Tomato Tarasenko anniversary: ​​characteristics and description of the variety, yield with photo

The anniversary tomato variety Tarasenko was bred by F. Tarasenko in 1987 by crossing hybrids, including the variety San Morzano. Tarasenko named this variety in honor of the fact that he was 75 years old. The variety is not included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements of Russia. The Legend Tarasenko variety has also been bred, unlike the anniversary Tarasenko variety, it has elongated, oblong tomatoes that have a spout at the end. The variety is tall, mid-season. Tarasenko hybrid 6.

Characteristics and description of the variety: indeterminate, mid-season, 120 - 180 days pass from the appearance of the first sprouts to harvest. Bushes up to 2 m high, and if you do not pinch the top of the main stem, then up to 3 m. Refers to liana-shaped tomatoes.

Description of bushes

The main stem is thick, powerful, but when it grows, it becomes unstable. Foliage is average. The leaves are large, dark green, wrinkled, without fluff. The foliage resembles that of a potato. The root is powerful, but grows not in depth, but in width. There can be up to 30 tomatoes on one brush.

The first inflorescence appears above 3 - 4 leaves, then inflorescences are formed every 2 leaves. From one bush they collect from 8 kg and more. Seedlings are planted in open ground in the south and in the Central region of Russia. Planted in greenhouses in Siberia.

Description of fruits

Description of Yubileiny Tarasenko tomatoes: the fruits are round, about 7 cm in diameter, have a small spout at the tip. With technical ripeness, tomatoes have an orange tint, unripe fruits are light green in color. When fully ripe, the tomatoes are scarlet.

On the first brushes, fruits weighing 100 - 150 g are formed, and then fruits weighing up to 80 g are poured.They do not grow at the same time: some tomatoes are already ripe, while others are just starting to set. The fetus has 8 seminal chambers. The taste of the pulp is pleasant, sweet and sour. The skin is dense. Tomatoes are stored at an air temperature of +16 - 20 °С.

Usually, tomatoes are harvested still unripe, they ripen during storage. Up to 8 kg of fruits are removed from a bush, up to 15 kg from 1 m².

Fruits are consumed fresh, put in salads, mashed potatoes, pastes, sauces, canned. They do not burst the skin during heat treatment. But do not squeeze the juice, as the pulp is too dense.

Advantages and disadvantages

Among the main advantages of the variety, the following should be noted:

• fruits are delicious, have a good presentation;
• transportable;
• variety resistant to drought, frost;
• is immune to brown spot and late blight, fairly resistant to other diseases;
• has a high yield;
• tomatoes are stored for a long time and retain their consumer properties.

Cons:

• when growing tomatoes, you need to stepson, tie up;
• they can't be juiced.

Sowing seeds

Seeds of Tarasenko Anniversary tomato varieties are sown at the end of March, and seedlings are planted in a permanent place after 60 days. If you want to plant seedlings in a greenhouse, you can sow seeds 14 days earlier.

You can make your own soil by mixing 3 parts soddy soil, 2 parts humus and 1 part wood ash. Warm the soil in the oven for 1 hour at a temperature of 200 degrees.

Put the seeds in a bag and place for 15 minutes. in a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Then you can treat the seeds with the growth stimulator Immunocytophyte.

When sowing, make an indent between the seeds in a box of 2 cm, deepen them by 2 cm, powdering with soil. Then pour warm, well-settled clean water from a spray bottle, cover with a film or glass, leave small holes for ventilation. Place the box in a warm room with an air temperature of +25 - 30 ° C.

When the first sprouts appear, remove the cover, put the box on a bright windowsill. When 2 true leaves appear, seedlings dive into a 300 ml container. On days without sun, illuminate the bushes with lamps.

14 days before transplanting seedlings to the site, harden them, first taking them out for 1 - 2 hours on the balcony, and then - for 3 - 4 hours.

Planting bushes in a permanent place

In autumn, scatter manure and complex mineral fertilizers on the ground, dig the soil to the depth of a shovel. In the spring, pour the earth with a solution of potassium permanganate, dig again.

When 50 - 60 days have passed from sowing the seeds, then plant the seedlings in the ground. Dig pits 30 cm deep, 15 cm wide, indent between the pits 70 cm in a checkerboard pattern. After that, pour hot water into the pits, then wait until the liquid has cooled. Plant by placing on 1 sq. m 3 bushes. If the seedling is too long, then place it in a hole at an angle so that it lies. Then carefully water each bush.

Care

The first week after planting the seedlings on the site, do not water it. Then tie up the tomatoes. Drive in the pegs, keeping a distance of 3 m between the stakes, place extensions at the top. Between the pegs, stretch the wire in several rows and tie the bushes. The next day after watering or rain, loosen the soil. Leave 1 - 2 stems, cut off the rest. Pluck stepsons up to 4 cm every 10 days. Cut off every 10 days 2 - 3 lower leaves.

Water after the top layer of the earth dries, pour warm and well-settled water under the root in the evening, trying not to get on the leaves. Water once every 10 - 14 days. After watering and rain, loosen the soil. Weed plantings from weeds 3 - 4 times per season.

To prevent fungal diseases, treat tomatoes 3 times in a season with preparations with copper. Inspect the bushes from time to time, pull out the weeds.

Feed seedlings with nitrogen only until mid-summer. When 14 days have passed after planting the seedlings, then fertilize with phosphorus so that good roots grow and it starts growing. Feed with potassium when the tomatoes bloom.

To properly form the bushes, when they are 1.5 - 1.7 m high, pinch the top. In addition, pluck the brushes, the fruits on which did not start. The first bunches can weigh up to 3 kg, tie them up because of this.

Since tomatoes ripen unevenly and non-simultaneously, they are removed unripe: the fruits then ripen during storage.

The most interesting reviews about the variety:

Andrey, Ufa:

“I planted the seeds of the Tarasenko Anniversary tomato variety from the Sedek company. Seedlings were grown in open ground. I form bushes into one stem, cut off the rest. I cover the seedlings with a film until June 25, and then remove it. Tomatoes are very tasty - they have a thin skin that does not crack when s alted, the flesh is fleshy.”

Natalia, Kursk:

“Last year I grew tomatoes of the Tarasenko jubilee variety. I drove pegs between the bushes, screwed hooks into them, and tied brushes on the hooks, since the harvest was just huge.”

Tomato requires careful care, but planting this variety, you will harvest a very large crop of beautiful tasty tomatoes.

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