Tomato Japanese dwarf: characteristics and description of the variety with a photo

Variety tomato Japanese dwarf has become very popular among gardeners in recent years. Attract its interesting name, precocity and unpretentiousness. The entire crop ripens on the vine. The variety is suitable for sowing directly into the ground. This is not a hybrid and is easy to harvest your seeds from.

So far, the Japanese dwarf tomato variety cannot be found in Russian garden stores. Officially, it is packed by the Kazakh seed company Invent Plus. There is an opportunity to get Japanese dwarf seeds from amateur vegetable growers. Reviews about this variety are very contradictory. To get a good return, you need to take into account all the advantages of the Japanese dwarf and properly dispose of them.

Variety features

Japanese dwarf is an unpretentious variety, but this does not mean at all that tomatoes grow successfully on their own. Tomatoes require at least minimal care.

Shaping

Japanese Dwarf Tomatoes are determinate but not super low. They grow half a meter from the ground, sometimes even a little higher. Upon reaching the maximum height for itself, the plant tops (stops in growth). The secret of getting a normal crop from this tomato lies in the correct formation of the bush.

That description of the variety, which refers to the uselessness of pinching, is not entirely correct. The experience of gardeners shows that the complete absence of shaping leads to miserable yields. Barren stepchildren grow from below and from under the ground, pulling the lion's share of nutrients to themselves. A simple event is enough - a single pinching.

For proper shaping, the bush is approached once for the entire season - at the very beginning, when the first brush blooms.It is required to pluck out all the side branches (stepchildren) below the flower brush, be sure to leave small stumps. No more shoots will grow here. In addition, immediately remove all the shoots that crawled out from below at the base of the main trunk. Everything, the work is finished. Lateral shoots that will grow above the first brush are left. Plants must be tied up.

The bushes are lush on top, but quite compact. Such a redistribution of nutrition allows you to get a good harvest for an early ripening variety - more than two kilograms of early ripened tomatoes from one bush. The fruits will have time to avoid the defeat of phytophthora, which never appears too early.

The compressed type of the bush allows for a dense planting (6 - 9 roots are placed on one square meter), and the Japanese dwarf variety is not afraid of shading. This will increase the return from a specific area.

Fruiting

The first inflorescence of tomatoes is laid early - sometimes already in the bosom of 6 or 7 leaves. Each brush bears 3-5 fruits. On average, tomatoes weigh 60-70 grams, but there are also 100-gram fruits. If the bushes are formed correctly, then they are literally strewn with fruits.

Tomatoes are rounded, very even, bright red. The walls of the fruits are not too thick, but not soft, but rather dense, which is rare for early ripening tomatoes. The flavor of the outdoor-ripened Japanese Dwarf tomatoes is good, especially when compared to other early varieties.

Tomatoes Japanese dwarf - so early and unpretentious that they manage to form fruits even when grown in a seedless way, with direct sowing in the ground (in a street greenhouse). In addition, a compact, low bush is suitable for harvesting on a balcony or window sill of a city apartment, even with a lack of light.When sown in autumn at home, the tomato will bear fruit in winter and spring.

Mongolian Dwarf

In addition to the Japanese dwarf, vegetable growers liked the Mongolian dwarf tomato variety. Its name is similar, but the characteristic has its own characteristics.

Plant dimensions

The Mongolian dwarf has an unusual bush structure. First, the main shoot stretches upward, reaches a small height of 15 - 30 cm, and then bends to the side and leans towards the ground. The bush is overgrown with short stepchildren, spreading out in all directions. Can cover an area from half a meter to a meter in diameter.

Mongolian dwarf is rightfully considered a super determinant variety. The root system is superficial, branching not in depth, but in breadth. At first, young plants develop very slowly, then growth is activated. Spreading shoots do not need a garter, they also do not need to stepchild.

Fruits

On such dwarf bushes, unexpectedly large fruits are formed, weighing under 200 grams. The average weight is also quite solid - 170 grams. Tomatoes are round, raspberry red. The taste is strongly influenced by weather conditions. Sometimes the flesh is slightly sour, but quite pleasant, with a typical "tomato" flavor.

The density of the fruit is quite high. Tomatoes are fleshy, with a small amount of liquid, transportable. The skin is dense, but it can still be damaged by slugs, because the weighty brushes practically lie on the ground. When growing the Mongolian dwarf, it is necessary to lay a layer of mulch under it (straw, hay, agrofibre).

Variety Mongolian dwarf - early ripening. The fruits begin to ripen very early, sometimes already in late June - early July. Almost the entire crop turns red on the vine even in the open ground of the Moscow region and Siberia.Bushes branch and constantly build up new ovaries. Fruiting lasts a long time, until frost. Tomatoes Mongolian dwarf are hardy to cold snaps and drought, resistant to bacterial and fungal infections.

Mongolian dwarf tomatoes are not yet sold in stores. The variety has no official status. Seeds are shared with each other by amateur gardeners. At first, this tomato was distributed in Transbaikalia and Siberia, and now it is grown by gardeners throughout Russia.

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