Tomato Big rainbow - description and characteristics of the variety

Most gardeners and gardeners love to conduct experiments, plant new varieties of vegetable crops. In connection with this fact, on the eve of the summer season, the assortment of specialized stores is replenished with new products. Among them there are tomato seeds Big Rainbow. Fruits of this variety have a sweet taste and a peculiar appearance. A large crop is usually harvested.

Grade characteristics

Tomato The big rainbow belongs to the mid-season species, ripens 120 days after the appearance of the first shoots. Bushes are tall, reach 1.5 meters in height, sometimes more, so their growth is limited. The stem is thick and large, the leaves have a light green tint, not too large in size, closer to the average.

Harvested in buckets, the minimum weight of ripe fruit is half a kilogram, and the maximum reaches 800 grams. The appearance is interesting: a round, slightly flattened shape, and their red color is diluted with orange, yellow blotches.

Preparing salads from them is a pleasure, juicy pulp gives a great taste. Tomato juice from this variety is obtained excellent quality, you drink it, and I want more.

In our country, the variety was imported from the United States of America. It grows in all Russian regions, the differences only in growing conditions - depending on the climate. In the southern part of Russia, tomato seedlings are planted immediately in open ground, and in other areas, planting takes place in a greenhouse. In Siberia and the Urals, greenhouses are even heated.

Advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The advantages of this variety are:

• excellent commercial appearance;
• excellent nutritional properties;
• various directions of application;
• original form and color.

The obvious disadvantages of tomato include:

• mandatory garter bushes;
• required to do stepsonovka;
• ratio of crop size and care;
• not fully adapted to cold climates.

Features seedlings care

1. Tomato seedlings are planted in the greenhouse in mid-May, so it is advisable to sow it at the end of February, the deadline is the beginning of March. Planting in greenhouse soil is carried out after 2 - 2.5 months after seedling.
2. If the seeds are sown not in the special fertile soil sold in the store, but in the previously left garden soil, then peat, sand and humus must be added to such soil. All ingredients are taken in equal parts, plus a bit of ash is put. The seedling mix is ​​well mixed. If desired, it can be fertilized with phosphate additives.
3. Self-made soil requires treatment - disinfection. The most popular way is steaming. For this procedure, you need a large container, which is filled with water, and is covered with a flap of natural fabric material, fixed with an elastic band. On it earthen mass pours out, the pan is placed on fire. The treatment process is completed after complete boiling of water. Thus, all pathogenic microbes and bacteria will die.
4. Immediately before sowing, it is advisable to check the seeds for germination. To do this, you need a five percent saline solution, into which the seeds are dropped from the bag purchased at the store. We throw up the emerged specimens, and prepare the rest of the remaining at the bottom for landing. First, we pickle in a solution of manganese for about half an hour, after wrapping the seeds in gauze.Then we dry and spread them for 12 hours in a growth stimulator, so they will germinate faster.
5. After landing, carefully spill the ground, preferably with a sprayer. Be sure to create a greenhouse effect for seedlings, cover with polyethylene. The first two weeks we water every day. After emergence, we thin them, remove weak shoots.
6. At the stage of the appearance of two true leaves, a picking procedure is performed. In order to avoid damage to small bushes, we pick with the utmost care. In the future, seedlings will gain strength and will be ready for planting in a permanent place.

Planting of mature plants

Seedlings are planted in open ground only at the end of May, and you can plant in a greenhouse a little earlier. The earth should be warmed up to + 16 ° C, and the distance between plants is about half a meter. First, fertilizers are laid in the prepared wells, then they are watered, only after that the tomatoes are planted.

For the Big Rainbow variety, immediately after planting, wooden pegs are placed near the bushes to which they are tied.

Planting scheme - no more than 3 plants per square meter.

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