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Harlequin F1 - carpal determinant superharvest hybrid. The plant is up to 150 cm tall. The fruits are round, one-dimensional, bright red, with a thick wall and a small number of seeds, weighing 200-250 g. The tomato pulp contains substances valuable to the human body: from 0.5 to 3% sugars, 1.3 - 2.2% organic acids, 0.3% pectin, minerals, vitamins. The leaves are small, dark green in color. Bushes form in 1-2 stems.
Features Harlequin F1 hybrid
Hybrid care Harlequin standard, without secrets and tricks: sowing, planting seedlings, weeding, top dressing. In rainy weather, preventive alternate treatment with antifungal drugs Tattu and Ridomil Gold is recommended. Treatment with fungicides is carried out before fruiting.
- Grade value: tolerance to sunburn and fungal diseases, prolonged fruiting.
- A variety of universal use. The bush forms up to six full brushes.
- Suitable for salting and canning. From one bush collect up to 10 kg of high-quality fruits.
- Tomatoes Harlequin F1 perfectly transported.
- The hybrid will provide a stable crop in all weather conditions. The bush is undersized, does not require tying.
Harlequin hybrid ripening is undulating. The plant belongs to photophilous, thermophilic and hygrophilous crops, unpretentious to the composition of the soil. The hybrid will develop well on chernozems, sandy, loamy soils. This behavior of the plant expands its circle of lovers.
Growing Tips
For constant fruiting, the tomato needs fertilizing, otherwise it will bear fruit not in full force. Fertilizing with complex fertilizers is carried out from May to August - once every 20 days, the rest of the time the plant is very fond of organic matter. You can feed the bushes with humus or humus.
When watering, try to direct the stream of water so that it falls directly under the root. It is unacceptable to spray leaves with water.
To obtain seedlings, the seeds are planted in the second half of March (at the beginning of April) in a special container, moistened and covered with a film.
To disinfect the seeds and get good quick shoots, soak the tomato seeds for 15-20 minutes in a pink solution of potassium permanganate. When the first shoots appear, the film is removed. Seedlings are planted in a permanent place according to the scheme 50 × 40 cm.
How to get early production
To obtain super-early production, tomato seedlings Harlequin F1 is grown on the windowsill, sowing seeds in early February. When landing in the ground, furrows are made with recesses of about 7-10 cm (grooves) and seedlings are planted.
At the borders of the ridges, wooden stakes 50 cm high are driven into the ground. A wooden lath is nailed to the stakes for the entire length of the ridges or a wire is pulled (twine).
A plastic film or agril is thrown on top of the resulting structure, which is pressed down from the bottom with boards. The tunnel shelter eliminates damage to young plants from frost. Seedlings in the shelter begin to be planted from the first of April (depending on weather conditions).
Spring chores and summer worries will fade into the background when it comes time to harvest sun-drenched, juicy, fragrant fruits.
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