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Tomato Vova Putin – a variety of amateur selection with salad fruits, has become known to most gardeners recently. The plant is famous for its unpretentiousness in conditions of lowering the usual temperature regime for tomatoes and large-fruited.
Description of the variety of tomato Vova Putin
A medium-sized tomato bush with a large number of shoots that stretched in different directions, trying to break through to the light, prompted the author, the Chelyabinsk experimental vegetable grower Nikolai Andreevich Alexandrov, to call him Vova Putin, nicknamed the restless village peer in children’s games. So, since the beginning of the 2015s, the collection of tomatoes of undemanding varieties, the seeds of which are distributed by a breeder from Chelyabinsk throughout Our Country and other countries, has been replenished with a big name. The medium-early variety of tomatoes with weighty fruits has become more famous since XNUMX, after publications in the press and television programs.
Tomatoes of the Vova Putin variety are not included in the State Register, but seedlings are actively planted by amateur gardeners who pass seeds to each other in a chain or by mail.
Tomatoes Vova Putin indeterminate type. The author points to their growth up to 1,5 m, but many gardeners claim that plants in the greenhouse rise over 2 m. In open ground, tomatoes reach the agreed growth. The height of tomatoes depends on soil fertility, planting pattern and lighting conditions, especially in a greenhouse. The leaves of the variety are medium in size, grow sparsely. Branches with leaves are long, often intertwined, so they must be thinned and removed in time, preventing thickening. On brushes from 2-3 to 5-6 flowers, which, with good pollination, all turn into ovaries.
Description of fruits
The tomato variety Vova Putin, as noted by some gardeners, is unstable in terms of the type of form. Tomatoes on one stem are:
- flat-oval, as the author himself calls it, a “boat”;
- heart-shaped;
- complex flat-rounded shape, which is often formed from the ovary on a double flower.
The ovaries first grow heart-shaped, then the sides increase, creating an oval silhouette along the horizontal section. The sizes of tomatoes in the form of a “boat” with a weight of up to 1 kg exceed 12-15 cm along the length of the fruit. Tomatoes up to 500 g are also 10-12 cm long. Most often, Vova Putin tomatoes are irregular in shape, weakly or strongly ribbed. The usual weight is 200-400 g. The author of the variety notes that on the third brush, Vova Putin tomatoes sometimes grow larger than on the two lower ones.
Tomato skin is thin, bright red, uniform over the entire area of the fruit. Sometimes yellow “shoulders” remain on strongly ribbed tomatoes, which is a sign of the absence of certain trace elements in the soil. When cut, the seed chambers are not visible, there are quite a few seeds, and they are not felt when consumed. The dense, fleshy and juicy pulp of Vova Putin tomatoes is red, almost continuous along the cut plane. The taste of the tomato is harmonious, pleasantly balanced between sweetness and slight acidity. It is more often noted that sugar taste prevails in the crumbly pulp of the variety.
The tomato variety Vova Putin is ideal for fresh consumption. Surplus is used for various blanks. Dense skin allows you to store tomatoes in a cool place for up to 7-10 days. Transportation capacity is low.
Varietal characteristics
The beginning of the fruiting of the greenhouse culture of the tomato Vova Putin falls on the last days of June, the beginning of July. In open ground, the fruits of the variety ripen a little later. The fruiting of tomatoes is stretched, the upper brushes ripen until September, early October. On plants, from 20 to 40-50 pieces of fruits are tied. If the standard requirements of agricultural technology are observed, from 4 kg of fruits are harvested from a tomato bush. There are mentions of a harvest of up to 8 kg.
Conditions for a good yield:
- the plant of the tomato variety of the Ural folk selection is quite powerful, gives many stepchildren, therefore their removal is one of the conditions for increasing the productivity of the tomato bush and earlier ripening of the fruit that has set;
- to get large tomatoes, the plant is led into 1 or 2 stems;
- rationing of ovaries is not more than 4-5 in the brush, and for large-fruitedness – 1-2.
Tomato Vova Putin, in accordance with the characteristics and description of the variety by those gardeners who cultivated it, is different:
- unpretentiousness to weather conditions;
- drought tolerance;
- adaptability to reduced summer temperatures;
- resistance to some fungal diseases.
The variety resists pathogens of gray rot, even if there are bushes affected by the disease on the site. The necessary complex of works is used against pests:
- preventive removal of weeds from the trunk circle, not less than 1 m;
- treatment with insecticides.
Pros and cons of tomato varieties Vova Putin
Everyone who grew tomatoes of the Ural selection notes the advantages of the variety:
- stable harvest;
- large-fruited;
- high taste properties;
- long fruiting;
- versatility of tomatoes;
- minimum requirements for the temperature regime typical for the climate of the middle zone;
- resistance to pathogens of some fungal diseases.
It is believed that the disadvantage of the variety is the instability of the shape of tomatoes.
Rules of landing and care
Gardeners, guided by the description of the tomato variety Vova Putin from an amateur breeder, grow plants using standard methods.
Seeding for seedlings
Seeds of the variety are sown 70-75 days before transshipment to a permanent place. They buy special soil for seedlings or take their own, prepared in the fall. Usually, garden soil, humus or peat, sand are mixed into the substrate in a ratio of 1: 1: 0,5. Tomato seeds treated with potassium permanganate are placed in a container with soil at room temperature to a depth of 1-1,5 cm. After 5-7 days, the seeds germinate, the sprouts are provided with sufficient lighting under special lamps. Water sparingly, keeping the substrate slightly moist. Tomato picking is carried out by planting plants one at a time in separate containers when 2-3 true leaves appear.
Seedling transplant
In film greenhouses, tomatoes in the middle climatic zone and in the Urals are planted in May, and in open ground even in June. Containers with tomatoes are taken out 12-15 days before planting for several hours for hardening into fresh air. Before transshipment, the containers are watered abundantly in order to easily remove the roots of tomatoes along with a clod of earth. Variety Vova Putin is placed 3-4 plants per 1 square. m.
Tomato care Vova Putin
While the tomatoes take root, they are not watered for 4 days, then moistened regularly after 3-4 days. It is important to ventilate the greenhouse in a timely manner, in hot weather to keep the doors open. In the garden, the aisles are mulched, especially in the southern regions, in order to retain moisture in the soil longer. Any weeds that take away nutrients from tomatoes and can be a secluded home for harmful insects – aphids or whiteflies are removed from the site and in the greenhouse in time. Plants stepchild once a week, removing shoots that have reached 4 cm. Stems and fruit brushes of a tall tomato variety Vova Putin, judging by the description, reviews and photos, are carefully tied up. In early August, pinch the growth points of those plants that are in the open field so that the tomatoes that have started ripen until frost.
It is convenient to feed tomatoes with balanced ready-made complex fertilizers for crops:
- “Kristalon”;
- “Kemira”;
- Ava and others.
When the ovaries are formed, foliar top dressing with boric acid effectively affects the amount of the crop.
With the development of phytophthora in wet weather, the affected plant is removed, and the planting of tomatoes is sprayed with the preparation Ridomil Gold, Fitosporin-M, Quadris. There are cases when tomatoes were saved from late blight by spraying prophylactically with a solution of 10 tablets of furacilin in a bucket of water. Garlic, yarrow or tobacco will protect plants from whiteflies, and soda and soap from aphids.
Conclusion
Tomato Vova Putin is distributed in summer cottages and household plots, attracting with durability and tasty fruits. Grow a variety under the force and beginners in agriculture. Using standard agricultural technology, they get a good harvest of home-made vitamin products.
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