Tomato Shakira F1 - description and characteristics of the variety

The hybrid belongs to indeterminate varieties with unlimited shoot growth. Bushes need garter, shaping, and pinching. Particular attention should be paid to the garter, as it helps to reduce the load on the stem and direct all forces into the fruits.

Description

The hybrid is medium early, the crop ripens in 95 days from the moment of transplanting. Do not neglect the stepson. It favors the accelerated development of the bush, increasing the yield. Tomato Shakira reaches one and a half to two meters in height.

1. It is necessary to form a bush in one stalk. An undoubted advantage of this variety is its excellent transportability, which allows you to grow this crop for commercial purposes. However, in this case, the harvest should be carried out while the tomatoes are in a state of technical maturity.
2. The fruit has a light pink tint, and a rounded shape.
3. Tomato can be used both in canning and in fresh form. The core of the tomato has a moderate density and juiciness. The number of seeds in the tomato chambers is negligible.
4. The positive qualities include resistance to fusiarosis, cladosporiosis and the tobacco mosaic virus. Very rarely, this hybrid can undergo a disease such as late blight.
5. Berries do not crack due to a rather dense skin. Which prevents the decaying tomatoes during heat treatments. When planting seedlings, it will need to be buried in the soil more than usual, since this culture gains height quite quickly.

If desired, you can accelerate the growth of bushes by adding a little ash to the water for irrigation. You can not even add to the water, but simply sprinkle it with soil around the bushes.

Growing seedlings and further care

Before sowing seeds, they are disinfected with a weak solution of potassium permanganate. At the stage of three leaves, young tomatoes dive into separate pots.

1. If the hybrid will be grown in seedlings, the seeds are sown 65 days before the planned planting of young plants in open ground.
2. In bushes, the root system is extremely developed. For this reason, no more than three plants should be located in one square place. Particular attention should be paid to watering.
3. This crop does not like drought, but excess water can be more negative. Stagnation of water in the holes leads to the development of fungal diseases, root decay. You just need to prevent the earth near the bush from drying out.
4. Planting seedlings in open ground should be carried out in late May. Return frosts can ruin a thermophilic culture, but it is also undesirable to delay planting.
5. For the cultivation of this crop, sandy and loamy soil is ideally suitable.

When planting seedlings in open ground, it should be borne in mind that the soil and air should have an acceptable temperature. This can be achieved by performing the mulching procedure and covering the plants with a film until steady warm weather sets in.

Ideal predecessors for this crop are: legumes, cucumbers, carrots, parsley and cauliflower.

Before growing seedlings, the seeds are quenched by dipping them for fifteen minutes in a potassium permanganate solution.

Watering and feeding

After rains and watering on the ground, a dense crust will form around the tomatoes, which must be loosened regularly.

1. In the first days of planting, the plant needs the most active watering. A little tip: in order to get the most developed seedlings, after the appearance of 3-4 leaves in the container, you need to add a little soil.
2. With the active growth of bushes, they need to be spudded, this will help the development of a more powerful root system. The first hilling should be carried out on the tenth day after the transplant, and the second after about the same. Tomatoes are mulched with straw, sawdust or mowed grass.
3. It is worthwhile to slightly increase the amount of watering during the flowering period of bushes. This culture can be grown both indoors and outdoors with the same success.

If desired, the bushes can be formed into two stems. Pasynkovka should be carried out regularly, but at one time it is strictly forbidden to remove more than three shoots, as this can harm the plant.

Tomatoes of this variety have gained particular relevance due to their outstanding taste and the ability to harvest a large crop throughout the summer until the frosts.

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