Tomato Flash: characteristics and description of the variety with a photo

Short, early ripening tomatoes are versatile and can be grown outdoors and as compacted plantings in greenhouses of various types. Tomato Flash is a typical representative of determinant varieties, with a small bush height and the ability to easily endure extreme weather conditions. With proper care, it has time to mature in a fairly short time. Has good consumer performance.

Key Features

The variety is early maturing, with traits selected in such a way as to ensure early formation and ripening of fruits:

• determinate plant, with growth restriction after 4-5 clusters;
• bush of standard type, stocky, reaches a height of 40-50 cm;
• a variety with a growing season of 95 days, which allows it to be classified as an early tomato;
• plant is well leafy, with medium-sized leaves, dark green;
• the first fruit cluster is laid above the level of 5-6 permanent leaves;
• 5-6 fruits in a brush, aligned in size and shape, the weight of tomatoes ranges from 80 to 120 g;
• Tomatoes "Flash" have a rounded shape, with a slight ribbing at the base, the color of the tomato is red;
• fruit is four-chambered, dense, with juicy pulp and few seeds;
• fruit taste sweet, sour, rated as excellent;
• fruits are suitable for all kinds of preparations and preparation of fresh salads;
• to the positive characteristics of the variety, you can add resistance to temperature extremes;
• not afraid of late blight due to early ripening.

Commodity characteristics are good, given the high and friendly yield, beautiful fruit shape, early ripeness, taste.

In determinant varieties, extra stepchildren are removed so as not to get a plant overloaded with fruits with prolonged ripening periods.

Features of agricultural technology and care

Seed producers recommend the Flash tomato variety as universal. It can be grown in a greenhouse and on the street, sowing seeds directly into the ground or seedlings. The variety has earned positive reviews, because even novice gardeners can grow it.It can be cultivated in risky farming areas with short summers and extreme weather conditions.

This is how the description of the basic methods of caring for the "Flash" looks like.

1. The date of sowing seeds is calculated taking into account the fact that the age of seedlings must be at least 50-55 days at the time of transplanting into open ground. To this should be added approximately 5-7 days for shoots and 4-5 days for adaptation when picking.
2. Traditionally, the process of growing seedlings begins in late March, early April. For prevention, the seeds are soaked for 10 hours in a 1% manganese solution.
3. Seedling care consists of timely watering, loosening the soil, top dressing. 10 days before transplanting into open ground, plants begin to accustom to full sunlight and lower temperatures, taking them outside for several hours.
4. Seedlings are transplanted into the ground in the last decade of May, early June, depending on the weather conditions of the region.The plants are placed in the garden according to the scheme 40 x 60 cm. Plant care in the open field consists of watering, weeding and loosening the soil. During the growing season, fertilizing is carried out every three weeks, taking into account the condition of the plants.
5. Despite the self-limitation in growth, even such low plants require the removal of stepchildren. Otherwise, a plant overloaded with fruits will delay the ripening of the crop. But early ripeness is its main feature.

Simply at first glance, methods of agricultural technology can significantly affect the ripening time. Early maturity, as the main characteristic, depends not only on the timing of planting and weather conditions. It is influenced by the methods of preparing seeds, caring for seedlings, methods of forming a bush, feeding regimen.

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