Characteristics of Pink Bush tomato variety
Every year, gardeners are faced with a choice of which plants to give preference to: proven, which are grown from year to year, or new, but well-proven. Another dilemma: choose a cultivar or a hybrid? Tomato Pink Bush is a very good option for those who intend to grow new hybrids that have shown the best qualities in practice.
Characteristics of Pink Bush tomato variety
Like any other plant, the Pink Bush F1 hybrid tomato has its advantages and disadvantages. Only after receiving complete information can you make a choice.
Variety characteristic
Tomato Pink Bush F1 is a determinant, early-maturing variety of Japanese selection from Sakata.
The hybrid was entered in the State Register of the Russian Federation in 2003, i.e. has been available to Russian vegetable growers for a decade and a half. The price of seed in retail trade is quite high.
The growing season is 90-100 days, which indicates very early ripening. Thanks to this characteristic, the variety can ripen in Central Russia in the open field. In the northern regions, it will delight you with a good harvest from the greenhouse.
Tomatoes are consumed mainly fresh. During heat treatment, the fruits lose some of their taste.
Description of the bush
The bush is undersized - up to 50 centimeters in the open field and about 70 centimeters in the greenhouse. Some summer residents in greenhouses received plants up to 1 meter high. Stem of medium strength with short internodes.
The tomato does not need pinching. Despite its compactness, the bush needs to be tied up due to the heavy load on the shoots during fruit ripening, especially when grown in greenhouses.
Description of fruits
The poetic name of the hybrid - "rose bush" - is explained by the color of the fruit.
Pink Bush tomatoes have an even pink color, without a green spot near the stalk. The skin is firm. The fruit is not prone to cracking, which allows you to keep the crop for a long time and transport it over long distances.
The fruit is easy to carry transportation
The shape of the tomato is rounded, slightly flattened in the fruits of the first cluster. The size is relatively small, weighing 150-200 grams. The early tomato variety Pink Bush has a good yield - 10-12 kilograms per square meter. Like most hybrids, Pink Bush pleases vegetable growers with amicable ripening.
Care features
Ultra-early ripening allows gardeners to get an early harvest, both for their own consumption and for sale on the market. For growing tomatoes in heated greenhouses, hotbeds, and in the open field, you need to take care of high-quality seedlings.
Planting seeds
For growing seedlings, it is necessary to prepare containers and soil. As containers, you can use ordinary wooden or plastic trays, special cassettes.The main requirement is to carry out disinfection and ensure the outflow of excess moisture.
We purchase the soil ready-made or prepare the soil mixture ourselves. To improve the quality of land taken from a summer cottage, you need:
- add peat, humus to increase fertility (you can also use ammonium nitrate or ammophoska);
- sand or sawdust, if the soil is "heavy", clayey;
- ash, chalk or dolomite flour with high acidity.
We embed the seeds in the prepared mail not deeply - up to 5 millimeters. You can scatter them over the surface and crush them with a small layer of earth. Then the soil must be moistened with a spray bottle, covered with foil and placed in a warm place (with a temperature of about 25 degrees) for germination.
Seedling care
After the appearance of the first two leaves, the film is removed and the seedlings are transferred to a bright but cool place with a temperature of 15-18 degrees. Daylight hours for the full development of young plants should be at least 10 hours, so if necessary, you need to turn on additional lighting. After 10 days of hardening, the temperature is raised to 20 degrees.
Seedlings are watered as needed, organic and mineral fertilizers are applied. After the appearance of two true leaves, you can dive. Plants are planted one at a time in plastic cups or small pots. Experts recommend arranging the dived seedlings so that there is space between the rows of cups. This is necessary for the formation of shoots.
Landing in the ground
The bushes are planted in the ground at the age of 40-50 days. It is better to use the transshipment method - to move the bush together with a lump of earth so as not to injure the root system and shorten the adaptation time of the plant. Before planting, complex fertilizers for tomatoes or rotted manure are applied to the soil. Planting rate is 4-6 plants per 1 square meter. Thickening of the plantings should not be allowed, as this will lead to a decrease in yield.
The hybrid does not need pinning. To remove excess shoots, according to vegetable growers, it is necessary if tomatoes are grown in northern regions with a short summer, for the timely ripening of the crop.
Watering and fertilizing
Water only at the root.
Pink Bush tomatoes require little maintenance. It is necessary to follow the simple rules of watering:
- serve water at the root, avoiding contact with the leaves;
- the timing of watering depends on weather conditions (open ground), determined by the drying of the topsoil (greenhouses and hotbeds);
- after watering, the land must be loosened, since tomatoes, especially young plants, need a sufficient amount of oxygen, loosening is one of the ways to prevent diseases;
- avoid excess moisture, since the taste of the fruit deteriorates, the tomatoes may crack, favorable conditions are created for the spread of fungal diseases.
Plant feeding is carried out 3-4 times: a week after planting seedlings, during flowering, fruit setting, at the beginning of fruiting.
Diseases and pests
The advantage of the Pink Bush hybrid is its high resistance to most diseases, for example, fusarium, verticillium, tobacco mosaic.
The description says that the variety is vulnerable to pests: whiteflies, slugs and snails, spider mites, which can significantly reduce yields.
Basic pest control measures:
- for the destruction of whitefly use drugs "Tanrek", "Boverin", "Confidor", folk remedies - spraying infusion of dandelion, yarrow, a weak solution of copper sulfate;
- tobacco dust, a mixture of sifted ash and ground red pepper are used against slugs and snails;
- from spider mites will help: tincture of garlic (200 grams per bucket of warm water), tobacco, horseradish or dandelions; from chemicals - "Antiklesch", "Karbofos".
Traditional, but necessary measures for the prevention of diseases, the appearance of pests are loosening the soil, removing weeds, maintaining optimal temperature and humidity (when growing tomatoes in greenhouses).
Reviews of gardeners
Gardeners and summer residents give an excellent description of the Pink Bush hybrid and confirm its description, emphasizing the high yield of the variety, very early ripening periods, the possibility of long-term storage and transportation without losses. Gardeners are willingly grown for sale in the market. The amicable ripening of the fruits makes it possible to successfully use the variety in greenhouses, focused on obtaining two harvests per season.
The reviews of vegetable growers about the Pink Bush tomato differ regarding its taste: some note the great taste, others say that it is "C". Probably, the taste depends on the observance of agricultural technology.
For many summer residents, the problem is the purchase of seeds due to the rather high price. It is possible to collect your seeds, but, like all F1 hybrids, Pink Bush retains its properties only in the first generation, and does not show in the second and third years of cultivation.
Conclusion
The Bush hybrid has excellent qualities, which were appreciated by both summer residents and agronomists. In our difficult times, the variety will help not only to provide itself with high-quality products, but also to make a profit. The description and characteristics of the bush shows its main fruit qualities - the hybrid is distinguished by a generous harvest, and the fruits are suitable for both commercial purposes and for home use.
The result will depend on how knowledgeable the vegetable grower is in agricultural technology, how much labor he is willing to put into taking care of the plants properly.