Characteristics of Pink Bush Variety Tomato

Every year, gardeners are faced with the choice of which plants to give preference to: proven, grown from year to year, or new, but well-established. Another dilemma: choose a variety or hybrid? Tomato Pink Bush is a very good option for those who intend to grow hybrids that are fairly new, but have shown the best qualities.

Characteristics of the Pink Bush variety tomato

Like any other plant, the Pink Bush F1 hybrid tomato has its advantages and disadvantages .Only having received full information, you can make a choice.

Characteristic of the variety

Tomato Pink Bush F1 is a determinant, early ripe variety of Japanese selection from Sakata.

The hybrid was entered in the State Register of the Russian Federation in 2003, i.e. For a decade and a half, it has been available to Russian vegetable growers. The price of seed in retail is quite high.

The growing season is 90-100 days, which indicates a very early ripening period. Due to this characteristic, the variety can ripen in the middle zone of Russia in the open ground. In the northern regions it will delight you with a good harvest from the greenhouse.

They eat tomatoes mainly in fresh form.During heat treatment, the fruits lose part of their taste.

Description of the bush

The undersized bush is up to 50 centimeters in open ground and about 70 centimeters in a greenhouse. Some summer residents in closed ground received plants up to 1 meter tall. A medium-sized stalk with short internodes.

The tomato does not need to be planted. Despite its compactness, the bush needs to be tied up due to the high load on the shoots when the fruit ripens, especially when grown indoors.

Description of the fruit

Poetic name hybrid – “rose bush” – due to the color of the fruit.

Pink Bush tomatoes are smooth pink in color, without a green spot near the stem. The skin is elastic. The fruit is not prone to cracking, which allows you to preserve the crop for a long time and transport it over long distances.

The fruit is easy to tolerate transportation

The shape of the tomato is round, slightly flattened on the fruits of the first brush. The size is relatively small, weight 150-200 grams. The Pink Bush early tomato variety has a good yield of 10-12 kilograms per square meter. Like most hybrids, Pink Bush pleases growers with friendly ripening.

Features of care

The ultra-early ripening time allows gardeners to get an early harvest, both for their own consumption and for sale on the market. To grow tomatoes in heated greenhouses, hotbeds, and in the open ground, you need to take care of high-quality seedlings.

Planting seeds

To grow 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 disinfect and ensure the outflow of excess moisture.

Soil we get ready or we prepare the soil mixture ourselves. To improve the quality of land taken from a summer cottage, you need to:

• add peat, humus to increase fertility (you can also use ammonium nitrate or ammophos);
• sand or sawdust, if the soil is “heavy”, clayey;
• ash, chalk or dolomite flour with high acidity.

Seeds are not deeply embedded into prepared mail – up to 5 millimeters. You can scatter them on the surface and crush them with a small layer of earth. Then you need to moisten the soil from the spray gun, cover with a film and put in a warm place (with a temperature of about 25 degrees) for germination.

Care of seedlings

After the first two leaves appear 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, include additional lighting. After 10 days of hardening, the temperature is increased to 20 degrees.

Seedlings are watered as necessary, and organic and mineral fertilizers are applied. After the appearance of two true leaves, you can dive. Plants are planted one by one in plastic cups or small pots. Experts recommend arranging pickled seedlings so that there is space between the rows of cups. This is necessary for the formation of shoots.

Landing in the ground

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 reduce the time of adaptation of the plant. Before planting, complex fertilizers for tomatoes or rotted manure are introduced into the soil. Planting rate – 4-6 plants per 1 square meter. Thicken planting should not be allowed, as this will lead to a decrease in yield.

The hybrid does not need to be stubbed. According to the reviews of vegetable growers, it is necessary to remove excess shoots if tomatoes are grown in the northern regions with a short summer, in order to ripen the crop in time.

Watering and fertilizing

Water only under the root

Pink Bush Tomatoes do not require special care. It is necessary to observe simple irrigation rules:

• apply water to the root, avoiding falling on the leaves;
• watering time depends on weather conditions (open ground), determined by the drying of the top soil layer ( greenhouses and greenhouses);
• after watering, the earth must be loosened, since tomatoes, especially young plants, need enough oxygen, loosening is one of the ways to prevent diseases;
• not to allow excess moisture, since the taste of the fruit is deteriorating, cracking may occur midors, favorable conditions are created for the spread of fungal diseases.

Plant nutrition 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, such as fusarium, verticillosis, tobacco mosaic.

The description says that the variety is vulnerable to pests: whiteflies, slugs and snails, spider mites, which can exist Twice to reduce productivity.

The main pest control measures:

• for the destruction of whiteflies use the preparations “Tanrek”, “Boverin”, “Confidor”, folk remedies – spraying with dandelion, yarrow, weak solution of copper vitriol;
• tobacco dust is used against slugs and snails, a mixture of sifted ash and ground red pepper;
• from a spider mite will help: tincture of garlic (200 grams per bucket of warm water), tobacco, horseradish or dandelions; from chemicals – “Antikleshch”, “Karbofos”.

Traditional, but necessary measures for the prevention of diseases, pests are loosening the soil, removing weeds, maintaining optimal temperature and humidity (when growing tomatoes in closed ground).

Reviews of gardeners

Gardeners and gardeners give an excellent description of the Pink Bush hybrid and confirm its description, emphasizing the high yield of the variety, very early ripening, the possibility of long storage and transportation without losses. Gardeners are willingly grown for sale in the market. The fruit ripening together makes it possible to successfully use the variety in greenhouses oriented to two crops per season.

There are different reviews of vegetable growers about tomato Pink Bush regarding its taste: some note a great taste, others say that “on C grade. ” Gustatory quality probably depends on agricultural practices.