Tomato "Big Beef F1": variety characteristics and cultivation techniques
Tomatoes "Big Beef F1", with an original taste and large size, are a positive result of good agricultural technology. To get tomatoes-heroes, you need to grow them correctly. And how to do this is described in detail in this article.
dutch hybrid
A vegetable plant was bred by Dutch breeders. Since 2008, vegetable crops have been approved for use in the Russian Federation. This tomato variety quickly took root due to the fact that it is resistant to various climatic conditions.
Tomatoes are a very useful product. The fruits of this species are large in size and excellent in taste. Because of this, they are called steak or beef tomatoes.
In the United States of America, tomato heroes are used in the preparation of popular hamburgers. The size of these large tomatoes is perfect for the cross slices to fit on a steak. That is why hamburgers are so tasty and great.
Peculiarities
A vegetable hybrid is grown not only in greenhouses and greenhouses, but also under warm climatic conditions in the open field. You can plant these tomatoes indoors. The hybrid is not afraid of cool temperatures, so the plant is relatively cold-resistant.
The only difficulty for beginner gardeners is that the plant requires proper cultivation. Failure to comply with the necessary agricultural technology will negatively affect the quality and quantity of the harvested crop. The vegetable crop is also valued because it is resistant to diseases that usually affect tomatoes.
plant properties
Tomatoes "Big Beef F1" are a medium early product. The inflorescence is simple. The leaves of the plant are large and light green in color. Powerful tall bushes are quite strong, because it is necessary to hold heavy and large tomatoes.
Tomatoes of the Dutch variety are indeterminate. This means that the plant is constantly growing. The height of the bush can reach two meters. Vegetable culture is usually formed into a single stem. But even with two shoots, the harvest does not decrease.
A plant on one branch has a large number of fruits and ovaries. Up to five large tomatoes grow on a brush. For a good harvest, you need to get rid of the excess ovary.
The ripening period of the hybrid is one hundred days. The yield of the considered vegetable variety is nine kilograms per square meter.
Description of fruits
The variety belongs to multi-chamber tomatoes and has six nests. The fruits are rounded. The surface of the skin is smooth and dense. The pulp is fleshy and juicy. With a slight sourness, the sweet taste of the fruit characterizes this variety.
Vegetable culture has a high concentration of solids. Unripe green tomato. It ripens steadily and reaches a bright red color. The average weight of ripe fruits is two hundred to three hundred grams. But the champion tomatoes reached two kilograms.
seedling formation
A vegetable crop is sown depending on the climatic conditions of the area and the type of cultivation (closed or open soil). Sowing is done two months before planting seedlings.
Dutch companies usually supply seeds that have been chemically treated. Therefore, no additional measures are required to prepare them for sowing.
A box or other container is filled with earth with peat. You can pre-purchase ready-made soil in special stores. Then the seeds are evenly distributed in rows and lightly sprinkled with earth (up to five millimeters). Drip irrigation is carried out with warm water. Then cover with foil and put in a warm place. The temperature should be around 25 degrees.
After a week, the film is removed and the seedlings are monitored. The earth should not dry out or be excessively wet.
After two weeks, the first three leaves will appear. Seedlings should be placed in different boxes. After picking, you need to water the plants with root stimulants. This gives better maturation of the root system.
Seedlings should be under lighting for at least twelve hours a day. If necessary, use fluorescent light.
Seedlings need to be hardened two weeks before planting. To do this, ventilate the room, gradually bringing the temperature to 14 degrees. When a dozen leaves or flower brushes appear on the seedlings, the plants are planted.
Three to four bushes are placed per square meter. If you arrange the seedlings denser, then this will have a bad effect on productivity.
How to grow tomatoes?
Tomatoes should be planted where beets, onions, beans, carrots or cabbage previously grew. Places where potatoes, eggplants or tomatoes were grown are not suitable for growing.
The soil for vegetable crops is prepared in the fall: the soil must be dug up and humus added, in the spring the earth should be loosened.
Seedlings are moved to pre-prepared holes. The root system falls asleep.After watering with warm water, the branches are carefully tied to pegs so as not to crush the stems.
Before flowering, the vegetable crop is watered weekly. Then the soil is moistened after three days. When the tomatoes begin to bear fruit - in a week. After moistening, the soil should be loosened. Greenhouses must be constantly ventilated so that a crust does not form on the ground.
No more than five ovaries should be left on the bushes, the rest are removed. This is necessary in order for the fruits to be large. Otherwise, small tomatoes will grow, because extra shoots will take away nutrients. The harvest starts in July and ends in September. Ripe vegetables are stored for up to twenty days. The product is well transported.
Application of fertilizers
With proper fertilization, yields are greatly increased. Therefore, the vegetable crop is fed four times during the season. Fertilizers are added in liquid or dry form.
The first dressing with a ratio of 1: 10 consists of a solution of mullein. When two to three weeks pass, twenty grams of potassium salt and superphosphate are mixed with a bucket of water. The solution is added to the soil. After flowering, plant leaves are treated with a solution of boric acid (two grams of the substance is taken for two liters of water).
When the vegetable crop began to bear fruit, it is treated with potash and phosphorus fertilizers. Another option is natural top dressing containing wood ash.
Diseases
This variety is not susceptible to various diseases. If you constantly remove excess shoots and provide good ventilation, then the risk of disease will be greatly reduced.
If, nevertheless, harmful insects appear, then it is necessary to apply an infusion with wood ash or insecticides. Fungal diseases affect plants at high humidity.At the same time, dark spots are visible on the vegetable crop. In this case, drugs containing copper or others are used.
The most dangerous are viral diseases. Then it is necessary to destroy diseased bushes immediately.
Reviews
There is a lot of positive information about the Big Beef F1 hybrid from the people who grow it. They note the good resistance of plants to temperature extremes. Large and tasty fruits of a vegetable crop are a characteristic of the variety. Procurers are satisfied with the fact that the product is stored for a long time.
But with improper cultivation, yield and quality deteriorate significantly.
From the description it is clear that growing this variety is not easy - you need constant and proper care. But on the other hand, having tasted delicious fruits, it will become clear that the forces were not wasted in vain!
You will learn more about the variety of tomatoes "Big Beef F1" from the following video.