Selection of experienced gardeners - Pink Heart tomato: variety description, advantages and disadvantages, growing tips

Those who love medium-sized pink tomatoes will be interested in the Pink Heart variety.

He is more likely to fit experienced gardeners, to get a good harvest will have to try, but its very tasty fruits will be a well-deserved reward for work.

A full description of the variety, as well as its characteristics and cultivation features can be found in our article.

Tomato Pink Heart: variety description

Tomato The pink heart is a medium-early variety of tomatoes, after the seedlings have been planted in the ground before the fruiting takes 100-105 days. Indeterminate bush, shtambovy. It is recommended to grow up in greenhouse shelters and in an open ground.

The plant is 160-180 cm high, in the southern regions it can reach 200. It has resistance to TMV, cladosporia, and alternaria leaf spot. Tomatoes of varietal maturity of bright pink color, heart-shaped. The first fruits can reach 400-450 grams, later 250-300. The number of chambers 5-7, the solids content of 5-6%. The taste is bright, rich. The collected fruits can not be stored for a long time and do not tolerate transportation. It is better to eat them immediately or let them be recycled.

The "pink heart" is the result of the work of breeders from Russia, it was bred in 2002. Received state registration as a variety for greenhouses and open ground in 2003. Since that time, it has its admirers among summer residents. Farmers do not really like this variety.

The best results are able to give in open ground in the south of the country. In the regions of central Russia is grown under film shelters. In more northern areas it is possible to grow only in heated greenhouses.

You can compare the weight of the fruit of a variety with other varieties in the table below:

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As well as methods of growing tomatoes in two roots, in bags, without picking, in peat tablets.

Specifications

The fruits of the variety "Pink Heart" are quite large and therefore they cannot be used for whole-fruit conservation, they can be used in barrel pickles. Due to their taste, they are beautiful fresh and will occupy a worthy place on the table. Juices and purees are very tasty due to the high content of sugars.

With proper approach to the case with one bush, you can get up to 2.5-3 kg of fruit. When planting density 2-3 bush per square. m, and it is such a scheme is considered optimal goes up to 9 kg. This is a very modest result, especially for such a tall bush.

You can compare the yield of a variety with others in the table below:

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In the photo below: Tomatoes Pink Heart

The advantages and disadvantages of the variety

The main positive qualities of this species are:

• disease resistance;
• high taste qualities;
• harmonious ripening;
• good fruit set.

Among the main disadvantages noted:

• quite low yield;
• requires careful maintenance;
• low quality and portability;
• weakness of branches.

Features of growing

Among the features of the variety "Pink Heart" they note the high sugar content in fruits, their very high taste qualities. Also, many gardeners have noted good resistance to diseases and ripening. The bush must be tied up, it will help to avoid damage by gusts of wind. The branches should be strengthened with supports, as they are very weak. Form in two or three stems, often in two. Demanding to temperature and irrigation. Loves complex feeding.

Read useful articles about fertilizers for tomatoes.:

• Organic, mineral, phosphoric, complex and ready-made fertilizers for seedlings and TOP best.
• Yeast, iodine, ammonia, hydrogen peroxide, ash, boric acid.
• What is foliar feeding and when picking, how to conduct them.

Diseases and pests

Tomatoes Pink heart is very good against fungal diseases. But prevention does not hurt. It is necessary to observe very carefully growing conditions, observing the mode of watering, lighting and air circulation, if the plant is in a greenhouse.

Brown fruit rot is a frequent disease of this species. It is treated by removing the affected specimens and reducing nitrogen fertilization. Fix the result of the drug "Hom". Of insect pests often exposed to melon aphids, against her gardeners effectively use the drug "Bison". Also in open ground exposed garden scoop.

With this insidious insect fight by removing weeds on which it can actively develop. You should also use the tool "Bison". Scoop scoop also causes significant damage. Against her use of the drug "Strela". In the middle lane slugs can cause great damage to these bushes.

They are struggling with removing excess tops and zoliruya soil, thereby creating a hostile environment for the pest. The insect that most often annoys in greenhouses is a melon aphid, and the Bison is also used against it.

As follows from this brief review, this variety is not suitable for beginners, here you need some experience in the cultivation of tomatoes. To get started, try a different grade, easier to care for. But if you are not afraid of difficulties, then braver to the battle and everything will turn out. Successes and a harvest on envy to all neighbors!

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