Tomato Pink icicle - description and characteristics of the variety

Sometimes summer residents and gardeners, in addition to a good harvest and taste, want to get something more from tomatoes. The usual round tomatoes, even of a rather large size, no longer surprise anyone. But the long, reminiscent of icicles, but pink-colored fruits, collected in beautiful brushes, immediately attract attention. And although the Pink Icicle is a relatively young variety, every year among gardeners there are more and more of its fans.

Characteristics and features of the variety

This is a rather unusual tomato in appearance. Bred by breeders of the Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural University.

Indeterminate (tall) tomato variety with powerful growth power. Produces a lot of densely leafy stems. The height of the shoots is on average 1.8 m, but often reaches 2 meters. Tomato medium early ripening. From the moment of sowing seeds to the beginning of fruiting, 105 to 115 days pass.

The fruits are fleshy, the pulp is quite dense, but very juicy and sweet. Contains a large percentage of solids. The skin is strong, elastic, resistant to cracking. It is saturated pale pink with a beautiful glossy sheen. Inside contain a small number of chambers with few seeds.

The fruits themselves are elongated-oval in shape with a long, thin, pronounced nose. The ratio of tomato length to width 3: 1. It grows mainly 9-13 cm. Vegetables are collected in spectacular brushes. Usually their number is from 4 to 8 pcs. In each brush, up to 10 fruits ripen.

Tomatoes are medium-large. Weight in the season - 70-100 gr., Can be poured up to 150 gr. The variety is fruitful, productivity from 1 plant is up to 10 kg of fruits.

Grade Strengths

1. Tomatoes are great for fresh consumption, preservation in whole or in part. It is also used for all types of processing.
2. Despite the intended use for growing in greenhouse conditions, it also tolerates open ground conditions.
3. Beautiful and original appearance of the bush with fruits ripening on it. When cultivated in open ground, it can act as a real decoration of beds.
4. It has good indicators of storage and transportability, as well as resistance to mechanical damage.
5. It has a high resistance to the main diseases of solanaceous crops, and especially to fungal diseases. In particular, fusarium, verticillosis, brown and gray spots and the tobacco mosaic virus.
6. Resistant to many pests. Including to such a dangerous as a nematode.
7. The variety is very unpretentious, does not require high agricultural technology when grown.
8. It has the ability to tolerate negative environmental factors without much damage to the crop. The flowers of the Pink Icicle are well pollinated even in the heat.

Secrets to Successful Growing

1. It is advisable to form a bush in 1 or 2 stems.
2. Bushes for successful development should not interfere with each other, planting scheme - 50-60 cm between plants in a row.
3. Regular garter of the stem to the trellis. Garter should be started just a few days after transplanting seedlings.
4. Seeds for seedlings must be sown early in late February - early March.
5. Watering seedlings is carried out only with warm water.
6. Carrying out preventive treatments of tomatoes from diseases and pests. Not as often as in other varieties, but at least 1-2 times per season.
7. The introduction of organic matter into the soil, namely rotted manure. As well as several treatments with mineral fertilizers.
8. Perform regular pinching and pruning of the lower leaves.

Reviews of gardeners about the variety

1. Lena Perepyolkina, 51 years old: I bought seedlings from a woman in the market. She said that I would not regret it and I will thank her later! Planted, raised, gathered. Until that moment, I liked everything. But when she took the tomato in her hand, she was immediately upset. Dense, strong, as if stone ... I thought that the seller of seedlings and the variety were purely for processing. For factories. But still she decided and bit. Surprise knew no bounds. The seeming stonyness is gone, the tomato turned out to be pleasantly crispy, juicy and very sweet flesh. To say that I was pleased was to say nothing. Variety is fire! I advise everyone.
2. Maxim Govorov, 43 years old: Variety fighter. The spring was cool, rainy. And in May, cold turned sharply into heat. But the Pink Icicle proved to be the best. There was not a single speck on the leaves. And most importantly - after flowering, many fruits were tied. Beautiful brushes resembled Christmas garlands. Although the creamy tomatoes were not large, there were quite a few of them. He collected a couple of boxes and took his mother to the market. Although I drove 50 km, not a single tomato creased. And in the bazaar they dispersed instantly. Pink Icicle - beautiful, tasty and sweet tomatoes without unnecessary trouble.

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