Among the Dutch hybrids there is one interesting and productive one: tomato Matthias f1. It is grown in a greenhouse, has excellent taste and high yield.
Characteristics of tomatoes and varieties
This is an indeterminate tall tomato bush, intended for growing in a greenhouse. The bush is formed into one stem with the removal of all stepsons. The foliage is average. Growth up to 2 meters in closed ground. In open areas it is lower - up to 1.5 meters. About 115 days pass from germination to the start of fruiting - it refers to mid-early varieties.The variety is practically in first place in terms of yield: up to 15 kilograms of fruit are harvested from one square meter.
Description of the fruits: flat-round, slightly ribbed, red, the weight of a ripe tomato reaches 180 grams, individual specimens up to 300 grams. The taste is excellent, sweet, without sourness. When cut, the fruit has up to 5 cells with seeds. The pulp is juicy and dense; when ripe, there is no green spot near the stalk. The variety is used universally - tomatoes are processed into juice and paste, summer salads are prepared from them, and they are marinated as a whole.
The hybrid is resistant to fusarium, cladosporiosis, verticillium, root rot, TMV and blossom end rot. Breeder: Monsanto (Holland).
Hybrid qualities
A hybrid from crossing two varieties of tomatoes has the following characteristics:
- Excellent taste.
- Disease resistance.
- Excellent commercial quality.
- Keeping quality.
- Transportability.
- Great looks.
- Easy to care for.
Due to its high commercial qualities, the hybrid is often used for cultivation on farms and vegetable factories. It is also in demand among gardeners.
Agricultural technology for growing a hybrid
Like other varieties and hybrids of tomatoes, Matias is grown in seedlings. To get an early harvest, seeds are planted for seedlings in mid or early March (depending on the weather conditions of the region). After planting in fertile, loose soil, containers with seedlings are covered with film until the seeds germinate. As soon as the seeds hatch, the film is removed and the plants continue to be grown in an open, warm and sunny place, maintaining the room temperature at 24–26 degrees.
Until two permanent leaves appear on the sprouts, the soil is watered by spraying.
After the leaves appear, the seedlings are planted in separate containers and grown until the onset of warm weather conditions outside. Plants are transplanted into the greenhouse in May-June; this also depends on the temperature in the room. The optimal values are 22–25 degrees during the day and 16–20 at night.
Seedlings are planted in a checkerboard pattern with a distance between plants of 50 by 40 centimeters. One square meter produces 3-4 plants.
Plant care
After planting the seedlings, they are constantly looked after to obtain a high-quality and early harvest.
- Plant garter. Produced immediately after planting and as it grows.
- Stepsonning. The variety is usually grown in one stem, so all the stepsons are removed. If you decide to grow 2-3 stems, then leave several stepsons.
- Loosening and watering. Immediately after watering, the soil under the bushes needs to be loosened so that the lump of earth above the roots does not retain moisture and air access.
- Fertilizer. When growing tomatoes, feed the soil and greenery of the plants at least three times a season.
- Harvesting. To obtain a large number of ripe fruits, the crop is harvested immediately after ripening. Ripe fruits retard the growth of young tomatoes. Characteristics of fertilizing: mineral and organic.
Review Reviews
Among gardeners and professionals, there were many Matias tomato lovers who left positive reviews about the cultivation and taste of the tomato.
Nikolay: “Last year I decided to grow Matias into two trunks, and received a harvest of 5 kilograms more, the fruits are beautiful, the flesh is juicy, there are no green spots. The seeds are excellent for commercial cultivation, as they ripen together and produce an excellent harvest of fruits of almost the same size and quality.”
