Tomato Sakhalin - description and characteristics of the variety

Early ripening, unpretentious, summer residents like it and occupies a worthy place among many varieties. It is especially valuable for central Russia and the more northern regions, where summer comes later, and May frosts annually destroy a significant part of the plants if they did not have time to cover them with film.

Grade characteristics

The variety was bred relatively recently and immediately received recognition for its precocity and resistance to sudden changes in temperature. Based on low-growing species, a bush with a height of about 50 cm was obtained with a developed root system and a powerful trunk. The plant calmly tolerates strong spring winds, leaning slightly to the ground, quickly recovers after frosts. The stepson formation process is weak, garter is not required. In a complex inflorescence of 4 to 7 ovaries, the first fruits reach ripeness on day 95 from the time of planting. Friendly fruiting occurs in late July, early August.

Fruits are red, with a pinkish tinge, round, weighing from 80 to 100 gr. They glow in a beautiful bunch through dark green foliage, they sing almost simultaneously. The pulp is dense with a sweet and sour taste. The dense peel ensures the fruit is stored for up to 2 months, if they are removed a little unripe, put in boxes with trellised walls and placed in a cool dark place with medium humidity.

Benefits of Sakhalin Tomato

It was possible to connect:

• precocity
• high resistance to gray and apical rot, mosaic, late blight;
• resistance to the vagaries of nature;
• good transportability;
• unpretentiousness to the composition and quality of the soil.

Attention: a lack of calcium and an excess of nitrogen lead to the development of diseases affecting fruits and leaves. The variety has high resistance to the most common diseases, nevertheless, the growing conditions must be observed, fertilizers should be applied in a timely manner and in the right amounts, a routine inspection of the plants and their treatment should be made at the first sign of stains on the leaves and fruits.

How to get an early harvest

The precocity of the variety is its indisputable advantage, but it is worth considering the climatic conditions of the growing region. Here, too, you can outsmart nature and accelerate ripening by growing plants through seedlings.

There are many ways of early seed germination and obtaining strong plants with a well-developed root lobe, almost every summer resident has several personal secrets. For example:

1. Seedlings do not tolerate heat, so the optimum temperature is +18 in the afternoon and + 13 - 15 at night.
2. A good level of lighting is required, with a large number of cloudy days you will have to use a phytolamp.
3. The humidity level is strictly regulated, plentiful watering is carried out once a week, spraying at a distance of about 4-5 times a week.
4. You can’t sow seeds too early; you get tall anemic plants that will not tolerate a transplant.

Please note: A feature of the Sakhalin variety is the small number of stepsons, so the planting density reaches 4-5 plants per 1 sq. m. In case of proper care, the yield from this site reaches 6 kg.

When planting, the alternation of species is necessarily taken into account, so potatoes and tomatoes should be removed as much as possible, dividing the beds with other types of plants. Not only is there a crawl of the Colorado potato beetle, the similarity of diseases is added to it and stopping them on such a large area is much more difficult than sequentially processing two separate areas.

Culling seeds before planting is carried out using saline.Everything that appeared on the surface after 15 minutes is disposed of. Processing before planting is carried out with a solution of manganese, Fitosporin, aloe juice in half with water. The growth stimulator accelerates germination, for example, Vitrana-micro, Epina. Dates for sowing seeds range from March 20 to mid-April.

The unpretentious and frost-resistant Sakhalin variety is perfect for canning in general, preparing juice, tomato paste, sauces, transportation and long-term storage.

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