Growing, characteristics and description of the tomato variety Crystal F1

The hybrid tomato “Crystal F1”, bred by French breeders and recommended for cultivation in greenhouses, hotbeds and open ground, received excellent reviews from gardeners.

Tomatoes "Crystal F1" are an all-season, early-ripening, cluster hybrid. The period from sowing seeds into the soil until the ripening of the first fruits is 90-105 days. The bush is tall, the internodes are short, the inflorescence is simple. The stem is thick. The leaf is pinnate and light green. The first inflorescence is formed above the 5-6th leaf. Each inflorescence has 8-10 fruits.“Crystal F1” is a tall and high-yielding variety, so it definitely requires tying to a support, and it is also recommended to remove the stepsons. To grow a strong bush, it is formed into one or two stems.

Fruit characteristics

Description: the “Crystal F1” tomato has fruits weighing 120-160 grams, round, even, dense, red inside and out, uniform in color and the same size. Inside the tomato are three small seed chambers containing small seeds. The wall thickness of the Crystal F1 hybrid is 6-8 mm, this ensures a high-quality presentation and good preservation during transportation. Tomatoes of this variety are not susceptible to cracking. The brush matures completely, so you can harvest the crop with brushes.

The weight of one “Crystal F1” brush can reach 1.5-1.6 kg.

Taste and technical characteristics

The fruits of "Crystal F1" are sweet and sour, fleshy with dense thin skin. This variety of tomatoes is suitable for fresh consumption, in salads, and has proven itself in home canning. The fruits hold their shape well when pickled and salted. To obtain greater shades of flavor, tomatoes of varying degrees of ripeness can be placed in one jar. The paste and puree made from these tomatoes received especially enthusiastic reviews from housewives for their pronounced red color and thick consistency.

Features of cultivation

Tomatoes "Crystal F1" are grown on slightly acidic or neutral soils. Seeds are sown in accordance with the ripening period and weather conditions of the region. Sowing is done to a depth of 1-2 cm and the top layer of soil is lightly pressed.

The first prerequisite for obtaining strong seedlings is picking the seedlings, which is carried out when 2-4 true leaves appear on the seedlings (30-35 days after sowing the seeds).By about 50-60 days, the seedlings reach a height of 25-30 cm. The finished seedlings are planted in beds at a distance of 50 by 40 cm from each other; planting density: 2-3 plants per 1 sq. m.

Growing in a greenhouse or in greenhouses for the “Crystal F1” variety is preferable, since the yield per bush increases from 6 kg in open ground to 10 kg in a greenhouse and 15-18 kg in a greenhouse. A greenhouse plant develops better, since optimal temperature, light conditions, drip watering and fertilizing are constantly maintained there.

Further care of the plant comes down to simple procedures:

• watering every 7-10 days;
• mandatory soil mulching;
• timely application of fertilizers to the soil;
• ventilation;
• loosening and weeding of plantings.

Fertilization and fruiting

Tomatoes are fertilized for the first time in the phase of active seedling growth, then 10 days after the second ovary begins to flower, and then as soon as the first harvest has been harvested. After the fruits appear on 3-5 ovaries, it is necessary to tear off the lower leaves of the bushes, freeing the stem to the base of the second cluster. This improves the air flow to the plant, it grows better, increases resistance to fungal diseases, and also accelerates the ripening of fruits.

The following folk remedy is also used to speed up fruiting: Dilute the ash in 2 liters of water (a third of a bucket). Dilute it with 5 liters of boiling water, then mix well and cool the solution. After this, bring the resulting mixture to a volume of about 10 liters, add 1 jar of iodine and 10 g of boric acid. Leave the solution for a day.

You can also speed up the ripening of tomatoes using special ready-made preparations.

Disease resistance and processing

An important characteristic of the tomato variety “Crystal F1” is that it does not suffer from the tomato tobacco mosaic virus and is resistant to spotted, verticillium wilt, and fusarium viruses. You can increase the resistance of tomatoes to fungal infections by using mineral fertilizers containing potassium, magnesium, and nitrogen.

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