The seed market has a large selection of early ripe tomatoes. One of them is selected for the Russian climate grade Shuttle, the characteristic and description of which is presented below. Endurance and unpretentiousness of this variety is great for gardeners who are not burdened with experience. The first informational acquaintance determines the choice: whether to try or not.
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Tomato Shuttle
To begin with, the characteristics of the variety and the description, its positive and negative qualities should be considered.
Characteristic variety
Fruits are smooth, glossy. The shape of an elongated oval, with a small pointed tip. In a mature state, the color comes to a dark red tone with an orange tint.
The flesh is fleshy, divided by three seed chambers with a small filling of grains.
Covered with a dense skin (no hardness), which has a positive effect on the transportation of fruits and good storage. Prevents cracking of fruits. Weight when grown in open field varies from forty-five to seventy grams. Greenhouse indicators are slightly higher.
Excellent proven in all types of canning, especially in small containers. Also used fresh: whole (like children for the shape and size) and in salads (unobtrusive, sweetish taste with a slight sour note).
Fruiting is able to continue until the onset of frost. For such medium-sized tomatoes, the yield is high: at least five kilograms per square meter. And with proper care, you can collect all eight.
Description
Determinant (undersized) early ripening variety with early onset of fruiting.
The distinctive property of cold resistance allows you to land early in open ground, to get a harvest in the cool summer period. The variety is resistant to late blight.
The plant is represented by a bush with a low (up to 55 centimeters) strong stalk. Compact with weak branching, does not require garter, shaping and pinching. Suitable for growing in limited areas.
Inflorescences begin to appear after the seventh leaf. The term of the onset of fruiting comes in the third month of the first shoots.
Reviews
Many sayings of people who wish to grow a canoe speak for their correspondence to the stated qualities. The compactness of a bush of an average green massif does not require either staking or tying. It showed itself well in the Urals and in the West Siberian region. Inflorescences alternate with two leaves. High yield is present on the open ground with prolonged fruiting. The elasticity of the fruit has confirmed good performance when canning whole fruits in small jars (up to one liter).
Pros and cons varieties
Like all grown crops, there are positive and negative points.
Pros:
- Early ripening fruits.
- Long lasting storage without processing.
- Small size fruit contributes to the ease of winter preparations in small containers.
- Ease of growing, in the absence of favorable conditions.
Minuses:
- Slightly saturated aroma.
- Taste does not dominate when used in processed form.
How to cultivate tomatoes
Growing is done by seedling method, from seeds. The plant is usually planted in open ground since the end of spring, without delaying the process for a particularly long time (until early June). When planting seedlings in the soil, a small amount of wood ash is added directly under the roots.
Conditions
Now it is necessary to figure out, observing what conditions it will turn out to grow a good urazhay tomatoes.
Landing conditions
Raise the variety should be through the seedlings. Tomatoes varieties Shuttle not demanding care. For the cultivation of this culture is still provided general recommendations.
Landing time
Seeds are sown from the end of February to mid-March. This is the most suitable time for the preparation of planting material (seedlings) for open cultivation with an early ripening period.
Where to plant a shuttle and what kind of ground is needed
The place where the tomato bed will grow, is prepared in the fall. The place is chosen with good lighting, ventilated, but subject to the absence of drafts. The plot is used after growing greens (parsley, dill), climbing crops (cucumbers,vegetable marrows), root crops (carrots) or cabbage.
The difference of cultivation in the greenhouse and in the open ground
Growing conditions in the greenhousecontribute to an increase in the growth of the bush with the enlarged fruits.
Seedling
The main goal of the seedling method is obtained by early production. Practicing and sowing seeds in the street at a later period of time.
Seeding Shuttle on seedlings
Preparation begins with the substrate. For its preparation, sand with black soil is used in equal parts. Then mixed in the wilted humus doubled. The seeds are slightly recessed into the prepared soil, wake up with a small peat layer, moistened. Over the capacity of the planting is stretched film. The container is placed in a warm place. After a week, the first shoots will appear.
How to cook seed
For disinfection of seed used 10 minute soak in heated (slightly above body temperature) solution of water hydrogen peroxide.
The choice of capacity for landing
Here no restrictions on the use or prohibition of the use of any materialsused in the release of packaging.
How to care for seedlings Shuttle
Required regular airing of the miniature room and monitoring the state of soil moisture. When drying, sprayed the surface of the spray. Before the emergence of shoots, the temperature regime is maintained up to 24 degrees of heat. The next step is to remove the film over the sprouts, the degree column is lowered to the mark in the region of 16 in the afternoon plus, and 13+ at night. Watering is carried out with soft water.
Step by step picking seedlings
It is held in individual containers (if planted in a common container) with simultaneous removal of unformed shoots. The first selection at the stage of the expanded cotyledon leaf. Repeatedly with 3 - 4 main leaves.
Planting seedlings in open ground
Pre-hardening is carried out at +8 - +10 degrees outside the window. Duration up to one and a half hours. Warming up the earth to a dozen degrees indicates the possibility of placing tomatoes in a permanent place..
Sowing scheme
Seedlings are planted in up to four bushes per square meter. with the distance between plants up to forty centimeters.
Care
The need persists in weeding, loosening, watering and feeding the planted crops.
How to water the plant
From the moment the bushes land on the street, watering is carried out in working mode once a week, with moisture a quarter of a meter deep. With the formation and ripening of fruits, the volume of watering increases: four plants three dozen liters.
Top dressing of tomatoes
Complex fertilizer is used for the first time when planting seedlings. Further feeding is carried out at intervals of a week. Both organic and minerals are introduced. Each copy absorbs up to one liter of fertilizer.
Major pests and diseases
Resistance to late blight does not guarantee safety from other common diseases. Possible damage to anthracnose tomatoes, powdery mildew. Most diseases come from fallen leaves and weeds.Keeping beds clean is an effective preventative measure.
Pests are dangerous: Colorado potato beetle, melon aphid, bear and spider mite. Soap solution will come to the rescue. For heavy lesions, insecticides are used.
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- Mealy dew on tomatoes
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- Medvedka
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- Colorado potato beetle is a dangerous pest of tomatoes.
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- Tomatoes anthracnose
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- Gourd Aphid
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- The defeat of tomatoes spider mite
Harvest
With good weather conditions, the first ripe tomatoes appear after three months from germination. Ripening occurs alternately, which provokes the ripening of the latter in the autumn. Good yield is possible in the absence of a warm summer.
Conclusion
Everyone can check the ease of care and the declared yield by own experience. After all, this variety is able to please homemade tomatoes not only in the garden on the site, but also in the city, on the balcony.