country for a long time, Merchant's wife turned out to be the undisputed leader and earned the right to take a place in the garden next season.

This variety of tomatoes has a certain disadvantage - it is a hybrid. Because of this, it is impossible to collect seeds on your own and get the same excellent harvest next year, you have to buy new ones all the time. But this is nothing compared to the benefits of these tomatoes.

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