Experienced gardeners recommend - tomato "Pink spam": a description of the variety and photo

Tireless gardeners are looking for the best tomatoes among a huge number of varieties and hybrids.

Pink tomatoes are in great demand. Their excellent taste and useful properties have gained popularity among owners of personal plots, summer cottages, and farms. One of the most popular in this segment is the Pink Spam tomato.

In this article you will find a complete description of the variety, get acquainted with the main characteristics and subtleties of agricultural technology, learn everything about the propensity to disease.

Tomato Pink Spam: variety description

The origin of this hybrid variety is associated with the traditional Bovine Heart. From him, Pink Spam inherited the specifics of growth, color and size of the fruit. By the type of development, this is an indeterminate plant that requires support. Indeterminacy is the ability of a plant to grow throughout its growing period. Read about determinant varieties here.

You can stop the plant's aspiration upward and to the sides by pinching at the desired height, removing unnecessary trunks and branches, that is, pinching. Tomatoes of this variety are early maturing: from germination to the beginning of fruit ripening 95 - 100 days.

In southern areas, Pink Spam tomatoes can be grown outdoors, but as a hybrid they thrive better in greenhouses, greenhouses and under plastic. In them, tomatoes successfully resist cladosporia, verticellosis and tomato mosaic virus. Late blight resistance is not the highest.

Characteristics

Fruits are multi-chambered with medium density and thin skin. They contain more nutrients, vitamins, micro- and macronutrients than the original tomato variety. Sweetish taste... Their color is more pink. The shape of tomatoes on one bush is leveled heart-shaped, less often - rounded.

Fruit weight from 160 to 300 g... Immediately after harvesting, the fruits tolerate transportation well, but are not intended for long-term storage. A hybrid of domestic selection, registered in the Russian Federation and entered in the State Register as Tomato Pink Spam F1 for growing in film greenhouses of personal subsidiary farms.

You can compare the weight of fruits with other varieties in the table below:

Tomato variety Pink Spam - table. Delicious, juicy, large fruits with thin skin are used fresh for making salads and sauces. For use in winter, juice with pulp, tomato paste and seasonings (for example, adjika) are harvested.

If the agrotechnical minimum is observed, the yield of the Pink Spam variety is above average: 20 - 25 kg per 1 m². This is more than the productivity of many other tomato varieties. You can compare it in this table:

A photo

See below: Tomato Pink Spam Photos

Advantages and disadvantages

The undoubted advantage over other varieties of tomatoes is:

• high productivity;
• friendly fruit setting;
• lack of tendency to cracking;
• excellent taste;
• high content of nutrients.

The disadvantages of a hybrid are much less.:

• more difficult care;
• low keeping quality;
• susceptibility to certain diseases.

Growing features

The growth of a hybrid and its yield largely depends on the growing conditions. Each bush requires shaping to achieve the greatest yield.

Tomato variety Pink Spam is grown most often through seedlings... Seeds are sown in March using growth stimulants, two-month-old plants are transferred to a greenhouse or open ground for growing under cover or without.

From a very early age, the bush requires formation. This regular procedure is especially relevant in the limited space of the greenhouse. The plant is formed into 1 trunk... Much attention is paid to the removal of stepchildren. These shoots thicken the bush and use up nutrients, which negatively affects the yield.

For tall varieties, increased illumination is required. To achieve this, the bush is tied to a vertical support as early as possible and pinching is carried out regularly. The plant also needs fresh air and not too high a temperature.

Reference: At temperatures above + 33 ° C during flowering, the ability to form ovaries is significantly reduced.

The variety very quickly uses nutrients from the soil and needs additional feeding. During the growth period, phosphorus-potassium fertilizers are applied, which significantly increases the yield. Fertilizers are also used:

• Organic.
• Mineral.
• Yeast.
• Iodine.
• Hydrogen peroxide.
• Ammonia.
• Ashes.
• Boric acid.

Watering regularly, but not excessive... Abundant watering after severe drought is dangerous. No matter how resistant the variety is to cracking, waterlogging after the soil has completely dried out is very dangerous for the integrity of the fruit. Mulching during planting will save you from weeds.

Diseases and pests

Like many hybrid members of the nightshade family, these tomatoes are not too susceptible to pest attacks. They are afraid only of some fungal diseases, in particular, late blight.

To prevent the development of fungal diseases, the greenhouse is regularly ventilated to remove excess air humidity. Before planting seedlings in a greenhouse, the soil is treated with phytosporin or another antifungal drug.

Thus, the tomato hybrid Pink Spam is a promising high-yielding table variety that deserves the attention of gardeners.

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