Tomato Spring of the North: variety description, yield and cultivation with photo

Tomato Spring of the North F1 refers 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, have green leaves of medium size. The variety is early maturing. From the first shoots to harvest, 95-105 days pass.

Attention! In 2011, the variety was included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements. It is advised to grow it in film unheated greenhouses.

Fruit characteristics - pink, flat-round, with small ribs, the number of chambers with seeds 4-6. Tomatoes have a great taste, the weight of one is 180-200 g. Tomatoes are put in salads.The maximum harvest is up to 17 kg of tomatoes per 1 m². Reviews about tomatoes are positive, people like the keeping quality of fruits, that is, they do not crack.

Pros and cons

Dignity of this variety:

• excellent yield, 7.9-8.1 kg are harvested from 1 m²;
• fruits are delicious;
• they are transportable, as they have a dense, fleshy and non-cracking pulp;
• variety resistant to verticillium;
• it is suitable for industrial cultivation.

From some of the cons:

Because the variety is classified as a hybrid, it cannot be grown from self-harvested seeds.

Getting seedlings from seeds

Growing begins with sowing seeds in early March in a container with earth. If you want to grow tomatoes on an industrial scale, then spring planting of seeds in a greenhouse is recommended.

12-15 days before placing the bushes in the 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, seedlings are treated with Bordeaux liquid, Hom preparation, cineb.

Planting seedlings

Choose a well-warmed spot with light soil. Sites must be protected from the winds. These are places on the slopes from the south and southwest.

Plant plants 50 cm apart, place 7-9 bushes per 1 m².

Shrubs need to be protected from return frosts in spring. To do this, you can cover the seedlings with a film. When it gets cold at night, light smoke bombs, fumigate with manure.

If tomatoes are planted in a large area, 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 rather cool in spring, then you should not water the bushes abundantly, as the 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 2,4-D herbicide highly diluted with water, dissolving 10 mg per 1 liter of pure water. The variety needs pinching. Row spacings are regularly loosened, weeds are weeded.

Ripening fruits

For ripening, tomatoes are picked 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%.

Using the RA-21, RA-22, ADS-1, Kievlyanin devices, they spray tomatoes with ethylene gas, which passes through the gas outlet pipe.

Once every 24 hours, open the windows in the room. They use 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.

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