Pink tomatoes are represented by a huge number of varieties, among which the Raspberry Ring tomato is popular. The fruits of the hybrid are distinguished by a high content of vitamins C, A, B, amino acids, which have a positive effect on metabolic processes in the human body and strengthen the immune system. As hybrids, they are disease-resistant and produce healthy, tasty fruits.
Raspberry ringing is one of the best early ripening hybrids
The description of the variety begins with the fruits for which tomatoes are grown.The hybrid product has a number of high qualities:
- Fruiting occurs on the hundredth day after emergence. In open ground - ten days later.
- Tomatoes have a beautiful deep pink or crimson hue.
- The fruits are round in shape and weigh from two hundred to three hundred grams.
- The tomatoes taste juicy, fleshy, with a small number of seeds. They contain a lot of sugar.
- Raspberry tomatoes can easily be transported; their thick skin does not burst or wrinkle during long-term storage.
- From one square meter the yield is up to twenty kilograms.
Raspberry bell F1 is an excellent choice for both greenhouses and open ground.
Already in mid-July, you can enjoy large tomatoes, cutting them for salads, seasoning soups, and making sauces. For the winter, the fruits are used by grinding into juices, sauces, tomato paste, and adjika. They are well preserved in marinade and brine.
Features of a standard plant
The tomato variety Raspberry Ring is distinguished by its small bush height. It reaches a height of fifty-five centimeters, and in greenhouses - a little more than a meter. The bush is compact with a medium number of wrinkled dark green leaves. The root system of the plant is poorly developed and has a diameter of fifty centimeters.
Since the Raspberry Ring is determinant, its flower clusters are formed after the appearance of the fifth or sixth true leaf. After two to three leaves, the next ovaries appear.
As a first-generation hybrid, the tomato variety is resistant to many diseases that affect vegetable crops: fusarium, tobacco mosaic, late blight.
Growing Tomato
To get Raspberry Ring tomatoes, you need to know about the features of their cultivation and care:
- Vegetable plants should be watered with warm water.If the water temperature for irrigation is low, the bushes will produce small fruits with thick skin.
- For a hybrid, it is important that the soil in the greenhouse or garden is neutral in acidity. Deviations in one direction or another will lead to the fact that the bushes will reduce tomato yields and they will become sick.
- Growing tomatoes require mineral supplements. They need phosphorus, potassium, and nitrogen during the growing season.
- Plants develop best in greenhouse conditions. The bushes are more hardy and produce more fruits indoors.
In areas with a temperate climate, the hybrid must first be planted as seedlings and then transferred to a permanent place. In warm regions, planting directly into the ground is possible.
Terms and rules for planting in a greenhouse
If tomato seeds were planted on the twentieth of March, then after sixty days the seedlings are ready to be transferred to the greenhouse.
Seedlings are planted at a distance of forty centimeters from each other, and fifty centimeters between rows. A layer of soil is poured at least eighteen centimeters, mixing turf soil and humus in equal quantities. Be sure to add a little river sand. If after watering the roots of the plant are exposed, add soil up to 25 centimeters. This is done after applying fertilizers.
Before planting the seedlings, add 50 grams of wood ash to each hole. It is better to bury the seedlings sufficiently, almost to the very bottom of the rack. When the stems are elongated, they are laid obliquely along the row and some of them are covered with earth.
If there is not enough light in the greenhouse, then it is better to grow Raspberry Ring tomatoes in one or two stems, removing other shoots. Seven to nine flower clusters are enough to produce a harvest.
To prevent plants from getting sick, they constantly monitor the air temperature in the greenhouse.It should not be understood above the thirty-degree mark. Otherwise, the pollen will become infertile and the flowers will fall off. Air humidity is optimal for indoor spaces at 50 - 70 percent.
If you want to achieve fruits that correspond to the description of the Raspberry Ring tomato, then you need to work hard and take care of the vegetable crop.
Gardeners' opinion about the hybrid
Reviews from summer residents about tomatoes are only positive. They note that tomato does not require special growing conditions. Always produces tasty, juicy, large fruits. They taste great, with a lot of sugar. Their pulp is used in making juice and sauces. Ketchup made from tomatoes is especially tasty. They are also used to season soups. But some people believe that the fruits of the Raspberry Bell are especially tasty when eaten fresh. This characteristic of the hybrid allows it to gain popularity among similar tomato varieties.
