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Everyone likes early salad varieties of tomatoes. And if they also have an original color along with a delicate taste, like the Pink Miracle tomato, they are guaranteed popularity. The fruits of this tomato are very attractive – pink, large. They even say that all multi-colored tomatoes are superior in their properties to the varieties of the usual red ones. Pink tomatoes contain more organic acids and microelements, besides, they are more tender, sugarier.
The hybrid was bred in Pridnestrovie relatively recently, it has been in the State Register since 2010. In the southern regions, tomato is grown in open ground, in more northern regions – in heated greenhouses.
Hybrid Features
One of the earliest tomatoes is the Rose Miracle hybrid. Plants of these tomatoes produce mature fruits in less than three months. For reviews of gardeners, this result is easily achieved in a greenhouse. In open ground, temperature, the number of sunny days, and the presence of precipitation play an important role.
- The fruit ripening period is short – from germination to harvest, it takes from 80 to 86 days, provided that due attention is paid to the tomato;
- The tomato is distributed among amateur gardeners, famous for its high yield: 17-19 kilograms of weighty pink fruits are harvested from one square meter for the entire fruiting period;
- The hybrid is distinguished by such a valuable property as the uniformity of the fruit. Standard fruits make up 98% of the total harvested mass of tomatoes;
- In the phase of full maturity, but not overripe, the fruits of the hybrid easily tolerate transportation;
- Pink tomatoes can also be harvested unripe for ripening. The fruits do not lose their high taste qualities from this;
- Hybrid bushes need shaping.
Description of the plant and fruits
Tomatoes Pink Miracle is a determinant plant, its limiting height is 100-110 cm. The bush is characterized by medium foliage, compactness. The leaves on the plant are large, light green in color. Simple inflorescences grow above the fifth or sixth leaf, four to seven fruits are tied in a brush. The following fruit branches alternate through one or two leaves. As the fruits grow, they protrude from under the large leaves, which can no longer hide the pink waterfall rushing out towards the sun.
Perfectly rounded tomato fruits are even and smooth, juicy pulp is of medium density, ripe raspberry color. The skin is thin and tender. Fruit weight is usually 100-110 g. Gardeners boast of tomato weight of 150-350 g. Unripe green fruits have a characteristic dark halo around the stalk, which disappears when ripe. The fruit forms 4-6 seed chambers.
The taste of this tomato tasters determined as excellent. It can be concluded that in the pink tomato, the work of nature and a talented breeder skillfully maintains the balance of acid and sugar content, as well as the dry matter content.
Advantages and disadvantages
According to descriptions and reviews, the tomato plant itself and the fruits have undeniable advantages.
- The first and most important advantage of the Pink Miracle tomato is super early and friendly ripening;
- Although early production always seems delicious, but the fruits of this variety of tomatoes have amazing table characteristics, which makes it a real miracle of cooperation between man and nature;
- The value of the hybrid is in high yield;
- Pink tomatoes are distinguished by a high yield of marketable mass, which is subject to transportation over short distances and quick sale;
- The unpretentiousness of the plant of this hybrid is highly recognized;
- Tomatoes can be cultivated in different climatic zones and retain their taste properties, subject to the requirements of agricultural technology;
- An important quality of the hybrid is resistance to a number of fungal diseases that affect tomatoes: late blight, fusarium, Alternaria, and tobacco mosaic virus.
The relative disadvantage of this hybrid can be considered that, no matter how beautiful and tasty these tomatoes are, they cannot be stored for a long time. The fruits should be eaten immediately or made into canned salads. It can also be added to the total mass of red juicy tomatoes when preparing juice or sauces.
The second point that an inexperienced gardener may not like is the need to form bushes of these tomatoes.
Cultivation and care
Tomato seeds Pink Miracle should be sown only indoors, in March-April, because otherwise the hybrid will not show its most valuable quality – early ripeness.
Preparation of seedlings
Containers for seedlings are placed in a warm place, the soil is warmed and the seeds are carefully placed to a depth of 1-1,5 cm. When sowing deeper, while the sprout makes its way to the light, the husk remains in the ground.
- It is necessary to observe a comfortable temperature for the grown seedlings of tomatoes – 23-250 C, light mode;
- If necessary, illuminate so that the tomato sprouts are strong, low, water moderately;
- If the plants develop well, at the seedling stage they do not require top dressing;
- Weak sprouts are fertilized with sodium humate, according to the instructions for the preparation;
- Dive should be carried out when the second true leaf appears on the plant;
- 15 days after diving, the seedlings are fed with nitroammophos or nitrophos: 10 tablespoon of fertilizer is dissolved in 1 liters of water and each plant is watered – 100 ml per pot;
- One to two weeks before planting, tomato plants should be taken out into the air and placed in a place protected from wind and sun for acclimatization.
Planting in the garden
When planning a site, it is advisable to take into account that their predecessors are important for tomatoes. This is necessary in order to protect the tomatoes from pathogens that could develop in the previous year. Parsley, dill, zucchini, cucumbers, cauliflower and carrots are favorable for tomatoes.
At the age of two months, tomatoes from containers are planted in holes. When planting carry out potash top dressing. Water is poured into the hole, and then half a glass of wood ash is poured onto the soil. The trunks of the bushes are planted directly. But if the seedlings have outgrown through unfavorable conditions for planting, the plants are planted obliquely, gently sprinkling the stem with soil. Additional roots are formed on the areas of the tomato stem sprinkled with earth. Tomato planting scheme – 70×40 cm.
Hybrid care
Tomatoes Pink Miracle intensively increase the mass of fruits, so you need to take care of pinching in time, as well as pegs or low trellises for tying. However, the reviews mention the facts that the hybrid bushes are powerful and easily withstand the entire tomato crop. Usually leave one leading stem – for greater productivity. If the soil is rich, the bush is led into 2-3 stems.
Plants are watered moderately, watering is increased during the fruiting period. The soil is loosened the next day after watering, weeds are pulled out. During the season, the plants are fed twice with organic fertilizers. Mullein 1:10 or chicken manure 1:15 is diluted with water, insisted for a week, and then 1 liter is poured under a tomato bush. You can also use store-bought products. Saturated with essential elements, tomato plants increase their resistance and productivity.
preventive measures
In the northern regions, if tomato bushes are planted without shelter, they will have to be treated with fungicides or biological remedies every ten days. In the southern regions – during prolonged rainy weather.
In connection with the spread of such a harmful insect as the Colorado potato beetle, you need to regularly inspect all tomato bushes. Especially at a time when the beetles lay their eggs, and they lay only on the underside of the tomato leaf. It is enough just to destroy the masonry and manually collect insects so that voracious larvae do not appear.
In exchange for a little work, tomatoes will reward gardeners with early appetizing fruits.
