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Many gardeners are interested in varieties of early ripe large-fruited tomatoes. One of them, the Family F1 tomato, is a great option. This hybrid does not require special growing conditions, unpretentious care. So it’s worth buying seeds and finding out in practice whether the tomato matches the description and characteristics.
Hybrid description
An early ripe hybrid is a product of selection, entered in the State Register. The maximum ripening period for tomatoes is 115 days from the moment of germination. The originators recommend growing the Family tomato in protected ground, including polycarbonate greenhouses and in open ground.
Tomato variety from the determinant group, plant height up to 110 cm, depending on the place of cultivation. The bush is compact, with dark green wrinkled leaves of the usual tomato shape.
Inflorescences of a carpal form, with a large number of flowers. They have the ability to tie perfectly in any conditions, so there are no empty flowers on the clusters. 5-6 tomatoes are formed in each brush.
The fruits are round, large, weighing up to 200 grams. There are also larger specimens. In technical ripeness, the fruits are rich red. It is possible to determine that the Family tomato variety is fully ripe by the disappearance of a dark green spot in the stalk area.
The pulp of the fruit is dense, sugary. Each tomato consists of many chambers that contain many seeds. The fruits of the variety are sweet-sour in taste, with a rich tomato aroma.
Characterization
Tomato Family according to the description is a productive variety, but excellent fruiting is possible if you fully adhere to agricultural technology.
Let’s look at the positive and negative points of these tomatoes.
Pros
- Early ripeness. Vitamin products can be obtained at the end of June.
- Productivity. On average, one bush produces about 4 kg of large fruits. With quality care, you can get 7 kg of tomatoes. When grown in greenhouse conditions, about 19 kg are collected per square meter. Just look at the photo, how appetizing tomatoes of the Family variety look.
- susceptibility to the environment. Unfavorable conditions practically do not affect the yield. Variety tomatoes do not experience much discomfort during shading and small temperature changes.
- Place of cultivation. In private household plots, Family tomatoes can be grown in open and protected ground.
- Fruit set. In place of the flower, ovaries appear, practically without barren flowers.
- Harvesting. The fruits are harvested in milky ripeness, they ripen perfectly, do not lose their marketable appearance and taste.
- storage features. Variety tomatoes are perfectly stored, do not crack. Fruits are able to endure long-term transportation.
- Usage. Hybrid Family has a universal purpose. In addition to fresh consumption, tomatoes can be used for salads, lecho, ketchup and barrel canning. For blanks in jars, the Family variety is not suitable, due to its large size. Do not make juice from it either, as they contain little liquid.
- Immunity. Diseases such as tobacco mosaic virus, cladosporiosis, fusarium, root-knot nematodes rarely get sick.
Cons of a hybrid
Based on the description and characteristics of the Semeyny tomato variety, negative features, according to reviews of gardeners who have been engaged in culture for more than one year, have not been identified. It can be considered as a disadvantage, perhaps, the impossibility of obtaining seeds. Indeed, according to gardeners, hybrids in the second generation lose their maternal qualities.
Is it possible to collect seeds from hybrids:
Agrotechnics of cultivation
With the right choice of the timing of sowing seeds for seedlings, observing the crop rotation, as well as observing the standards for caring for the Family F1 tomato, a stable harvest is guaranteed. The difference between growing a hybrid and other tomato plants is the mandatory feeding at the seedling stage and in the soil with mineral fertilizers.
Growing seedlings
The tomato variety is grown to obtain early vitamin production, therefore it is propagated by seedlings.
Soil preparation
Unlike other tomatoes, the Family hybrid requires a special soil composition, which is prepared 12-14 days before sowing the seeds. During this time, beneficial bacteria will begin to actively work in the soil, which have a beneficial effect on plant growth.
The soil consists of the following components:
- garden soil;
- peat;
- humus or compost;
- rotted sawdust;
- river sand;
- wood ash.
The ingredients are mixed, pour boiling water with added crystals of potassium permanganate.
Seed preparation
Seed material is carefully inspected:
- If the seeds have damage and black dots, then they are discarded.
- Then fill them with saline. Unsuitable specimens for planting will emerge. They are washed in clean water.
- The remaining seeds are washed in a manganese solution. Rinse again with water and dry slightly.
