Tomato Empress: characteristics and description of the variety, yield photo reviews

Tomato Empress F1 is a new domestic hybrid registered in 2011. Grow it in any climate as a covering crop. Reviews about the taste of the fruit are not unambiguous, but there are no complaints about the performance of this hybrid.

A brief description of the new hybrid

Grow the hybrid only in greenhouses and temporary shelters. The Empress is registered as a salad plant, but most summer residents grow this hybrid for harvesting:

• marinades;
• vegetable winter salads;
• preparing sauces;
• as a raw material for making sun-dried tomatoes.

Fruits

The shape of the Empress is classic cream with dense pulp, strong skin. The size of almost all fruits on one bush is the same, the weight of medium-sized tomatoes is 100 g, larger ones - 150 g. Ripe cream is bright red, unripe - light green. On the cross section, 2 chambers are clearly visible. The taste of ripe pulp is good.

Bushes

Empress indent, in the greenhouse bushes grow up to 2 meters or more To stop growth, you need to pinch the crown of the central shoot. The bushes are covered with large leaves of intense green color. Bushes need support, regular garter, constant pinching of stepchildren.

Yield indicators

In greenhouses, Empress tomatoes have excellent productivity - 9 kg/m².

Preparing the greenhouse for the new season

To get a good crop of tomatoes, properly prepare the soil in the greenhouse. Test the acidity with litmus paper. If the pH does not meet the optimal values of 6-6.5 (less), then reduce the acidity by liming.

Every year, tomato bushes take a large amount of phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen from the soil. When preparing the ridges for the season, take care to replenish them with these elements. Apply the necessary fertilizers for the autumn (spring digging of the soil).

Disadvantages and advantages

Any tomatoes have their advantages and disadvantages, the new hybrid Empress is no exception. The main disadvantages of the variety are too dense pulp and average taste in tomatoes. All other parameters are rated excellent:

• consistently high yields;
• aligned fruits of beautiful shape;
• fruits are resistant to cracking, not damaged during transportation;
• hybrid is rarely infected with TMV, verticillium, blossom end rot.

On the Empress tomato forums

When reading the reviews that summer residents leave on the forums, there is a desire to check their authenticity. Too many complaints about the taste of Empress tomatoes. Only by growing your own tomato bush of this variety in the garden, you can confirm or refute the statements of amateur vegetable growers.

Andrey, Nizhny Novgorod

The Empress did not like the taste of the tomato. Planted it last year. One word - hybrid. The pulp is very hard. When eating, it is unpleasantly fibrous and insipid in taste. The bushes turned out to be fruitful, the entire crop was used for harvesting. We have already tried marinated ones, but no one liked their taste either.

Tina, Togliatti

Growed this summer in a greenhouse a few bushes and 4 in the open field. Bushes in the ground were 1.6 m each, greenhouse bushes were noticeably higher. The taste of tomatoes, neither fresh nor pickled, did not suit me. If you could still eat tomatoes cooked in your own juice, then in a simple marinade they were absolutely not tasty. But we must pay tribute to the yield, the hybrid has an excellent yield, and no diseases were observed.

Olga, Kazan

The description of the fruits from SeDek convinced me when choosing seeds. I like small cream with dense pulp and strong skin. The fruits of the Empress justified themselves, a lot of small, tight tomatoes, almost the same size, have grown. Most of them were shot green, they ripened well in boxes, there were no lethargic and shrunken ones.

Nikolai, Chelyabinsk

I plant the Empress for harvesting, but for food I prefer to plant a large-fruited variety - the Queen of the Market. Sometimes I trade in the market, my raspberry-pink fruits of the Queen always go with a bang among the townspeople. One fruit can weigh 400 g. There is nothing to say about the taste - royal. My characteristic is an excellent strain.

Conclusion

Try growing some Empress bushes in your garden. It is possible that the yield and disease resistance will justify the small taste shortcomings of this hybrid. Share your experience in growing high yield cream.

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