Modern greenhouse tomatoes must combine many valuable traits. Hybrid tomato Artist f1 is able to satisfy the needs of the most demanding vegetable growers. Included in the Russian Seed Register in 2003, this is a true variety of the 21st century, showing excellent results in greenhouses in any region - in Russia, Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine.
Quality mark: agricultural firm "Ilyinichna"
Many popular tomato varieties were created by breeders of the Russian seed company Ilyinichna under the leadership of its director, Doctor of Science, Professor Svetlana Ilyinichna Ignatova. The company's priority is an integrated approach to the creation of greenhouse hybrids. Parameters such as maximum resistance to diseases and other stress factors, high commercial and consumer qualities of fruits are set. Pomodor Artist f1 is among the best works of the experienced team.
Hybrid seeds can be purchased directly from the manufacturer. In addition, Artist f1 is purchased wholesale from Ilyinichna and packaged independently by other agricultural companies. To insure yourself against counterfeits, you should choose the most reputable ones. The hybrid tomato Artist is distributed by such well-known companies as Aelita and Sedek.
Impressions from amateur vegetable growers
Happy owners of their own greenhouses have had time to appreciate the advantages of a modern hybrid. Grateful reviews of the Artist f1 tomato come from different parts of the country:
- Tatyana Yakovlevna Kappes (Moscow region): “The Artist planted the tomato both in a greenhouse and in a bed without shelter. The street version turned out to be not very successful, but in the greenhouse the variety performed best of all. There were a lot of brushes, and all of them were even, just like in the picture. They were in great demand at the market. Buyers bought pickling buckets without haggling.”
- Irina Pushkareva (Kemerovo region): “I first purchased Artist seeds from the Aelita company several years ago,” a neighbor advised. Since then I have been planting constantly. Last year I didn’t have time to treat the greenhouse, and many tomatoes got sick and disappeared. But not the Artist! None the tomato did not turn black. The bushes remained green until October - and here in Siberia it’s already deep autumn!”
- Nikitin Leonid Abramovich (Chelyabinsk region): “My family and I constantly joked: this is an Artist, such an Artist! Fully lives up to its name: slender, beautiful, with crazy dedication. The tomatoes lay there for a very long time. The last fresh salad was made for the New Year.”
It is precisely because of its advantages that both experienced and novice gardeners love this variety of tomatoes.
Varietal features
If we talk about the Artist tomato, then it is definitely worth noting several of the most important characteristics of the variety.
Fruit
Hybrid Artist - carpal type. This means that the ovaries are located evenly in the hand, on both sides. All tomatoes are almost identical in size, even and beautiful. Within one brush they are poured and ripened at the same time. It is convenient to harvest such tomatoes in whole bunches, transport them in this form and put them in storage.
One inflorescence bears from 5 to 8 fruits. The weight of each of them in the first hand can reach 200 grams, the average weight is 140 – 150 grams. This is the ideal, standard size for pickling and whole-fruit canning: the tomatoes are not too large, but not small either (they are sometimes called “medium-fruited”). However, they are good in fresh salads and in any preparations. Beneficial for market sales of fresh produce.
Tomatoes have a classic round shape, sometimes slightly ribbed. The color of unripe fruits is soft green, ripe tomatoes are bright, scarlet, without any greenery at the stalk. The skin is strong, the consistency of the pulp is dense, not watery. The most important characteristic is excellent transportability and shelf life of ripe fruits without loss of quality (at least a month after harvest).
Bush
Plants can reach one and a half meters in height and have an indeterminate (continuous) growth pattern. Hybrid Artist is recommended to be grown indoors. Any tall greenhouses are suitable - film, glass, polycarbonate, with or without heating. The bushes are formed compact; medium-sized leaves are not located perpendicular to the trunk, but at an angle, as if stretching upward.
The first cluster is formed after the growth of 9–10 leaves. Subsequently, ovaries are formed every 3 leaves. The plant is capable of feeding 7 – 8 clusters. After their formation, the top of the stem must be pinched. The one who planted the Artist f1 tomato notes that in favorable conditions, 9–10 bunches can be fully saturated.
Deadlines
When describing the Artist variety, it is characterized either as mid-season or mid-early in terms of ripening. These fluctuations are determined by the region, growing conditions, and diet. The first fruits turn red in the range of 102–115 days from germination.
The harvest continues until the end of the season, depending on the capabilities of the greenhouse (height, temperature). Unripe tomatoes are successfully ripened and then stored, which allows you to significantly extend the consumption of fresh vegetables.
Immunity
Tomatoes from Ilyinichna are famous for their genetic resistance to a number of harmful infections. All hybrids successfully resist botrytis - gray rot of stems and fruits, which is especially dangerous in humid greenhouse air. New breeding products such as the Artist are able to repel the attack of the root-knot nematode, the tobacco mosaic virus (which cannot be treated in any way).
If you plant tomatoes without observing crop rotation in the same greenhouse from year to year, then outbreaks of fungal infections are inevitable, taking away a significant portion of the crop.Even chemicals don't always save you. The hybrid variety Artist is good because it is not susceptible to fusarium wilt and brown spot (cladosporiosis). Fewer chemical treatments mean healthier vegetables, lower cash and labor costs.
Growing conditions
To obtain the richest harvest, it is worth following a few basic rules at each stage of growth.
Microclimate
We list only the main points, the observance of which is necessary to obtain tasty tomatoes.
Light
A distinctive feature of the Artist variety is its ability to bear fruit well even in low light. In a shaded corner of the greenhouse, in cloudy summers and gloomy autumns, the tomato continues to develop as usual.
This is a very rare quality for a plant whose original homeland is tropical America. Such shade tolerance is the result of reasonable selective selection.
Temperature
Any tomato likes the pleasant warmth of protected soil. It is in the greenhouse that the potential capabilities of the hybrid are most fully realized. But Artist f1 is not afraid of temperature stress. Tomatoes set and plump even in cold weather (which often happens in early summer or autumn). They do not become ugly or crooked. Summer heat also does not inhibit fruit formation.
Formation
Artist f1 belongs to the generative type hybrids. Such plants are in no hurry to grow green mass, do not spread out, and direct their nutrition to fruit production. The owner’s task is to provide assistance and assistance.
If stepchildren appear, they must be removed as soon as possible. The variety is grown in 1 - 2 trunks, no more. Yes, the tomato is shade-tolerant, but you shouldn’t thicken the plantings: 3 – 4 bushes per square meter is quite enough. From this area you can get up to thirty kilograms of selected tomatoes.
