The favorite of gardeners, the Supergiant Pink F1 tomato from the Russian Ogorod company firmly holds the leading position in the sale of seeds for summer residents. The sum of the positive qualities of fruits and plants makes us turn to this hybrid again and again.
Agronomic characteristics
The plant is determinate, its height does not exceed 70 cm, and does not require pinching or staking. Great for vegetable gardens and greenhouses. The first harvest can be made in mid-July - early August, at least 110 days must pass from germination. Ripening period is mid-early.
The fruits are dense, smooth, pink in color, large, average weight from 250 to 350 g, with good care increases to 400 g. The taste is dessert; when cut, the fruit is fleshy with a small number of seeds. Sugar content is high. The transportability of the harvest of these tomatoes is very good, since they are dense and hard and can be stored for a long time. The skin is edible and tender. Disease resistance is high.
Purpose: salad, for the production of high-quality juice.
Features of cultivation
Tomatoes Supergiant pink F1 prefer fertile soils, moderately moist, with a lumpy structure. The highest fruiting is achieved at an air temperature of 24-26 OC. Among the features of cultivation, it is important to remember:
- Sowing of seedlings should be done in early March. Plants should not be overgrown. The best seedlings have 6-7 true leaves. If the seedlings are a little smaller, then they take root better compared to larger plants;
- When blossom end rot appears, plants need to be fertilized with sodium nitrate;
- Watering should be carried out during the phase of budding, fruit set and the beginning of ripening.
Tomatoes Supergiant pink F1 are often confused with hybrids of similar names:
- tomato Supergiant XXL PP F1 is an indeterminate hybrid up to 2 m high with giant fruits weighing up to 2 kg. It is important to understand that determinants cannot bear fruit of this weight. Against, if there are a large number of ovaries, they tend to reduce the weight of tomatoes;
- supergiant tomato Russian size F1 is also an indeterminate tomato, up to 2 m high, intended for greenhouses of all types, and is almost never grown in open ground.This hybrid is a late-ripening hybrid and ripens in 125-128 days from seed germination, the weight of its fruits is very large - from 600 to 2000 g, it is slightly ribbed, red, and juicy. Requires gartering and pinching.
Measures to increase yield
The best incentive for fruiting of the Supergiant pink F1 tomato, retaining the fruits on the bush and increasing their taste in the garden is organic feeding:
- 20-24 days after planting in the garden, the tomatoes are fed. The fertilizer solution must be infused, so it is prepared in advance. Fresh mullein in a volume of 2 liters is diluted in 10 liters of water and left for 5-7 days. To feed, the resulting solution is diluted with water 1:5 and the tomatoes are watered at the rate of 0.5 l/plant;
- The second feeding is needed at the beginning of fruiting, take 0.2 liters of fresh chicken manure per 10 liters of water, water it at the root at the rate of 1 liter/plant, it is not necessary to infuse the manure solution;
- If the plants drop flowers or their leaves are curled, then fertilizing with borax at the rate of 5 g per 10 liters of water is necessary; the plants should be sprayed and watered under each root with at least 1 liter.
Tomatoes of the Supergiant pink F1 variety are gaining more and more positive reviews from gardeners and gardeners every year. The majority of consumers are delighted with the taste of these tomatoes, their high yield, and the long shelf life of the fruit.
The hybrid is suitable for growing in seedless culture. To do this, the seeds are sown in a bed under a film in early April. When the first true leaf grows, the crops are thinned out and the film is removed. The fruits are obtained in September. If you harvest them before frost in the stage of milky-wax ripeness, you can get fresh tomatoes for a long time by ripening them indoors.
