The early ripening tomato variety Malvina is included in the State Register of plants recommended for cultivation in open and closed ground. The fruits are tasty and beautiful, used for fresh consumption and canning. Many gardeners have already planted Malvina on their plots and left positive reviews about the variety.
Characteristics of the variety
An early ripening tomato variety. It takes 85–100 days from planting seeds to receiving the first harvest. The bush is tall, reaching 1.4–1.8 meters in maturity.When growing, it requires staking and pinching. The best yield is achieved when the plant is grown with two stems. Up to 16 fruits appear on one inflorescence.
The tomatoes are round and small. One fruit weighs about 14–26 grams. When unripe they are green, when ripe they are red. Characteristics of cherry tomatoes:
- Up to 4.5 kilograms of fruit are harvested from one square meter.
- The taste is sweet without acid, the flesh is dense.
- The variety is intended for direct consumption and canning.
Agrotechnical growing conditions
Seedlings are planted in the ground when the air temperature rises to 22 degrees. Seeds are sown for seedlings 60 days before transplanting tomatoes into the ground.
The seedlings are placed on the site at the rate of 3 bushes per 1 square meter, the placement pattern is 60 by 40 centimeters. The soil for growing tomatoes is light loamy. Tomatoes do not tolerate high air humidity; 50–60% is neutral. At higher rates, the fungus begins to multiply and infect plants. For the fruitful development of plants, the following manipulations must be carried out in the beds:
- Weeding the soil.
- Loosening.
- Watering the beds.
- Garter and stepson.
- Inspection of green mass to identify diseases.
- Timely harvesting.
Hybrids and varietal tomatoes with similar characteristics
Breeders have already developed many cherry varieties with similar characteristics. Among them:
- Bulls-eye.
- Red cherry.
- Ira.
- Dr. Green Frosted.
- Ocean.
- Cherry blossoms.
- Margol.
This is not a complete list of cherry tomatoes grown in the gardens of our homeland. All varieties have a cluster type of fruit ripening, a high stem and small, beautiful berries on the bush.
What to do to prevent diseases
Most often, tomatoes suffer from fungal infections in closed ground. Since Malvina tomatoes are intended for production in greenhouses due to the high growth of the vine, consider a description of the main disease prevention measures:
- Maintaining temperature and humidity conditions in the room will help prevent the tomato from becoming infected with infections. You should not water the entire bush; just at the root is the best way.
- To disinfect seedlings before planting, they are treated with 0.5% Bordeaux mixture. The treatment is repeated on the planted sprouts after 2 weeks.
- To disinfect the soil in the beds, it is sprinkled with ash or watered with infusion.
- When temperature changes and fog appear, the bushes are sprayed with a solution of kefir or whey: 1 liter of fermented milk product is added to a 10-liter bucket of water.
- Plants are also treated with copper chloride at the rate of 40 grams per 10-liter bucket of water.
- After treatment with chemical elements, fruit harvesting resumes after 2 weeks. The preventive measures taken will protect the bed with Malvina tomatoes from infection with fungal diseases.
By following the recommendations for growing, caring for and disinfecting plants, agronomists will receive an excellent harvest of healthy, beautiful and tasty tomatoes without much effort.
