The Siberian abundant tomato has firmly entered the annual assortment of vegetable growers in Western and Eastern Siberia, the Urals, the Central region and the Volga region for growing in greenhouses for early production. Its fruits have the best characteristics for fresh consumption, since they are a very early vitamin product, for canning in jars and pickling in barrels.
Description of the variety:
- Siberian abundant has a very early ripening period, from germination to the first harvest it takes from 90 to 110 days.
- Bush type - indeterminate with unlimited growth.
- Plant height reaches 1.8–2.0 m.
- In order for the bushes to develop correctly, shaping is necessary, which includes removing 2-3 main stems, tying them with cords to a common crossbar, and removing sprouts in the leaf axils - pinching.
Fruit characteristics
Siberian abundance tomatoes are rich red-crimson in color when ripe, unripe fruits are red-orange. The shape of the tomatoes is elongated-oval with a slightly pointed nose. Fruit weight is from 100 to 200 g. The first cluster is formed over 6–7 leaves, subsequent ones after one. Each cluster contains from 8 to 10 fruits. Well-developed and properly formed plants can bear up to 7 clusters. The yield of the variety is over 6 kg/bush.
Advantages of the variety
Early and friendly harvest, stable fruiting every year, remains in the greenhouse for a long time after collecting the first bunch.
How to get a high yield of Siberian Abundance
To get a high and early harvest of this variety, seeds for seedlings need to be sown at the earliest permissible time and use plant lighting. The optimal time for sowing seeds is the second ten days of February. The seedlings are transferred to the greenhouse at the end of April, where the air temperature is maintained at 24–26 OC. At night the temperature can be dropped to 18–20 OC. Strict requirements for the level of development of seedlings: it must have a well-formed first raceme, which is in the full extension phase. If this condition is met, the harvest will begin at the very beginning of June. Plants in the greenhouse are arranged in two rows with a distance between rows of 40 cm, between plants in a row - 40 cm, aisle - 70 cm.
In order for the bushes to be able to provide all the fruits set with nutrients, the plants need to be additionally fed. The best results are obtained by fertilizing with mullein infusion; 2 kg of fresh mullein are poured into 8 liters of water and infused for a week. For watering plants, this infusion is diluted 5–6 times. Tomatoes need such fertilizing every 2 weeks. In the absence of mullein, fertilizing can be done with fertilizers based on humin, amino acids and microelements or mineral fertilizers in fertilizers.
Azofoska is most suitable - it is a complex preparation in which nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are balanced.
Advantages of varieties of Siberian selection
The Siberian Abundant tomato variety was bred by breeders of the Sibirsky Garden company, who used pure genetic lines for crossing that are resistant to adverse weather factors. It is intended for regions with a short summer period and is recommended for cultivation in greenhouses and open ground (in more southern regions). Reviews from vegetable growers about this variety are mostly positive. They indicate that this variety is preferable to growing in a greenhouse, where its fruits ripen first among other cultivated varieties. The first 2-3 clusters bear fruit in abundance.
The Siberian Izobilny variety should be distinguished from the Izobilny F1 hybrid from the Gavrish company. The fruits of Izobilny are smaller, weighing no more than 90 g, and the bushes are determinate, very low. The Siberian tomato, abundant in its characteristics and description of the variety, deserves to be grown every year.