Seed sowing
Family tomato seeds are sown for seedlings 45-55 days before planting in a permanent place. This time is enough to obtain high-quality seedlings.
If necessary, moisten the soil, make grooves every four centimeters and spread the seeds to a depth of 10 mm in increments of 3 cm. Place glass on top or stretch cellophane to speed up seed germination.
You can immediately sow the seeds of the Family variety in separate cups, cassettes, if picking is not planned. In this case, when transplanting seedlings into large containers, the root system is not injured. Only seed consumption will increase, since 2-3 seeds will have to be planted in each cup, followed by the removal of weak seedlings.
Boxes or individual cups are exposed to a bright window. At a temperature of 20-23 degrees shoots will appear in 5-6 days. When half of the seeds hatch, the film is removed. It is not recommended to do this earlier. As gardeners write in the reviews, the Family tomato variety sprouts unevenly. And without a film or glass, the plants will sprout later, and in the future they will lag behind in development.
Features of seedling care
- When half of the seedlings appear, it is necessary to reduce the temperature to 18 degrees. Such a little trick will speed up the formation of flower brushes of the first order.
- Three days after all the tomato seeds hatch, it is necessary to fertilize with calcium nitrate.
- The next time, the seedlings are fed again before diving, combining potassium nitrate and sodium humate.
- Water the seedlings of the Family tomato as needed and loosen the ground.
Dive seedlings
When 3-4 leaves appear on the seedlings grown in a common box, the plants are transplanted into separate containers with a volume of at least 700 ml. The composition of the soil should be the same as before sowing the seeds.
The earth in the box is moistened and seedlings are selected with any convenient tool along with a clod of earth. The transplanted seedlings of the Family tomato are watered and removed for several days from direct sunlight. It is easy to understand that tomatoes have taken root by the turgor of the leaves: they will again become elastic and green. After 7 days, the plants are again fed with potash fertilizer with sodium humate.
Planting in the ground and care
Ready for transplanting seedlings of the Family variety should be stocky, have more than five leaves. The diameter of the stem is within 7 cm, and the height of the plant is 25-30 cm.
In the open ground, planting tomatoes should be planned after the establishment of stable weather, when at night there will be stable positive temperatures. But you still have to cover the plants with a film to avoid sudden changes in temperature.
If the soil has not been prepared since autumn, a few days before planting the tomato is fertilized, dug up and well spilled with a hot pink solution of potassium permanganate. A handful of wood ash is added to each well. It is necessary to saturate the soil with nutrients and as a prevention of the black leg.
On one square meter, no more than three plants of the Family variety are planted. As farmers write in reviews, dense plantings drastically reduce yields, and care becomes more difficult.
After planting, seedlings are shed for better rooting. Then watering is repeated only after two weeks. The lower leaves are cut off to the first inflorescence so that they do not draw food onto themselves, and the plants themselves are tied up.
Summer Care
Shrub formation
Form a tomato in 2-3 stalks. Caring for the Family F1 tomato variety, as gardeners often write in reviews, is complicated by the presence of a large number of stepchildren. They must be removed during the entire growing season.
Growing leaves are also removed under each formed brush. The result should be a bush, on which, apart from brushes with tomatoes, there will be nothing. The stems and clusters of a tomato of this variety must be constantly tied up.
Watering and top dressing
Tomato varieties need to be watered once a week. If the plants are planted in open ground, then the irrigation is adjusted depending on the weather. For irrigation use only warm water.
When the fruits begin to set, Family tomatoes must be fed with a complex of mineral fertilizers, which should include:
- Ammonium nitrate – 20g;
- Potassium sulfate – 30 g;
- Magnesium sulfate – 10 g;
- 3% potassium humate – 25 g.
As a rule, during the season, tomatoes of the Family variety are fed 4 times under the root. Foliar feeding of plants is carried out in the evening in dry weather. Tomatoes are well perceived by spraying with a solution of iodine, boric acid, potassium permanganate, ash extract. In addition to nutrition, such treatments do not allow diseases to develop.
When growing tomatoes varieties indoors, you need to maintain a balance of moisture. To prevent condensation from forming, which adversely affects fertilization and provokes diseases, the greenhouse must be ventilated.