Tomato Captain: characteristics and description of an early variety with a photo

Early produce from your garden is a gardener's dream. Tomato Captain F1 will give juicy fruits in mid-July. Fresh tomatoes diversify the family menu. Salads, juices, cold cuts will decorate the table.

Why you should pay attention to the Captain

Growing tomatoes outdoors in the Middle lane is difficult. Summer comes late, the weather is unstable. In mid-August, cold matinees fall. Bushes are affected by phytophthora. The crop is dying.

Breeders create varieties and hybrids with fast maturation. Gardeners have time to collect fruits before the "black dew". Captain F1 is a successful development by scientists.

Tomato description:

• designed for outdoor and unheated greenhouses;
• ultra-early (80 days from loops to tasting);
• determinate tomato (maximum size 70 cm);
• stretches up to 1 m in a greenhouse;
• leaves bright green;
• formation not required;
• yield up to 17 kg/m².

The captain is not sick with TMV, Fusarium, bacteriosis. Super-early ripening and friendly return of fruits allows you to "escape" from phytophthora.

What is the difference between tomatoes

Early and ultra-early tomatoes have a tough skin, dense pulp, and a sour taste. They pop up in cold weather. And so you want a real juicy berry!

Gardeners are happy to receive an early lettuce tomato. The captain gives just such fruits.

Tomato characteristics:

• medium size: weight up to 130g;
• ripe fruits of bright red color;
• lack of spots on the stalk;
• the shape is correct, spherical;
• a small indentation at the stem;
• dense skin;
• juicy pulp (dry matter - 7%);
• taste sweet and sour (sugar 3%);
• flavor bright, "tomato".

Captain F1 gives fruits of rich taste. Agronomists have developed a salad hybrid. But gardeners appreciated the sweetness of juices, ketchups, lecho. Tight skin protects the pulp from leakage when whole-fruit canning.

Recommendations from agronomists

Ultra early varieties and hybrids require strict adherence to the rules of planting and care. They are easy:

• drive out seedlings on March 20-30;
• soil temperature before pecking 20-25 degrees;
• after germination, take out the tray on a cool windowsill (18 degrees);
• harden seedlings, ventilate, feed, highlight;
• fill the ridges with mature compost in autumn;
• in the spring, apply potash-phosphorus fertilizers to the ground (cook yourself or buy ready-made mixtures);
• place in beds after last frost;
• at first, shade planting from the bright sun;
• mulch the ground (to preserve moisture and loose structure);
• in the greenhouse, if necessary, a garter is required;
• provide air exchange in the greenhouse;
• to speed up ripening, do not overexpose ripening fruits on the bush.

Tomatoes are not afraid of drafts. But at a temperature of30 degrees, the flowers are sterilized. In the heat, the ridges should be shaded.

Captain F1 is included in the State Register of Vegetable Crops of the Russian Federation for the North Caucasus and Central Black Earth Districts. Recommended for outdoor cultivation in private gardens and household plots.

What growers think

Gardeners talk about their experience of growing tomato Kapitan. Liked: the formation of ovaries under any conditions, the ripening period of tomatoes, the friendly return of fruits, transportability. Some summer residents have noticed: the taste worsens in the cold summer. Excess nitrogen leads to fouling of bushes with leaves.

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